Circuit Bent Sanyo VCR

https://www.youtube.com/user/tdiederich3

Jonathan Gillie

Here is some interesting video collage work from Jonathan Gillie using Tachyons+ gear to generate the video effects and then arranged in after effects



http://jonathangillieportfolio.tumblr.com/
http://jongillie.tumblr.com/

Video Circuit Bending Tutorial by Lush Projects

Very nice video circuit bending tutorial by Lush Projects
http://lushprojects.com/blog/2014/04/approach-to-video-circuit-bending/

Check his work here

Akirasrebirth

Akirasrebirth  has some nice circuit bent video stuff and an arduino based video project here 

Tiny Dazzler (Andy Puls)

 Tiny Dazzler (Andy Puls) has some awesome video things going on over at his blog and here

The first video is of an impressive CMOS based video pattern generator 

http://www.circuitbentvideo.com/

Interview: Logan Owlbeemoth (OS OVNI/TACHYONS+)

I thought it was about time to start creating some more involved content on VC as at this time there are probably more people interested in video synthesis, video art and DIY electronics than ever before. One of the most prolific people online at the moment both in music and video is Logan Owlbeemoth, his band OS OVNI and his project TACHYONS+ are testament to an interesting and creative mind. I asked Logan if he would answer 5 questions for VC and he very kindly took the time to detail his past and present work and how it came about.

1) Hi Logan I see allot of your work online (OS OVNI, your electronics and other video work) can you tell me a little about the context for your work, where you come from and how that might have helped give rise to what you do?

Mostly everything I have done or been a part of is definitely based in the idea of what are the perceptions of reality. Changing reality, creating new realities through sound and art, colors and tones. Shaping new dimensional worlds based off the influence of science fiction and psychedelic art. OS OVNI (http://osovni.tumblr.com/) is a musical/visual art duo with my wife Omebi ( http://soundcloud.com/omebi ) The past two years of OS OVNI have been heavily involved in experimenting within music video creation and the use of live show visual projections. Our last music tour we went around the U.S. for two months with a LZX Bitvision (http://youtu.be/kcwzGyOoMYA) letting members of the audience use it. Was a great time of showing people what analog video synthesis is and how hands on it is compared to more complicated digital laptop live visual art which is what people are nowadays seemingly use to. It was inspiring to watch the reactions of people and fun doing visuals for the bands we played with like Yip-Yip: (http://youtu.be/zvBofY_UKhs)

2) What video work from the past has influenced your way of doing things?

I remember as a little kid watching Liguid Television on MTV and thats my deepest embedded weird psych artistic mindblowing video art memory by far. Those images are still burned in my mind. ( http://youtu.be/LXhe4jFzEwU )

Obscure yet infamous Damon Packard, a movie director based out of L.A. really changed my visual art perspective in the 2000's with his epic cinematic masterpiece Reflections Of Evil. It's truly one of the most brain-bending films ever and few can even sit through it. His continuous dedication to making films on a shoe-string budget and keeping his own vision at his grasp, have no parallel to other film-makers today and that is a huge influence. I highly recommend his other films Dawn Of A Evil Millinium, Space Disco One, and his Nausicaa live action Tales of the Valley of the Wind. ( http://youtu.be/W68yU3TlCBo )

Moving to Austin in 2009 I met a lot of great film experimentalists including my first introduction to video synthesis. Eventually became friends with Lars Larsen just as he was starting up his LZX video synth business and he made a music video for O.O. ( http://youtu.be/RiXBqihMYQI ). He encouraged me a lot on what video synthesis is. If it wasn't for Lars: my current work with modifying old video processors would possibly not be a reality. His 'Synthesized Landscape' video is by far my favorite work of his. (http://youtu.be/526IgKDcd8U )

Also in Austin, I also met a fascinating visual art duo known as the VIDKIDZ. ( http://www.vidkidz.info/ ) We can became good friends and they did a lot of our live visuals for years including a few music videos. O.O. was invited to open up for the Silver Apples for 2012 New Years and we said yes if only the VIDKIDZ can do visuals. I'm really looking forward to what they end up doing in the future. ( http://youtu.be/sxhFa59VZ7Q )

3) What effects are you trying to achieve with your video equipment modifications and how did that begin?

Well I have been circuit bending for many years on and off. Earlier this year I started modyifying old Casio's. (http://youtu.be/hlpwsWJcAwU) Eventually I wanted to dip my fingers in some video circuits but wasn't sure where to start. One day at a thrift store, Omebi found a old Archer video processor. I opened it up and Wow! It went nuts! Crazy instant psych visuals! Kept playing with it and eventually fried it after a few hours. The translation of experimenting with 80's Casio circuits to video circuits are very different. Theres no margin of error. You touch one wrong point, aka a power capacitor and zap! It's Dead. I didn't go to school for electronics nor have I read a book on the matter, which might be insulting to more serious electronic wizards. But I'm teaching myself slowly what I'm doing and appreciate the intuition factor I involve in my creations.

