One guy and a laptop using MAX/MSP, Reaktor and Ableton Live and self developed software.
Influences
The surroundings, the sunset, the sunrise, a child's smile, the hipocrisy of war,the democrats, the republicans, the third way, the subway, the slow food, the adbusters, the ultimate creative source of everything: Mankind.
QuarterBit is the exploration of the databending possibilities that exist today.
Using a self developed databending software, QuarterBit extracts sound and midi information from images and then datamines that information in order to make his compositions.
A detail work that produces a very personal sonority.
QuarterBit is the project of Sound Designer Fernando Fonseca that started in 2006 with the project CityScapes,a databending project that turned video stills into sonic data (sound and midi).
On his work QuarterBit uses two different dimensions: the world around him as a source ("The Broken Series" projected consisted of damaged appliances like one old refrigerator and a broken MD player) and then the mathematical world of self developed Max/Msp patches that he feeds back to the world around him only to make it captive again inside a patch.
QuarterBit works with the duality beween the raw and visible melted with the abstract.
Highlights:
Kyoto Series installation at the Digital Fringe Festival , Melbourne, Australia (2007) City Specific Sound Design piece for the Kyoto Modern Art Museum, Kyoto, Japan (2007) Site Specific Sound design piece for the ExchangeRate2008 Exibith curated by Ellana Mann (2008) Project Specific Sound Design piece for the Bavarian Public Radion comissioned by JourParJour (2008)
Releases:
(PS004) Kyoto Series
Currently QuarterBit is working on remix for the "Cosecha" EP from Kieron James, soon to be released.
QuarterBit communicates with others mostly by using the artificial language Klingon. Bring your own dictionary.
Hello again, Tom Robinson played one of mine, “Undercover of Love, “on his BBC Radio 6 show on Monday Sept 1st. If you’ve got time in between doing your stuff give your ears a treat and check it out by clicking on the link below.
boas Quarter....obrigado pelo add....musica difrente por aqui.....gostei especialmente da "Carbon Frontiers".....sempre que precissares dispoe....comprimentos da Dmn
Our pleasure! We are looking forward to the "The Sound Of You" relase as well. The tracks you have sent so far are great and "Sofia" is really amazing!
