Arcadian Rhythms 2024
Resulting from a quest for automated, unbiased image composition, this experiment was partly inspired by early video arcade games.
When patterns of pixel blocks are repeatedly reorganised by means of data feedback, the process can occasionally get stuck in a continuous loop.
++ 2017/2024
A 24-page comic on the elusiveness of sound.
With graphical renderings based on visuals for SKIF++ (2006-2009).
u /r ext.: lumen visuals
may 2024
Live visuals for two performances with Swiss trio u /r.
For these occasions the ensemble consisted of: Tomas Korber
(electronics, feedback), Tobias Gerber (sampler) and guitarist Flo
Stoffner replacing Tamriko Kordzaia (piano).
The music
of u /r is characterised by a condensed interaction between the
musicians involved, which is largely the result of an interconnection
of the individual actors and instruments. The ensemble functions as a
complex configuration in which acoustic instruments, electronics and
spatial sound are closely interlinked.
The audio responsive visuals encompass distorted platonic solids and
pulsing colours, probing the fundamentals of animated movement.
Performances:
may 27 2024, VideoEx Festival, Zürich CH
may 29 2024, Kulturpunkt, Bern CH
TST 02 @ REBOOT exhibition
oct 2023
The video TST 02 (2000) is part of a series of abstract video
compositions of which the analog signal itself is applied as
soundtrack.
The work was selected for the Digital
Canon and included in the exhibition REBOOT,
from October 2023 to May 2024 at Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam.
The Digital Canon (1960-2000) lists 20 of the most influential works
by creators who were active in the Netherlands during the latter half
of the 20th century.
The exhibition, organised by LI-MA
and Nieuwe
Instituut, displayed these key works from this period as well as
new works by contemporary makers.
Featuring key works by Annie Abrahams, Livinus and Jeep van de Bundt,
Driessens & Verstappen, Edward Ihnatowicz, JODI, Bas van Koolwijk,
Lancel/Maat, Jan Robert Leegte, Yvonne Le Grand, Peter Luining,
Martine Neddam, Marnix de Nijs and Edwin van der Heide, Dick
Raaijmakers, Joost Rekveld, Remko Scha, Jeffrey Shaw, Steina, Peter
Struycken, Michel Waisvisz.
Photogram RGB laser
device jan 2023
A laser light flash for the creation of colour photograms or
shadowgraphs.
A photogram is a photographic image made without a camera by placing
objects onto the surface of a light-sensitive material such as
photographic paper and then exposing it to light.
Besides its implementation as an artistic medium, variations of the
technique have also been used for scientific purposes. For example in
shadowgraph studies of flow in transparent media, in high-speed
Schlieren photography and in the medical X-ray.
The use of laser light for the creation of these images has the
distinctive feature of everything being in focus, regardless of its
distance to the photographic paper.
This technique enables, for instance, highly detailed magnifications
of short lived chemical phenomena.
First applied in August 2018 for documentation of ER=EPR, an
installation by E
Domnitch & D Gelfand. The concept was then further developed
for a workshop
within the framework of Studiotopia
art-science programme at VU Amsterdam in September 2022. Followed by
the development and construction of a standalone device in 2023.
Because of differences in sensitivity to light between the colour
emulsion layers of the photographic paper, the device allows for the
adjustment of exposure times for each colour.
STEREODROME
workshop dec 2022
The workshop was organised by the Open
Hardware Academy at TU Delft, who generously provided materials,
assistance, advice and access to their facilities.
The workshop featured an introduction by Dmitry Gelfand about flicker
phosphenes, the spontaneous appearance of geometric patterns in the
visual field when a subject is exposed to diffuse flickering light.
Geometric flicker phosphenes are a prominent occurrence when using the
Stereodrome with suitable soundtracks as input.
Scroll down or visit stereodrome.net
for more information about the Stereodrome project.
STEREODROME presentation
jun 2022
A presentation of the Stereodrome device was organised at iii
workspace in The Hague on June 24 2022, in the context of the Obviously
Unthinkable series of events.
