Below is an early working prototype for the Soleil Noir Lumière Drone Box. A light to sound translation unit I’ve been designing. I’m hoping to add a few features soon and am even considering building a stereo version. The output in the demo video below is running through a small amount of reverb just to give it a bit of space and atmosphere. Every light source has its own unique sonic fingerprint while a quick strobing light can create some wild percussion like effects.
More mangled video goodness with the Soleil Noir Dark Image Kollider v.1
After building a couple simple two and four channel glitch mixers last month, I wanted to design a device with even more I/O (both composite and 3.5mm) and flexibility for combining multiple analog video signals with options for on/off and level control at each input channel. Signals can be mixed via the 3.5mm patch area. Besides video feedback, these are great for combining things like video noise or oscillator signals too.
Below are a few still frames captured from the output. Signals being mangled together in the images below are a Sleepy Circuits Hypno, two unsynced saw and sine wave video oscillators, textured video noise and live composite camera input.
The Dark Image Kollider is one off prototype unit… for the time being.
Recently, I’ve been experimenting with different ideas for expanding upon the simple 2 input glitch/dirty video mixer concept. Originally, I built a basic 2 channel analog box but decided to try building a 4 input unit with two mixing pots and mirrored outputs. The dual outputs are really great for a second monitor or feeding one back in to grind out more blooming, glitched feedback. I have a few ideas to try out on the next one for adding more extreme effects and possibly an internal feedback circuit. More soon 🙂
I’ll have recent video work – featuring the muzik of L’Avenir – screening in the NEW WORKS showcase at 2640 Space Friday November, 1. Lots of amazing film makers and video artists on the bill. Come on out. Doors at 7:30pm. Screening starts at 8pm. 
The official video for The Snow just dropped. The video for “Imagination” will premier mid to late June. The Snow is taken from the new LP Imagination. Out now!
**When viewing this video, please be sure the playback resolution is set to 1080p. YouTube’s compression absolutely destroys all the fine detail in glitch style videos. While still not as crisp as the original, watching in 1080 res is the best it’s gonna look on YouTube.
