Lumage

Analog electronic audiovisual improvisation (fixed version).

04:31 min., 2021, 2023.

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Lumage (LAM)

The title of the work is ‘Lumage’, which I coined from two concepts: ‘luminance’ and ‘image’ and it even includes ‘montage’, so this portmanteau is my invention, and it implies that moving light and sound is the protagonist here. The essence of it is that this light is created by electronics, in a way that first I made a sound improvisation, which was connected to a special device called ‘wobbulator’, in other words Raster Manipulation Unit. It’s a manipulated TV set, an analog, cathode ray tube television set, with a prepared magnetic deflection system. Horizontals and verticals are eliminated, and connected to an ‘interface’ that is three knobs.
The changes in the sound produce a kind of moving image, in other words, light modulations. I keep manipulating the wobbulator as well to produce an image that matches the sound. I must disclose why I’m using the 50-year-old device, which – I must add – was already a rarity back then. Why was I interested in this? Whether it’s possible to use this for something that is contemporary and also still intriguing today. I was interested in making moving light, in other words, electronics, the sole protagonist. Of course, some light needed to be produced with the video camera, but I simply placed it in the window and it transmitted mere daylight. This requires no programming language, it works in real-time. The whole thing uses the analog technique. The entire image is generated by the sound. All in all, we create a moving image that doesn’t exist. The main aim of Lumage is to convert electroacoustic signals into visible, perceptible signals.

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One Minute Signal

Doepfer, Wobbulator, Jones Colorizer/Mixer, Camcorder, After Effects, 1 min., DV, NTSC, 2019. (still)

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zen_e

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Synchrony Opus 130

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Colormosh (Homage to IKI)

Hybrid audiovisual work of art.

03:09 min., 2023.

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„The work of Gyenes Zsolt media artist (1962) is built on the multi-directional movements, transformations and interaction of writing, still- and motion picture and sound. He studies the linguistic metamorphosis of media with electronic, digital tools, highlighting the fact that image yields sound, sound yields image, while the numeral value of the basic information is usually equal. (...) Gyenes Zsolt’s ‘synchrony’ may be accepted as the brand name of the synchronousness of linguistic expression. At the same time, it is also the conceptual collective noun of the incessant language transforming and language creating processes as well as the pervasive phenomena arriving in their wake. It is a method of language creation postulating thoroughness and complexity, unaware of the concept of reject, since it recycles new values even from the disposable, the so-called unusable. It does not differentiate between the meaningful (legible) and the meaningless (illegible) iconic fields, because for him each image and sound information may comply with a new aesthetic application. (...) Gyenes Zsolt interprets the controversy of harmony of modern media – especially digital image and sound – in its own complexity, and we are certainly to view his person as one of the most outstanding intermedia artists of our time.”

Szombathy, Balint
Szinkrónia / Synchrony – Gyenes, Zsolt’s exhibition, Magyar Műhely Galéria.

In: Új Művészet, Budapest, January 2011.