Video Circuits Workshop 01/07/17

Alex and I are running another workshop, this time at Brighton Modular meet book here:
https://www.attenboroughcentre.com/events/902/video-synthesis-workshop/
We will also be running a video synthesis room all Sunday.
http://brightonmodularmeet.co.uk/brighton-modular-meet---about.html

Come hang out and enjoy the rest of the meet.

Some pics of the panels we had made by Matt for Jona's CH/AV project (which we will be making on the day). There is also a shot of some audio oscillators driving the CH/AV to a VGA monitor.

Brighton Modular Meet Photos

Psyché Tropes & Video Circuits present an Evening of Modular Synthesis April the 4th

So I got together with Psyché Tropes to put on an event at apiary studios on the 4th of April, it should be interesting and mostly modular! There will be me and two of my favourite video syntheists doing video and three great musicians doing audio, hopefully with some cross patching for added fun and audio reactivity.

Psyché Tropes and Video Circuits present an Evening of Modular Synthesis at Apiary Studios on Saturday 4th April 2015.
£6 adv / £8 door. No guest list. 8pm – Late.
Tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/310502

Psyché Tropes is a label from the creator of Hackney Film Festival dedicated to exploring the synaesthetic intersections between sound and its visual counterpart. The label’s second live edition sees a collaborative event with Video Circuits combining the realms of audio and video modular synthesis with a very special line-up. Video Circuits is a blog and research project that takes a wide ranging approach to documenting the early years of electronic video art, visual music and computer art with a view to informing the current output of contemporary artists and musicians working in the field.

Live modular shows by

SCANNER
AUDIO DEPENDENT
THE ASTERISM

Live video modular by

ALEXANDER PEVERETT
SYNTHPUNK
CHRIS KING

with Psyché Tropes djs

SCANNER
British artist Robin Rimbaud traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form, creating absorbing, multi-layered sound pieces that twist technology in unconventional ways. From his early controversial work using found mobile phone conversations, through to his focus on trawling the hidden noise of the modern metropolis as the symbol of the place where hidden meanings and missed contacts emerge, his restless explorations have won him international admiration from amongst others, Bjork, Aphex Twin and Stockhausen.
http://scannerdot.com/

AUDIO DEPENDENT
Audio Dependent is the electronic music alias of audio visual artist, Tim Cowie. A long-time collaborator at The Light Surgeons, Cowie’s music and sound design work crosses over from electronica and techno, to contemporary classical and ambient soundscapes. He also releases music under his own name and as part of the duo Infinite Particles.
https://soundcloud.com/audio-dependent

THE ASTERISM
The Asterism is a semi-improvised solo modular synth and electronics project from Mark O Pilkington (Raagnagrok / Urthona / Teleplasmiste), constructed around organic rhythmic developments and blurring the lines between natural and unnatural sounds.
https://soundcloud.com/the-asterism


ALEXANDER PEVERETT
Alexander Peverett (b.1976) is a multi-disciplinary artist from Wigan, England. He resides in Japan and the United Kingdom. His personal work explores the fields of electronic & computer music, video art, multi-media installation, generative art and computer graphics. He works as a freelance Art Director, Computer Artist, Sound Designer and Video Director.
http://alexanderpeverett.com/

SYNTHPUNK
Synthpunk is a musician, engineer and video synthesist. His wide ranging skills and interests manifest themselves in many different ways one of which is his self-built modular video synthesizer.
http://synth-punk.blogspot.co.uk/

CHRIS KING
Chris King is an audio visual artist who primarily works with drawing, experimental animation, electronics and sound.
http://videocircuits.blogspot.co.uk/


More info at:
http://psyche-tropes.com/
http://www.apiarystudios.org/
http://videocircuits.blogspot.co.uk/

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/ 

Live Performance

So me and Dale played live on tuesday, here are some video and audio shot by Anne.
Dale plays his cassette tape images as scores that are also instruments, I am generating audio from my modular and video from DIY circuits and a fed back video mixer. I'm playing solo in London on Saturday here .

Dave Skipper & Ethan Drown Hurlburt - psychedelic noise rehearsal

http://www.youtube.com/user/timoveromon

BOB-SNARE

BOB-SNARE using some LZX to great effect!

