RAGLANI // TrampolineDream

Here is a video I made for Raglani. It's also the first video I made using footage produced with my  LZX video synthesizer.

from the LP Real Colors Of The Physical World on Editions Mego.

editionsmego.com/release/eMEGO+159

Sunset Ok

Just stumbled upon this Vimeo channel filled with beautiful experiments. 

Here is the description: Turbo computer,  video synthesis, digital video feedback, software transparency, the signal, critical procedures.

turbo computer from sunset ok on Vimeo.

videoscape 0001 from sunset ok on Vimeo.

slice tool from sunset ok on Vimeo.

AURAE

Music by Roger Tellier-Craig

STEVE HAUSCHILDT // INTERCONNECTED

Here is a music video that I made using video feedback as raw material, then refilmed and manipulated digitally. Steve's music is wonderful, his new album Sequitur will come out in November via Kranky.

AURORATONE

I was asked to participate in an interesting project for Film POP (part of POP Montreal festival) organized by Kier-La Janisse. The project consisted in making a video or a short film with the music of an artist performing at POP Montreal this year, and to make this piece in the same spirit as the obscur genre called Auroratone. Here is a brief description of what the event was all about and what an Auroratone is:

The Auroratone Project is a commission of original short films by experimental Canadian filmmakers set to the music of POP Montreal’s 2012 participants. ‘Auroratones’ were abstract musical films used in mental institutions and army hospitals after WWII as a means of soothing post-traumatic stress disorder and general mental disturbance, invented by film enthusiast Cecil Stokes who was continuing on nearly two centuries of previous pseudo-scientific attempts to correlate colour with musical notes. For POP Montreal, filmmakers Leslie Supnet (Manitoba), Emily Pelstring (Quebec), Jon Rafman (Quebec), Alex MacKenzie (BC), Walter Forsberg (Manitoba), Leslie Bell (Alberta), Jaimz Asmundson (Manitoba), Cheryl Hann (Nova Scotia), Tamara Scherbak (Quebec), Heather Rappard (Nova Scotia) and Sabrina Ratte (Quebec) were approached to create original abstract films guided by the principles of Cecil Stokes’ Auroratones.

http://popmontreal.com/events-tickets/le-projet-auroratone-nouvelles-frontieres-du-cinema-psychiatrique-the-auroratone-project-new-frontiers-in-psychiatric-cinema/

Here is the only known surviving Auroratone film, When the Organ Played 'O Promise Me,' which is in the private collection of Gus Martens -- himself an amateur cinema enthusiast and filmmaker, who at one time earned side-money projecting films at the Creedmor Psychiatric Center, in his native Queens, New York.

And, well, here is my own Auroratone, thanks a lot to Tim Hecker for giving the permission to use his music.

LE RÉVÉLATEUR // DATA DAZE

New video for Le Révélateur,

Horizon Fears cassette drops August 14 on NNA Tapes!

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Experiments with Azden - LZX- Video feedback 

KUEDO - ASCENSION PHASE

Tom Scholefield (Konx-om-Pax) just published this amazing music video for Kuedo. He asked me a few months ago to send him some video feedback footage. He did an incredible job at integrating them with his aesthetic. Stunning video!

Kuedo: Ascension Phase video created by Konx-om-Pax and Sabrina Ratté

Taken from the album 'Severant' (Planet Mu 2011)

EXPERIMENT IV

Experiment using video feedback, AZDEN VPC-10, LZX Video Synthesizer
Electronic sounds -Roger Tellier-Craig

BRENNA MURPHY

Stunning work!
http://bmruernpnhay.com/ 
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2011/sep/21/artist-profile-brenna-murphy/

EXPERIMENT II

Another experiment with the Azden VPC-10 and video feedback.
Electronic sounds by Roger Tellier-Craig

SARA LUDY : ROOMS

New video by Sara Ludy on Klausgallery.net, an online exhibition project by Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, curated by Duncan Malashock. More infos about the exhibition here. 

COMPUTERS CLUB DRAWING SOCIETY

I have been drawing with the tools provided by Computers Club Drawing Society for a few months now and I thought I'd share some of my drawings here...   CCDS  is a great initiative by Krist Wood, with the important help of Robert Lorayn. (And both of these artists make absolutely gorgeous works!) 
Here are some of my first drawings... 

MELTING SIGNALS

I just bought this little analog mixer from classified adds. I couldn't find any informations on the AZDEN VPC-10 on the web; it's a very basic video mixer with which I can control colors, textures and make simple wipes and transitions. Here is an excerpt of my first experiments...