custom circuit bent glitch video gear by Mezkalin (Germany, 2020s)

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"floating."

Curtail is a 4hp voltage scaler used primarily to bring signals from audio Eurorack modules (+/-5V) down to video Eurorack levels (+/-1V). It features four identical channels with an input and an output. The module drops the overall voltage level by a factor of five, bringing 5V signals down to 1V. If you use signals greater than 5V, it will scale them proportionally. Curtail uses video-rate operational amplifiers, allowing you to use modules with +/-5V output levels over a broad range of frequencies. https://www.omiindustriies.com/curtail

archival footage of an old "freak flag" bumper from 1995 (just kidding)

A New Kind of King

Another work minted for hen reunion. I’ll tell ya one thing…. It’s really nice to post work on tumbler and not have to be on twitter all the time. That place legit steals my brain cells.

I picked up a sheet of acrylic — sizable, and still in the protective masking paper, at a great price — at a thrift store a couple of weeks ago, and I've been wondering for a while what to make from it. And I decided tonight that the coolest thing would be a Pepper's Ghost rig for my old tube TV, of the sort that Joshua Ellingson does.

The basic effect is that a sheet of glass or acrylic or whatever is placed over a bright video source at a 45° angle, which makes it act as a beamsplitter: you can see through it to whatever is behind it, but you can also see the reflection of the video. So an object filmed on a black background will seem to float in midair.

(The technique descends from stage effects, where a brightly lit actor under the stage would apparently be projected, ghostlike, onto the stage among the ones on stage. It was invented by Henry Dircks, but John Henry Pepper was the showman who improved and marketed it, and his is the name that stuck.)

Anyway, while I was looking for some details on making the thing, I hit a different demo video Ellingson had made, showing how you can demo the effect with a cassette or CD case positioned over a phone screen.

And I tried that out with my phone and a simple goldfish video, and it worked great! But my phone is also my only good camera, so I can't prove it. So my demo will have to wait until I get some acrylic cut.

Going to start posting my art here. Here's a WIP bumper for a project I'm working on. I mainly do glitch art and motion graphics. Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMlerWxpQ_I

Video synthesis piece done in Cathodemer.

CW Flashing Lights

Music: Cat Hacks by Lemon Demon

CHRYSANTHEMUM, 2021.

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Cíborg Commune's work-in-progress band practice [2] audio/visual excerpt 💀🎤

1080 x 1080 pixels 27 seconds audio video loop All graphics + video + music: by Nico Roxe © 2023