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A fully revised video synth is here! Model no. GVS010 - 'Vimana' (videos, photos, info)

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GVS010 (link)

‘Vimana’

It’s been a bit of a journey getting here - but for the time being I’m finished with revisions.

This device is model no. GVS010 and is the first in the series to feature a fully revised internal design & silkscreen printed front panels. All additional circuits have been consolidated into a single PCB (excluding the additional patch-panel PCB up top), and all controls are now PCB mounted as well. This is, moving forward, the standard build style that the GVS series will take as far as the feature selection on the front panel goes.

Check out the page linked above for more information, a full demo video, an additional demo utilizing GVS010 as a loopback with a video mixer, and more photos than were really necessary :P

If you’re on the waiting list I’ll be reaching out soon - thank you for patience. Things may be a bit slower moving forward as my pre-pandemic work location has reopened, but I still plan to work through commissions for those who have made requests.

Development update on the Sync Eater

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Just a little progress update on where things are at with the Sync Eater -

These are some photos of my personal pre-production builds using what I believe will be the final panels & PCBs. I made one in black, one in white, and experimented a little bit with some blue on black. Going by public opinion I’ll most likely offer this device in all black but may do a limited run in all white and some other colors and panel styles. Nothing for sure yet, though. If you’d like to weigh in I’ve put a poll at the bottom of this post (link to the poll) - My Instagram poll came back with 35% for white, 65% for black.

So here’s the roadmap (with most completed tasks excluded):

Complete

  • Finalize PCBs & panel design

  • Make 2x personal builds with final PCBs & panels, tested working properly

Next steps

  • Waiting on a quote for custom enclosures (Personal models were painted, but I’m looking to have these enclosures in black and/or white from the manufacturer for a myriad of reasons.)

  • Create a demo video with personal pre-production models to show off capabilities & different capture methods

  • Open up pre-orders for a couple weeks

  • Close pre-orders and do first production run

  • Open store for regular purchases after first production run

The timeline for all of this is pretty loose and depends on when/what I hear back from the enclosure manufacturer, which will hopefully be soon. Also depends on when I’m able to get a video demo together. Pricing is still undetermined until cost of enclosures can be nailed down. Things are beginning to open back up here in Brooklyn so I’ll also be getting back to work at Avant Gardner, so my schedule may start filling up but I’ll be pushing to start proper production ASAP!

Hope you’re all doing well out there!

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My DIY Modular Video Synthesizer // Overview video, demo

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Finally - after stopping work on this thing last December I’ve finally got a video about it to share.

Via the youtube description:

“Been a long time coming! Happy to finally get a basic demo together for this build I made over the course of a few months last year. Hope you enjoy! Might make more videos or stream about this thing in the future to explore some of the things I glossed over and show some other things it can do.”

More info about the build can be found here

New release: GULL x Gleix - Prepared Breaks (Music Video & Single)

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Bandcamp • Spotify • Youtube • Lagom Audio/Visual

GULL on Bandcamp

Via this article in Brooklyn Vegan:

“Gull is a masked one-man band that we once compared to Lightning Bolt and Battles, and Gleix is an electronic musician from Brooklyn who specializes in IDM, ambient, breakcore, and drill 'n' bass, and they've now collaborated on the new single "Prepared Breaks." As the title implies, it's a combination of prepared piano and breakcore, "though that's probably obvious and not the most.. creative title," Gleix says.

More background, via press release: "The project was spearheaded by fellow artist and collaborator Cy Fi, who shot initial footage and encouraged it to be built upon. From there, Gleix began manually cutting & warping the original footage to fit a consistent tempo. After building the audio and video in late 2017, it sat dormant for a few years. Once the idea of releasing it came back up, he was able to take some of the knowledge gained working in visuals, and add a system of real-time effects on top of it all."

Gleix also had this to say about the song, "I think it's easy to end up inadvertently working through issues while focusing on detailed or tedious tasks. You get into a sort of trance. In the more rhythmically complex pieces I've put together I might be listening to the same bar over and over for half an hour before moving on, trying to weigh what sounds best in the moment with what works best contextually. The process feels analogous to thinking about problems that exist in the present moment; thinking about what to do about them now, what decisions make the most sense given what's already happened, and how to make the transition into whatever comes next as smooth as possible. Slowly piecing together breaks is a very zen process and a sort of therapy for me I guess, despite how chaotic the end result can be."

If you're familiar with both prepared piano and breakbeats, you probably have an idea of what to expect, and this song delivers. It's equal parts gorgeous and dizzying. Check out the video below...”

Sync Eater // An analog glitch effects processor

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Via gleix.net/synceater

The Sync Eater is an analog video effects processor with a focus on glitches and visual experimentation. This personal prototype, built into an abomination of an enclosure, was made using the first round of prototype boards. The finished version will feature PCB mounted controls, a standardized front panel, CV implementation, and maybe a few other features. Will be released sometime soon-ish.

More info on this devices page. More to come!

Music video released: "Dividing Space" by Murcof

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Very excited about the release of this project today, a music video produced for Murcof.

Visual system sequenced and composited from a collection of brief moments in the choreographic work Contre-Mondes by Guilherme Botelho's Alias dance company. The final video was processed using a custom built piece of analog visual effects gear, the Sync Eater. More info on that soon.

Big thank you to Murcof for involving me in this project.

Ambient music & visual performance, "Aurora (Migration)"

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Putting this online has been on my to-do list. Via the youtube description:

'“One of two pieces originally premiered at Lightbox in NYC as part of the Creative Code Art festival last November. "Aurora (Migration)" is an extra wide real-time render that was performed utilizing a controllable particle system with a collection of processing effects chains. It's also a variation on previous performances with a similar system.

