Ewa Justka

I found some photos from the semi regular EAVI  night from November where Ewa played which reminded me to post up some of her work and a link to her great site. She often pefromes with hacked CRT televisions and Optoelectronic noise circuits, so there is a great synchronicity of sound and image. ewajustka.tumblr.com

Alivia Zivich, Nate Young, Steve Kenney as Demons

"Demons evolved from a synthesizer duo into a Visual Music trio with the incorporation of video artist Alivia Zivich. Working under the name "Video Madness" she often used the music of Demons as soundtracks to her analog video experiments. Live performances as a group led to the redefining of Demons as Visual Music."

Demons have produced some pretty interesting visual music and are a rare example of the art form as a live hands on band. Alivia Zivich has also produced some interesting solo work some of which can be found on line. While I love the 'high art' of many of the visual music pioneers I can't help but be attracted to the hands on approach to production, something which I have been attempting recently by playing out more often. I wish I could have caught them on their relatively recent European tour.

http://www.wolfeyes.net/aarecords/
http://www.youtube.com/user/aliviaz
https://vimeo.com/aarecords
http://esspresents.com/2011/12/29/aa-records-installation/
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/593

BLACK ZENITH

"Black Zenith are Darren Moore & Brian O’Reilly. The duo performs using analog modular synthesizers & moving images. They produce dense sonic textures that generate live visuals through the transformation of audio signals into images. Black Zenith draws as much influence from noise music & the electroacoustic music tradition as they do from the foundations of abstract video art."
http://black-zenith.tumblr.com/

    

Cait Stephens

 There is a cool video instillation documented on Cait Stephens site made with modified TVs

redsquirrels noisy video creations

Jason aka redsquirrels has been uploading some very compelling video work that has a really individual/personal human feel (which I think is can be hard in glitch/media art)

check his blog here for weird and awesome explanations

around nine by dronetube

from dronetube

some more feedback experiments

this one is called mountains of feedback and basically uses wipe patterns and white noise together with some feedback effects to try and create a landscape in video.


and here is one of a series of black and white tests

VIDEO MESS TOOL

Todd Michael Bailey of excellent DIY bendable sampler kit (Where's the Party At?) fame has been messing around with video !!! his Video Mess Tool and other prototypes are the first steps in to some video kits he will be releasing in the future. I for one am very exited

My 4 Transistor Video Synth

Heres is a little 4 transistor circuit kludged together from spare components and a 70s hobby magazine article it plugs straight in to the arial socket of you old unused TVs I'm thinking of trying to track down the original author of the article to ask him if I can release it as a kit! sorry there's no sound on the vid but my mixer is broken.

Vasarely Video Synth

The Vasarely Video Synth is a nice looking bit of kit made from a curcuit bent 16bit video game console its audio recative to boot! link here where you can also find some other bent video creations in the DIY section