For this occasion 20 wireless RF Stereodrome devices were produced.
After an introduction to the inspirations for the project and an
explanation of its workings, the audience was able to experience the
potential of the device through a collection of tracks by some
well-known and lesser-known experimental sound artists.
The event also featured a performance of SPECTRES
by Robert Curgenven and Kathleen McDowell. 
STEREODROME
device 2020 - 2022
Stereodrome is a minimal VR system, which is directly controlled by a
stereo audio signal.
A soundtrack is all it takes to produce content for the device.
By presenting each eye with a colourfield interpretation of the
corresponding left or right channel of the soundtrack, it offers an
absolutely minimalist experience of binocular vision.
The refresh rate of the colours displayed by the device is much higher
than that of a regular display. The visual effects perceived through
it can therefore not be reproduced with video.
The current release is the first version of a USB viewer.
The viewer can be made from cardboard or 3D printed and requires very
few electronic components to be assembled. You do however require a
computer and a custom-made software application to operate the device.
A standalone version of the Stereodrome device is being developed.
stereodrome.net
Supported by stimuleringsfonds.nl
AGENESIS dmx application
apr 2019
DMX software application for the AGENESIS project, a live performance
by Robert Curgenven and Kat McDowall. recordedfields.net
LED lights driven directly by the sound create a head-wrecking
synaesthetic experience with the spontaneous production of colours and
patterns which may or may not be there.
SYNCHRONATOR HD video
oct 2018
An online video made with the latest SYNCHRONATOR audio to video
device.
The device is available via synchronator.com
or noizumashin.com
Automatone apr
2018
The first phase of this project involves the development of a software
application with which a soundtrack can be generated for various film
or video materials. The software does this by analysing multiple
facets of the visual material and sonification of the acquired data.
By algorithmically processing data that is obtained by analysis of the
footage, a complexity can be achieved exceeding that which can be
accomplished with conventional routines.
Eventually the application will be used to produce compositions in
image and sound.
Inspirations for this project are the cybernetic instruments used for
the soundtrack of Forbidden
Planet (1956) and graphical
sound films of the 20th century.
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SYNCHRONATOR HD audio-to-video
jan 2018
The SYNCHRONATOR HD is the latest addition to the SYNCHRONATOR audio
visualizer devices.
The device has 3 audio inputs and one video out and adds video sync
pulses to your audio, effectively disguising the input as a video
signal.
The output signal is HDMI with a resolution of 720p and a refresh rate
of 60 Hz.
The device is available via synchronator.com
or noizumashin.com
ON | OFF apr
2017
A composition for four strobes.
The piece is an exploration of our digital environment, broken down
into its binary components and revealing its rhythmical features.
Welcome to the world of logic gates and Boolean algebra, in which
anything is either true or false.
apr 14 2019, The Guesthouse, Cork IE theguesthouse.ie
sep 6 2018, GOGBOT Festival, Enschede NL gogbot.nl
jun 22 2018, Klankvorm #6, Pink Pank, Rotterdam NL
klankvorm.nl
apr 15 2017, The Warp, Kunstkapel, Amsterdam NL thewarp.org
Delay Line Memory
3 new demos dec 2016
DLM is a fully improvised audio-visual interplay between man and
machine, in an attempt to find a common language in electronic sound,
rhythm and colour.
Electronics & visuals: Bas van Koolwijk, drums: Gert-Jan Prins.
Sounds of the Space Age
may 2016
A lecture about the resourcefulness of space age technology and a
presentation of related audio-visual works for the SYNERGETICA Art
Science Salon.
may 14 2016, Het Glazen Huis, Amstelpark, Amsterdam NL synergeticalab.com
RND Bitmaps
apr 2016
A collection of not so very random bitmaps.
Although a semi random function is part of the algorithms to create
these bitmaps, there is system to be found in these patterns (in some
more than others). Generate new variations here.
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