Introduce yourself, video freaks!
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#1 — creatorlars · 2018-07-14
Tell us about yourself. Show us some artworks.
#6 — creatorlars · 2018-07-17
#7 — jnoble · 2018-07-18
I’m just getting started, so no artwork yet!
I make live music with modular synths, and some of it gets recorded. You can find it under the moniker “prettyhowtown”.
I hate writing about myself, so that’s a good place to stop.
#8 — JunkRhythm · 2018-07-18
My first exposure to video synthesis was with a Hearn Videolab a few years ago. I had no clue how any of it worked and it took forever to figure out but regardless I’m stoked it planted a little seed that took hold. I eventually noticed that Perfect Circuit had a fully working demo system and started exploring it further. Roughly a year later I was hooked and had planned out a fun starter system. At this point I’m roughly eight months in and stumbling through tons eye opening moments.
Here’s a still from a recent video on Instagram.
#9 — 337is · 2018-07-18
This would be a super deep dive but would totally tell you about myself and practice. It’s a talk/discussion between with some super interesting people who came out this past Friday for the opening of “Thank you for your feedback!” a solo exhibition of my audiovisual materials at Indiana University South Bend. The video quality is dark and was shot on a phone, but the audio is totally listenable.
#10 — Robotboot · 2018-07-21
My name is Collin James Diederich. I make music and videos as Robotboot since 1996. I am a sci-fi/synth/video head
My latest work that incorporates about all of the video things I can do.
#11 — luix · 2018-07-21
Hey everybody, Im Luis and Im pretty new to video art I was converted into a Vidiot in the end of 2016. I come from a DIY eurorack community based in Madrid, I have been bulding my modular system for 7 years now.
I love to be both the “luthier” and to play the audio/video instruments I build. What lured me and actually keeps me interested in this small circle, is the amazing community it has and infinite experimentation and exploration this wondefull medium gives me. Its a pleasurr to be onboard this wondefull trip.
#12 — Maytoast · 2018-07-24
Hey y’all! I’m matos and I’m holding it down in the boogie down bronx. I’m a multimedia art mainly focusing on fabric based work.
#13 — 337is · 2018-07-24
Are the images you shared of fabric pieces?! Beautiful! What sort of dimensions and what kind of material?
#14 — Maytoast · 2018-07-24
Thanks. These are basically lzx into the computer. From there I extract stills and use those as design elements. I build the pieces digitally and then print onto fabric to rebuild in the analog world. They are about 24” by 36” as I don’t have a long arm sewing machine so I need them to stay a certain size for the finishing stitches and embellishments. I print onto cotton.
#15 — 337is · 2018-07-24
Beautiful, beautiful work. Thank you for sharing more of your process.
#16 — wednesdayayay · 2018-07-26
do you sell your pieces anywhere they have always been very intriguing
#17 — Maytoast · 2018-07-28
Thank you. I created a little threadless thing for anyone interested in affordable prints.
Anyone can contact me either here or via Instagram
If they want to discuss obtaining any of the work. Really appreciate the love.
#18 — Alexk · 2018-07-29
https://i.imgur.com/PwTWH81.gif - Hi I’m Alex, I mostly make virtual reality stuff but I also really like synthesizers and lasers. Check out the lights
#19 — wiatrob · 2018-07-29
Hello All!
You may have seen my work posted on FB and IG. I have worked with video production and video art for a few years (er, decades actually). I’ve been actively using LZX since March 2013 (SyncGen/CVE and a single VWG!). I do mostly generative synthesis and live performance.
Here’re are some links to my work:
https://vimeo.com/user22808975Bill Wiatroski is a Media Artist based in the Alameda, California. Bill uses modular video synthesis and real-time camera feeds and feedback as source, processed…
Link: Bill Wiatroski
https://www.facebook.com/MediaArtsTM/Bill Wiatroski. 290 likes · 2 talking about this. Aiming to expose the subtle but unruly world of electromagnetic signals surrounding our normal field of perception.
Link: Bill Wiatroski
https://www.instagram.com/dirty_bill/1,296 Followers, 1,496 Following, 926 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Dirty Bill (@dirty_bill)
Link: Dirty Bill (@dirty_bill) • Instagram photos and videos
And a shot of the studio currently:
#20 — duneul · 2018-07-30
instagram.comhttps://www.instagram.com/p/Bf8sjsygi87/30 Likes, 1 Comments - daniel andrew terence (@d.a.trnc) on Instagram: “crt prep
vidiot”Link: daniel andrew terence on Instagram
hi everyone
i discovered the vidiot by chance & feel as though it was made specifically for me…
im an introvert techno music type. i put on regular dance events in olympia.
#21 — reverselandfill · 2018-08-02
Hi !
I’m Martijn / reverselandfill.
