VECTOR HACK 2018

I haven't updated in a while (there is still a write up of my amazing signal culture trip last year coming)

But this is too good not to leave a short post about. I am helping Ivan and Derek with their amazing Vector Hack Festival project. Vector Hack is a festival centred around experimental vector graphics using oscilloscopes and lasers. It's happening in over two sites starting in Zagreb on 01/10/18 and ending in Ljubljana on 07/10/18. I will be attending so if you decide to come see you there!

Ivan and Derek have worked tirelessly to make this happen and it's going to be amazing.

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Vector Hack festival 2018. trailer I from i.m. klif on Vimeo.

Zoran Radovic

Zoran Radovic has been working with pendulums, plotters, lasers and CRT displays since the 1960s. A recent post by an online friend highlighted the fact that his studio is being sold off, I noticed some plotter art on the wall which lead me to check out his great site detailing his fantastic work. www.radovic-art.de he details his various systems building on his ideas and demonstrating how some of his systems work. Please go read his site for more info! 

Here are a few more links with some of his work

http://www02.zkm.de/bit/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=58&Itemid=78

http://monoskop.org/Zoran_Radović

https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A3=ind0707&L=DASH&E=quoted-printable&P=14415&B=--Apple-Mail-20-797239671&T=text%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset=UTF-8

http://research.gold.ac.uk/6924/1/COMP_thesis_Armin_2012.pdf

http://dada.compart-bremen.de/item/exhibition/261

F.C. Judd

The work of Frederick Charles Judd previously neglected somewhat by the history books, has over the last few years received renewed interest due to Ian Helliwell's work. Ian's articles, films and exhibitions have collected and disseminated many of Fred's forgotten work and ideas. One of these was his Chromasonics system, which effectively combined CRT based Lissajous figures with a high speed colour wheel to allow full colour display of the electronic images with movement generated by sound. Fred also wrote a series of articles in Practical Electronics magazine on how to construct such a system as well as other audio visualization techniques such as colour organs. Fred is now recognised as an important electronic and tape music composer with a re-issued collection of works available here.

I wanted to focus on his visual work, so here are a series of scans from my collection and some links.

www.fcjudd.co.uk

ianhelliwell.co.uk/practical_electronica

public-info.co.uk/electronics-without-tears

Here are some stills of the images generated by the 

Chromasonics system 

They are very reminiscent of work by Ben F. Laposky although moving rather than static photographs. Fred was also aware of the Oramics system build by Daphne Oram which also used CRT's. Orams system however used them to turn images of waveforms into electronic signals rather than visualise the sounds themselves. Ian's film Practical Electronica contains some footage Fred created of the Chromasonics system in action. below is a full colour image from the cover of Practical electronics. Fred's work on audio definitely inspired wide range of experimenters, I wonder if any visual work by his readers survive. 

Here are some images the construction of the Chromasonics system notice the large colour wheel that synchronised with the refresh rate of the displayed images so as to selectively colourise different signals allowing for multi colour display.

Here are some stills of Chromasonics and the trailer for Ian's film

These are some clippings of the the displays Fred developed.

And finally a few pics of Fred at work creating sound!

Practical Electronica will be screened on Tuesday in London link to the event here 

Mandalamat

Here is the very cool Mandalamat an analogue computer specifically built by Christian Günther to create interesting patterns either using an XY plotter or an Oscilloscope, I have had an XY plotter for a while and made a few drawings using modular synthesizer and function generators but nothing this beautiful!