SILHOUETTE SPORT - curtain sequence (april 2025)

video upload by SILHOUETTE-SYNTHESIZERS

"Here's a sound made with SILHOUETTE Sport using a small movie sequence
(with curtain structure) and the visual sequencer function.
Visit SILHOUETTE at Superbooth 25: Booth H 195."

SILHOUETTE-SPORT : Pre-Order-Launch

video upload by SILHOUETTE-SYNTHESIZERS

"This is the forthcoming audiovisual and portable synthesizer 'SILHOUETTE SPORT'.
For pre-orders and infos please contact: info@silhouette-synthesizer.de
More infos: http://silhouette-synthesizer.de"

WOOD WAVE - an audiovisual Essay with the "Silhouette Eins" Synthesizer

video upload by Pit Przygodda

"This video shows my current audiovisual piece with the "Silhouette Eins" synthesizer. This is a live recorded session done on 13th january 2025. It is a "Silhouette Eins" solo piece, no overdubs or additional effects were made in the postproduction. This piece will be performed live on Sat., 18th January 2025 at "Katarkt"-Festival, Hamburg as a world premiere. It shows a wide variety of sounds and multimedial connection between pictures and sound.

More infos on Silhouette Synthesizers: http://silhouette-synthesizer.de/

Right now there is a kickstarter campaign for the forthcoming little Silhouette brother 'Silhouette Sport' online: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...

Here´s the SILHOUETTE SPORT kickstarter video:" [previously posted here]

SILHOUETTE SPORT kickstarter demo - 19th december 2024

video upload by Pit Przygodda

"This video introduces the portable audiovisual synthesizer SILHOUETTE SPORT on occasion of its kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...

The SILHOUETTE SPORT is the new forthcoming synthesizer made by Pit Przygodda. It is the new sprout in the SILHOUETTE synthesizer family, joining the SILHOUETTE EINS. Infos: http://silhouette-synthesizer.de/

Enjoy! Join!"



The SILHOUETTE SPORT is an innovative audiovisual synthesizer that transforms visuals and motion to sound and rhythm. The interdisciplinary approach liberates the inherent connection between various senses and actions like seeing, moving and listening. To play along these intersections wakes basic intuitions and leads to a widespread field of cross-sensual beauty, poetry and joy.

The SPORT has a camera on board, and it is portable: Ready to search and find visuals in the outside world to play with - dance like. It can also load picture and movie files. The special 'Vimpler' ('visual sampler') function closes the audiovisual circuit: Incoming audio gets transformed to a picture, ready for artistic sound resynthesis.

The SILHOUETTE SPORT is invented and build by German musician and artist Pit Przygodda, and it is the new smaller-in-size-and-prize sprout in the SILHOUETTE synthesizer family and joins the bigger SILHOUETTE EINS (2021).

Technical Features

audiovisual sound synthesis ("Silhouette Synthesis")

visually created audio waves (timbres)

visually controlled sequences

motion transfer between visuals and sound

real time action

readable visual inputs: camera, picture and movie files

"Vimpler" function: audio-to-picture-to-audio

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Walk the SPORT around Superbooth24

video upload by Pit Przygodda

"In this video you can follow our new transportable audiovisual synthesizer
'SILHOUETTE SPORT' (prototype) through the floors of Superbooth 24 synth fair, Berlin. The synthesizer has an integrated camera at the front which captures live video and transforms its greysacle data live into audio. More special camera features will be implemented.
We met some friends, colleagues and artists. Please join their first reaction.
We are planning to release 'SILHOUETTE SPORT' in winter 2024/25.

Links to people and companies:

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Superbooth 2024 Day One: Reverb: The Coolest Stuff We Saw

video upload by Reverb

"On Day One of Superbooth 2024, we check out new products from Oberheim, Schmidt, Silhouette, MSF, Chase Bliss, and Novation.

Check out all the latest Superbooth announcements.

0:00-0:20 - Intro
0:20-0:55- Schmidt EightVoice Polyphonic Synthesizer.
0:56-1:43 - Novation Puts 10 Bass Stations in Unison
1:44-3:00 - Silhouette
3:01-3:34 - Oberheim TEO-5
3:35-5:02 - MSF Drop
5:03 - Chase Bliss Onward"

SUPERBOOTH 2024: Silhouette - Silhouette Sport

video upload by sonicstate

"At Superbooth 2024 we met Pit from *Silhouette*, and he showed us his new instument, *Silhouette Sport*.