4) Do you see a link between audio and video and if so could you talk about that?

With today's instant internet connection of the visual-audio realm, I believe a visual accompaniment to music elevates it all wonderfully when done right. Why just use one crayon?

5) Do you think that DIY production (of whatever, equipment, music, video) have a place in the growing net/art music subcultures and where would you like to see these ways of working go?

Since I started making DIY visual art machines, which I call 'poor man video synths'. I can't keep up with the demand for them. There is a lot of people asking me: 'What's a video synth? What? Really? You can do that? Wow! Will you build me one?' Which is fascinating and I'm happy to make them when people request them. I don't ask for much with personal requests but sometimes people jack them up in Ebay wars which sucks because I wish more people could have these at affordable prices. The machines I create are amateur friendly user boxes that can produce great lo-fi video chaos art. I'm hoping over time with daily learning, studying and building that that I can create a low priced video synth box from scratch to offer in the creative visual electronics world.

http://osovni.tumblr.com/
http://tachyonsplus.tumblr.com/
https://vimeo.com/tachyonsplus/videos

Evan Montpellier

Here is a sweet project form  Evan Montpellier it's a video synth based on VGA converters

here is some info that Evan very kindly provided, the basic concept is very straightforward
"This device uses a very cheap and simple method for modular video synthesis. The camera is hooked up to a composite-to-VGA converter box... This has a VGA cable coming out of it, which I slit open to get at the individual conductors inside. This gives you access to the red, green and blue video signal channels on separate lines, as well as the HSYNC and VSYNC signals."

"found that if you run any of these signals into the trigger pin (pin 2) of a 555 set up in astable mode, you can get the 555 to synchronize its output to the video waveform. I haven't looked at it on a scope yet, but it seems like every time there's dip in the original signal, the 555 resets its duty cycle. This is what's drawing the vertical lines that more-or-less conform to the geometry of the original video signal. I found garden variety NE555s to be a bit slow, and wound up using CMOS-based TS555 chips."

"I'm going to keep developing it in the fall. Future plans include checking out the actual voltage ranges with a good scope and implementing some kind of limiting system along the one used in the LZX Visionary, cooking up some more interesting time-based effects and adding VCAs to give more nuance to the colourization. This approach seems like it could be good for people who want a cheap and simple way to get into video DIY, and to that end I want to write up build instructions once I get everything a bit more stable."


VGA video synthesizer test 2 from Evan Montpellier on Vimeo.

nightmare machine test

from ldtronics

"some test footage run through a video enhancer that i modified, it now is more of a dehancer and that is just how i like it. the machine can glitch the video (any video source can be run through it) manually or an audio source can be run into it causing it to glitch to the music. it has a lowpass filter which allows you to control the frequencies of the music that cause it to glitch. this video is manual glitching only. also, sorry if the audio level is low... but i am too lazy to fix that."

Bent Festival

sure to be some good video stuff at this !

The Tank and 319 Scholes Present 2011 Bent Festival

Thursday, June 23 to Saturday, June 25

Location: 319 Scholes Street (Brooklyn, NY)

L train to Montrose Ave.

BROOKLYN, NY - The 2011 Bent Festival will be held at 319 Scholes in Brooklyn, June 23rd - 25th. Bent Festival is an annual art and music festival celebrating DIY electronics, hardware hacking, and circuit bending. Each year we invite artists from across the country and around the globe to perform music with their home-made or circuit bent instruments, teach workshops to adults and children alike, create beautiful art installations and to generally come together, face to face, and showcase the state of the art in DIY electronics and circuit bending culture.

Links
Web: http://bentfestival.org
Schedule: http://bentfestival.org/2011/schedule
Twitter: @bentfestival (#bent11)
Facebook: Bent Festival Facebook
Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/178498
Photo stream on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bentfestival2011/
Video by Dr. Rek (featuring Daedalus): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Pbyg_kcEk

Bent JVC JX-W9 from Gannon

his youtube and website here 

Time Base Forcer

From Gieskes "It forces time base on the signal you put into it, so you can display the signal on a TV".

Storming Pong!

I think circuit bending with just wet hands should from henceforth be known as storming. This is pong being "stormed" as he puts it from marco cher-gibard on vimeo excellent!


from  Vimeo

Bent Genesis/Megadrive

here is a set of interesting looking Sega Genesis mods from dreamtear on flickr

vtol chess theory video synth

here is an interesting video synth I like the simple the black and white thing very stylish and unique maybe at its heart it's a bent video chess game? anyway more info here

Bent Atari 1200xl

Bent Atari 1200xl via cosmicblooper more photos and stuff via the website  

Bent Video Painter

heres a bent video a pinter from asmo on flickr

Circuit Bent Hing Hon EK-001 [Video model]

here are some nice visual created by running video through this circuit bent keyboard from frostedminipete on youtube 

Circuit Bent Web-cam Audio Visualizer

via giulioescalona on youtube

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