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LZX Industries

About LZX

Mission

LZX designs creative, experimental video instruments as a counterpoint to broadcast equipment, desktop video, and GPU-based image processing. Our work is informed by the historical video synthesizers of the 1960s through 1980s, by conventional video production, and by analog computing. The goal is to preserve and extend a set of tools that have empowered artists for more than half a century, and to keep them accessible to working practitioners rather than big studios. Where software editing is a timeline medium, patching an LZX system is a tactile, embodied, performance medium.

History

LZX began as a DIY project in 2008 and has moved through several generations of modular instruments:

  • Visionary (2011–2015)
  • Expedition (2015–2018)
  • Orion (2018–2022)
  • Gen3 (2022–present)
  • P-Series (2024–present)

Instruments are designed and manufactured at the LZX workshop in Portland, Oregon.

LZX workshop

Documentation credits

The LZX technical documentation is authored by Lars Larsen and Aaron F. Ross, with illustrations and animations by Ramin Rahni.