December 28 2021

a beta of the updated 1.5 version of Auto Waaave is available for download here.

December 14 2021

a beta of the updated 1.5 version of Artificial Life is available for download here

November 30 2021

betas of the updated 1.5 version of Waaave_Pool and the all new audio reactive version of spectral mesh (auto_mesh i guess?) are availble to test out for anyone curious!  there is a text file included with each image that gives the info on how to control the new additions to each.  Click for Waaave_Pool_1.5b and Auto_Mesh_0b.

November 5 2021

The Ultraterrestrial preorders go up at midnight tonight (12am 11-6-21) and will last exactly 1 month, so if yr interested in picking up this album as well as the book, posters, and or t-shirts here will be your only chance for the forseeable future!

September 20 2021

Yes I have been too busy to update this stuff for like forever since I moved.

*Phase Space is active again, check the link for our weekly events!

*I’ll once again be contributing to Fu/bar and Vidicon this year!

*I have a full length a/v album that I’ll be releasing on VHS by the end of this year entitled ULTRATERRESTRIAL

*Orb Weaver is the next forthcoming VSERPI along with audio reactive upgrades for Spectral Mesh.  Expect both by the end of 2021!

*episodes of Exploring the Video Synthesis Ecosphere still come out about 2 times a month give or take!

*maybe i’ll finish the temporal vortex manual some day...

April 23 2021

Wow heck things continue to be busy!  We have just announced the first ever VSERPI contest!  More details over here but the short version is, take the new VSERPI logo, run it through yr VSERPI instrument and capture some videos, and we will put thems up on the VSERPI instagram and let folks vote on which one they like by commenting! Winner will get to choose anything from my redbubble shop that costs less than 50usd

April 22 2021

I released a new mix this afternoon!  Just some odds and ends video stuff and a bunch of songs I wanted to listen to more.  Dug into the vaults for some of the video stuff, ranging from a couple of years back to stuff I just recorded like last week.  

I’ve also updated the Video Waaaves section to have more info on using NDI to screen grab stuffs!  Id been meaning to add more info on that subject for a while and the Echo Park Film Center video waaaves workshop this weekend was the perfect kick in my buns to get it finished up.  Much thanks to everyone at the EPFC and everyone who signed up, this class filled up very quickly and it seems pretty likely we will have another one on the schedule soon!

Also thanks much to hacklab and everyone who signed up for my Processing course.  The level of interest vastly exceeded all of our expectations so we will have to take folks on a first come first served basis.  If anyone out there is interesting in helping me organize more classes like these lmk!  I love teaching this kind of stuff but I also do not love setting and organizing online classes lol.

April 20 2021

I’m hosting a free online creative coding and video art course in about a month from now!  Sign up quick as this will likely fill up soon!

April 19 2021

The new (and first) episode of my new show “Video Synthesis Tarot” is live on youtube!  In this program i’ll be looking at the concept of nonverbial semiotic communication and how to apply motifs from the thoth tarot to video synthesis!

April 15 2021

Episode 1 of “Exploring the Video Synthesis Ecosphere RPI” is live!  Join Starr and I as we dig deeper into some of the geometrical features of Waaave Pool and talk about how to set things up for no input feedback modes!

NYC area folks feel free to swing by Phase Space this coming Saturday for an informal out doors meet up!  We will be clearing out some of our stores of partially functioning video gear and trying to find some new homes for stuffs!  

April 9 2021

Once again, much business is afoot!

Instagram decided to delete the heck out of my old account @andrei_jay_creative_coding.  I might end up getting it back but seems unlikley that it’ll happen anytime soon.  In the meanwhile stop by and follow my new account @andreijay_videowizard and help share the news!  I had over 5k followers when i gots instazucked and having to start over from scratch really does a number on my ability to stay reasonably self employed in these days!

