Glitch software
fell through
After being in contact with an MA Computer Music student from Plymouth
University, they said they would be able to help me with the glitch section of
the film as they had created a program via MAX MSP (which is a software based
on algorithms) using John Cage’s dice theory to create a random selection of
glitched audio and visuals.
In return the MA student would get to see their program used in a
practical application via my final film that they could then use in their
thesis, but unfortunately due to the lack of progression with the program I
have had to cancel this arrangement and seek other methods of glitching the
third part of my film. This has also made me rethink collaborating with other
students from other universities, as it is difficult to keep an eye on how the
works are progressing.
Research and
use of new glitch techniques
I have now had to Glitch the Video and Sound myself, as it is
increasingly unlikely that the software patch will be ready in time. I have
previously experimented with Glitching images after reading The Glitch Momentum
by Rosa Menkman as it has a detailed way of how to glitch an image by making
the image unreadable by the computer, for example when you take a digital image
and open it in Text/edit from the applications selection after right clicking
on it the image is shown as lines and lines of code, this code is how the
computer reads the image as what sets the shapes, colour and size of the image,
by cutting out sections of this text and pasting it in a different part of the
image causes an error that the computer can no longer read as the original
image but instead reads it as a whole new one and produces us with the Glitched
image. And as this technique uses a Text/Edit application you can add and
remove any text you like even this blog post
Glitched image
Datamoshed image
Using this technique over and over again to Glitch the image section of
my film would work but, what about the moving image portion of the film that is
also to be glitched? During my further research into Glitch Art and techniques
I have come across a number of ways and techniques that others use that can be
applied to video. One of these techniques is Datamoshing, this technique
involves the placing of video over an image using IFrames (or key-frames)
which contain all visual information of a video's frame as in a film or an
animation and P-frames which contain
information on movement from the previous I-frame, allowing a video to be
compressed with less I-frames and therefore take up less space.
I have found an instructional video via YouTube to help me with the process
and where to get the software.
I have also found in my research that people have also used the image
glitch technique via a piece of software called YouGlitch, this instantly
glitches the images in a variety of ways, but mainly focusing on image/code
glitch from The Glitch Manifesto by Rosa Menkman.
I want to give the impression that the images have become unreadable by the device be it a computer or other and create the shadow of the technology.
"Scratching and rumbling of the machine itself, inextricably registered along with the sound it was supposed to faithfully preserve. Unlike the environmental sounds, these sounds would not exist if the recording had not been made. I call this the shadow of the technology." (Paul DeMarinis)
I want to give the impression that the images have become unreadable by the device be it a computer or other and create the shadow of the technology.
"Scratching and rumbling of the machine itself, inextricably registered along with the sound it was supposed to faithfully preserve. Unlike the environmental sounds, these sounds would not exist if the recording had not been made. I call this the shadow of the technology." (Paul DeMarinis)
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