SYNCHRONATOR
device nov 2009
The SYNCHRONATOR device transforms your audio into a composite video
signal, compatible with all video equipment supporting composite video
input.
With 3 audio inputs and 1 video out, the SYNCHRONATOR device enables
you to visualize your sounds on each of the primary color channels of
the video signal. It adds video sync pulses and color coding signals
to your audio, effectively disguising the input as a composite video
signal. The device is powered with a 6V adapter and features a
color/b&w switch as its only on-board controller. Other
manipulations are done solely with the audio input.
The device was officially released on November 10 2010, at the
Netherlands Institute for Media Arts.
The first edition of the SYNCHRONATOR device was limited to 100
numbered units, which were sold out by october 2010.
It was shipped in a box with DVD, manual, 6V adapter (european only)
and composite video cable.
www.synchronator.com
SYNCHRONATOR
manual oct 2009
A manual to accompany the release of the SYNCHRONATOR device.
SYNCHRONATOR
DVD jul 2009
The first SYNCHRONATOR DVD was released on the Cavity label in july
2009.
Included are the 2006 SYNCHRONATOR video and nine new tracks. Original
recordings were produced with the SYNCHRONATOR device for PAL video by
Bas van Koolwijk and Gert-Jan Prins.
Although especially adapted versions of all tracks are included for
flat screen monitor, to properly experience the DVD it should be
viewed on a CRT television monitor.
The release has been made possible thanks to our individual support
from Fonds BKVB and Nederlands Fonds voor Podiumkunsten. www.synchronator.com/video
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Unshielded | 4:08 |
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Chromatizer | 2:18 |
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SWP Continuum | 3:28 |
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Kleur | 2:24 |
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Motoic | 3:46 |
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Bifilar SD | 3:08 |
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Glibtube | 1:24 |
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Untitled 16 | 5:45 |
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50Hz Variations | 4:01 |
Sonolevitation 3D
may 2009
Installation for the projection of stereoscopic video by means of
polarized light.
Made especially for the Sonolevitation project by Evelina Domnitch and
Dmitry Gelfand.
Presented at the 30th anniversary of the Netherlands Media Art
Institute, May 2009.
www.portablepalace.com/levitation.htm
FDBCK/AV
installation jun 2008
jun 12 - 29 2008, FDBCK/AV installation, 'De Nieuwe Salon' exhibition,
Utrecht NL
10K PFFA
interface apr 2008
Software application for the conversion of visual to audible data for
the project '10.000 Peacock Feathers in Foaming Acid' by Evelina
Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand. www.portablepalace.com
Laser light is used to scan the ever-shifting surfaces of nucleating
and dissipating soap bubble clusters. When refracted at specific
angles, this penetrating light generates a reticulate, large-scale
projection of normally invisible salty acid formations, and exposes
their underlying electro-chemical forces.
Through analysis of the projected shapes and movements by use of video
digitisation, the visual information is transposed to audio in order
to create a realtime soundtrack.
Live tryouts:
| 2008 | Elektra Festival, Usine C, Montreal CA Medialab, Tetem II, Enschede NL |
FDBCK/AV 3D
may 2007
The stereoscopic adaptation of the live performance FDBCK/AV.
A FDBCK/AV 3D single screen video production with 5.1 surround sound
will soon be released for the Optofonica project. www.optofonica.com
Performances:
| 2008 | International Short Film Festival Winterthur, Winterthur CH Rumor Festival, Theater Kikker, Utrecht NL |
| 2007 | STRP festival, Eindhoven NL Netherlands Institute for Media Arts, Amsterdam NL [tryout] Melkweg, Amsterdam NL [tryout] |
FDBCK/AV
exhibition feb-mar 2007
A solo exhibition including several audio-visual feedback based works
at Nieuwe Vide Art Space in Haarlem NL. www.nieuwevide.nl
Next to an installation with 18 CRTs, the show included projections of
high-res versions of the FDBCK/AV videos 'Red Flag', 'Silver' and the
SYNCHRONATOR video.
The exhibition ran from February 25 - March 18 2007.
SYNCHRONATOR
Tesla residency jan-feb 2007
Invited by Tesla, the Berlin laboratory for media arts, Bas van
Koolwijk and Gert-Jan Prins continued work on their SYNCHRONATOR
project during a residency in Berlin DE.