My friends at Echo Park Film Center are hosting and organizing a Video_Waaaves workshop series!  All zoom based stuff and sliding scale prices, seems like a fun way to get some help with learning the video_waaaves worlds and get introduced to video feedback and video synthesis!

aaaaaand I’m on mastodon now!  say hello to @andrei_jay@autonomous.zone over in the fediverse and take a gander at what social media can look like if its not a post capitalapocalypic advertising driven heckscape!

March 25 2021

I finished up another music video for the song A Cilia Life Rift from my last album, tranceformer!  This is another video made from footage of me dancing, but I doubt anyone would figure that out if I didn’t explicitly mention it lol.
 

Februrary 27 2021

Hahahaha, heres something silly/.

Februrary 22 2021

I just finished up recording an interview with Matthew Bergey for their radio show Smiling in Stereo on WFMU. You can check it out this Sunday Februrary 28th at 10pm EST!  I’ll also be doing a little a/v remix of the interview to host on my youtube starting the following Monday!

Speaking of a/v remixes, here is a remix of an old nova special that I did live on scanlines.xyz the other night!  My favorite part of this doc is how harsh they are on Newton.  Like yes, it is true that their massively useful and revolutionary foundations of modern physics and science was not very well suited for analyzing nonlinear behavior.  On the other hand it would be hard to conceive of what science and society would even be like without newtons contribuitions so i think we can maybe cut them a little slack?

Februrary 15 2021

Here is an archive of my live performance from last evening!  Much Fun, Much Mixers, Much FM synthesis, Much wavedrumming, much worrrrrrrrrrms!

Februrary 14 2021

This is Today! This evening, zoom zones start at 6pm EST, to join in click on this link and enter the password “666”!

Februrary 4 2021

I’ve upoaded another version of Paloma Kop and mine’s for Vidicon 2020.  The original version from the live stream and hosted on the Vidicon Archives had a couple issues with regards to the mixing of singing saw levels which I tried to alleviate via some post remixing of the individual instrument tracks!  Nothing new was added really, just spent more time trying to get the levels and eq in a better spot!  

In other news I’ve been working a lot on implementing OSC as an alternate control scheme for the VSERPI instruments!  Interesting possibilities include being able to use the same midi controller with multiple instruments, being able to set up modulation and sequencing sources a la modular synthesis systems but using wifi or ethernet for transmitting signals!  

I’ve been reading some nonfiction mostly since the last post.  Specifically “Behave” by Robert Sapolsky.  They are an engaging and entertaining author with a knack for (nearly always) presenting many sides of the various debates wrt human behavior in pyschological, sociological, anthropological, and biological perspectives.  They resist encapsulation and black boxing and instead present human behavior as an incredibly complex phenomenon with a great deal of feedback loops occurring at many levels from neurological to genetic to cultural.  A good example is that some folks think there are genetic reasons that make individuals more likely to behave in collectivist ways.  These genetic markers are highly present in societies that depend heavily on rice production vs wheat production for sustenance.  The difference is that one family can potentially farm enough wheat to help sustain themselves potentially with a surplus, while it is highly highly unilikely that one family can maintain a rice farm that can sustain themselves.  So which came first?  Societies built around rice that then select for folks with more collectivist tendancies?  Collectivist tendancies being already selected for for completely nonrelated reasonse and then as a result the societies are more likely to organize collectivist rice production?  Or maybe just the genetic thing is a complete red herring/wishful thinking on the scientists part and its all entirely culturally learned behavior?

Of course I say nearly always because the one main issue with which I disagree with their look at human behavior is their stance on “free will”.  Free will is a notoriously tricky concept to work with in science, mainly because it is incredibly poorly defined with wide range of philosophical, religious, and cultural connotations for each individual.  Sapolsky puts forth a Straw Homunculus theory which they heap derision on (in a clearcut example of the principle of anti-charity) and point out that according to neurobiological science everything is deterministic and there can be no magical fairy homunculi making decisions.  I think the low level problem with this concept is that throughout the entire book (including in the chapter on free will) Sapolsky themselves repeats a pattern of first looking at biological motives for human behavior and then noting all the ways in which humans seem to then make decisions which then counter this behavior.  To quote them on free will wrt to how justice systems work they mention first that humans have a biological desire to punish others who break societal rules and the “..nearly impossible task is to overcome that.”  If humans cannot make decisions then how does anyone ever overcome biological urges?  

