Film Night Documentation

The film night went very well, and a few of the London based artists managed to meet for the first time which was cool, It was very nice to see this kind of work in the real world and I am looking to scale up for the next screening possibly with a live element so watch out for that

Thanks to Ben for putting the event on, Alex, James, Kate, Jerry, Lawrence, Andi and Gary and everyone else who made it down to watch and all the artists who participated, here are some shots the first few are from Alex.

V_FOLD

Here is a nice DIY video synthesizer project that looks like it's going to be well documented and allow for more people to get involved!

http://vfoldsynth.wordpress.com/
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvJh27zAH7D7xCQwiJ5ebLA

Bertoa and The VISUALIST!

Remember Bertoa's video from this post ? well he has just published full documentation for an audio reactive colouriser ! the Visualist

here is the PDF

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/bertoa/VisualistKl.pdf

please respect the open source nature of the project credit where credit is due :)

thanks Bertoa! 

Analog Distortion - Audio to Video

analog distortion - audio to video from Indivisualists on Vimeo.

My 4 Transistor Video Synth

Heres is a little 4 transistor circuit kludged together from spare components and a 70s hobby magazine article it plugs straight in to the arial socket of you old unused TVs I'm thinking of trying to track down the original author of the article to ask him if I can release it as a kit! sorry there's no sound on the vid but my mixer is broken.

Vasarely Video Synth

The Vasarely Video Synth is a nice looking bit of kit made from a curcuit bent 16bit video game console its audio recative to boot! link here where you can also find some other bent video creations in the DIY section

Jones Modular Video Synth Coming Soon

The Jones Video Synth will be in Euro format and should
come out sometime soon holding page here.  Dave Jones is 
a long time video synth expert and he worked at the 
Experimental Television Center 

LZX Visionary modular video synthesizer has 
been mentioned on VJ forums could this be the same project
or a rival ? info here and here

Atari 2600 Video Bending

Big round up of Atari 2600 bent for video 

POETRY IN CODE by 5yearcoma

Slavlee Experiment by  slavleeexperiment

Atari 2600 clone by failotron

Smash the system! by nordloef 

Atari 2600 Noise & Visuals Machine by castlegayskull

live 8bit chiptune and visuals by heavyw8bit

astroblast 02 by e1mer0

S-Video to Composite Converter

so I got an adapter today in a junk shop it had square 5 s-video sockets on there and at 43p each from rapid I think that was 65p well spent 

here is my attempt at a neat little test jig for finding good bends on the s-video to composite circuit found here see Karl Klomps very nice version here. I can swap in different caps and pots to give me some interesting effects. video coming soon...

THE BIG BENT NES POST

so there are quite a few NES/famicoms out there that have been bent for audio reactivity here in decending order are Pixel Form, Kaseo, Casper Electronics and Collapsicon
more to come

New Video by Bildheinzer

here is the latest of his RGB audio reactive effect units 

Circuit Bent Video Self Portrait

Here is an nice video from youtuber Psychenaturadatura check out more through the link

EMS Spectron/Spectre

famous British video synthesizer sold around 1974 more info here



Sans Soleil or Sunless by Chris Marker (of La Jetée fame) is an amazing film and also uses a spectron for some effects and here is a video made with a Fairlight CVI and a EMS Spectre by youtuber WarrenABurt
imagine running one with a VCS3!

JVC JX-C7 video correction unit

The JVC JX-C7 is another pretty standard video correction unit
more details here

Little 1-bit Video Synth

Little 1-bit Video Synth via Flickr by Tristan Perich more info here

Vintage Archer Analog Video Processors

Super chilled out video from a man named Kevin demoing some analogue video correctors that can get a little glitchy and interesting at the far end of the potentiometers

Sansui AV-77

The Sansui AV-77 is a fairly common AV unit that has a few video effects and some useful video features. picked up a unit in perfect condition the other day and had to look to see what I could find on the net www.audioinfo.net has some useful info and some screen shots of the device in action

while this unit has some cool retro colorizing effects I would not advise it as your first or only effects unit purchase. I also would not advise buying one with a view to circuit bending due to the fact it runs off an internal transformer so there are mains voltages running inside YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Where this unit comes in to its own is as a source switch (that also contains a few effects). I plan to use mine with a few of my other old bits of video gear (before going to one channel of my mixer).

Crayola My First Electronic Coloring Book

So this is the Crayola My First Electronic Coloring Book 

It outputs composite video and if you can find one

it will only set you back a few dollars 

(I think its only available state side)

good start for video circuit bending

heres a video of Madnoodler's bent Crayola

BATSOCKS TellyMate

Batsocks is a super cool little company making an arduino shield called the TellyMate


the TellyMate puts out black and white PAL or NTSC Composite Video and has an inbuilt character set or can be used for simple graphics 

I was thinking If you took one of these £15 and an arduino £10 you would have an interesting "Video Oscillator" as the basis for a simple video synth for £25 not bad


all you need to do is write an interesting program maybe even make it audio reactive by attaching a sensor to the arduino 


bildheinzer (scroll down his page) has already accomplished some audio reactive arduino action by using the arduino pong code by Alastair Parker found here  whitch I think inspired the idea for generating composite video from arduino found here 


and heres an interesting video by Batsocks

Video Inverter

Inverting a videos colour is an interesting and dramatic effect. Many programs have been able to do this for ages but without a nice midi controller and a laptop you can't play a VJ gig with them or put them in a feed back loop :)

further more you cant hack the effect for audio reactivity 
without using something like Jitter

here is a website that details a project that was adapted from 
July 1995 Electronics Now magazine using an LM359 IC and here is the circuit diagram from another site 

many mixers and video effects units also have this effect and can be hacked so look for them on ebay and at junk shops (more to follow)