About
Cubase and Saucony do it for me. I love running and making music and the guys responsible for these products create the very best tools for both.
Half-BIT
Half-BIT
I’m one half of Half-BIT, but I’m not quarterbit, so maybe I’m the decimal half (oxymoron?).
Half-BIT is a musical collaboration between @fjfonseca (aka quarterbit) and me. It all kicked off in October 2009 with a remix we did (actually a remix of a remix) of Alka’s Separate.
We then moved on to working on a musical art/sound installation for Netaudio’s EXPANDING Barcelona Festival in November 2009, swiftly followed by a Little Boots remix.
Our intention is to glitch and bit-crush the living hell out of anything that moves.
Somió
Somió is the downtempo avenue for my musical expression. Named after a small village in the beautiful Spanish region of Asturias, my intention with Somió is to explore melodic motifs through rhythm and sound design.
I have visited Northern Spain each summer for the last eighteen years, spending a good deal of time in the idyllic Picos de Europa. Locations in Asturias lend their names to the compositions featured on Deva – the title track is the name of the village in which we married.
Jonathan Scary
My first collection of tunes was a very eclectic six track EP, Disarray, put together under the name Jonathan Scary.
Disarray was created between 15/01/09, when I first got my hands on a copy of Cubase and 19/04/09 when a mastered version of Grey Space was uploaded. With the exception of Grey Space which was reworked from James Fahy’s piece, all tracks are original compositions.
Old School
Front cover of Zip Code
These days I’m working alone, but I have played drums in a number of bands, the most successful being The Emotionals in the late ’80s and early ’90s. Famous for its “raunchy banana pop”, the band’s guitarist really kicked off the sticker campaign craze on London’s underground (I’m sure to the despair of those responsible for the Tube’s maintenance).
We played the circuit in London (Sir George Robey, Borderline, The Marquee) and released two albums with Native Records, Personal Pleasure and In Response. The Emotionals were reviewed in NME, Sounds and Melody Maker, but one of my favourites is the article which appeared in the fanzine pictured on the left. The photo is of Emma Vine, the band’s singer, but if you look to the left you’ll notice the names of one or two familiar artists: Nine Inch Nails, Hole, Smashing Pumpkins, Therapy, Ian McNabb and Mercury Rev.
The artwork for both albums was produced by Sheffield’s The Designers Republic, the second (below), being my favourite of the two.