I’m working on a longer piece wrt to the mathematics of complex systems analysis and misinterpreations of Chaos, Randomness, Determinism, ‘free will’, and Complex Systems which will address some of these concepts in more depth.  The short answer is that I think the traditional branch of mathematics which westerners have used as their main tool for doing science since Newton, calculus and differential equations as models, is very poorly equipped for dealing with complex systems.  The overwhelming mindset of scientists does seem to be that differential equations don’t MODEL systems in the natural world but instead, to quote Stephen Strogatz, “Nature—cue the theme from The Twilight Zone—somehow knows calculus.” The map is not the territory, calculus is a branch of mathematics which can be very helpful for modeling the physical world but it is an act of faith, not science to claim anything further than that.  Furthermore, this mindset does very little to help anyone do science and in more complex situations that resist black boxing can actively harm research.

January 26 2021

aaand heres a new episode of video feedback techniques!  check out more from the full series here!

January 25 2021

Lots of fun things happening and scheduled to happen in the future!  First off, Phase Space and some of our friends are putting together a zoom party for valentines day!  Live A/V performances, games, highly distanced dancing, and more!  Check out the phase.video site on the day of for entry to the zoom room and/or just hop on zoom and enter ROOM CODE : 334 781 1321 PASS WORD :666 up in that biz.  We will have a direct link set up day of tho so no sweat either way.

The full selection of audio visual art peices for the show I curated for NYE, Ephemeris Time is up now on Vimeo!  Tried to get the whole thing up and playlisted at scanlines.xyz s peertube page but for whatever reason peertube just refuse to transcode 1 section of this show and after a couple of weeks of intermittently attempting to troubleshoot I just said fuck it and put em on Vimeo.  Theres more than 4 hours of amazing video art here, I highly recommend checking this out if you haven’t already!  Links and info to all the artists can be found over at the descriptions on the vimeo page!

Been making a little bit of progress on Chromatic Aberration: The Search For Sasquatch, my colorizer/solarizer unit for the VSERPI family!  Getting things set up for an extended video recording session as a part of my video feedback tutorial series where i’ll talk about how to use colorizers and other effects for processing video feedback outside of the feedback loops!

I’m trying out redbubble as a printing service as I’ve had a couple of quality issues with teepublic!  I’ve only got one pattern up at the moment but stay tuned here and check out my redbubble shop to see what you can get with this test print at the moment!  I’m picking up a pair of socks and a teeshirt!  I’m pretty sure I’ve been my best customer wrt to purchasing my prints on teepublic so far lets see if I can actually convince anyone else to pick up my stuffs over here lol.  I probably need to like advertise more or whatevs.

And finally I got a decent rough draft of the Temporal Vortex Manual up, its probably only like halfway done but has a lot of info and links on slitscan photography, animation, and video, as well as a full parameter list!  Stay tuned over for updates and lots more info!

As far as books go I’d been doing a bunch of rereads of Cixin Liu’s Ball Lightning and collected short fiction, all of which I highly recommend.  Liu’s work is invariable of the style of “Lets extrapolate the engineering principles of this extremely fucked up potential ecological/technological/social/astronmical catastrphe to an extreme degree” which tbh is an extremely durable premise in science fiction! 

