music series F

Piece description from the artist

The series of nine pieces can be shown as a unified set or acquired individually. The works can be scaled and arranged to fit any space, allowing the viewer to experience the entire visual melody.

Inspiration & Concept: The music series, known as Bits, is a cross-media exploration using music as its foundation. By creating a conversion process of music into visuals, ideas form in translating one kind of information into another. There is a critique in what can be achieved comparatively between the artistic languages of music composition and visual design. By reducing music notes to the simple alphabetical scale of A through G, the pieces question what happens when a complex artistic language is stripped to its most basic elements and reinterpreted by a machine.

Process & Technique: The creation of each image begins with musical notation, which is then converted into the string of letters correlating A to G. This code is then manually inputted and constrained to raw data for an image file. The original structure of the musical composition dictates the final visual, creating a unique and unpredictable pattern. The resulting work is a fragmented compression and visualization of melody, harmony and rhythm.

Message & Meaning: auditory vs. visual, patterns in media, lost in translation, machine reinterpretation

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About Daniel Derosato

Paisley, FL

Daniel DeRosato is a multidisciplinary artist and designer with over 20 years experience. He was born and raised in Pennsylvania, completed art college in the Boston area and worked as a designer in Philadelphia for five years, before relocating to Florida where he now resides. Most of his fine art is created digitally, where he intentionally breaks down the structure of images, sound and text. He has learned how to work within the instability of this process, and will translate files through different formats to explore the beautiful, unpredictable outcomes of corruption in pattern and color.

He also applies these methods to creative writing, video editing, web design, and performance art, treating social media as another format to explore as an art platform. His practice extends well beyond the computer, pushing the boundaries of his mediums by incorporating glitch techniques into traditional practices like printmaking, letterpress, bookbinding, screen printing, sculpture, and lithography. He makes connections and reflections to outsider art, folk art, art brut, prison art, therapeutic art, process art, pop art, generative art, psychedelic art, kitsch art, dadaism and the surreal, abstract symbolism… he relates the methods of glitch as a way to rethink intentional outsider art and Dadaism.

Consider the profound sadness of a message that never was received, the unique feeling of unintended isolation… Daniel's art processes are a way for him to explore themes similar to failure and loss, intention versus interpretation, global instability, creation amid uncertainty, ideas born without context, and fragmented origins.

While his personal art focuses on this introspective exploration, his client work is dedicated to the opposite – using his vision to bring creative life to all sizes of businesses, bands, schools, and organizations. He specializes in everything from logos to large-scale art for tech firms. Areas of experience include printed apparel, merch for bands, promotional materials, business cards and menus, websites and branding, outside signage for companies, or marketing and publicity materials, like key art and creative assets for a theater. His empathy and passion to exceed expectations drives a core mission to work with a client's ideas to go beyond what they thought possible.

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