Open studio evenings were organised by Tesla on the weekend of the
Transmediale festival and a SYNCHRONATOR performance took place as
part of the Club Transmediale 2007. www.tesla-berlin.de
www.clubtransmediale.de
YOKOMONO/VIDEO
oct 2006
A video component for their YOKOMONO performances was developed with Staalplaat
Soundsystem.
For the first two concerts, onboard cameras and video transmitters
were used. In the second stage of the project an openGL visualisation
of the 'empty grooves' audio output was developed.
Performances:
| 2006 | Sensoralia/Romaeuropa festival, Rome IT Re:Visie/Dutch Film Festival, Centraal Museum, Utrecht NL Steim, Amsterdam NL |
SKIF++
audio-to-video interface sep 2006
Before the start of an American tour, a new software application for
realtime visualisation.
The application is based on the 1974 Rutt/Etra scan processor.
www.hardhatarea.com/SKIF++
SYNCHRONATOR
video aug 2006
The first video release of the SYNCHRONATOR project. www.synchronator.com
Video & audio by Bas van Koolwijk and Gert-Jan Prins.
Distribution: www.li-ma.nl
Selected screenings:
| 2016 | Werkleitz Festival, Halle DE |
| 2013 | Visual music from the Netherlands, EYE filmmuseum, Amsterdam NL |
| 2010 | VIDEOEX Experimentalfilm & Video Festival, Zürich CH |
| 2009 | Re:visie/Nederlands Filmfestival, Utrecht NL Woodstreet Gallery, Pittsburgh PA, USA Ankara International Film Festival, Ankara TR |
| 2008 | AVRO Kunstuur, AVRO Television NL Visual Sounds on Film, Koeln DE Australian Cinematheque/Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane AU Museum of Modern Art-Kino Lab, Warsaw PL Waves - The Art of the Electromagnetic Society, Dortmund DE |
| 2007 | LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijon ES Independent Film Show, Napoli IT Optical Sensation, Filmreakter, Luxembourg LU 'Nederclips', Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch NL Galerie Olaf Stuber, Berlin DE European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück DE Experimental Intermedia, New York NY, USA DNK Afregelsalon III, OT 301, Amsterdam NL Neutral Ground Gallery, Regina SK, CAN FDBCK/AV exhibition, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem NL |
| 2006 | 'Welcome Back, Mister Paik!', MuHKA_media/Monty, Antwerpen BE Impakt Festival, Centraal Museum, Utrecht NL |
SYNCHRONATOR
'Impakt Works' residency apr-jun 2006
Since the early years of video art, works have been made which do not
actually produce a standard TV signal waveform and therefore cannot be
directly recorded. Some are based primarily upon magnetic distortion
of the normal TV scan pattern, others utilise a Cathode Ray Tube as if
it were an oscilloscope screen.
SYNCHRONATOR is a video and audio research project by Gert-Jan Prins
and Bas van Koolwijk in an attempt to make use of the characteristic
visual qualities of such techniques, whilst tackling the problems
concerning recordability of the signal with a combination of current
digital and analogue means. Visit www.synchronator.com
for more information.
Part of the project is a dual screen performance of which a first try
out was presented on June 3 2006, during an evening filled with
hardware oriented audiovisual arts. Works by the Vasulkas, reMI,
Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand in collaboration with Asmus
Tietchens, were included in the programme.
A video production as part of the SYNCHRONATOR project will be
released in August 2006.
The project was commissioned by Impakt and was being developed as part
of an 'Impakt Works' residency. www.impakt.nl
SYNCHRONATOR
workshop
As part of the Impakt residency, a three-day workshop about developing
an AV performance.
Analogue and digital techniques were examined to create a direct
interaction between image and sound. The working method was mainly
practical. Facets such as the use of interfaces, videotronics,
video/audio software and improvisation in electronic music were
examined.