I’ve been doing video synthesis for over 18 years. (mostly with live video feedback. camera’s, mixers+effect in loops.
About 3 years ago I bought the system21 Cadet pcb’s and build my own custom video modular .
(wooden panels, Novanex knobs, about 4U format)
I also have the Gieskes 3TrinsRGB with a few expansion. I made the (eurorack) triple comparator expansion.
(see my site for info)
Recently I’ve been busy on DIYing a lot of the available schematics (Cadet, Sandin, and Castle)
So my modular is growing fast
#22 — shred · 2018-08-03
hello all! happy to be here. I make music as shredderghost (i’m around the internet) and I’ve been in the audio side of eurorack for a number of years. First became interested in LZX during the Visionary stage but wasn’t able to commit until recently. started with Vidiot and then Visual Cortex and Staircase. I also built a BPMC Fluxus cause you can never have too much glitch!
Looking forward to learning and being inspired by all of the great artists and thinkers here!
#23 — wiatrob · 2018-08-19
Agreed - Matos, amazing work!
#24 — brendanleespengler · 2018-08-20
Howdy, I’m a piano/organ/synth player based in Iowa City, IA. Toured and recorded with weirdo, deconstructed RnR bands for years, now working in behavioral health using music therapy with kids and teens. Continuously evolving solo recordings and live performances. Modular gear fits right into the way my brain works, especially video synthesis. Luddite. https://vimeo.com/285720626
https://brendanleespengler.bandcamp.com/Teledildonics 5000 aka the Strangler aka the Electric Cowboy. Black Market Organs. Sounds like: Ed Wood producing Brian Eno. More vinyl, cassettes and other releases via Discogs.
Link: Brendan Lee Spengler
#25 — richard · 2018-08-28
Hey folks, good to meet you all.
I’m into audio synthesizers, mainly hardware, mainly analog, some modular, some vintage.
“by day” I work in the world of live video streaming technology
but I really find the textures and the fluidity of motion of analog video processing really beautiful and I love the tactile experience of hardware
“by night” I’m building out a hardware based workflow that will allow me to make music and video at the same time and is computer free (unless I want to capture stems or stream)
I’m still working on a “set” I’d like to share, I’ll let you know when I do!
r
#26 — melt_dream · 2018-08-28
Hi everyone
, I’m Martino, 23 y/o from Italy. I got into glitch video processing this year, and I mainly work with circuit bent gear, also working on some circuit designs.
I work on music videos for local bands, live visual and also plain video art, such as image processing and abstract feedback.
You can find some of my work here: Melt Dream
#27 — Tan_Sat · 2018-09-06
Hello everybody! I’ve been following LZX for years. Got into video synthesis with a 3Trins and got a Vidiot this year. I’m excited to meet other vidiots here and learn more about getting the most out of this little sweetie pie.
Here is a piece I made:
#28 — MrDoctorTom · 2018-09-06
Hey everyone, finally got around to making an account here. I’ve been making art and music for years now, started plenty of bands with plenty of unreliable musicians, so a few years back I decided to do it all myself and get into gear. This led me down the eurorack rabbit hole which led me to LZX. So here we are, I’ll have some stuff up somewhere at some point, once I get over the “this isn’t finished I can’t put it in to the world” hump.
#29 — Analogmonster · 2018-09-08
Hi, I’m new here. Been using modular audio for about 3 years, always wanted lzx modules but out of my price range until the diy modules came along. Got a few pcbs and just waiting on some parts before I get building
#30 — dComposer · 2018-09-09
Hi! I have a pretty large eurorack setup but have only recently just begun to dip my toes into the world of video synthesis with my brand new Vidiot that just arrived a few days ago. It’s so much fun!!! Anyway, I of course now want to build and buy absolutely everything on this site so I’m sure I’ll get to know you all a bunch more on the other threads. Cheers!
#31 — cmcavoy · 2018-09-10
Hi, my name is Chris. I’m dipping my toes in these waters. I’m a couple of years into audio modular, I lean towards noise but sometimes use notes. I record on Soundcloud and Bandcamp as Mrs Hardy (named after my sadly departed cat, she like to hang out in my basement studio while I recorded).
A work colleague introduced me to LZX. I’ve been messing around with Lumen off and on since January. I mostly use it for moderately interesting visuals for Youtube uploads of modular improvisations. Lately though, I feel like I’m spending more time on the visuals than the music, so am researching how to go a bit deeper.
Here’s an example of a piece I made this weekend for the Disquiet Junto challenge,
It’s a data point for why I think I might be veering in a video direction - as the music is really mediocre but I’m pretty proud of how the video turned out. I need to start and finish pieces in a few short hours because of time constraints and attention span constraints. My workflow for audio is typically some variation on sit down, hit record on the 4-track portastudio, zone out for a while, come back to the tape later to see if I want to edit it into a bandcamp release or maybe build something else on top of it. I think I’d have fun expanding the workflow to include “hit record on the vcr” to also record live improvised visuals. My 11 year old son also really enjoys messing around with Lumen, more than the audio modular, so…this might be a path to get him more involved. Or it might be me justifying a bunch of buying in the name of my kid. Heh.
