Le Révélateur: Sabrina Ratté & Roger Tellier-Craig London

So I am pretty excited to see Le Révélateur perform as part of Digital Québec, I am a great appreciator of all their work so far, both Sabrina and Rodger make some of the most beautiful work around. Link!

8 UK PREMIERES OVER TWO CONSECUTIVE NIGHTS AT THE BFI SOUTHBANK - MARCH 12 & 13

BFI Southbank’s regular Sonic Cinema strand teams up with ELEKTRA and MUTEK, two vibrant organisations from Québec, to present a bold and ambitious series of live audiovisual performances, featuring 8 UK Premieres over two consecutive nights.

Dubbed Digital Québec, some of the province’s most innovative and experimental A/V creators will be presenting their work for the very first time on British soil. Acting as a continuation of the combined ELEKTRA and MUTEK 15th anniversary event EM15 presented in Montréal in May 2014, the selection of works represent the interdisciplinary intersection of music, sound and digital art where both organizations meet.


LINEUP:

Thursday March 12
7pm
Dominique T Skoltz: y2o
Yan Breuleux: Tempêtes

9.15pm
Matthew Biederman & 4X: Physical
Herman Kolgen: Seismik + Aftershock

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Friday March 13
7pm
Maotik & Metametric: Omnis
Woulg: Ring Buffer

9.30pm
Myriam Bleau: Soft Revolvers
Roger Tellier-Craig & Sabrina Ratté: Le Révélateur


TICKETS

Tickets available here: http://bit.ly/1DFug3S

1 show £16
2 shows the same night £25
Pass for 4 shows £40

If you wish to buy a 4-performance or 8-perfomance pass, you need to call the BFI box office or visit the venue to buy the festival passes.

www.elektramontreal.ca
mutek.org
bfi.org.uk

With the support of Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec and the Québec Government Office in London.

Carlie don't surf

Matt Levy and Nick Ciontea on elektronA4 and makenoise 6u respectively.
video patch from the brownshoesonly archive

Ed Leckie

Some beautiful LZX patches here from Ed one half of the team behind LZX they have quite a few new modules on offer now and in the pipeline

Detergent from BOB-SNARE on Vimeo.

Weavings #1 from BOB-SNARE on Vimeo.

Dan Tombs

 Dan Tombs has been making some great visuals for a while now both in a live context and for music videos and related content, he makes great use of both computer editing and hardware based processes such as feedback. 

http://dantombs.net/

Jennifer Juniper Stratford

ChronOproject
Music by AFM Magician / AFM Musician
From the album Eternity
afm-musician.bandcamp.com/album/eternity

Video by Jennifer Juniper Stratford

THE LAND BEHIND

Video+sound editing / Sabrina Ratté
Music / Roger Tellier-Craig


THE LAND BEHIND from Sabrina Ratté on Vimeo.

Suuns "2020" Video By Sabrina Ratté

Sabrina Ratté video for Suuns, using some very nice waveform generation and feedback to great minimal effect, Inspiring 
Suuns - "2020" (Official Video) from the album 'Images Du Futur' out March 5, 2013 on Secretly Canadian and on Secret City in Canada

Sam N

Sam's been making some really nice stuff using the LZX system and feedback

Simulcast

Simulcast shows some subtle uses of the entrancer here with varied source marital

 "Simulcast is a one-man-audiovisual-experimentation-unit.
He has been producing music and visuals since 2002.
He is based in Brisbane, Australia."


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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

brownshoesonly

http://www.brownshoesonly.com/modules/
Brown Shoes Only video work and LZX format triple video VCA

moss folk - red from brownshoesonly on Vimeo.


Com Truise - Hyperlips from brownshoesonly on Vimeo.

Alex White

De-Composite @ Time Machine 2012 from Alex White on Vimeo.


"Documentation of video installation at Time Machine, Sydney, July 2012.

De-Composite

De-Composite exploits analog video encoding systems including composite video to produce a video form. These systems were ubiquitous and central to television, video and gaming production and consumption for decades and are now rapidly approaching obsolescence. There is a fluidity and immediacy to directly engaging and interrupting these analog systems and also an opacity of function encouraging a reliance upon cause and effect, trial and error rather than conception and execution.

De-Composite utilises movement and configurations of person(s) within the space of the installation as modulation sources to synthesise a real time generated hybrid analog / digital video projection with stereo audio.

Alex White

Alex has an intense interest in synthesis as applied to audio and video. For more than 10 years he has created his own software based instruments and more recently has begun utilising a modular synthesiser for both audio and video performances and installations. Alex is a co-organiser of Moduluxxx – Modular Synthesis Festival which debuted in 2012, Alex has also co-directed Serial Space, Electrofringe Festival (when it was a festival), Liquid Architecture Sydney and is the founder and project consultant for the Lion Mountain Studio project. Alex currently works for the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia on the Digital Radio Project."

Liz Larsen - A Visit From 2 New Friends

engineers are also artists
here is a piece one of the wizards behind LZX video synthesisers the incredible Liz Larsen
Liz is a great supporter of video synthesis in general please go to her site and check out whats on offer both for sale and the wealth of information.
http://www.lzxindustries.net/

Sabrina Ratte EXPERIMENT III

Video feedback, AZDEN VPC-10, LZX Video Synthesizer

Electronic sounds -Roger Tellier-Craig

New Complexity from LZX

New Vids from LZX

Johnny Woods and Dpony VHS Movie/Album

Dpony Movie is available on VHS tape in a limited edition of 100 copies.
Orders are available now for the price of $19.99 (including shipping and handling, USA only)

http://www.dponymovie.com/

LZX New Prototypes

"Testing out a few upcoming LZX modules. These examples of pattern synthesis combine a basic LZX system with new prototypes for Video Ramps, Triple Video Processor, Video Logic, Voltage Interface II, and the Sandin Differentiator and Function Generator. This montage is designed to give an overall impression of some possibilities with integrating the new modules into a pattern synthesis workflow. Video created by Johnny Woods, some clips with assistance by Gavin Russom. Music unrelated to the video source."

LZX Patterns and Beat Sync

brownshoesonly.com

syncing TTA z3000 with the LZX waveform generator.

tons of doepfer quadrature LFO

Johnny Woods Live Video Synth SUN 20th NY

also CRITTER & GUITARI! and Johnny will be creating ambient video backgrounds for your amazement


"Dadarhea! 
At 
CANADA 
55 CHRYSTIE ST 
NY,NY 
COME BY IF YOU FEEL LIKE DRAWING OR BRING AN INSTRUMENT AND JAM!!!! (we'll have some stuff here too) 
MEET CRITTER & GUITARI !! Check out some of their awesome handheld sound & visual devices! 
http://www.critterandguitari.com/ 
Other wonderous video machines courtesy of Johnny Woods.... 
you can come and do nothing too, and nobody will judge you."

here is some of Johnny talking about his set up

LZX Visionary - Vector Rescanning Experiments

so LZX have been messing with ratser scan effects to great results