The music in this piece is "Pretend You're Not," a track curated from a collection of live ambient rehearsal recordings made in the run up to a live performance at Avant Gardner in February, 2020.

Thank you to the space, organizers, and all involved in the Creative Code Festival:

Lightbox: https://lightbox.io/​

Creative Code Art: https://www.instagram.com/creativecod...​

New Media Art: https://www.instagram.com/new_media_art/​

Never Knows Better: https://www.instagram.com/neverknowsb...​

Ix Shells: https://www.instagram.com/ix.shells/​

Erin Wajufos: https://www.instagram.com/erin_wajufos/​

Extended Reality Ensemble: https://www.instagram.com/xrensemble/”

Visuals with an in-progress video glitch circuit

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Simple reaction diffusion system in Touchdesigner being processed by a glitch circuit I'm working on. The circuit started out as the Archer Video Enhancer circuit and has been slowly growing over the past few days. That original circuit was traced and kindly provided by Psyingo here: https://electro-music.com/forum/topic... Music is Shrine by Miel off of the album "Tourist Season" which I highly suggest checking out.

A page for the DIY Modular Video Synthesizer is up!

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I finally got myself to put together the basics of a page for my DIY video modular! Right now it lists out all of the current modules with information & photos of each. In the future I’m hoping to add additional image galleries of what the modules do individually, make videos explaining things, add documentation/schematics, and go into a bit more detail. For the moment, though, I’m just happy to have something up. There’s only 30hp left unfilled :)

Check it out over at gleix.net/modular

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Did a synthwave thing

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1/12/2021 edit: So - in December I came across a demo somebody made on Youtube of a Japanese synthesizer. At the end of the video they do a brief little jam with it which inspired me. I kept wanting to hear it expanded and I made a quick song using it and built some accompanying visuals. After putting the video up the person who made the demo video that I sampled in this project, who I very prominently credited up front for this personal, unreleased, non-monetized project, made it abundantly clear through a barrage of comments and DMs that they were opposed to any use of his demo video that isn’t explicitly authorized, so this is gone now.

I've never understood that sort of mindset and, to be honest, I think that sort of thing is everything that’s wrong in the creative space. After they saw the posts (two weeks after I posted them and tagged them?) I was immediately bombarded with “This is illegal!” (it’s not) “All rights reserved, you can not use this!”

What this was is a fun personal project that I did, sampling their demo video, because it inspired me. If they’re unhappy with seeing their demo video re-contextualized, fine. But the aggressive bombardment of comments and DM’d threats due to a personal project that sampled some synthesizer demo footage, which again, was prominently credited to them right up front, is a massive bummer. It was needlessly aggressive, and that sort of mindset and approach discourages collaboration, drives people away from your work and the thought of engaging with it, limits exposure, creates an air of self-importance, and breeds creative isolation imho. This is a net negative for everybody involved. Nobody was making or losing money on this one-off, unreleased, short personal project.

While I don’t know the exact reason that my sampling of their demo video was such a massive issue for them, it’s their right to ask me to take it down and I tend to try and take the path-of-least-resistance, so it’s whatever. Just a bummer.

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Live Show & Collaboration // Dec. 27th in VR via VJ Open Lab & Never Knows Better

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Stop by VJ Open Lab Berlin in VR on December 27th for a collection of artist collaborations.

Event page

I’ve got a 15 minute set of original music, including some unreleased material, with visuals provided by Niki Cardoso Zaupa of Pink Noise.

Gleix Video Synth #7 // Winter Freeze

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 Gleix Video Synth #7 // Winter Freeze

Feedback-centric video synthesizer & continuation of the series. Somewhere between the 100PFB & IFD in terms of feature set. Check it out over at this device’s page in the visual devices section.

Gleix Video Synth // The I.F.D. // A semi-modular analog video synthesizer

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The I.F.D.

A self contained semi-modular audiovisual synthesizer for video feedback, digital glitches, drones and colorful experimentation

I feel like I’ve spent as much time documenting this build as I did making it, so I’m really excited to finally be sharing it with the world. This is what I might consider my “flagship” video synthesizer for the time being and it will serve as a reference point moving forward. Check out the page for this build here at gleix.net/ifd

Via the IFD page:

The I.F.D., or Industrial Feedback Device, is an audiovisual synthesizer based around a no-input video feedback loop, video RAM and buffer manipulations, simple oscillator functionality, audio reactivity and sound generation, and CV implementation to allow easy integration into an existing modular ecosystem (esp. eurorack).

The I/O includes two composite video outputs, a VGA output, an external audio input (1/8” and 1/4”), and a standard 2.1mm barrel jack for a 5v power supply.

The originally beige enclosure was painted with an industrial theme and intentionally weathered and the primary aluminum control panel was given a circular brushed look to fit the theme.

Making a more colorful oscilloscope // Modified CRT Television, DIY X-Y scope with video input

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New device page with a full video here!

Via the crt scope page:

This is a variation on a fairly common build where audio is piped directly into the horizontal and vertical portions of the deflection yoke inside of a CRT Television. The additional features this one has are two internal audio amplifiers (very basic LM386 circuits), the ability to run audio to the TVs internal speaker (with adjustable volume), and the ability to send color video signals to the TV to “color” the waveform which I go over in the video here on this page.

This build can be replicated extremely easily - without the internal amplification circuit - and also made to run in different modes for a more standard horizontal wave display. Plenty of information on that can be found online with a little searching, but I’ve included the schematics for this particular build here.

If you do plan on recreating this thing for yourself BE CAREFUL. There are elements inside of CRT Televisions that hold enough charge to KILL YOU. Do not attempt if you are unfamiliar with electronics, and do your research beforehand on how to properly discharge the device and how to safety deal with this sort of device.

November, 2020.