I live in Boulder Colorado, USA.
#32 — peloazul · 2018-09-11
Hi video freaks!
I’m Geoff Womeldorff. I’ve written and recorded electronic music in the distant past, and I goof off with an audio modular currently. In the slightly less distant past, I used to work with compositing videos produced using Artmatic. I found an old DVD of that and uploaded it here:
My favorite of those is this guy:
I have been assembling a small LZX system and am starting to come to grips with how to get around inside of it, and how to interface it with audio things. (Very slowly!)
IRL I work in scientific R&D, towards performance portability in HPC.
#33 — allthesixes666 · 2018-09-17
ello,
I’m mainly a Vectrex / oscillographics person… you may know me from that modification document I shared a while ago that built on Lars’s muffwiggler post (and hopefully it wasn’t me that helped push the prices of the consoles up). I do have a load of Cadet’s and a VC for Rutt/Etra stuff, as well as a 3TrinsRGB and a few other bits and bobs.
I also run the Brighton Modular Meet in the UK and always provide the Video Circuits gang with a room and some large Sony PVMs.
#34 — VanTa · 2018-09-22
Hi!!
I’m VanTa, from Andalusia but based in Berlin. I’m a creative coder during the day and visual ‘artist’ during the night.
Not sure why I wasn’t here before…
Here’s my digital insta: @vantaslog
and my analog one: @vantanalogue
#35 — windspirit · 2018-09-25
First post, Eli here from Mystic Circuits. Newbie to modular video but I have been doing computer based visuals for something like 8 years now.
Here is some of my LZX based stuff (my fiancee and I play shows as “Knob Fondlers”)
Here is some of my computer based stuff, in this case a live pixel sorting of a video loop:
#36 — chercam · 2018-09-27
Hi! I make video synth and paintings in Topanga Canyon, CA. I started out working mainly in experimental 16mm film - burning it, scratching, painting. Now I’m hooked on distorting video. I love my LZX Vidiot. My instagram is @cherylcambras. Excited to learn more about video synth.
#37 — Agawell · 2018-09-27
Hi I’m Jim
I’ve been playing around with Processing, PraxisLive and Lumen for a while
I have a eurorack modular synth and am awaiting both some lzx modules and the john noble built sandin ip differentiator and function generator modules (on the way, thanks John!!)
I post on instagram as jimhowell1970
I post on muffwiggler as Agawell
cheers
Jim
#38 — wiatrob · 2018-10-04
Welcome! Great to see some video work coming from Topanga. Also you’re work in textiles and metal is great. Please don’t hesitate to ask questions here!
#39 — chercam · 2018-10-04
Thanks, Bill! Great to see you here!
#40 — kicksterflixter · 2018-10-09
Hello everyone! My name’s Adam - I produce content under the moniker Giant Face Films.
I’ve shot and edited different kinds of videos over the years, but am about to jump into video synthesis. I’m looking forward to this new world and hopefully getting to know some of you!
If you’re interested, you can check out some of my work here: https://vimeo.com/giantfacefilms
Best,
Adam
#41 — the_field · 2018-10-18
hey.
also new to the video stuff but make music
.peace
#43 — sonynberlin · 2018-10-22
Hallo from Berlin!
I’m just starting to learning about LZX. I’ve built myself a nice system which I’ve played around with it a couple of times but in need for some tips. If there’s any advanced (more advanced them myself, hehe) users in Berlin that have time to give a started some tips, kindly contact me. I’m eager to learn!
Tschüss
sonynberlin
#44 — dondon · 2018-10-23
Hi from Melbourne, Australia. Don here! I have been getting around doing live visuals for local electronic music stuff for a little over year now. My work mostly consists of textural out of focus camera + synch corruption/glitch stuff through video mixer feedback loops.
My first LZX was a Vidiot, but I’m looking forward to getting my hands on a Memory Palace and seeing what it can do!
I really got deep into video after borrowing a Synchronator from uni and figuring out I could use a looping 4-track with prerecorded tones to “play” it.
Here’s some screencaps of me fondling a rose
:
#45 — Idehall · 2018-10-26
Hello everyone!
I am a music producer and an occult miscellaneous artist from Sweden.
Because I could not afford to pay anyone to make videos for me I had to start learning on my own.
