Five links a week (or so). Music, sound, and other noise. Welcome to Edition 113.
A slight diversion this week, as I lay in bed nursing a bad back, sucked down the cathode-ray illuminated rabbit hole of video synthesis and manipulation hardware and code. Extremely sound- and noise- adjacent, if you ask me.
TACHYONS+
“Custom modified electronics for creating video art within the realm of music videos, film production, photography and studio experimentation.”
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r_e_c_u_r: an open diy video sampler
“r_e_c_u_r is an embedded python/openframeworks application on raspberry pi3 that uses input
from the keypad to control video
while displaying a simple text ui on a rpi lcd screen.”
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Full color, full motion video on an audio cassette
Video by Kris Slyka
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Zachtkind: a mini mellowtron made out of a walkman
This (overwhelming) DIY hardware shop has some lovely, weird gear.
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hydra: live coding networked visuals
“Hydra is a platform for live coding visuals, in which each connected browser window can be used as a node of a modular and distributed video synthesizer.”
Thanks for reading everyone. Submissions welcome.
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-Matt
PS: There’s a nascent forum called scanlines.xyz for this type of stuff; on the software side I recommend Lumen (mac only) for a demo of in-the-box video synth patching and glmixer for experimental layering of multiple videos with shader effects.
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Photo of late night television in Berlin, ~2007. (Matt Pinto)
Birthday Release! Flatlands
twice forgotten landscapes ~ dub/minimal/ambient techno