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Music and picture for nighttime relaxation
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Heres a visual mixtape of some Eurorack modules controlling some LZX modules.
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A friend composed the music so I tried to make some video to go with it. It’s got some issues but I’m happy with how this came out. I had to adjust it slightly because I have no way to record audio and video at the same time right now and it was hard to match it up.
A question for all you experts out there: At one point I wanted to add an element and the only way to do it was to plug in a patch at the right moment which I couldn’t do as smoothly as I would like. I suspect there is a better way to add something to the signal, that but don’t know what it might be.
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regarding your question - a mixer or fader would do the job - pendulum, passage, bridge, cadet fader, some of the brownshoes only modules (iirc) and reverselandfill matrix mixer can all do this - some non-video eurorack utility mixers may also work - but they may also slew the result
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Two recent audio visual recordings - using mostly Erogneous Tones Structure. 
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Seems like I’m posting a lot here lately. Anyway, my spouse recently gave me an Arch module which I’d had my eye on, and I was finally able to try it out yesterday. I freaking love this thing!
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My first three audio visual recordings using Memory Palace.
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6 pairs video feedback sessions blended in post, with animated and displaced Dobbsheads used for the soft key. Also: photosensitivity processing to reduce oscillations. I cranked the filtering up to an extreme settings to emphasise the foreground animation. The defaults are more subtle.
Yes, I’ve been learning some new post-processing tricks during lockdown. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THqbsZkG0Ig
In case you missed it my husband and I did a livestream for scanlines.xyz yesterday afternoon here it is in its entirety
here is the description
"audio/visual performance from july, 24th 2020
we played together
live music for the first 20 minutes or so then prerecorded
https://coordinator.bandcamp.com/album/craft-crates
^^^ this is a link to download all the music from the stream plus 15 hand made paper marbling scans in 2 resolutions (original & 720x480)
during this stream we asked everyone who participated to pick a number between 1 and 100 then we rolled a 100 sided dice and posted it to our instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CDCdU8uBBjY/
the person who picked closest without going over will be getting a prize picked by again rolling the dice. I’ve made a d100 table for that and will use it for all of our streams moving forward. We will also be making any music available via bandcamp like we did with this one.
Main gear
document cam
HDMI to component box
Component splitter
practical lighting stuff
computer for recording, streaming, and monitoring
BMD USB3 intensity shuttle
LZX gear
vessel case
visual cortex
visual cortex expander
memory palace
topogram
doorway
arch
passive mults
Escher sketch
patch was something like mult full RGB of incoming document cam and one set went into channel A of visual cortex then pieces got sent to arch, topogram, doorway and reconstituted in the memory palace input then memory palace out to channel B of visual cortex as well as pieces from topogram and arch going into the composite and colorize inputs at different times. escher sketch was just doing some XY stuff on memory palace
Audio gear
plumbutter 2
cocoquantus 2
OP1
continuumini
patch was continuumini into OP1 split to cocoquantus input 1 and plumbutter gong input then plumbutter output went into cocoquantus input 2 I set the plumbutter patch before the stream and didn’t repatch anything during just messed with controls to change timing, pitch and mixing the cocoquantus patch was a very simple cross patched grey out to speed in on the opposite coco then one slow castle out from the middle modulated either the volume or flip of the cocos.
this was a bit of a race against the clock as our streaming computer has a dying battery so it can only take about an hour of heavy use at this point even plugged in. You can see that by the end of the stream the computer was not having it and the stream turns into a series of stills luckily that was just for the very ending though
enjoy the stream we already already planning our next one
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Amazing! I was just watching that and trying to work out how you were doing it. Thanks for the explanation.
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Thank you very much!
if there is anything specific you want to hear more about just let me know
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Learning to get along with my still fairly new cadet system led to this little doodle:
Eventually the hope is to figure out how to more deeply integrate the synth into my video work, perhaps even narratively… But for now this self referential thing will have to do.
All of the video is generated by cadet modules with some modulation and all of the audio coming from a Serge centric diy audio system. I’m finding the “patch programming” mentality of the serge modules is fairly similar to the “basic building block” approach of the cadets. Now I just need to find a module with a big “synthesize” button…
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Hey folks, here is my portfolio
(Vimeo compression isn’t the best for video synthesis content unfortunately)
But more recent stuff can be found on my Twitch and Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/dr_rek/
https://www.twitch.tv/dr_rek/
Have been wondering if scanlines.xyz would allow me to share the 20 Mbp HEVC files I upload that look so much better than anything else available online right now.
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I can’t post a video right here? oh well, here’s a tweet of my first patch with my new Topogram https://twitter.com/bentoncbainbrid/status/1296283501021614086
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Made this earlier this year, but only just got around to posting it now. This is a visualization for a folk music piece.
The rabbit images were edited together in advance with Adobe Premiere Elements, then various LZX modules were used to process it with dreamy colors, no editing after that except to add the music back in. Didn’t come out how I had in mind at the outset, but I learned a lot in doing it and I think it looks cool.
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This is delightful!!
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Happy Halloween!
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Admittedly, way less LZX-y than most of the stuff posted here. But, somewhat similar in process to the video I posted over in that Castle thread, this leans heavily on B&W, sound-reactive Castle patches. However, instead of just editing those together themselves, I used them as alpha channels to composite several camera angles of performance footage. …Ending up with something kinda Cubist(?).
I dunno. Always hard to tell if I’ve gone off the deep end and made something that the performers are going to hate (and will induce seizures), but I think there are some cool moments.
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the pre-recorded version of our Vidicon talk this year that we didn’t end up using because it wasn’t done rendering in time haha 
~500 gigs of direct capture plus more time to set up / play music makes for a much cleaner presentation
a little audio jam (plumbutter, OP1, continuumini, shnth) my partner did with some visual goodies
a current firware (2.0.1 I believe) painting tutorial for the memory palace which includes information on setting up your own shape generator that my partner made.
here is a graph of the basic patch being used
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