Synchresis is a term Chion invented to describe audiovisual relations based on simultaneity; when there is simultaneity between sounds and images, they blend with each other, and it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to separate them.

Chion describes synchresis as a universal, physiological phenomenon resulting from the makeup of our nervous system and not from any cultural conditioning, and as such operates as spontaneously as any reflex. It consists of perceiving the concomitance of given auditory and visual events as a single integrated event, so long as they occur simultaneously. Because this phenomenon occurs without any conscious effort on the part of the viewer, it leads viewers to establish a relationship of close interdependence and ascribe to a single common source sounds and images that may essentially be very different, originate from different sources and realistically have little in common.

Internet Cinema Loop

w/ Open Secret, Mawena Yehouessi, 0nty, Redacted Cut, Aemmonia, Eliska Jahelkova, Carmen Lin, Machine Yearning

Veejay is a visual instrument

Veejay is a visual instrument and realtime video sampler.

With veejay, you can play the video like you would play a piano.

While playing, you can record the resulting video directly to disk (video sampling), all effects are realtime and optimized for use on modern processors, Veejay likes the sound of your video's as much as their images: sound is kept in sync ( pitched when needed - trickplay) and delivered to JACK for possible further processing.

You can cluster to allow a number of machines to work together over the network (uncompressed streaming, veejay chaining) And much more...

The engine is historically based upon mjpegtools's lavplay and processes all video in YUV planar It performs at its best, currently with MJPEG AVI (through ffmpeg) or one of veejay's internal formats. Veejay is built upon a servent architecture.

This is the blueprint for a revolution in the creation and distribution of media. We will discuss how and why to produce your own television using free tools, and explore how to use Community Television as an instrument for social change.

This text is divided in to three sections: A manual, a meta-manual, and a look back. These can be consumed in any order.

This text takes a decidedly American approach to history and theory, and while I assume these ideas are applicable elsewhere, I do not have the expertise or knowledge to comment on any place other than the US.

A VHS tape loop between two VCRs make a 90-foot video delay. The live installation "Time is Long" showed with Bushwick Art Projects in Brooklyn. Is the space between the VCRs cinematic?

A lightweight HTML5+javascript engine for interactive videos

turn a video with subtitles into a PDF

TV VOMIT

Syphon is an open source Mac OS X technology that allows applications to share frames - full frame rate video or stills - with one another in realtime.

"An opportunity thus exists for (e.g.) interactive computer-vision based applications that use 360-degree sensing."

Doug Engelbart giving the "mother of all Demos" 1968

people imitating slowed down bird songs, once sped up again, sound like birds :D
see also http://www.wildsong.co.uk/listening_room2.html & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91b9fLRXjzw

OMG AWESOME ! "I got to play some more with the video aspects of the Echo Nest remix API. The video remix is pretty slick. You use all of the tools that you use in the audio remix, except that the object you are manipulating has a video component as well. This makes it easy to take an audio remix and turn it into a video remix."

"Over 6000 paintings were painstakingly produced during two years to create a five minutes film that would meet high personal standards."

permalink to a YouTube timecode, finally !!