Hello! I am DJCRAZYFEELINGS. I make juke and footwork music. I’ve been experimenting with the “Archer Video Enhancer” schematics I’ve seen floating around on the internet. I’m trying to develop easy to use performance pieces for music, rather than purely exploratory stuff. I was a pretty mediocre electrical engineering student who focused in digital signal processing, but now I’m really enjoying learning the basics of electronics! Wow there sure are a lot of data sheets to read! I have a lot of artist friends who like my little doodads too of course and I enjoy being a conduit to the technical world for them. Nothing of note to share yet, but you can find my music and album art made with some minimal glitching here STILL CRAZY | DJ Crazy Feelings
I have LOTS of questions to ask and hopefully I can help with some basics.
We also just released a super cool video synth app called Chromatose that’s audio-reactive and MIDI enabled… have you heard of it? It comes with a bunch of pre-built patches and HD/4K output that let’s you connect to any screen via HDMI.
Very impressive results, and you can build visuals from scratch, share your patches and remix other people’s creations.
More info on our website www.chromatose.app, and we’re also on Reddit and Discord if that’s your thing
I registered an account ages ago (davidw), but I never got past lurk mode, but often inspired by everyone else’s posts!
My name’s Dave, and I make an app for VJ’ing for iOS (GoVJ, https://govjapp.com). I got into VJ’ing back in 2004, when a very good friend asked me to look after the mixer for a few mins while he went to get drinks at a club night he was running. 45 mins later he returned (“I thought you were only going to be a minute…” - “You looked like you were having fun, I’ll leave you to it for a bit longer!”). Needless to say I was bit, and the bug has never left me since.
I’m based in Wellington, NZ these days. I don’t tend to gig as a VJ, but I still play around for myself and I have a stack of video art ideas and projects I’d like to exhibit at some point.
I work on my app, and some smaller iOS video filtering apps and tools in my spare time, very much a labour of love. I’ve also been putting together a mixer based around the Pi 5 (very much Edirol V4-like), which I’m either going to open source or see if I can support a more established project. I’ve also been trying to pick up a bit of audio, and like noodling around the MC-101.
I love mixing to breakbeat, drum and bass, and anything with a good baseline. I’m somewhat obsessed with playing with video feedback, black and white with strong colours, and luma keying. Very much influenced by the early 2000s and the V4.
Anyway, glad to be here properly - it’s a lovely community!
@bsom at the moment it’s a C++ application, pulling from two camera/video stream inputs using V4L2. It brings each frame into a shader, and from there it can blend them and display full screen.
I started off experimenting with HDMI to CSI converters. I found I just couldn’t get a compressed format out of the adapters, or direct to GPU feed from the drivers, to give me enough FPS.
So I switched to HDMI->USB converters, and found with ones giving an MJPEG feed I could get what I wanted.
It’s rough and ready, no MIDI control (I’ve just been testing with keyboard presses)
yeah i’m probably going to be working some more pi 5 projects starting at the end of this year/beginning of next year, good to see that theres someone having success over there.
hdmi to csi stuff i played with only a little bit, but big headaches trying to get things into a decent gstreamer pipeline for c++ → shaders
was having too many issues with trying to port all my old raspberrypi stuff directly over due to the new graphics stuff in raspbian in the 4 and up eras. which version of GLSL are you using for your shader stuffs?
At the moment, I’ve been running in OpenGL ES 2.0, via SDL… and the shader code for the cross fade is incredibly basic, so I haven’t gone too deep into any of the newer stuff at all. All very much initial first steps!
I’m not a huge fan of the Pi5, after you add all the accessories it’s not particularly cheap. You can get a decent micro PC with an N150 CPU, which has Intel UHD Graphics 730 for $130.
I’m not a huge fan of the Pi5, after you add all the accessories it’s not particularly cheap. You can get a decent micro PC with an N150 CPU, which has Intel UHD Graphics 730 for $130.
Yup. It’s another reason I’ve been happy to look at HDMI->USB capture dongles for my mixer project. The executable I’ve got should just work on x86 linux installations too… I like the idea of recycling old machines into this purpose!
I make music and sometimes videos for the music (and sometimes make music from videos) and I don’t have a clue what I’m doing most of the time but enjoy toying with new tools for inspiration. You can find most of my video outputs over here on peertube: Lime Bar Videos - Community Video and here is a random example where I took some AV elements from Fugue State and reworked it into something new (with permission, of course):
I think I am joining as a video art fan, mostly. I’ve seen scanlines.xyz from afar for awhile and thought, why not join?
I am currently working on a 24x7 music video Owncast channel called The Indie Beat Television in support of indie musicians on the fediverse but mostly because I want it to exist. More about that here if you like: How Indie Video Killed The Spotify Star – NHAM
I am also wanting to explore whether any of the artists here might like to contribute to the TIBtv effort. If there is any interest, maybe we can spawn off a thread for discussion?
lmk if yr still workin on the owncast thing. me and some other folks from around these parts were working on a video centric public access style owncast for a little while but it kinda dried up due to the overall workload exceeding everyones attention span. so i know there is interest and a fair amount of existing video stuff compiled around town but it would likely be better off plugged into a larger project as opposed to its own stand along thing
So if you watch for a bit (and scan down the page to the schedule) you’ll see we have several shows for different styles of music and some eclectic times and all are intercut with station idents and interstitial “eye candy” shorts. This is where I thought some a/v material might fit.
And/or anyone wanting or willing to work with musical artists to make videos in collab:
We also have the Animation Array show which is geared toward original animation which some work might fit into because-- consider early MTV late night liquid tv or off the air – lots of chance for strange and experimental imagery.
We are still getting submissions pretty strongly and we have a Fresh slot every Friday at 1800 UTC where we open up chat and watch new videos together if anyone wants to come do a vibe check.
I am happy to say that some in the demoscene have taken notice and submitted so it is nice to have some demo recordings on air too!
Anyway I don’t know how well it fits with what you do but it seems like there are opportunities to show some work on the air!
This is all in fun, no money in or out. 100% consent driven. And artist promoting (you’ll see artist info and a qr code to artist support onscreen).
looks pretty great! seems like yall got things pretty laid out for music centric programming already in ways that the majority of our subcarrier.tv stuff wouldn’t fit in with at all.
re: animation: lots of video artists & video synth folks wouldn’t really be happy getting filed under that (and i have a hunch that some animators would be kind of annoyed too)
Howdys, I’m Rob, I make video tools under the name Cat Full of Ghosts Electronics. I love seeing people making cool stuff and pushing glitch and analogue video to make cool new things.
I really love how much open-source stuff and sharing there is in the Video comunity.
Hey there. I’m Matt. I mainly mess around with synths and guitars and drones. But somewhat surprisingly find myself in possession of a Gieskes 3trinsrgb1+1c without a clue what to do with it. I may stalk this forum looking for ideas and explanation. As I am genuinely clueless. I guess the first step is to find something to connect it to. An elderly MX12 mixer off Ebay, then a cheap composite RCA to HDMI convertor, then into my monitor. Then I wiggle the knobs? Am I doing it right? What next. I guess I’ll find out…