Silhouette Sport is a diminutive version of the original Silhouette synth, and is based on the same concept of using a camera to interpret incoming visuals and convert them to sound. *Silhouette Sport *has a built in screen, and lets you import image or movie files, but Pit focussed on demonstrating the synth by pointing it at the Superbooth punters. Silhouette Sport is so portable that it transforms the synth and multiplies its possibilities. It's also now possible to convert incoming sound directly into video, and in turn re-inject those visuals into the Silhouette.

Silhouette Sport Available: December 2024 Price: TBC"

SILHOUETTE SPORT is steppin out

video upload by Pit Przygodda

"The new portable audiovisual SILHOUETTE synthesizer "SPORT" is now leaving the workshop to be presented at Superbooth synth fair 24, Berlin, booth O405. It offers mobility (batterie), light-table-option, desktop-stand-option, touchscreen, 9-encoder-on-screen-controller, flexible camera, midi.

This is a prototype, serial production begin is estimated winter 2024/25.
More infos about Silhouette Synthesizers: http://silhouette-synthesizer.de/

Superbooth booth O405: https://www.superbooth.com/en/messe-a..."

text as image as sound - Paolo Dellapiana live at Biennale Art Venice 2024

video upload by Pit Przygodda

"Italian artist Paolo Dellapiana plays an audiovisual live set at Biennale Art Venice 2024, at Studio 454. He uses his optical sound synthesizer 'Silhouette Eins' plus a small eurorack synth unit and external fx.
As visual materials, that generate the sound, he uses typographic elements, score shapes and computer grafics and plays them with the Silhouette Eins."

SILHOUETTE eins : sound of the day: Monday, 6th May, 2024.

video upload by Pit Przygodda

"The optical sound synthesizer SILHOUETTE Eins uses greyscale values for sound synthesis. In this video a "Vimple" (visual sample of an analog synthesisizer (Korg MS20) is crossfaded with a template on the lighttable, captured by the camera. The notes ate played by sequencer remote (plus some bassdrum notes).
Visit SILHOUETTE SYNTEHSIZERS on Superbooth24, Synth fair, Berlin (16. - 18.th may 2024) at booth O405. Or here: http://www.silhouette-synthesizer.de/"

Silhouette eins image-to-sound examples (no talking)

video upload by Floyd Steinberg

"In the comments of the big video on Silhouette eins [posted here] you expressed your need for more practical demos to understand how this synth works. So here they are:

00:00 waveshaping by using actual images of waves (and slowly morphing them within a quicktime movie)
01:00 changing sound texture with the camera and lightbox
01:53 animating a movie with a sine wave LFO
03:11 "sharpening" sound by reducing scan field height
04:43 marble in a glass, showing off how sound follows the movement of the marble!

I hope these videos help your understanding of how this machine works.

HÄLP ZIS CHANNEL
https://www.patreon.com/floyd_steinberg
https://floydsteinberg.gumroad.com/
https://floydsteinberg.bandcamp.com/"

Images to sound - Silhouette eins synthesizer

video upload by Floyd Steinberg

"Silhouette eins is a #synthesizer that converts images into sound. You can learn more here: https://www.silhouette-synthesizer.de - or watch this video. Table of contents:

00:00 longest intro drone ever on this channel
03:03 hello
04:14 taking some pictures outside...
04:22 explanation: the general concept and hardware overview
05:28 using the lightbox for shaping sound
07:03 using the pattern sheets
08:18 using two of them at once
08:28 user interface walkthrough: basic synth parameters
09:55 modulators
11:04 envelopes and lfos
11:28 using pictures and videos
12:21 blending image sources
12:47 Silhouette eins web page
13:09 some short demos using various photos: 1 - the crow (scan field modulation)
14:23 demo 2 - the wave (image blending, manual scan field movement)
16:40 demo 3 - FLOYD (using an external sequencer)
17:40 demo 4 - cherry tree / gray scales - sine waves using smooth gradients
18:25 visual sampling ("Vimpler") - vimpling the Roland J-6
19:27 conclusion, YouTube chant
19:49 outro demo

HÄLP ZIS CHANNEL
https://www.patreon.com/floyd_steinberg
https://floydsteinberg.gumroad.com/
https://floydsteinberg.bandcamp.com/"

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SILHOUETTE eins: 7 new sounds

video upload by Pit Przygodda

"This video shows the audiovisual synthesizer 'SILHOUETTE eins' in 7 situations that push the creative use with the visual sources in new directions.
Some of the picture files where made by the internal 'Vimpler' function (visual samples made from audio samples) and some where special designed for audiovisual transformation. The transport of a movie file is jumping wildly back and forth. A mobilée swings and is building a physical audiovisual installation with SILHOUETTE eins. Fotos from templates on the lighttable were taken and mixed."

con ting n.c.

video upload by Pit Przygodda

"English:
I was coaching a workshop for filmsound at art-university Kassel, Germany.
One of the movies (by student Aly B. Landwehr) had crashed onside the camera while filming:
the transport mechanism failed. But the malfunction created something unexpected: strange shapes that pulsate on the screen.
Spontaneously I decided to remix the movie live at the final screening ceremony. It showed up new creative horizons of the Silhouette Synthesizer within the mutlimedial context.
More infos:
https://silhouettesynthesizer.cargo.s...

