Can I suggest playing these clips loudly?
The top clip is a Max/MSP project by Omnibotoom (via Matrixsynth) – the bottom one is Optron aka Atsuhiro Ito (via Pink Tentacle)
And just to make it a trilogy of awesome fluroescence, have you ever wondered what happens if you microwave a fluorescent light? No, me neither – but hey this is the interwebs! Someone is bound to have!
Don’t try that at home kids! And just remember they contain mercury so you dont want to be breaking them either!
Folktek is the work of Arius Blaze and Ben Houston and in the realms of circuit bending they have a unique take on producing limited edition instruments. For example check out their drone sequencer: “a magnetic sequencer – the section on the left is an 8 part sequencer built with very fine precision utilizing magnetic opposing force to create contacts and make switches…The “propeller” coming from the center is attached to a motor with variable speed control. Each of the 8 switches has it’s own on/off switch to adjust the timing of the sequence. Each switch connects to a capture point on our circuit – which is used to lock waveforms.”
I love how it looks a bit like an artefact a time traveller brought back with them, but from an alternate past or future – its hard to tell! Here are a few more of their creations in action – they certainly demonstrate a more interesting range of sounds than many circuit bent devices, and while the demos capture them in their raw state I cant but help imagine hearing them through some stomp boxes, especially a Moogerfoorger LPF…
MicroGarden
Magnatron Tape Echo
AVATAR – short version from candas sisman (csismn.com) on Vimeo.
No, not related to the Titanic; Avatar is a dance performance for Istanbul Bilgi University,Management Of Performing Arts – Bodies and Technologies class. Visuals by Candas Sisman and sound design by Mert Kizilay
director/sound: carsten niccolai/alva noto
featuring text+voice: anne-james chaton
actor: kyusaku shimada
stunning bass-string shot from urbanscreen on Vimeo.
Apparently it was shot on a Canon 5D Mkii and hasn’t been processed, so I can only presume the slow motion effect is caused by some kind of strobing between the frame rate of the camera & the notes played…. I mean, my double bass sure doesn’t look like that when I play it!
Beautiful! Similarly I saw some video art years ago, of a woman walking forwards through backwards time during rush hour in the subway in Tokyo – the sea of humanity rushing past backwards was almost overwhelming to watch…
