FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art(ffglitch.org) |
FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art(ffglitch.org) |
I didn’t understand it at first, and then I saw the growing interest in compact cassettes and was metaphorically tearing out my hair.
Exactly how I feel about AI art today, and doesn't make me super hopeful for the future. Hopefully there been cases where that hasn't been true?
But then I remember seeing datamoshing as weird the first times I saw it used as a transition in the "Off the Air" TV series/anthology, nowadays I think it makes me fuzzy and almost nostalgic instead?
Care to elaborate on that?
WHAT?!
Maybe you mean the dynamic range clipping caused from the bad mastering that happened during the loudness wars, but CD as a medium is impossible to have audio distortion due to its impressive 44.1 kHz sample rate at 16 bit depth.
Presumably ffglitch is ffmpeg with code to fudge the file checksums so that encoding errors are allowed to accumulate instead of triggering an error.
>Television glitch --> In broadcasting, a corrupted signal may glitch in the form of jagged lines on the screen, misplaced squares, static looking effects, freezing problems, or inverted colors. The glitches may affect the video and/or audio (usually audio dropout) or the transmission. These glitches may be caused by a variety of issues, interference from portable electronics or microwaves, damaged cables at the broadcasting center, or weather.
On computers, those happens when some of the data (video, audio, image) is corrupted or lost.
Glitch art: some of those glitches create cool effects that you can see a sort of photoshop filter ; ffglitch helps you corrupt files/create those effect for artistic purpose.
You can see cool examples of glitch video art there: https://ffglitch.org/gallery/ ; they show the original clip, and then the glitched version
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You can also have corrupted sounds, you can check 'The Glitch Mob' which is an group creating music, with samples that sounds corrupted.
For example you can change the values of the motion vector in each frame.
That way it always generates valid video files.
As far as I know, "glitching" is opening a jpeg file with a text editor then deleting random ranges of characters, saving it again and then letting image viewers try to open the file, resulting in artifacts being added to the image.
This project seems to do the same for video files, but generating a valid video at the end.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnfdj-gV14N5JTGybk4kkVpyL...
Apres le feu de Jacques Perconte
But i watched the video and it really was cool and artistic.
This of course doesnt even begin to touch on the influences glitch art has had on music and audio - it's arguable that glitch art has its origins in printing, photography/film, and in electronic music, but most deliberate uses of "glitches" as artistic vehicles tended to arise during the early eras of electronic music production. Rosa Menkman speaks in depth about the origins of glitch art in the music scene in her paper The Glitch Moment(um)[2].
0. https://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/apr/25/datamoshing-land-o...
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt7gP_IW-1w
2. https://mediarep.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/b16c898a-c6b...
There are too many excellent episodes to list but Animals is a great one to get a feel: https://youtu.be/59QBOO6m210
And the Dan Deacon USA special episode might be peak Off The Air:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_(music)
- group: the glitch mob http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frfs4tkN-AY
Formats such as circuitbending are alien to me, as I primarily work with digital and occasionally analog photos and videos, but generally follow the same principles of breaking away from intended use of some set of rules to express illegal states.
Except for the guy who did Red Hot Chili Peppers' albums. He was known for compressing sound, and turned it to 12 for the loudness wars. Californication is the poster-child of the issue for a reason.