Deutsch:
Die kasseler Filmstudentin Aly B. Landwehr dreht einen 16mm-Analog-schwarz-weiß-Film. Beim Dreh hakt der Transport der Kamera aus, so daß die Frames verrutschen. Bei der Projektion werden verwischte, halbabstrakte Bilder sichtbar, in einem pulsierenden Rhythmus erscheinend und verschwindend. Im Seminar "Filmsound" der Kunsthochschule und des Instituts für Musik (beide Kassel) trifft Musiker und Erfinder Pit Przygodda (P. Zygota) Aly und ihren Film und läßt den Film als visuelles Material durch den von ihm erfundenen audio-visuellen Synthesizer "Silhouette eins" laufen und durch die "Silhouette-Synthese" zu rhytmischen Klängen transformieren.
Mehr infos:
https://silhouettesynthesizer.cargo.s..."

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Superbooth 2023 Silhouette - Visual Synthesiser Now With Audio To Visual Sampling

video upload by sonicstate

"At Superbooth 2023, Sonicstate spoke to Pit from Silhouette about their eponymous synthesizer. Silhouette transforms grayscale data from your hand movements in front of the camera directly into audio waveforms. The blue rectangle represents the area where the grayscale data is sampled and transformed into audio. By changing the area and modulating the visual, interesting sounds and loops can be created. One unique feature of Silhouette is that it can load picture files to create interesting audio effects.

This year, Silhouette has a new feature that allows audio samples to be translated into visuals, which can then be used as a source for audio. Pit demonstrated this by sampling his old Korg MS20 audio and translating it into a visual file, which he then used to create new waveforms. Although the translation is not one-to-one, the errors that occur during translation serve as a source for creativity. Pit plans to implement this feature into the Silhouette synthesizer and close the circle from visual to audio and back.

Silhouette Visual Synthesizer Price: 3,900 Euros

https://silhouettesynthesizer.cargo.s..."

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Silhouette eins: introducing "the Vimpler"

video upload by Pit Przygodda

"Here is a quick demo of the new audio-to-visual function, which is now part of the Silhouette Synthesizer system. Herewith SIlhouette closes the circle visuals-to-audio-to-visuals.
Visit us at the Superbooth 23 synth fair, Berlin, 11th to 13th may, 2023. Booth H195."

Silhouette eins - Tracks and Trains (2023)

video upload by Pit Przygodda

"'Silhouette eins' is a synthesizer system that uses visual sources (pics, movs, cam) to create music and audiovisual works. It has been developed by Pit Przygodda from 1992 to 2023 (ongoing).
This is a jam with 3 Silhouette eins synthesizers. The visuals content deals with tracks and trains.
More Infos:
http://silhouette-synthesizer.de/"

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Farewell to 3 Silhouettes

video upload by Pit Przygodda

"A live jam with 3 'Silhouette eins' synthesizers.
The next day they travel to their new owners.
"Silhouette eins" is a multimedia synthesizer system using visual sources (pics, movs and cam) to create music and audiovisual works.
It has been developed by musician and artist Pit Przygodda from 1992 to 2022 (ongoing).
Info:
http://silhouette-synthesizer.de/"

Silhouette eins - 7 sounds (08/2022)

video upload by Pit Przygodda

""SILHOUETTE eins" is a multimedia synthesizer system using visual sources (pics, movs, cam) to create music and audiovisual works by artist Pit Przygodda. This video presents 7 sound examples.
For more details visit the demo-video: [posted here, additional posts here]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv_JW...
and the website:
http://silhouette-synthesizer.de/"

Superbooth 22: Silhouette - Silhouette Eins Synthesizer

video upload by sonicstate

"After many years of development, Pete at Silhouette presents his highly unique Silhouette-Eins synthesizer.

Each one is hand-built, and it uses a camera to convert images, or even video into waveforms that can be further shaped by the front panel and touch pad. It calls to mind the rare ANS or Oramics synths of the past but with bang up to date technology.

Available to order now. Price 3,800 euro

http://silhouette-synthesizer.de/"

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