I always liked the simplicity of music trackers. As a developer it is very appealing to think of music as a sequence of time-based repetitive events. It resembles the flow of a program written in an imperative language.
Now, what if a tracker could be scripted by some programming language…
Glitch is a minimal environment for making algorithmic music and live coding. It uses simple arithmetic expressions as a programming language and has only a few functions to learn, yet it allows creating some interesting music pieces.
It’s been a month since I last talked about Glitch here, but it…
“Get Yucky” is a four-chord looping melody made from scratch using Glitch. It was written to show that music can be written with just arithmetic expressions.
Let’s define the tempo of the song and drop in some drum synthesizers like the ones created in the previous article.
bpm=120,kicks=seq(bpm…
Glitch is a great tool if you want to start with algorithmic music. It’s simple and straightforward. To master Glitch you only need to remember 15 functions.
But moving from bytebeat and oscillators to actual music might be difficult for newcomers. …
Glitch started as a Bytebeat music synthesizer. Bytebeat has some really unique features: simple concept, terse notation, dirty old-school sound. But at the same point Bytebeat is limited by its ultra-simplicity.
Many curious minds today experiment with algorithmic music composition and programmable music. …
Meet Glitch — a minimal, modern and easy-to-use synthesizer for Bytebeat music.
Bytebeat (sometimes known as glitch music) is a relatively new experimental genre of electronic music. If you are familiar with retro “chiptune” music you can imagine how it sounds — triangular or square waves making rhythmical scratching noises.
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