Krzysztof Cybulski’s Kamer/Ton takes everything you love about video feedback loops and combines them with everything you love about zero-input sound feedback loops, in a flickering and vibrating audiovisual instrument.
Krzysztof writes to let us know he’s just finished this work. It’s a reminder of how art can reimagine circuits. These discoveries have informed all kinds of practical inventions and our emotional relationship with the objects and electronics around us.
Krzysztof Cybulski is part of panGenerator, the Warszawa studio I just wrote about today, but this is a solo project.
Kamer/Ton is elemental and elegant, and… well, I’m definitely biased about feedback loops. (Hey, without them, Doctor Who would have opened with, like, some boring non-moving title card or something. It probably would have lasted only half a season.)
Watch this performance set, too – and I really want to see this live, Krzysztof.
Description:
Kamer/Ton is an experimental audio-visual installation, based on both audio and video feedback phenomena. The installation consists of a custom-made camera, directed at a CRT monitor. The camera generates sound from the picture, which is consequently sent to a speaker. A microphone directed towards the speaker is in turn connected to a custom-made video synthesizer, producing images displayed on the monitor. The resulting audio-visual feedback can be interacted with by interfering with the image or the sound.
The project has been created under a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.