For the past week or so I’ve had a installation video work atTime Machine a festival curated and organised by the folk who run Serial Space.
The video is produced by my LZX video synth, which is being controlled by a Reaktor patch. The patch uses data from a camera in the space tracking the audience. As a person enters the space a new sound and video element is randomly generated. These various elements are sequenced and variations extrapolated.
Live AV inprov recording.
Nadir (Alex White and Ben Byrne) live on New Weird Australia, FBi Radio. Photo Credit: Stuart Buchanan.
To promote the Moduluxxx festival we played a 20 min live set and talked about the festival and modular synthesisers in general on New Weird Australia. There is a podcast of the show here:
http://newweirdaustralia.com/2012/04/nwa-podcast-27-nadir-live-to-air-set-interview/
I’ve recently revisited a slightly abandoned video art making practice. I used play a lot with analog video using a huge sony professional CRT making use of the separate inputs for vertical and horizontal sync along with an ancient test oscillator plugged into various inputs.
Unfortunately after moving house with the 30kg + sony for about the 4th time I lost my patience and left it for the council to pick up.
Silent version of video work made in 2007 using HP square wave oscillator from 1960's and fed back mixer going into Sony monitor on RGB and V + H sync.
Video using LZX modular video system controlled by eurorack modular synth patch. I’m interested in performing with intrinsically linked audio video - using both modulators of the audio and the audio itself to effect the image.
