THE AESTHETICS OF FAILURE:
‘Post-Digital’ Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music

By Kim Cascone.

The medium is no longer the message in glitch music: the tool has become the message. The technique of exposing the minutiae of DSP errors and artifacts for their own sonic value has helped further blur the boundaries of what is to be considered music, but it has also forced us to also to examine our preconceptions of failure and detritus more carefully.