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MIDI paths
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MIDI paths

Dec 8, 2023

Sonic assemblages using a variety of MIDI paths     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared...

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the pearl
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the pearl

Nov 10, 2023

🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️ 🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️   ‘Remain silent, and you sink into a realm of shadows; speak, and you fall into a deep pit. Try, and you’re as far away as sky from earth; give up, and you’ll never attain. Enormous waves go on and on, foaming breakers flood the skies: who’s got the bright pearl that calms the oceans?’ I-ch’ing 🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️⚪️⚪️🈚️...

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fyrall drones
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fyrall drones

Aug 12, 2022

with Jade plant’s random voltage, Pressure Points, Scíon  and a rewired FM Buddha Machine     and a παιάν for Constantine Katsiris     testing FSR with rotary switch (Sept 2022)   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)   with FSR box   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)  ...

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gibbering with drones
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gibbering with drones

Aug 7, 2022

Going back 20 years tonight… These toys were already 25yo when I got them and they are still up and running after so long. I’m not sure what happened to all the circuitbenders active in Vancouver in the very early 2000’s, but meanwhile hacking electronics has been already expanding beyond that. In any case, this is nothing nostalgic, …we flow, as always, like leaves...

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solaramps
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solaramps

Jan 21, 2022

solaramps test run ‼️it can be loud‼️ Lots of great rich drones and more. Works with mini solar panels and cv controllers This is for Dan and Jakob. Great people, and inspiring electronics wizards. @beauditude @bouq.et I can’t wait to bring this box in the full sun sometime soon.  ...

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getting to know the new box
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…dedicated to everyone who like me, feels great confusion in our “order” and great beauty in the sounds of electrons. Language is useless when meaning is only contour…         View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)...

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noise drone
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noise drone

Aug 25, 2021

esperimenti notturni with quantumdefrakulator, another touch circuit with sine/square/traingle waves and RAT distortion...

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transistor radios
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transistor radios

Aug 14, 2021

I finally repurposed a few old and broken transistor radios into some nice noise machines   01.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)   02.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)     03.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Giorgio Magnanensi (@giominz)...

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buddha machines
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buddha machines

Jul 11, 2021

  Some dark and noisy drones with 2 circuitbent buddha machines. The orange one is one of the original Buddha Machine by by Christiaan Virant and Zhang Jian in Beijing, China in 2005. I rewired this one but I have another few that I din’t touch ; )    ...

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AUDIOSFERA
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AUDIOSFERA

Oct 19, 2020

AUDIOSFERA AUDIOSPHERE Social Experimental Audio, Pre- and Post-InternetCollective Exhibition Sound piece selected : Very Glitchy PatchMuseo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía • Madrid, Spain14 October, 2020 – 11 January, 2021 /Sabatini Building, Floor 3 Curated by  Francisco LópezAUDIOSPHERE Sound Experimentation 1980-2020   AUTHORS: Francisco López, Thomas Bey William Bailey, Margie Borschke, Victor Nubla, Luis Alvarado, Guy Marc Hinant, Salomé Voegelin, Caleb Kelly, Paul...

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Plate Reverb
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Plate Reverb

Jun 27, 2020

I finally got to use this Plate Reverb with some nice Blippoo’s sounds, live recorded in the room. Happy about the results and looking forward to playing live with it sometime, some day…    ...

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ITISYSM Bonus Track
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ITISYSM Bonus Track

Dec 17, 2019

Made with snippets of various improv in-between takes from our recording sessions at Afterlife Studio, …plus some rugged noisy videos and glitches. Cole Schmidt guitar, Gavin Youngash guitar, James Meger bass, Kenton Loewen drums, Giorgio Magnanensi electronics and wood resonator    ...

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oscillo-graphic score
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oscillo-graphic score

Oct 9, 2017

  deep purple an oscillo-graphic score and an excersise in media transference     I will soon transcribe and orchestrate the 11 pages of this graphic score made of different frames extracted from the oscillographic video. Hopefully I will be able to perform both versions sometime soon : )       Here’s a reading by Alice Caradente, Harp...

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drazil fx
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drazil fx

Aug 28, 2017

  another series of experiments on Drazil by Kedrick James (more collaborations with Kedrick HERE)        ...

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bupp!! beats
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bupp!! beats

Aug 6, 2017

  playing with Bupp!! by  p i x e l m e c h a n i c s           Franziska Schroeder, sax • Jules Rawlinson, laptop • Dara Etefaghi, visual      ...

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e-glitch
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e-glitch

Jun 21, 2017

  opening a webpage in Safari I got this nice glitch:     here it is after some pixel sorting:         and here some more random reiterations:    ...

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Incessant Spring
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Incessant Spring

Dec 7, 2015

a project with Kedrick James selected for the virtual gallery exhibit at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay 2015-2016 Featured Artist Researchers The Featured Artist Researchers are selected by the jurors from open submissions. These researchers represent innovative arts integrated research from around the world.  Kedrick James & Giorgio Magnanensi ​ Series Title: Incessant Spring Medium: Transformed video data and stills University of British Columbia, Vancouver New Music, Laboratio...

