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Ernie Plays The Moog DFAM

February 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM

Joshua Ellingson

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“Ernie Plays the DFAM”,
In this experiment from 2022, video on my television is controlled with rhythms from the Moog DFAM (Drummer From Another Mother) synthesizer.
#avart #AudioVisualism #videoart #realtime #vfx #synthesizer #eurorack #VDMX
www.youtube.com/shorts/lCWF6...

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November 25, 2024 at 6:32 PM

Joshua Ellingson

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Friday afternoon synthesizer practice with my Digitakt II sample computer and "Reactions In Plants and Animals" reflected in a large acrylic dome.
#avart #audiovisualism #realtime #synthesizer #elektron #digitakt #newmediaart
youtu.be/AxpRbsYN2zk

February 22, 2025 at 1:08 AM

Joshua Ellingson

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“Special Days in February” by Coronet Films (1953), manipulated in real-time by my synthesizers with VCV Rack in combination with VDMX.
#avart #audiovisualism #realtime #synthesizer #moog #newmediaart #television #art #videoart #VDMX
youtube.com/shorts/1ntbb...

Special Days In February

February 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM

Joshua Ellingson

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Thursday sample practice with a @stylophone_official CPM DS-2 Analog Drone Synthesizer and a vintage TWA worker complaints film.
#avart #videoart #realtime #vfx #synthesizer #sample #glitchart #newmedia #experimental #audiovisualism #twa #stylophone
youtube.com/shorts/h6XHb...

TWA Complaint

March 14, 2025 at 3:06 AM

Joshua Ellingson

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Samples from “Sweet Sue”, manipulated with an Elektron Digitakt, VCV Rack, and VDMX.
#avart #audiovisualism #realtime #synthesizer #moog #newmediaart #television #art #videoart #vdmx5 #vintage #experimental
youtube.com/shorts/2GEAw...

Sweet Sue '24

Transportation Of Prisoners

December 13, 2024 at 6:59 PM

Joshua Ellingson

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Sunday night synthesizer practice with clips from “ Transportation Of Prisoners”.
#avart #audiovisualism #realtime #synthesizer #moog #newmediaart #television #art #videoart #vdmx5
youtube.com/shorts/JXhzw...

November 25, 2024 at 5:45 AM

Joshua Ellingson

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Further exploration with “Dolphin”, a film from 1979 by Michael Wiese.
#avart #audiovisualism #realtime #synthesizer #moog #newmediaart #television #art #videoart #vdmx #vintage #experimental #dolphins #digitakt
youtube.com/shorts/18goz...

Dolphin

May 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM

Joshua Ellingson

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I’m revisiting this clip from “Greenwich Village Sunday”, a 1960s film by Stewart Willensky. This time I’m using the Digitakt II’s LFOs and single-cycle waveforms to create the bass sounds.
youtube.com/shorts/p3BUe...
#avart #audiovisualism #realtime #newyork #greenwichvillage #digitakt

Greenwich Stumble

January 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM

Joshua Ellingson

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Monday synthesizer practice with the Moog Subharmonicon and “Glacier Park Studies”, a film in the Prelinger Archives at archive.org.
#avart #videoart #valentine #realtime #vfx #synthesizer #sample #usps #glitchart #newmedia #experimental #audiovisualism #glacier #subharmonicon
youtu.be/7tSB7cCRcJs

Glacier Park Studies

March 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM

Joshua Ellingson

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Sample session with a 1970s Woolmark advertisement on a sideways Hitachi television.
#avart #videoart #realtime #vfx #synthesizer #sample #glitchart #newmedia #experimental #audiovisualism #normastoneman #digitakt #hapax #VDMX
youtube.com/shorts/jKsuQ...

Woolmark Sample Practice

Beat The Band, A/V Sampling

June 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM

Joshua Ellingson

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Saturday afternoon sample practice with clips from “Beat The Band” (vocals by Frances Langford and Gene Krupa on percussion), manipulated live with VDMX from @vidvox on my A/V stack and “Pepper’s Ghost” setup.
#avart #audiovisualism #realtime #avart
youtube.com/shorts/p9Ux8...

November 24, 2024 at 2:11 AM

Joshua Ellingson

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Saturday sample practice with clips from “The Holy Ghost People”, a 1967 film about Pentecostal Christians by Peter Adair.
#avart #audiovisualism #realtime #synthesizer #moog #newmediaart #television #art #videoart #vdmx5 #vintage #experimental #pentacostal #digitakt
youtube.com/shorts/dS9Ni...

