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Ring Modulation

Peer Bode

1978 00:08:14 United StatesEnglishColorStereo4:31/2" open reel video
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Visual Art

Description

"Image states / sound states. A bell, hand held, ringing, two oscillators each independently controlling a sync event -- a red and blue color together with sound and no sound state and a sweeping video clip, together with audio filtering.  Both oscillators sweep up incrementally one after the other and then down. The visual and sound bell is immersed in the electronic space / state. One b+w camera, two oscillators, David Jones keyer and colorizer, audio filter. Vibratory spaces to live in, calm and ecstatic." 

-- Peer Bode

About Peer Bode

Working in film until the early 1970s, Peer Bode was first exposed to electronics by his father Harold Bode, a developer of the first modular audio synthesizer. He worked as program coordinator for the Experimental Television Center in Owego, New York,  collaborating with resident artist/engineers in constructing prototype imaging tools, thus continuing his commitment to “tool expansion” and “personal studio making.” Recognizing the limits imposed by designers of industrial and consumer technology, Bode sought to externalize the “hidden coding and control structures” of the video signal. His videotapes investigate the semiotics and phenomenology of the medium, specifically through the synthesis of audio and video signals.