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BENT
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BENT

Oct 31, 2015

BENT: A Showcase of Circuit Bending at VIVO Saturday, November 7th . Doors at 7pm. Featuring over 15 artists/hackers and musicians, this evening is a showcase of Vancouver artists and makers exploring the art of circuit bending.  There will be a circuit playground, a “Show and Tell” of different projects, and performances throughout the evening.    …a nice reunion, ten year later… Shawn Cashin, Kedrick James,...

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tdu blinx
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tdu blinx

May 16, 2015

  reading each page of the score of TDU VI as raw data after converting each page in blinx image file format   tdu blinx...

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drazzzzzil
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drazzzzzil

Apr 4, 2015

    WARNING: Strobe effect used in this gif  HARD:   SOFT:       CRISP:     MELTED:      ...

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heather glitch
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heather glitch

Jan 24, 2015

    a short glitched clip of one of Heather’s painting detail and 2 images made with processing slicing the clip’s frames and rearranging them in arrays  ...

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pixel sorting Heather
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pixel sorting Heather

Jan 17, 2015

  pixel sorting a watercolor card by Heather Gatz                 …a preview of a next experiment       and a few tweaks on a Processing sketch by Generative Design Download pde code at the link below  ...

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glowflow 2
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glowflow 2

Jan 12, 2015

  pixel sorting made in Jitter The original images are frames from a video made using an older Jitter video-synth patch   Here is the source image for the gallery below:     and here is another jitter experiment        ...

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a gallery of “sort” for Kedrick
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   original image     thank you to the great community of artists and Processing coder for sharing algorithms, sketches and a load of great ideas; especially to Kim Asendorf, Jeffrey Thompson, Adam Ferriss, Julia Laub, Cedric Kiefer and Mick Kellogg.      ...

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pixel sorting KJ
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pixel sorting KJ

Jan 5, 2015

   a couple of details from To Read What Was Never Written, III  by Kedrick James, after pixel-sorting process        and more examples in Jitter using Optical Flow:      ...

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the beauty of pixels
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the beauty of pixels

Jan 1, 2015

  …associating kinetic illusions from opposing previous destructions… the beauty of pixels     beuty of pixels [Download]     original image before “destruction”  ...

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SK1
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SK1

Aug 2, 2014

    remix ad libitum these Casio SK1 chaotic files   SK1 A [Download]   SK1 B [Download]   SK1 C [Download]    ...

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T&T
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T&T

Aug 2, 2014

    remix these rewired Touch & Tell sounds with stretched short samples of the same files T&T 1 [Download] T&T 2 [Download] T&T 3 [Download] stretched samples: TT stretched 01 [Download] TT stretched 02 [Download] TT stretched 03...

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riw
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riw

Aug 1, 2014

  Random Input Waves for a hot summer night Made with rewired electronics, max/msp and other noisemakers. Remix ad libitum   improglitch [Download]   riw 3 [Download]   riw 4 [Download]      ...

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astrocadeglitch
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astrocadeglitch

Jul 12, 2014

  Extreme modding of Astrocade ROMs. It must be an age thing that make me love the rawness of these pixels so much; but if you need more virtuality, put on a pair of RED & CYAN 3D glasses and project it on any large/not flat surface available, with very loud and diffused sound.        ...

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gif fun
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gif fun

Jun 11, 2014

two new gif(t)s (they’ll need a few seconds to load and run properly)      ...

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emunoiz
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emunoiz

Jun 8, 2014

  Heavy HEX editing…     watch listening to THIS   a heavier one…     …and more      ...

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emuglitch
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emuglitch

Jun 7, 2014

  ….having fun hacking emulator softwares and videogames       digiquilts A   digiquilts B      ...

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aiff loaded in VICE
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aiff loaded in VICE

Jun 2, 2014

Still having fun with VICE. Here is a series of images produced by loading short aiff files in VICE C64 emulator. Below the image gallery a short video showing the image produced in the emulator when loading the audio file you hear in the video.        ...

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GLI.TC/H
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GLI.TC/H

Jun 1, 2014

GLI.TC/H                 digital PDF download:   20111 GLI.TC/H READER[ROR]   &   Glitch Art Historie[s] (contextualizing glitch art) <——–*//==||==\\*——–> by Nick Briz            ...

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commodore emulator glitch
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loading random ROMs and other (audio, font, pdf and image) files in VICE Commodore Emulator       Here is a short audio sample sample 38 [Download]   This is how it looks in an audio editor       …and how it looks when loaded in VICE       another gallery here          ...

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datamoshing
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datamoshing

May 25, 2014

working on recursive glitches and datamoshing (Palaoa Clips)     a few details here:      ...

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random vimeo
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random vimeo

May 25, 2014

Vimeo corrected for TV-style viewinby Daniel Temkin   Vimeo in TV aspect ratio See random video     read also   Glitch && Human/Computer Interaction Daniel Temkin, 2014    ...

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palaoa
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palaoa

May 22, 2014

I’m starting a project around  Palaoa, using video clips from the webcam and creating/morphing these beautiful visual and sounding landscapes. Thank you to the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany for giving me permission to use these materials for this purpose. Check the PALAOA  Webcam and the Live Audiostream                ...