"Video Modules
2x Colour Video Encoder

1x SyncGenerator
1x prototype Colour Video Decoder
2x Triple Video Fader/Key Generator
1x Video Blending Matrix
1x Video Logic
1x Video Flip-Flop
1x Video Divisions
1x Triple Video Multimode Filter
1x Triple Video Processor
1x Video Ramps

Non-Video Modules
1x PEG
1x Pressurepoints+Brains
1x Maths"

more videos

Trees Fall Live 9-17-11

Sorry I haven't posted in a while I have been super busy, anyway here is something cool from synchroton

LZX Patterns and Beat Sync

brownshoesonly.com

syncing TTA z3000 with the LZX waveform generator.

tons of doepfer quadrature LFO

Video Synth Meet Up!

Last friday me and fellow video synthesist and blogger Richard met up for the first time, to exchange knowledge and mess about with video. I brought along a bit of gear to Richard's where he has his DIY modular video synthesizer set up! Richard's blog is here

here are some quick low quality captures we did to archive the messing around and initial experimentation, most of this is actually just Richard's system.



and some screen caps

Extra Extra Jones Video new content !!!

Dave Jones has posted some new info about his video synthesizer products coming soon!
the MVIP Mini Video Image Processor is a stand alone module that works in NTSC pal PAL and can add simple video effects functionality to an audio modular set up

this is a very cool idea to get people started in to the world of video synthesis ! 

Michael Egger & Flo Kaufmann - Analog Visuals Labor

here are some fascinating shots of a project involving artists Michael Egger & Flo Kaufmann from shiftfestival on flickr that looks like some kind of live analogue visuals lab

"Shift Electronic Arts Festival is an annual international festival in Basel, Switzerland that includes concerts, exhibitions, video and film screenings, lectures, artist talks, workshops and more."

there website and blog are:

http://www.shiftfestival.ch/

http://blog.shiftfestival.ch/

the modular video synthesizer in the front is synkie a project detailed on this fantastic page with development information and schematics! It looks like its is Michael Eggers work (possibly a collective research project) from what I can read more info here 

the synth  in the back is the legendary EMS Spectron/Spectre that I put up more info on here (with links to good sites) and further related projects here I was originally designed by Richard Monkhouse

and Flo Kaufmann's very cool site is here 

you can see some video of the work in action here

SAIC video synth

SAIC video synth via Rosa Menkman on flickr

LZX Industries Visionary Modular Synthesizer

LZX Industries recently posted a new photo of their modular video system The Visionary video synthesizer an have now included it in thier web site.I also hear the first systems have shipped!

Video Oscilloscopes !

Some very expensive digital oscilloscopes have composite outputs, if like me you can't find one cheap there are a few other products on the market to fit the bill.

The very cool Critter and Guitari Video Scope produces colourful NTSC video for $99

For us Europeans the MFB VD-01 Videoscope synth module gives a more traditional black and white PAL scope image for €159.

Both units give a slightly blocky output unlike a real oscilloscope image but they could both find a home in a hardwarevideo set up. They also eliminate the need for rescanning a normal oscilloscope screen (which has its own charm but demands space and equipment). 

Here is an excellent video from DamagedMeat on youtube illustrating the MFB VD-01's potential

LZX VISIONARY VIDEO SYNTHESIZER

very exiting stuff happening in the modular video synth market with two product ranges set to grace more experimental racks everywhere with modules to create and manipulate video signals 


the LZX Industries project seems to be going full steam and is very exiting check http://vimeo.com/7970725 and http://vimeo.com/lzxindustries for more info. I think its really good to build up customer support by posting these kind of dev/demo videos interesting stuff!


Lars Larsen one of the guys behind the project corrected my earlier conjecture about the The Jones Video Synth being the same project as the Visionary


"Hi Chris! Thanks for mentioning the Visionary. This isn't the same project, but ours will similarly be a EuroRack format modular video synthesizer/processing system. There is a splash page up at http://www.lzxindustries.com and we'll be releasing module details very soon. Please stay in touch with us!"

I hope the two projects make a new video synth renaissance a viable prospect