Glitch

Glitch emerged from the academic computer music and experimental electronic scenes of the 1990s, formalizing an aesthetic of digital failure. It treats sonic artifacts—such as CD skips, software bugs, data corruption, and hardware noise—not as errors, but as primary compositional material. Practitioners like *Oval* and artists on the #Mille Plateaux# label utilized digital signal processing to deconstruct and reassemble sound, creating intricate textures from minute fragments. This approach challenged traditional musicality, elevating the sound of malfunctioning technology to a deliberate artistic statement that has since permeated various electronic and experimental genres.