What is a glitch?

The article titled The aesthetics of failure: “post digital” tendencies in contemporary computer music, is about the mishaps in the creation of new music which has ultimately created the new music. Basically the by product of the invention is actually the invention. In addition to this the more basic something is the better it sounds and the more it catches on with others.
Three key ideas are the inspiration, the idea and the tools. The inspiration for the new art was looking past the subject and shifting the focus “from foreground to background (for instance, from portraiture to landscape painting), it helped to expand their perceptual boundaries, enabling them to capture the background’s enigmatic character”. The idea then became the glitch, which was an “emergent genre that consciously builds on these ideas”, the ideas being the expansion of perceptual boundaries. Finally the tools, “computers have become the primary tools for creating and performing electronic music, while the Internet has become a logical new distribution medium.
The most challenging concept form me throughout this article was the idea that if this new type of music is very hard to understand and accomplish in addition to each piece of music is very short what is the attraction to it?
Are these individuals who use these “ ‘devices’ such as absinthe, narcotics, or mystical states to help make the jump from merely expanding their perceptual boundaries to hoisting themselves into territories beyond these boundaries” leaders? Why? If these are not the leaders then who are?
The tools in this concept is the computer and the internet which are the tools which are used in my topic of social networking. Without these tools this art form as well as my topic of social networking would not be in existence and it is important to see that. Sometimes the idea is not enough but the tools which lend a helping hand are very influential.

Loving the ghost in the machine is very similar to the first article in regards to the term glitch and how it is used to create. The difference being here that the glitch is something of a higher power and to catch it in all it’s glory, being that of it’s original state, is the only time in which one can experience it wholly. The glitch is to be praised and treated as sacred.
The three key terms in this piece are machines, refrain and deterritorialization. The machine is, “a system of interruptions or breaks” which is “cutting and redirecting the energetic flows of preconscious world, which can be thought of as an infinitely assemblage or machines acting upon other machines upon others etc”. All in all the machine creates the glitch which creates the art. Secondly, the refrain is the idea “that illustrates the constantly shifting nature of relations between territorialized or habitual milieu and the chaos of the outside forces”. All in all the refrain is the common factor which in music would be the rhythmic element. Lastly, deterritorialization, “flattens down the hierarchical organiaiotn of music into a rhizome” and this is done by recording. Recording of music or “sound processing technology” has “helped in breaking with the traditional musical notation and the ideal of a pure musical from”.
The most difficult aspect for me to grasp in this piece was idea of desiring a machine. I understand wanting the next newest and greatest piece of technology in order to create a new piece of art but can it be taken so far as to be called desired?
A few questions I would like to further explore would be if the technology keeps making it easier for people to deterritorialize the art will there still be leaders in the industry? What type of deterritorialization will it take to become a leader? Can there be too much deterritorialization?
I think this article is very closely related to my article in the same ways as the previous with the idea of the computer and internet being the medium for social networking. I also believe this now deterritorializes the idea of social networking both in time and over space making it a very accessible and easy thing to do. The question still arises though about the leader, who is now the leader of these types of groups? Is there even a leader?