The Holy Ghost People

April 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM

Joshua Ellingson

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Friday sample practice with clips from “The Conquest of Light”, a film from 1960 by Bell Telephone Laboratories.

youtube.com/shorts/lTZCA...

#avart #audiovisualism #realtime #synthesizer #moog #newmediaart #television #art #videoart #vdmx5 #vintage #experimental #light #digitakt

Television Waves '25

Soul Train Synthesizer Practicing

May 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM

Joshua Ellingson

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Synthesizer practice with the @moogsynthesizers Subharmonicon and clips from “Soul Train” on a sideways 19”Hitachi color television.
#avart #audiovisualism #realtime #synthesizer #moog #newmediaart #television #art #videoart #vdmx5 #experimental #soultrain #subharmonicon

youtube.com/shorts/XafQB...

Norma Stoneman "Don't Change"

December 20, 2024 at 6:08 PM

Joshua Ellingson

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Saturday sample practice with Norma Stoneman singing “Don’t Change” from the the Brian Henderson Bandstand show in 1968.
#avart #videoart #realtime #vfx #synthesizer #sample #glitchart #newmedia #experimental #audiovisualism #normastoneman #digitakt #hapax #VDMX
youtube.com/shorts/QIZyu...

Easter '25 with Moog Subharmonicon

June 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM

Joshua Ellingson

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Easter weekend synth session with the Moog Subharmonicon and a “Pepper’s Ghost” reflection effect of rotating flowers inside of a re-purposed snow globe.
#avart #realtime #newmediaart #peppersghost #art #videoart #vdmx5 #experimental #imagineering #audiovisualism #easter

youtube.com/shorts/izVAl...

"What This Country Needs" Revisited

April 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM

Joshua Ellingson

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I’ve been learning how to recreate some of my earlier projects using newer gear and techniques. Here, I’m revisiting “What This Country Needs” by Martha Tilton on four CRT monitors, this time with help from an Elektron Digitakt II.
#avart #audiovisualism
youtube.com/shorts/EgBZU...

December 7, 2024 at 5:30 PM

Joshua Ellingson

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Tuesday night sampling with a clip from “Age 13”, a film by Sid Davis in the Prelinger Archives.
#avart #audiovisualism #realtime #synthesizer #moog #newmediaart #television #art #videoart #vdmx5 #vintage #experimental #digitakt
youtube.com/shorts/KYz-8...

"Age 13" Revisited

December 18, 2024 at 3:33 AM

Joshua Ellingson

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Sunday morning sample practice with “Moaning’” by Cherry Wainer and Don Storer from a 1966 appearance on the German TV show “Beat! Beat! Beat”.
#avart #videoart #realtime #synthesizer #sample #newmedia #experimental #audiovisualism #moanin #digitakt #hapax #VDMX
youtube.com/shorts/zKmLB...

Moanin'

Teddy Brown with Digitakt II

June 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM

Joshua Ellingson

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Saturday sample practice with Teddy Brown playing “The Dance of the Raindrops” and “Amy”, manipulated with an Elektron Digtitakt II, VCV Rack, and VDMX from @vidvox.
#avart #videoart #realtime #vfx #synthesizer #sample #glitchart #newmedia #experimental #audiovisualism
youtube.com/shorts/Bvdn-...

March 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM

Joshua Ellingson

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Samples from "Boogie-Woogie Man” from a 1940s film in the Prelinger Archives at archive.org, with music from my synthesizer and drum machine.
#avart #audiovisualism #realtime #synthesizer #moog #newmediaart #television #art #videoart #vdmx #vintage #digitakt #metropolix
youtube.com/shorts/GYe3-...

Boogie Woogie Man

May 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM

Joshua Ellingson

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Sample practice with clips from a vintage Pepsodent commercial on a General Electric black-and-white television.

#avart #videoart #realtime #vfx #synthesizer #sample #glitchart #newmedia #experimental #audiovisualism #digitakt #hapax
youtube.com/shorts/z6U_u...

Pepsodent

June 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM

Joshua Ellingson

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“Who but the Lord" by Langston Hughes, performed by James Earl Jones.
Drums and synth sounds triggered by Moog Mavis and Subharmonicon with help from an Intellijel Metropolix sequencer, VCV Rack, and VDMX live-video software.
#avart #audiovisualism #realtime #synthesizer
youtu.be/bUAzVAz0-NI

“Who but the Lord”