Friday, April 24, 2015

List of Video Synthesizers ala Wikipedia

In order for me to figure out what this aesthetic is, I have to find out specifically what types of analog equipment Telefantasy Studio uses to create them. I started from looking at a wikipedia article talking about video art and then just started clicking on the related articles until I found something that sounded like it was related. (It was Video Synthesizers)


  • Vasulka
  • Spectron – Analog-Digital hybrid, Richard Monkhouse – EMS.
  • Videokalos Video Synthesizer
  • Image Articulator (Vasulka, Schier, Dosch) real time digital data ops by S181 addressing by Am2901
  • Kangaroo Giant Box
  • Fluidigeo
  • Spectre/Spectron (Richard Monkhouse, Electronic Music Studios UK)
  • Video Toaster for Amiga Computer
  • Atari Video Music
  • Milkymist One
  • Jones Modular Video Synthesizer
  • LZX Visionary


So anyway, this isn't just a list, it is also a very good guide for me to figure out what sorts of things that JJ might own herself because she says she owns quite a collection. 

I'm going to look up demo reels of these different types of synthesizers to figure out which ones closely match the types of materials she probably uses at her studio.

Finding out equipment is basically figuring out how to achieve the aesthetic, which is big because most people do not understand that in order to look analog, you do have to go analog. And while I still have not figured out if there is a specific name for this aesthetic, I do think that its visual correlation really is avant garde Dara Birnbaum meets Mary Ellen Bute right now in regards to moving colors. 

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