analog noise is also related to the microwave background radiation of the universe...
there are ways to use the feedback for other sorts of disturbances; I used broadcast equipment I procured years ago from Film-Video Arts (3/4" stuff) to create 'trance' videos; with high magnification, images began to appear or so it seemed; these were videos on the edge of collapse, had to use a wave-form monitor to ensure they would run at all. looking into the videos puts one into a trance, not based on the 7hz or other low-freqency patterns - alan On Sun, 23 Sep 2012, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote: > Hi list, > > On my way towards breakdown (late July), I connected a faulty old > (reclaimed from abandoned streetware many years ago) TV, a mostly-broken > VCR, and a broken HDD TV recorder (each of which had two SCART I/O > ports) in a loop using 3 cables. I turned it on and went outside before > pointing the TV out the window with my remote controls and tried to make > it work. There was either extremely loud white noise or (on changing > channels) a black screen and a slight echo from noise to silence in the > audio. Maybe some high pass filters / dc blockers / amplification could > fix it to make something more interesting and evolving. South East > London electronics wizards please get in touch and maybe a proper > version 2 can be collaboratively constructed. > > Sadly I didn't document it, but there were at least 3 witnesses to the > project / performance / installation / happening / thing. > > Was also thinking of finding an oldschool GenLock for my Amiga A500+, to > overlay graphics into the feedback loop and maybe make it more manipulable. > > Then I unfurled 500m of twine from my window down past the train station > towards the park (unfortunately it didn't quite reach, it must be 600m > to the park from my flat..) as a breadcrumb trail to guide potential > visitors (I had one bicyclist ask what was going on but he seemed to be > scared off by the noise pretty quick). When I returned from meditation > in the park the twine had been rearranged, more taut in some places, > looser in others, with little loops and spirals back and forth in > others. Mysterious artistic collaborators, origin unknown! > > Soon a man from the housing association turned up and asked me to remove > the twine as it was a "trip hazard" and they didn't want anyone to get > hurt, so I obeyed. Almost got the twine caught in a lorry turning a > corner, which was scary, but I survived. > > It got pretty warm too, I think it was wise that I didn't leave on > longer - the (unlit) candles on top of the TV had melted slightly... > > Two months in psychward eventually followed, I'm back to full health > (better than ever, perhaps), and no harm done (apart from perhaps > disturbing my neighbours too early of a morning with noise and art in > public...). > > > Digital versions of feedback processes aren't quite the same, they lack > the essence of noise and chaos and happenstance, too finite... - there's > an mp3 out there supposedly retranscoded 666 times, artifacty heavy > metal music, if nothing else serves as a warning against lossy > conversion. I had a copy somewhere, not sure where it is now... > > > On 23/09/12 17:48, Mark Hancock wrote: >> I loved doing this sort of thing when I got my first video camera. I did a >> similar thing with a photocopier that was malfunctioning and an a4 picture >> of Kathy Acker from Blitz magazine (circa 1985?) : Scanned in a copy that >> came out poor quality and sepia, then put that through again, ripped the >> copy of the copy, then layered that over the first and scanned, ripped, >> scanned, ad infinitum. >> >> I was probably thinking something about cut-ups and her writing at the time. >> They made nice pics though that I was quite pleased with. >> >> So naturally I completely forgot to save them and threw them out a few >> months later. idiot. >> >> I love it when technology breaks down and people start playing with it. It's >> like the organic breaking through the sleek, hard lines of manufactured >> 'perfection.' The dystopian reality of nature always finds a way to carry on >> mutating the world to ensure survival, even against the elements that seem >> most capable of resisting that mutation (corporate electronics/apple etc). >> >> M >> >> >> >> On 22 Sep 2012, at 17:39, marc wrote: >> >>> Camera and TV Loop >>> >>> As described in Douglas Hofstadter's book 'Godel, Escher, Bach', this is >>> what happens when you connect your camera to your TV and point the >>> camera at the screen. The spirals are created by tilting the camera. >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gqMTt3IUg# > > > Claude > -- > http://mathr.co.uk > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == blog: http://nikuko.blogspot.com/ (main blog) email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 347-383-8552 music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/rp.txt == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
