Although my posts are mainly about audio synthesizers, every now and then I see something that interests me on the video synthesizer and circuit bending front. GetLoFi has an interesting post up on Glitchsim, an artist that bends old video equipment."I have started modifying secondhand and obsolete video tools to create my own tools. By making my own tools I create the image together with the tools. I let technology play an important role by bringing the mistakes and imperfections of the tool to the front."
Title link takes you to the post on GetLoFi including links to more info, video, pics and more.
The concept reminded me of Steven Jones, who used home made video manipulation gear with Severed Heads back in the early '80s.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how far this circuit bending craze is going to go. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the zen electronics. I'm going to start telling people I bent my toaster so that it only toasts one side of the bread. (great for sandwiches and half-toast-french-toast)
ReplyDeleteAnd then there's always circuit bent computer.
ReplyDeletewww.getlofi.com/2005/07/computer-bending.html
I turned a turntable and a video camera into a spiral metasynth sort of LFO synth. Camera pointed to spinning stuff on turntable goes into Max/Jitter. I select pixels from a matrix, and convert the results into control signals and MIDI based on the luminosity and color (RGB+derrived K or CMYK). Smoothening is available.
ReplyDeletePut a Barbie doll on the platter (flesh toned) and you can get a lot of interesting variation. A beach post-card behind Barbie can add some 'blue' tones. A spiral also is kind of neat sounding. You can use a magic marker and some white paper and use it to make cool circular drum beat triggers.
I shall set it up again and take some photos of it working. It's kinda neat.
I really like video->audio conversions, and this one is more musical than most motion detecting abstract university stuff.
Interesting Doktor. I'd love to see it.
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