Edge of Frame DIY Space For London

I am performing on Thursday the 14th at DIY space for London.
Edge of Frame  very kindly asked me to play. There will also be a fantastic selection of films by other artists including some of my favourite people operating in the world of experimental electronic image making.

Bristol Video Workshop

So Alex and I will be teaching a beginners workshop in analogue video techniques as part of Encounters Festival at the Arnolfini Gallery on Saturday the 20th of September. The whole reason and drive behind the workshop is as  part of Mclaren 2014 a celebration of Norman McLaren's work and  life. Joseph who is the force behind Seeing Sound festival asked if I would put together a workshop exploring some analogue video techniques. The Arnolfini is one of my favourite venues down south, I recently caught a screening of Jordan Belson's work on film which absolutely blew me away and they seem to have a regular program of interesting audio visual and electronic performance stuff. Alex and I have prepared a simple starter in to the world of electronic video with some basic experiments to try and a little background history.

ARNOLFINI
Chris J King and Alexander Peverett
10:00 – 13:00
£25 

Media Artists Chris J King and Alexander Peverett will present a workshop on hands on video techniques influenced by McLaren. The themes in McLaren’s work of drawn sound and visual music were expanded by later artists using electronic video and video synthesis. The workshop will include an introduction to both the historical and technical aspects of electronic video work as well as the construction of a simple circuit and experimentation with video feedback. Be prepared for vivid colours, frenetic sounds and dancing shapes! The cost includes all the parts to make your circuit to take away and play with as well as mirrors to manipulate video feedback and a small publication containing all the information covered in the workshop.

http://encounters-festival.org.uk/news/events/analog-video-workshop/
http://www.seeingsound.co.uk/

http://www.mclaren2014.com/

http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/

New Oskar Fishinger Book

Just got this new Oskar Fishinger book, which has some beautiful images and interesting writing and  contributions. Lots of visual music and abstract film techniques and ideas.
http://www.oskarfischinger.org/
http://www.eyefilm.nl
http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/

here is one of the most interesting Images

Stan Hayward

British computer animation pioneer Stan Hayward

I believe this is his although also credited to Tony Diment

this is worth watching for the clip of meta. mor. pho. sis. at the end
which looks scanimate-esque (not sure of the attribution) 

origonal source here 

further reading here 

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/cache/archive/HAY/Stan%20Video%20and%20Film%20Oct%2075.pdf

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/cache/archive/HAY/Stan%20Computer-Aided%20Animation.pdf

http://www.animatormag.com/archive/issue-27/issue-27-page-24/
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/cache/archive/HAY/Stan%20Film77.pdf
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/cache/archive/HAY/Stan%20Hayward%203M%20Doc3.pdf
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/cache/archive/HAY/Stan%20Misc%20Docs.pdf

Everything Unseen

Everything Unseen is new a VHS label, specializing in experimental animation.
http://everythingunseen.com/

makes me want to get my VHS stuff done

zenit

Not a video synth related post however I helped out with some of the sound on this for my good friend Max. It's for an energy drink animation competition. Him and Dave really knocked it out of the park on this one I am in awe !!! also for those who are interested all of the sounds were generated with analogue synthesisers they felt this went well with the visual style inspired by Russian matchbook Labels from this excellent post on sci-fi-o-rama.

also I find it quite amusing to appropriate soviet imagery for a very capitalistic reason but then I think back to animators of the soviet block subtly working in the stories they wanted to tell regardless of the state line and maybe this is the capitalist version ?

http://www.slowgolde.com/
http://www.maxtaylordesign.com/

DOUBLE SPEED COOKED PORK TAI CHI (ULTIMATE EYE PAIN/PSEUDO NIPPON)

Ultimate Eye Pain + Pseudo Nippon present -

"DOUBLE SPEED COOKED PORK TAI CHI"

DVD Release date - 27/5/11
ultimateeyepain.blogspot.com
myspace.com/​pseudonippon1984

 Caspar created all the animation and directed the video, my other good friend Max edited the whole thing and I did the comparably small task adding some feed back for them both to work with :)

TIMROD - CARTOON CREATED WITH DELUXE PAINT on an AMIGA 500

OK so this is a little less hardware based than usual but I just had to post it due to the insanity

Amiga Animation Effected By a CVI

Here is a nice scravbled loop created with an Amiga Fairlight CVI recorded on VHS from strumsart on youtube