What is glitchcore?

Glitchcore is an aesthetic and music genre that heavily incorporates glitch art visuals and production techniques. The style features aggressive digital distortion, fragmented imagery, eye-straining color combinations, and chaotic compositions that evoke digital system failure.

Visually, glitchcore art combines RGB splitting, heavy compression artifacts, corrupted text, scan lines, and nostalgic tech references (old Windows interfaces, early internet graphics). The aesthetic often overlaps with related styles like webcore, cybercore, and traumacore.

Musically, glitchcore incorporates rapid-fire samples, digital artifacts, and influences from hyperpop, nightcore, and electronic hardcore. Artists fragment and distort familiar sounds into something unsettling yet energetic.

Creating glitchcore art involves layering multiple glitch techniques, embracing visual chaos, and referencing digital culture iconography. Our glitchcore tutorial covers both the visual style and its cultural context.