Triptacular Music Video Made With Modular Video Synthesizer

The new video for Neon Indian’s Mind Drips features triptacular imagery created with the LZX Visionary, a collection of Eurorack modular synthesizer modules designed for video synthesis.

The LZX Visionary manipulates and creates images in the same way a normal synthesizer does for sounds.

Mind Drips is the first music video to utilize this unique synthesizer, and all of its visual effects are recorded in real-time using techniques such as abstract pattern synthesis, video feedback, and analog compositing.

The video was directed by Lars Larsen, an electronics designer and multimedia artist in Austin, Texas. Larsen’s work focuses on “synergistic relationships between technology and subject, and the resurrection of forgotten pre-Computer Age technologies.”

Over the past few years, he and partner Edward Leckie of Sydney, Australia have been developing the LZX Visionary, an analogue video synthesizer, in the tradition of esoteric video art tools used in the 1970’s.

18 thoughts on “Triptacular Music Video Made With Modular Video Synthesizer

  1. That LZX site does it for me. Some of those effects make me think of 70's shows and old Jeff Minter games. So good. I'd love to try some video synthesis, and i'm definitely looking forward to seeing where people can push the concept.

  2. That LZX site does it for me. Some of those effects make me think of 70's shows and old Jeff Minter games. So good. I'd love to try some video synthesis, and i'm definitely looking forward to seeing where people can push the concept.

  3. That LZX site does it for me. Some of those effects make me think of 70's shows and old Jeff Minter games. So good. I'd love to try some video synthesis, and i'm definitely looking forward to seeing where people can push the concept.

  4. That LZX site does it for me. Some of those effects make me think of 70's shows and old Jeff Minter games. So good. I'd love to try some video synthesis, and i'm definitely looking forward to seeing where people can push the concept.

  5. That LZX site does it for me. Some of those effects make me think of 70's shows and old Jeff Minter games. So good. I'd love to try some video synthesis, and i'm definitely looking forward to seeing where people can push the concept.

  6. That LZX site does it for me. Some of those effects make me think of 70's shows and old Jeff Minter games. So good. I'd love to try some video synthesis, and i'm definitely looking forward to seeing where people can push the concept.

  7. "This video is not available in your country"

    When will people stop uploading videos that are known to cause such problems to sites that are very quick to enforce such policies? This is certainly the downside of neraly ubiquitous broadband and so many people online. Companies can't afford to risk that their servers burn (or their traffic bill goes through the roof) if they just host a video on their own servers which would have been the thing to do before everybody and his dog outsourced hosting of specific content like pictures, videos, music, bigger downloads to such sites as Youtube. On the other hand they could do some traffic shaping or other employ other techniques that might be annoying but at least work in all countries around the world (except those that filter the Internet). Or maybe there are video hosting sites that do not work the way Youtube does with restricting every other video for whatever reason.

  8. "This video is not available in your country"

    When will people stop uploading videos that are known to cause such problems to sites that are very quick to enforce such policies? This is certainly the downside of neraly ubiquitous broadband and so many people online. Companies can't afford to risk that their servers burn (or their traffic bill goes through the roof) if they just host a video on their own servers which would have been the thing to do before everybody and his dog outsourced hosting of specific content like pictures, videos, music, bigger downloads to such sites as Youtube. On the other hand they could do some traffic shaping or other employ other techniques that might be annoying but at least work in all countries around the world (except those that filter the Internet). Or maybe there are video hosting sites that do not work the way Youtube does with restricting every other video for whatever reason.

  9. "This video is not available in your country"

    When will people stop uploading videos that are known to cause such problems to sites that are very quick to enforce such policies? This is certainly the downside of neraly ubiquitous broadband and so many people online. Companies can't afford to risk that their servers burn (or their traffic bill goes through the roof) if they just host a video on their own servers which would have been the thing to do before everybody and his dog outsourced hosting of specific content like pictures, videos, music, bigger downloads to such sites as Youtube. On the other hand they could do some traffic shaping or other employ other techniques that might be annoying but at least work in all countries around the world (except those that filter the Internet). Or maybe there are video hosting sites that do not work the way Youtube does with restricting every other video for whatever reason.

  10. "This video is not available in your country"

    When will people stop uploading videos that are known to cause such problems to sites that are very quick to enforce such policies? This is certainly the downside of neraly ubiquitous broadband and so many people online. Companies can't afford to risk that their servers burn (or their traffic bill goes through the roof) if they just host a video on their own servers which would have been the thing to do before everybody and his dog outsourced hosting of specific content like pictures, videos, music, bigger downloads to such sites as Youtube. On the other hand they could do some traffic shaping or other employ other techniques that might be annoying but at least work in all countries around the world (except those that filter the Internet). Or maybe there are video hosting sites that do not work the way Youtube does with restricting every other video for whatever reason.

  11. "This video is not available in your country"

    When will people stop uploading videos that are known to cause such problems to sites that are very quick to enforce such policies? This is certainly the downside of neraly ubiquitous broadband and so many people online. Companies can't afford to risk that their servers burn (or their traffic bill goes through the roof) if they just host a video on their own servers which would have been the thing to do before everybody and his dog outsourced hosting of specific content like pictures, videos, music, bigger downloads to such sites as Youtube. On the other hand they could do some traffic shaping or other employ other techniques that might be annoying but at least work in all countries around the world (except those that filter the Internet). Or maybe there are video hosting sites that do not work the way Youtube does with restricting every other video for whatever reason.

  12. "This video is not available in your country"

    When will people stop uploading videos that are known to cause such problems to sites that are very quick to enforce such policies? This is certainly the downside of neraly ubiquitous broadband and so many people online. Companies can't afford to risk that their servers burn (or their traffic bill goes through the roof) if they just host a video on their own servers which would have been the thing to do before everybody and his dog outsourced hosting of specific content like pictures, videos, music, bigger downloads to such sites as Youtube. On the other hand they could do some traffic shaping or other employ other techniques that might be annoying but at least work in all countries around the world (except those that filter the Internet). Or maybe there are video hosting sites that do not work the way Youtube does with restricting every other video for whatever reason.

  13. Ignoring all the "synergistic relationships" twaddle, that's a nice video. the song's good too. Why do some artists have to justify their art in daftspeak?

  14. Ignoring all the "synergistic relationships" twaddle, that's a nice video. the song's good too. Why do some artists have to justify their art in daftspeak?

  15. Ignoring all the "synergistic relationships" twaddle, that's a nice video. the song's good too. Why do some artists have to justify their art in daftspeak?

  16. Ignoring all the "synergistic relationships" twaddle, that's a nice video. the song's good too. Why do some artists have to justify their art in daftspeak?

  17. Ignoring all the "synergistic relationships" twaddle, that's a nice video. the song's good too. Why do some artists have to justify their art in daftspeak?

  18. Ignoring all the "synergistic relationships" twaddle, that's a nice video. the song's good too. Why do some artists have to justify their art in daftspeak?

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