http://syphon.v002.info/ →
“Syphon is an open source Mac OS X technology that allows applications to share frames - full frame rate video or stills - with one another in realtime. Now you can leverage the expressive power of a plethora of tools to mix, mash, edit, sample, texture-map, synthesize, and present your imagery using the best tool for each part of the job.”
Critter and Guitari's Video Scope →
“The newly-improved Video Scope re-conceives the lowly oscilloscope as an electrically-colorful visual wonder. Plug in an audio signal, adjust knobs and choose from line, color shift, trapezoid, and random visualizations. (Random adjusts between the other three at an adjustable rate.) It’s all in a pocketable aluminum box with two knobs and a couple of jacks – nothing to clue in anyone that you can make visual marvels with the thing. It’s a magical mystery box. ”
Karl Klomp + his tools →
“His research focus on live audiovisual expressions and interfacing with a fascination for glitch-art, hyper kinetic audio visuals and glitch grabbing. Dealing with video circuit bending and hardware interfacing out of obsolete video devices.”
Scanography →
“Scanography, also spelled scannography more commonly referred to as scanner photography, is the process of capturing digitized images of objects for the purpose of creating printable art using a flatbed “photo” scanner with a CCD (charge-coupled device) array capturing device. ”
Excepts from the Museum of the Moving Image, Queens
Video contains ideas for different ways of viewing physical animations.
moving-image-sculpture
Feral Fount by Gregory Barsamian (American, born 1953)
Museum of the Moving Image
Astoria, New York
“The illusion of motion is convincing, although the flash rate of thirteen per second is slow enough for the eye to detect some flicker. Thirteen ‘frames’ per second is just at the boundary between where we can and cannot detect individual images.”
Built and programmed by Blair Neal as an art installation, ‘Color A Sound’ uses an overhead projector and a long roll of transparency to create a sort of manual jukebox that requires a user to essentially doodle the sheet music. A set of colored markers are used to make lines, dots and even complex illustrations, and a camera pointed at the projected results converts the seemingly random drawings into music, playing back corresponding samples from an actual musicbox, or really any instrument including a Roland TR-808 drum machine. The manual scrolling works in both directions and at almost any speed, and until you clean the transparency, any and all musical creations are stored indefinitely.
Materials: Overhead Projector and scroll, Max/MSP/Jitter, Digital Camera