Your instructors: Gert-Jan Prins, Bas van Koolwijk and Karl Klomp.
may 30 - june 1 2006 www.impakt.nl
FDBCK/AV - Silver 3D
mar 2006
A stereographic version of the video 'FDBCK/AV - Silver'. Viewed with
anaglyph red/cyan glasses, the illusion of depth is added to the
otherwise two dimensional video pictures. This version is part of the
Staalplaat Soundsystem installation 'The Ultrasound of Therapy'. www.staalplaat.org
| 2006 | I.D.E.A.L. Festival, Nantes FR |
Vertical Helical Scan I
jan 2006
The video describes the gradual decomposition of the video signal on
VHS tape when repetitively copied. With every generation, the analogue
information looses quality. Some parts of it disappear, other
information is spontaneously added by the equipment. Eventually the
signal is rendered unreadable as it gets dissolved into the medium.
A 'homage' to the Video Home System. Commissioned by Planetart www.planetart.nl
baroch
jan 2006
A collaborative audio project with Christian Toonk and Ronald Nijhof.
Electronic improvisations performed over Nijhof's speaker-like
sculptures. www.roch.nl
First performance:
January 29 2006, Vishal, Haarlem NL
FDBCK/AV - Silver
nov 2005
An abstract video in the series FDBCK/AV.
FDBCK/AV - Silver was released on the Sonic Acts XI DVD. www.sonicacts.com
Selected screenings & exhibitions:
| 2007 | ColorField Variations, Cimatics Festival, Brussels BE ColorField Variations, Laptopia #4, Tel Aviv IL ColorField Variations, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn NY, USA ColorField Remix, G Fine Art, Washington DC, USA ColorField Remix, Ellipse Art Center, Arlington VA, USA ColorField Remix, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA FDBCK/AV exhibition, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem NL |
| 2006 | Leids Film Festival, Scheltema, Leiden NL N-event, Diapason Gallery, New York NY, USA Re:visie/Nederlands Film Festival, Centraal Museum, Utrecht NL )toon) festival, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem NL Sonic Acts XI, Paradiso, Amsterdam NL |
FDBCK/AV - Red Flag
oct 2005
Red Flag is an abstract video, produced with software applications
that were developed for the live performance FDBCK/AV. The 'flagging'
seen in this video is of a digital nature entirely, but its logic is
based on analogue video processing. The same logic applies to the
computations by which FDBCK/AV creates a feedback control circuit
between audio and video signals. Behind its technical appearance, the
video addresses the issue of aesthetic contemplation of form versus
the more worldly agenda of utility and politics.
Distribution: www.li-ma.nl
Selected screenings & exhibitions:
| 2016 | LIMA, Amsterdam NL |
| 2014 | Dortyard, Dordrecht NL |
| 2008 | 'Un Festival, c'est trop court', Nice FR |
| 2007 | Exground Filmfestival, Wiesbaden DE REHEAT - Utopie und Sommer, Nickelsdorf AT Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych (BWA), Zielona Gra PL '(in)visible sounds' exhibition, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam NL Festival Rencontres Paris Berlin Madrid, Madrid ES Kill Your Timid Notion Festival, Dundee UK Rencontres Audiovisuelles, Lille FR FDBCK/AV exhibition, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem NL Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart DE |
| 2006 | Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris FR Alter-Native International Short Film Festival, Targu-Mures RO Holland Animation Filmfestival, Utrecht NL Exis Festival, Seoul KR Waterpieces Video Festival, Riga LV Impakt Event, zaal Moira, Utrecht NL Dissonanze Festival, Rome IT European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrueck DE Courtisane Festival, Vooruit, Gent BE Cinematiek #11, cinema 't Hoogt, Utrecht NL 50% Beeld, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Amsterdam NL Artefact Festival, STUK, Leuven BE Montevideo presentation, Kunsthochschule fur Medien, Koln DE |
| 2005 | Impakt, cinema 't Hoogt, Utrecht NL |
db
oct 2005
Performance for 2 double bass players, real time sound processing and
sound reactive video. With Wojciech Kosma, Michal Skiba and Duszan
Korczakowski. Commissioned by Unsound festival 2005, Krakow, Poland. wojciechkosma.art.pl
COLORTRON
may 2005
The second audio cd release of the RGB project. Subtle frequency
modulations create a field of suspense and blur the actual time span.