This is my first attempt:
Best wishes to all,
Michael Idehall
#46 — tnohe · 2018-11-24
Hello, Tim here, based in Baltimore, USA. Composer and visual artist. Working across a spectrum of things after getting deeply into things at a Signal Culture residency a few years ago. I have an online portfolio up here: https://bakerartist.org/node/846
Currently I’m working on analog video synthesis for a public art event, and also bridging some long term collaborations with choreographers into live work with datamoshing and scanning apps that Signal Culture has released.
#47 — Strutter · 2018-12-05
Hello everyone! My name is Timo Juntunen and I’m from Tampere Finland. I got the Visual Cortex last winter but I’ve been busy with mixing and producing music (just an ep I made with a friend of mine) and the project is finally off from the table and most of my focus is tilting heavily towards video art. I find the idea of the picture modulating the audio and vice versa very interesting, as well as feedback loops with a camera shooting the telly etc. The way things work in video synthesis seems very mystical to me but little by little things begin to unravel. Besides being super exited about video synthesis right now I want to say that the overall good vibes and kindness of the fellow video artists here and the LZX fb-group is truely beautiful and inspiring, so thank you all for that! I just got the Intensity shuttle recently so I don’t have much work to show yet. Here are some clips anyhow: https://www.instagram.com/face_modulator/
#50 — teruteru · 2018-12-14
I have no experience with modular synthesizers at all, but I’m fascinated by it very much, especially video synthesis, I am graphic designer from Tokyo and this is start of my journey I guess.
#51 — cinema.av · 2018-12-25
Howdy!
What began as a love of photography, cinema and found footage grew into something much greater when a few years back I was introduced to video circuit-bending and older obsolete video electronics. Using these pieces in a live performance setting was always the goal, and from the get-go, tachyons boxes, vcrs, and video mixers turned into buying a 3trins, building its expanders and just over year ago, the LZX cadet/ castle line.
Now, I regularly gig and tour with my mix of visionary and expedition system under the name CINEMA.AV, which you can find at @cinema.av on instagram, for an ever-evolving body of work.
Aside from the usual digital means, my work extends itself to instant and 35mm film renderings and over the last year, has appeared in local galleries and pop-up’s throughout north texas. But when I’m not playing live, or coordinating visuals for Dallas Ambient Music Nights, I’m occasionally writing or building a set of castle or cadet modules for fellow artists, so if you need anything, let me know.
This long intro might make me look insane, but I’m fine with that as I’ve got a constant flow of creative energy that just can’t be stopped…
-Evan
#53 — pong · 2019-01-07
hej there!
my name is mario, i life in leipzig/ germany and been doing live music performances with analgog modular equipment from time to time. i always had the thought “how great would it be if there was an easy way to make pictures get moved by the music”… so i found out about lzx…i mean not just changing pics to the beat but more a little more alive. didnt let me go, so now i got the visual cortex and bridge, andor coming these days, and a live performance is in progress, heres my first synthesis of audio and video that is performable and where i understand the patch (music starts at 00:15), have fun and its a real pleasure to be with you, the way of the comminication on this board is just awesome!
the kiss patch: https://youtu.be/3bf-AXeqoNg
#54 — wednesdayayay · 2019-06-28
Hello
My name is Paul my wife is Nichole Pichon
we make video stuff together
I don’t have a facebook so sometimes it is me and sometimes it is her
so I’ve just moved my system around and thought it would be nice to write up some general ideas on it as I get it set back up as it may be helpful to someone >>> System overview> old setup> the setup at its simplest is a mixer running into the visual cortex with lots of feedback >>> Signal flow without pictures> <a class="lightbox" href="images/026_99536549ae.png" data-download-hre…
this thread explains a lot about our setup it will get updated regularly
I’m more interested in video processing and my wife is more on with the shape creation
https://www.instagram.com/nicholepichon/
we post a lot of video stuff to our instagram
and more recently(ish) different video stuff gets posted to our youtube
https://www.youtube.com/user/npichon1/videos?view_as=subscriberThis channel is about the explorations of a couple Video artists
Link: Video Art Duo
we live in florida
#55 — claytron · 2019-06-30
Greetings! My name is Clayton, but most people call me claytron. I’ve been a music hobbyist for years, but only recently stumbled into the world of eurorack modular, by accidentally buying a Mother 32. That led me down quite the rabbit hole. So after filling my DIY case with some modules the next step was clearly video synthesis. This forum has been incredibly helpful on this part of the journey!
Just picked up a Visual Cortex the other day, it’s such a blast to play with. Here is some first day doodling:
#56 — timtaxi · 2019-07-05
Hello, my name is kevin and i started making videos with a 3trinsrgb+1c video synthesizer and with some old video mixing machines connecting them together for feedback loops.
recently i got a visual cortex and now im already thinking how to shape and modulate the ramps. thanks!
cheers
my instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/kkkoscezb8000/1 Followers, 7 Following, 1 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from @kkkoscezb8000