Sometimes I use electronic experimentalist…Ĭhain D.L.K.: Is the decision of making self-released production a sort of response to any specific artistic need? Saying that, because I’m a laptoper, the expression “laptop experimentalist” is a possible way, open enough I hope, to say something without saying anything special. Boring and uninteresting subjects that we all need to address once it’s impossible to have an artistic output without having a face to present and a few lines describing us. Myself to myself and, fundamentally, myself to the others. The second part of the question touches on one of the major problems that are dealing with the image of myself. 40 x 220V sockets) and weighs only a few kilograms with all the complements. A laptop is basically a machine that can have all that inside (approx. Nevertheless, my studio environment is full of hardware that I keep using since my early days. Over the years, the computational capacity has changed so much that we can do true miracles with it, in-studio and in live environments. Vitor Joaquim: The role is simple, I use the laptop as a tool to generate, record, process, mix, and master sound, and music.

How can you describe this role? Did this role change over the last years? I remember that maybe your official biography describes you as a laptop experimentalist.

My ears also met many releases forged by your talent. Vitor Joaquim: I’m pretty ok, thank you! Always in peace, waking up every day in love with the warm feel of the bed, but also ready for a new day!Ĭhain D.L.K.: I think you don’t really need introductions to most of our readers. Let’s know its wise author better and let’s understand this release by his own words.Ĭhain D.L.K.: Hi Vitor! How are you doing? We decided to reach him on the occasion of the listening of “Quietude”, a piece now taking the shape of a CD, begun as a curated commission by Sekoia Artes Performativas with a specific purpose: to create a piece from an extended stay at the Casa do Paço in Vila Me, a space that inspired Agustina Bessa-Lus in several literary fictions and around which part of the family history told in the book “A Sibila” (“The Sibyl”,1954). Researcher, teacher, electronic experimentalist, sound, and visual artist, graduated in sound and film directing with a PHD in computer music based in Setúbal (Portugal), Vitor Joaquim is the brain behind or in front of the curtains of an impressively high number of collaborations, projects, and releases (I warmly recommend browsing over his artistic path).

A Sibila by Agustina Bessa-Luís