Colortron is based on improvisations with the audiovisual live
performance RGB. With Christian Toonk.
desktopjam
apr 2005
Ronald Nijhof, Christian Toonk and Bas van Koolwijk expose their
individual inspirations, recent projects and experiments in three
simultaneous desktop presentations. Improvisation and association are
the means by which the presentations are structured. The aim is to
fuse the separate contributions into a collective triptych.
Performances:
August 4 2005, Garage Festival, Stralsund DE
April 5 2005, Fabrikaat, Artis Gallery, 's-Hertogenbosch NL
RGB audio
jan 2005
The first audio-cd release of RGB including three tracks based on
improvisations with the audiovisual live performance RGB. Sounds
derived from properties of the PAL video signal.
A limited number of 50 cd's were produced.
RGB Improv_1&2
jan 2005
Two short videos resulting from the live performance RGB.
Improv_1 was presented as an installation during the exhibition
'Utrecht Uploaded' at Expodium Gallery in Utrecht, from February 12 to
March 13 2005. Improv_2 was released as one of the titles on the
'Netmage 05' compilation DVD.
FIVE²
oct 2004
FIVE² is an adaptation for two screens of the video production FIVE.
The installation was commissioned by Stichting 'De School' for the
Tschumi Pavilion at Hereplein in Groningen and was on show for the
whole of November 2004.
UBIK
sep 2004
Installation responsive to a monumental building. Synchronised sound,
smoke and light neutralise a historical space. Inspired by Philip K.
Dick's 'Ubik' [1969]. With Christian Toonk and Ronald Nijhof for the
SKOL 2004 exhibition in Utrecht.
Urban[ISM]
jun 2004
An installation for the Impakt event and exhibition 'Yarning Utrecht'
at the BAK Gallery in Utrecht. Urban[ism] was a collaboration with
Christian Toonk and Ryan Parteka.
As people travel through space, points between destinations are often
neglected. In their multi-channel audio and video installation, Umatic
members have transferred this in between volume of the urban space to
the gallery space. Nestled between two walls is a space for one to
consider what lay in between.
Maps~ / Psychonavigators
jun 2004
Maps~ is a video application for a collaborative performance that came
about after a conjunction of ideas for the Impakt event 'Yarning
Utrecht'.
Simular to roadmaps being abstractions of the world as we percieve it,
soundscapes reflect a view of the space around us. The intricate use
of layering in both the video and the audio of this project, makes
image and sound seamlessly connect.
Performed at BAK Gallery, June 18 2004, with Derek Holzer and
Christian Toonk.
European Data Cup
mar 2004
Presentation about a generative parasite project turning the European
Football Championships into an electronic music generator. With
Christian Toonk and Ronald Nijhof.
Presented at BAK Gallery, Utrecht.
RGB mar
2004
The live performance RGB is based on the video channels red, green and
blue. By direct transposition of the video signal to audio, Bas van
Koolwijk creates a real time soundtrack using colour fields only. The
sound environment is completed by Christian Toonk. Toonk uses audio
feedback derived from amplified internal computer processes.
RGB is a minimal technoid environment, built up using the basics of
video signal with sound.
Performances:
January 9 2006, Kraakgeluiden, OT301, Amsterdam NL
November 15 2005, Break 2.3, Ljubljana SI
August 5 2005, Le Placard/Garage, Stralsund DE
May 21 2005, Dissonanze Festival, Rome IT
March 2 2005, Expodium Gallery, Utrecht NL
January 29 2005, Netmage Festival, Theatro Manzoni, Bologna IT
December 14 2004, 'Stop Dancing, Start Looking', 't Hoogt, Utrecht NL
March 7 2004, Umatic event at Club Moira, Utrecht NL
OZONE sep
2003
An installation exploring the shifting tide of signals, frequencies
and codes passing through our bodies every day. The installation is
based around a four-channel, generative digital video, displayed on
four television sets. Four 100m loops of copper wire serve as
antennas, receiving the Very Low Frequencies [VLF] emitted by the
television tubes. The resulting signals are converted into digital
audio, which is returned to further influence the video, creating a
self-sustaining feedback loop.
