Photos From The Video Workshop

The video workshop Alex and I gave was one of the best I have delivered, all 15 attendees got to take home a working CHA/V module they built in the class, it's a hacked VGA signal generator that basically allows you to build a simple video synth by adding some home brew or off the shelf oscillators. We had a great mix of attendees and they were all from really interesting backgrounds and super engaged. Alex as usual did a nicely paced video synthesis tutorial and I then lead the theory and building part of the class. We rounded up with Alex leading a discussion around historical video synthesis work and then proceeded to enjoy the evening concerts that were also part of the fantastic Brighton modular meet. (Pics 3+9 here are from Fabrizio D'Amico who runs Video Hack Space) Thanks to Andrew for organising the amazing meet which hosted the workshop, Matt for making our panels last minute, George for helping us out on the day and Steve from Thonk for supplying some components for the kits.

Gieskes 3TrinsRGB1

Gieskes has come out with a lovely little closed architecture video synthesizer with a small break out bread board which opens up the whole thing to more interesting exploitation. Beautiful stuff.

http://gieskes.nl/instruments/?file=3TrinsRGB1

Sismo VGA Box

Here is what looks like a simple VGA breakout box for eurorack standard synths, pretty fun way to get it to video synthesis, you could have something similar together in an afternoon and use any audio source as an input. http://www.sismo.net.br/vga-box-eurorack/ 

Philip Baljeu

Philip Baljeu has been working on some interesting VGA video synthesizer designs, he has some video effects designs too and a whole host of cool projects over on his site http://ruinelectronics.com/ . He is working on a revised version now which sounds like it will be more advanced. 

David Fodel

http://www.davidfodel.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/davidfodel

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

CRACKED RAY TUBE

"Cracked Ray Tube is a collaborative realtime project by James Connolly and Kyle Evans that breaks and disrupts the interfaces of analog televisions and computer monitors to produce flashing, screeching, wobbulating, self-generated electronic noise and video."

they have just published a huge update on there site with some awesome images, videos and tutorials


http://crackedraytube.com/textstutorials.html

Gieskes Hacked Composite to VGA Video Synth now easier to get!

Gieskes Hacked Composite to VGA Video Synth now easier to get thanks to Bleep Labs

http://bleeplabs.com/hss3i/
http://gieskes.nl/

Hav1bit VGA Video Synth

awsome project from Telenoika

"1 Bit Audiovisual Synthesizer
Hav1bit is a VGA and audio synthesizer, consisting of 3 square pulse generators which can modulate themselves, in a way very simmilar to the FM synthesis techniques.
The project is done by means of Arduino programming, and it incoporates an interface consisting of 6 pots and 6 buttons, which can control individually the RGB channels. The very same pulses which are generating visual data are transformed into audio, so what you see is exactly what you hear!"



hav1bit from Telenoika on Vimeo.

Brian McKenna Performing The O Bit Project

here is a atmospheric shot from bhlubarber on flickr
from the description:
"The Netherlands' Brian McKenna performing the O Bit Project at Signal + Noise, 2008. What they say about it: "Physically tuning-in to high-frequency electrical phenomena with the help of simultaneous audio/video analysis; harmonic-distortion is used to expand signal-range, connecting worlds of experience. An on-going analogue process, without computers getting in the way.
What I say: Whoa!"

VGA image generator/glitcher Arcanebolt

This looks like an interesting project using an arduino to generate VGA signals and some more electronics to glitch the resulting signal form Tamas Kemenczy on flickr interesting website here

NEW Video By Phillip Stearns

Heres a new video by Phillip Stearns also known as Pixel Form of his video synth "Slain-Boy" more info here

VGA Synth Test

heres an older video from Pixelform

New Video Synth By Phillip Stearns

Here are some flickr shots from Phillip Stearns aka Pixel Form of his latest video synth go here for a further description