Howdy, folks. I’m Ryan from Dallas, TX. Wow, a lot of impressive folks have introduced themselves already, I feel pretty humbled.
I’ve got most of a fine arts photography (old style film) degree. I stopped about six hours short of finishing. While I was doing that, I got into playing music. Through a totally normal sequence of random events, I ended up making a living doing computer support/Unix admin/programming work (hey, my current title is “Software Engineer”! 
). I never stopped doing the previous two, and I love all three.
Even though I had been making still images for awhile (always loved alternate photographic processes), I got involved in creating moving images pretty recently. At one point I was bemoaning my lack of funds to assemble or outright purchase a video synthesizer (e.g. a LZX system) on another message board. Another poster suggested I try Pure Data’s GEM module. That bastage was a genius! I didn’t know it, but I already had it installed. I’d used Pure Data to synthesize audio at some point in the past, and didn’t even realize it had a video component.
So I futzed with it for awhile, and ended up making this. I’m pretty happy with it (though, it’s probably about three minutes too long). The music is all me at home, the video is PD GEM manipulating a documentary, triggered by the music.
Somewhere along the way, I got into manipulating video using audio effects. That ended up with this video for one of my bands covering “Jump Into The Fire”. I’m not really sure what effects I used on this, I think EQ and phaser, but that’s just a guess.
What led me to scanlines.xyz was my wanting to do some live visuals for an ambient/space rock band, and the Roland V-4/V-4EX caught my eye as a solution for that. I think this site had the info I needed to go ahead and get a V-4EX. We’ll see if it does what I want once it arrives here.
Either way, I know bupkis about video. The small amount of perusing I’ve done here has made that clear. I’m looking forward to learning a lot.
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