Ozone is a collaboration with Derek Holzer, following a residence at
Medienturm, Graz. www.medienturm.at
Presented during the 'Steirische Herbst' Art Festival in Graz, Austria
[september/october 2003], the European Media Art Festival in
Osnabrück, Germany [april/may 2004] and the WAVES exhibition in Riga
LV [aug/sep 2006]
PETLAB
may 2003
An installation with living animals, and the use of color- and motion
detection for gathering data with which audio and video are produced
in real-time. With Christian Toonk and Ronald Nijhof. Presented at the
Academiegalerie in Utrecht, may/june 2003.
FIVE
sep 2002
Part of a series of abstract video compositions, compiled of digitaly
remodelled video disturbances.
Using the basics of the signal's function, an audio translation of the
video signal serves as a soundtrack for these works.
Distribution: www.li-ma.nl
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Selected screenings: |
LMR [audio oct
2001
3-channel video installation
Commissioned by the Melkweg in Amsterdam, exhibited nov 2001
Hardcore REWIND nov
2000
Video/audio installation
Hardcore Lounge #3 - Rotterdam
TST 04 sep
2000
Part of a series of abstract video compositions, compiled of digitaly
remodelled video disturbances.
Using the basics of the signal's function, an audio translation of the
video signal serves as a soundtrack for these works.
[distribution by Montevideo/TBA, Amsterdam]
Selected screenings:
| 2005 | '30 years Dutch Video Art', St. Petersburg, Moscow, Ekatharinenburg RU |
| 2004 | Exhibition 'GOGBOT', Planetart, Enschede NL Exhibition 'Feel', Mediateque Art Centre Z33, Hasselt BE |
| 2003 | Transmediale in Bogota CO Maths in Motion, Sixpackfilm, Kuenstlerhaus, Vienna AT DGV, Cinerama, Rotterdam NL |
| 2002 | PEK Festival, Filmhuis, Den Haag NL 12 Jahre Sixpackfilm, Õsterreichisches Filmmuseum Wien, Vienna AT Gam Video Festival, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino IT MUTEK Festival, X-Centris Cinema, Montréal QC, CAN COURTisane Filmfestival, Gent BE Chicago Filmmakers, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL, USA Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan Theatre, Ann Arbor MI, USA Transmediale, International Media Art Festival, Berlin DE |
| 2001 | AVANTO Festival, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki FI IMPAKT Festival, Centraal Museum, Utrecht NL Trans 004, The Chopin Theatre, Chicago IL, USA Cinema Digitaal/Holland Festival, Paradiso, Amsterdam NL European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck DE Pandæmonium 2001, The Lux Centre, London UK |
TST 03 may
2000
Part of a series of abstract video compositions
Selected screenings:
| 2001 2000 |
Planetart Exhibition, Galerij Romein, Leeuwarden NL VIPER festival for film, video and new media, Basel CH |
TST 02 apr
2000
Part of a series of abstract video compositions
[distribution by Montevideo/TBA, Amsterdam]
Selected screenings:
| 2006 | 'Good Vibrations', Centrum Kunstlicht in de Kunst, Eindhoven NL |
| 2005 | Island Art Film & Video Festival, London UK |
| 2004 | Exhibition 'Feel', Mediateque Art Centre Z33, Hasselt BE |
| 2003 | Rencontres Paris/Berlin, Berlin DE |
| 2002 | PEK Festival, Filmhuis, Den Haag NL Page 3ree, Urban Mag Festival, Kaaitheater, Brussels BE Fractures, MUTEK Festival, X-Centris Cinema, Montréal QC, CAN Fractures, Available Light Collective, Ottawa ON, CAN Chicago Filmmakers, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL, USA |
| 2001 | Video Marathon, [KSA:K] Center for Contemporary Art,
Khishinev MD AVANTO Video Festival, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki FI 30th Anniversary of Videographe, Montréal QC, CAN IMPAKT Festival, Centraal Museum, Utrecht NL Trans 004, The Chopin Theatre, Chicago IL, USA Cinema Digitaal/Holland Festival, Paradiso, Amsterdam NL I Love Art Video, Le-Maillon, Strasbourg FR Pandæmonium 2001, The Lux Centre, London UK |
| 2000 | VIPER festival for film, video and new media, Basel CH |
CONNECTING may
1999
Video/audio installation for exhibition 'Connecting', Internationales
Festival 'Musik+Film+Musik', Minoriten galerie, Graz AT