About

bit-tuner, born and raised in st.gallen (CH), lives and works in zurich (CH)

since 1997, bit-tuner producing music with computer, mpc, synthesizer, bassguitar and a lot of analog effects. he likes to work with samples from old vinyl records, and in recent times with self-recorded sounds and field recordings. the musical results are slow- and heavyweight beats, punching basslines, dark atmospheres and melodies, and noisy soundscapes.
he composes music and does sounddesign for dancetheatre productions. he works with the dancecompany at theater st.gallen, cie. sans filtre, zürich, compagnie buffpapier, st. gallen..
in the recent past he also composes soundtracks for shortmovies. for example “vandalen” from simon steuri and “bipolar” from gabriela betschart.
with rapper dani göldin he dropped four albums, and a remix-ep as göldin & bit-tuner on quiet records/zurich.
further collaborations: egogrill with rapper omega takeshi from 88:komaflash (munich), audio88 from berlin/neukölln and sensational from wordsound recordings/nyc.
bit-tuner’s 4 track instrumental-ep “aspects” was released 2004 by local_form records/st.gallen, and his first solo-album “toxin” was released in 2008 by umbruch recordings/hamburg. in december 2009 his second full-lenght album “low-speed detonation” will be released on cd/lp by trepok rec./zurich.