#todo Add disclaimer about "history" these examples are "typical" of a form, not intended to promote a conception of a chronology or an evolution #todo #Framing-check "Lichtspiel is not an inter-relation of discrete pre-existing individuals: an artist, an encounter, and an audience, but an intra-action within a field that contains these" #todo #zotero Zotero zotfile for storing video files on Google drive #todo **return ship DVD drive** and order a different one ## 5/9 - 5/11 #zotero #video-update #question Lumen et Lux Reworking of Zotero Database to store files, PDF annotation and notes, and using library lookup/Google Scholar to update references Research into Russian synthetic/optical soundtracks [Voinov Paper Sound Video ](https://youtu.be/Mmejo9WL2gY?si=VKUWTuZRP1ueVx__) [Arseny Avraamov's 'Ornamental Sound Animation'](https://youtu.be/8EGFPZdiVqI?si=_HqhogoTdE6Ws9QK) [Sholpo Variophone Video](https://youtu.be/0DG4-mdqJ8U?si=LR-_4tQ5KptD2DMK) @4min Smirnov, Andrey, and Matt Price. _Sound in Z: Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th Century Russia_. London: Koenig Books, 2013. Egan, Kelly Fw. “‘Tones from Out of Nowhere’ and Other Non-Sensedness: Re-Membering the Synthetic Sound Films of Oskar Fischinger and Làszló Moholy-Nagy.” _Animation_ 15, no. 2 (July 2020): 160–78. [https://doi.org/10.1177/1746847720938230](https://doi.org/10.1177/1746847720938230). #bought https://daphneoram.bandcamp.com/album/oramics #bought Zotero, 2 GB: $20 annually #bought External Blu Ray Drive, $39.99 (broken) #bought SK Hynix Beetle 1TB, $64.99 --- ## 5/8 #viewing Horsfield, Kate, Art Institute of Chicago, Electronic Arts Intermix, and Bay Area Video Coalition. “Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S.” Chicago, IL: Video Data Bank, 2008. **Lightning, Paul and Marlene Kos, 1976, 01:17** “When I look for the lightning, it never strikes. When I look away, it does.” **Five-minute Romp through the IP, Dan Sandin, 1973, 06:34** "is that complex enough?" --- ## 5/1 - 5/7 #touchdesigner Oram, Daphne. _An Individual Note: Of Music, Sound and Electronics_. New edition. Wakefield, UK: Anomie Academic, 2016. Work in Touchdesigner to create a CRT scanning simulation based on the description of oramics machine from [Graham Wrench interview](https://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2011/07/interview-with-graham-wrench/) Wees, William C, Dietrich Scheunemann, and Alexander Graf. _[[Light-Play and the Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film]]_, 2007. - Stan Brakhage, Jim Davis, Jordan Belson [[Ruins, Magical Objects, Litter, Synthetics]] [Light as a Creative Medium in the Art of György Kepes](https://www.bauhaus-imaginista.org/articles/5881/light-as-a-creative-medium-in-the-art-of-gyorgy-kepes?0bbf55ceffc3073699d40c945ada9faf=0e8166e3969df77a58610f19fe37f903) [Light and Design by Gyorgy Kepes](https://monoskop.org/images/9/99/Kepes_Gyorgy_1967_Light_and_Design.pdf) [Articulated Light: the Emergence of Abstract Film in America ](https://monoskop.org/images/d/d2/OGrady_Gerald_Posner_Bruce_eds_Articulated_Light_The_Emergence_of_Abstract_Film_in_America.pdf) #james_davis https://artoflight.org --- ## 4/30/2025 #viewing Tektronix: The Cathode Ray Tube - Window to Electronics_, 2017. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHGAnJjnNY0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHGAnJjnNY0).   --- ## 4/29/2025 #obsidian #writing #reading extended obsidian research outline documented [[Illusions in Motion]] additional research, variophone, photophone, Avraamov, dudon --- ## 4/28/2025 #zotero zotero and citation work [[Videographic Scholarship]] page --- ## 4/27/2025 #zotero Configuring Zotero adding current citations **“it is light which possesses of its very nature the function of multiplying itself and diffusing itself instantaneously in all directions” - [Grosseteste](https://inters.org/grosseteste-on-light)** Change project framing from Bacon's Atlantis to Kircher's _Musurgia Universalis_ and *Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae* additional scope work --- ## 4/26/2025 #experiments #video-update [[170 - Lux et Sonus]] set up [scope,](https://www.tek.com/en/manual/465-instruction-manual) used [osci-render](https://osci-render.com/) to generate text for credits **Osci-render Routing:** * osci-render on PC * Osci use text file "Strange Light" * vector cancelling set to .05 hz, sine, on * Agency FB font * interface main outs to monitors * interface out 1 & 2 to mixer ch 1,2 * mixer main out L&R to Scope Channel 1,2 * pan mixer channel 1,2 hard left and right * mixer at unity * send mixer 1,2 to FX, FX set on Small Stage * start full fx send to main * use exquis for midi * play chords, as vector cancelling resolves, turn down FX to Main **note:** make sure the sample rate on the audio interface is set high (like 192k) ![[strange-light-studio.jpg]] added [Daphne Oram ](https://youtu.be/yMvP-cxjPpo?si=Z8c2g5M-0YhnMlz_) **developments**: Found 2011 interview with Oram's engineer who offers greater technical detail than Oram file footage. Goal, version with two audio tracks, one with Oram, one with engineer. Found detailed sandin technical presentation about *Spiral 5*. planning to incorporate partial performance with performance audio, second audio track with sandin analysis. Captured spiral 5 performance Found Nimoy *How Television Works*