I also reread Iain M Banks Consider Phlebas which I would still consider the weakest of their Culture novels but still pretty great!  It is characteristically perverse of them to start out a loosely connected space opera series centered around a galactic Culture (yes its called The Culture lol) that seems to embody Fullerian post scarcity utopian principles to a t with a novel written from the perspective of someone who loathes The Culture and is a secret agent working to destroy them.  The Principle of Charity is kind of an ongoing theme in all of their novels, each of which manages to explore some kind of large scale concept in politics/sociology/philosphy but in a uniquely Banskian manner loaded with some awe inspiringly imaginative set peices.  Excession (one of my favorites for example) looks at the ideas of moral relativism between cultures (well alien species in this context) as well as all of the problematic and questionable tactics used by cultures who assume they are morally superior to others and let that affect their political decisions.  But you can also just read it as breakneck paced first contact story where the first contact is from another dimension/hyperspace/universe (?) as opposed to another planet!

January 21 2021

Welp Heck and Dang I finally finished the Phosphorm Manual!  Kind of took me a while b/c I wanted to make sure that it would offer a full explanation of wtf exactly is going on with vector synthesis and scope art by providing a LOT of historical and technical information in a theoretically beginner friendly fashion!  Did I succeed?  I definitely wrote a lot of words.  Will it take me this long to write the Temporal Vortex Manual!  thankfully not, i’m at least halfway done with it rn and will be focusing on that in the coming days!
Dont forget to sign up for the Giant Feedback Loop happening January 31st.  Scroll down for more details.
Stay tuned for more info on the Phase Space Valentines Day Cyberpunk Cyberprom happening in the Hell Party Zoom Room this Valentines day!  Live A/v, Punk bands, games, dancing, a pleasant simulation of being in a room full of folks and having a weird cyberspace chat room party!

And for everyone who missed it back when, I uploaded the remastered Recursive News broadcast up to youtube.  This was made entirely live along (except for the samples we was triggering duh) with Allen Riley, Robert Yohe, Paloma Kop, me, and Thalia, and streamed for fu:bar 2020.

January 12 2021

Its happening again!  January 31 11am-1pm EST.  Here is a link to hydra discord for more info and a Face Book Event if you;r into that sort of thing

January 4 2021

My music video for the Nighteyes/XZX collaboration track “Anticrystal” is up on youtube now



For anyone interested in a/v collabs I’m hoping to be able to focus more time in 2021 on group efforts and less on solo works, depends on the circumstances I guess but feel free to reach out if yr interested!  I’m much less interested in “hey bro do u want to make a free music video for my song” than I am interested in “hello entity, would you like to work on some audio and video stuff together in an ongoing creative conversation?” btw.  (I will continue to occasionally make music videos for some bands but kind of only for large sums of money/bands I highly enjoy/old friends etc etc)

After a massive rehaul to my VSERPI workshop I’m back in business getting all the teeny and not so teeny bugs fixed on the 1.4 updates, assembling the manuals, and finishing up recording the demo and tutorial videos. 

Reminders to everyone that for bug reporting its best to post something on any of the boards (scanlines.xyz or the video_waaaves facebook group) first and include every single possible pathological detail involved + pictures of your full hardware set up and signal flow (including what yr power supply is plugged into).  If you are not cool with message boards or social media you can contact me at ex.zee.ex@gmail.com for help. 
Under no circumstances will I be continuing tech support for anything for anyone via social media DMs!  Pass it on and tell yr friends!  I want to help everyone and make all my stuffs run as smoothly as possible but in order to do that I need to have all my bug report infos consolidated into useful formats, of which social medai DMS don’t really qualify as LOL.  Plus if you post in the boards maybe someone else can help u with a quick fix far faster than I can!

I’ve got all the archival footage from the Ephemeris Time show up at videos.scanlines.xyz



For example here is the submission from some unknown xenolinguistics ambient artist! Mysterious and beautiful...

January 1 2021

a digit has shifted! if yall missed my live NYE party av experience i gots an archive up here!



I think we will be teaming up with some other folks to do more Phase Space live events in Zoom party format.  Stay tuned for Valentines day...

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