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GlitchCodec
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GlitchCodec

May 22, 2014

Here is a nice glitched video after hacking a codec. Thank you Nick Briz for the GlitchCodec Tutorial and for sharing your thoughts and tools.       “If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps...

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net.art
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net.art

May 12, 2014

  a few great sites to check:   http://fa-g.org/2013 http://www.maadonna.com/ http://kimasendorf.tumblr.com/ http://claudiamate.com/2013/projects/threejs-playgnd/ http://www.emiliogomariz.net/ http://www.rollinleonard.com/ http://www.manuelfernandez.name/ http://miyovanstenis.tk/ http://bmruernpnhay.com/ http://www.geoffreylillemon.info/ http://timefly-exist.tumblr.com/ http://gifwrapping.net/ http://yearoftheglitch.tumblr.com/ http://www.birdog.es/#en/ http://nznzweb.tumblr.com/          ...

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data bending a raw image
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playing with Photoshop bending an image, inspired by Jason Irla’s  Databending Studies (see below). I’ll try with more colorful images soon.   original image:     various steps of data bending:   more on data bending     Jason Irla, who shared his experiments in DATABENDING STUDIES 001  and offers this list of other sharing artists.   staAllio!‘s databending primers: http://blog.animalswithinanimals.com/2008/08/databending-and-glitch-art-primer-part.html http://blog.animalswithinanimals.com/search/label/primers   Rosa Menkman: http://rosa-menkman.blogspot.com/ also...

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circuit bending workshop
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While in Halifax next week I’ll be presenting a circuit bending workshop at The Centre For Art Tapes (CFAT). Here some toys I’ll be bringing there. Hidden under La Dictée Magique (French version of the Speak & Spell) Nicolas Collins’ great book Handmade Electronic Music.     CIRCUIT BENDING WORKSHOP WITH GIORGIO MAGNANENSI Circuit bending is the art of creatively short circuiting audio electronics in order...

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glitch albums
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glitch albums

Apr 25, 2014

a selection of glitched images       a series of new glitchscapes     and glitched images created loading various files in VICE    ...

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feedback demon
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feedback demon

Apr 17, 2014

a demon lives where we want it to livewatch this clip listening to this: granusphere [Download]            ...

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atari noise (c)
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atari noise (c)

Mar 2, 2014

…another little fun clip. It would look great on multiple walls with lots of speakers and interactive triggers to let people mash everything up, drowning in melting videogames. Check also this one, and this crazier one....

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atari noise
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atari noise

Nov 3, 2012

messing up Atari ROM emulators using a Jitter patch based on jit.atari2600 by Kyle Buza …and lots of randomizers. Use 3D glasses see Image Gallery below...

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random picture
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random picture

Jul 26, 2011

Refresh the current page… …to load a new random picture Random Picture for Web Site also try Mark Napier The Shedder to get some nice glitchy pages out of websites      ...

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NIME 2005
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NIME 2005

Jun 30, 2011

Ligature (excerpt)  at NIME 2015 circuit-bent toys on a multiple speaker set up. Live spatialization by Chris Rolfe   mp3  [Download]   Paul Lehrman’s NIME05 Report NIME “There was no uncertainty in the next piece, Ligature, by Giorgio Magnanensi, an Italian-born composer who now lives in Vancouver. Seated at the FOH console in the middle of the audience, and looking like a cross between Albert Einstein and Napolean...

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a glitchy patch
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a glitchy patch

Feb 2, 2011

…leafcutter posted a glitchy patch on the Max Msp Jitter forum • here and I’m having fun with it using the video matrix to generate sound.                    ...

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fbk loops
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fbk loops

Nov 9, 2010

glitchy internal feedback and jitter-hacking producing interesting (..?..) loops   loop #1:   loop #2 and #3 are here: loop #2 •  loop #3  ...

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audioglitch 01
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audioglitch 01

Sep 13, 2010

experimenting with randomizers sound experiment for an upcoming collaboration with Joost Rekveld live-visuals performance at the VNM Festival 2010. mp3 [Download]   I used an original patch by mesa.elec/tele @ http://ondomusic.com/ modified with randomizers and filters. Check Joost Rekveld’s great work HERE...

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bw
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bw

Aug 26, 2010

black and white                                       …and some more color...

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noise
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noise

Jun 3, 2010

is noise a color? color is energy noise is energy   zoom in…                ...

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keyboard ghost
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keyboard ghost

May 26, 2010

a strange image of a ghosty keyboard player coming out of a video feedback                                                  ...

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personum
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personum

May 22, 2010

full circle   Personum Sound installation for an interactive performance space using circuit-bent toys and multichannel spatialization The Scotiabank Dance Centre – The Faris Family Studio 677 Davie Street, Vancouver February 6–15, 2006 • 1pm–7pm (free entrance) Performances: Friday 10, Sunday 12 • 8pm (free entrance) Workshop: Sunday 12 • 2pm–5pm (free entrance by submission)   An open work of art can be interpreted...

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