Eveything is analog. I make electronic music with tape loops and then make a visual on top.
My video setup consists of three cameras, two VCR’s, a 3TrinsRGB+1c, a schele mixer, a Vivanco router, Roland V4, a couple Panasonic Ave-5 and a Mezkalin Rusty Joe for texture + audio reactivity.
It’s coming along quite nicely.
It’s a bit difficult because I do everything on the spot. I tend to rely on dynamic states so i don’t have to constantly tweak the video to keep it interesting while I make music.
I’m excited to share that I’ll be exhibiting my work in a gallery setting for the first time next week, and it’ll be my first ever audiovisual piece! Here’s a short clip from the piece, called “fraction”
Made with footage I filmed on a Canon Rebel T5i and processed in my custom video glitching software Compressure, with music I made on my modular synthesizer.
Here’s the full piece I debuted last night in Austin, Texas, USA. I’m happy to answer any questions about it. I suggest viewing with headphones. Note that the piece is about 10 minutes long and features some slight strobing effects that may be difficult for some viewers.
…ambioSonics live - session 150 - made some (harmless) visuals for this anniversary-session with a semi-modular setup[1] that i threw together only about three hours before the event using two Erogenous Tones Structures ( - the Hypno did not want to sync correctly to the video-mixer and could not be used - ) and a Roland V-8 that performed exceptionally bad and dropped out with even minor glitches coming from the modular…
[1 - modules used 2 ET Structure, Hypno, MIDI-2-CV for clock, Sensory Translator, J&O Traffic, Vermona Random Rhythm and some multiples]
…it was great fun nevertheless - the doing visuals and especially the music - a very nice session:
The lights would ‘burn’ a hole in the center and very little color got captured.
A break through came when I put a piece of cardboard perpendicular to the paper and shined the laser at the cardboard instead of directly at the paper. The refraction of the light is captured on the paper, while the cardboard blocks light from getting to the other side of the paper. Shining a different colored laser on the opposite side of cardboard produced the effect I was attempting to produce.
The very cool thing about this photo development process is you have to develop a black and white negative of the image first and then convert it to color. Here is an example of the photo above in black and white negative form before converting it to color.
…another livestream - this time actually two streams in parallel - from our monthly ambioSonics-event (from the Glockenbachwerkstatt, Munich, Germany)…
…both streams feature the same live audio (pretty dynamic session this time) while one is showing the musicians in action with three automatically looping cameras, and the other one showing just the improvised visuals that were performed (by me) and screened during the event…
…the visuals setup consisted - amongst a lot (too much) of other stuff - of two Erogenous Tones Structure modules, a Sleepy Circuits Hypno, a BPMC Fluxus Duo and some additional modules like the Jasmin&Olive Tree Traffic and the Intellijel Steppy…
…unfortunately one of the main components i had planed for the perfomance - an iPad with a couple of prepared video-clips - refused to connect to the Roland V-8, which was the main video-mixer in this setup…
…the BPMC Fluxus Duo-output and the output of the Roland V-8 went through two Panasonic ES-10 to stabilize the video - this worked great (the parts where the video drops out are when i unintentionally disconnected the cable from the Hypnos out)…
Hello everyone. I made an introduction video for my Raspberry Pi Zero 1 video synth I’ll be releasing code soon. Feedback would be welcome on the concept. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPDNa9rRZoE
