A promo I created for Subspec Music, a Vancouver-area label specializing in quality, DJ-oriented dance music rooted in Techno, Breaks, and Electro and their various sub-styles”
I started with a still photograph taken by JGarrett on a subway platform in Spain. The clean, strong lines of the platform suggested well-maintained machinery, and I imagined that machinery responding to the stomping rhythm of JGarrett’s music.
Screenshots from a recent VDMX set I did for Plastic Passion, a retro/new-wave dance night.
Slow Color Chaos Shore Test
This video uses one of the wonderful Quartz Composer effects by Toneburst, mentioned in a previous blog post.
From the Vimeo description:
Test of a VDMX effect stack. Includes SlideTile qcFX by Toneburst. Footage is my own.
Gray-Scott Reaction Diffusion
by Toneburst
Toneburst runs Machines Don’t Care, a Wordpress blog dedicated to his work in Quartz Composer and VDMX. He’s created some very high-quality effects, often modeled on already-established algorithms and procedures, such as this Reaction Diffusion effect.
Toneburst’s effects have recently been featured in an Aphex Twin live set. No big. :)
From Machines Don’t Care:
I’m planning to add some more performance-orientated controls for warping and realtime editing, also for seeding the effect with live input image and/or adding masks so that different patterns can be generated in different areas. None of which is particularly original (there are examples or similar setups all over YouTube), but I’ve not seem it done in QC before.
Cascade
A piece by Vade. Vade co-runs v002, a site featuring some of the hands-down best Quartz Composer effects and resources for video manipulation.
The description below mentions Rutt Etra, which is a specific type of video synthesis. I mention it now because we will definitely be covering it on this blog in the coming weeks.
From the Vimeo description;
cascade |kasˈkād|
noun:
• a mass of something that falls or hangs in copious or luxuriant quantities
• a process whereby something, typically information or knowledge, is successively passed on
verb:
• arrange (a number of devices or objects) in a series or sequence.
Impromptu session. Experiments in analog mimicry, using the v002 Rutt Etra 3.0 upcoming release/beta.
Aerostatic/vade
“Stock footage of an imaginary phenomena”
A beautiful and compelling minute and a half of black and white footage. Impressively, Nik Hanselmann (the creator) notes that this is all running realtime via Cinder, which is a creative programming environment for the language C++.
From Hanselmann’s Vimeo page;
Inspired by scientific instrumentation, systems theory, and science fiction. OBSERVATIONS is stock footage of an imaginary phenomena.
technical: all images are the product of gl shaders + cinder and run real time. titling/editing done in after effects. no post processing effects were used.
sound: logo/me, Symphonies of the Planets/NASA
Some test clips from a “video synthesizer”
I have discovered my new obsession.
Analog modular video synthesis.
Luckily(?) the modules involved are so expensive that it’s one in a thousand I’ll ever own one. And one wouldn’t do much; as this is ‘modular’ synthesis, one needs several modules talking to each other to produce meaningful output.
From the YouTube page;
Testing out a few upcoming LZX modules.
Video created by Johnny Woods, some clips with assistance by Gavin Russom. Music unrelated to the video source.
