Cconfin

Custom software developed for the “Quark” project by Farmacia901, which has been used by more than 50 international sound artists including Yann Novak, @C, France Jobin, Pjusk and Nicolas Bernier.

Nicolas Bernier used Cconfin for his project “frequencies (sound quanta)” – read the article on Ableton website

Quark: How Does The Invisible Sound? is a media project born with the specific intent of exploring the possible inter-relationship between sound and the invisible, strictly related to science and physics. It relies on monthly digital releases and a MaxMSP custom software called Cconfin, inspired by elementary particles interactions and a physical phenomenon known as Colour Confinement. The software allows the artists and musicians involved to seek and discover their own vision of the invisible through sound by treating and processing audio files via custom algorithms. Presented as a collection of digital graphic cards and heterogeneous sound art pieces, the research aims to find a deep connection as close as possible to the boundary of knowledge. An attempt at quantum sound in a not-visible yet perceptible world.

DETAILS:
Cconfin consists in three different modules called Quanta.
“Quanta I” takes samples of an audio file thanks to a creative and complex windowing system, it generates microsounds and mixes them with the original audio source. Reverberator and distortion sections may be used to further process the sound.
“Quanta II” performs audio freezing, crossfades between different spectral frames and performs stuttering of the resultant sound.
“Quanta III” is the looping playback section containing two audio slicing modules and four looping modules.