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## RGB.VGA.VOLT (2014)

by James Connolly

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A realtime digital and analog hybrid audio/video synthesizer for modified VGA cathode ray tube computer monitors.

Tags: audio video synthesizer cathode ray tube crt glitch performance realtime synesthesia vga

###### Full Description

RGB.VGA.VOLT is an audio/video synthesizer that enables realtime exploration of the rich materiality concealed beneath the consumer interfaces of cathode ray tube computer monitors. By hacking and improperly rewiring the cables of these obsolete devices to short their video signals, their black-boxed analog infrastructure is liberated and driven by digitally synthesized high-frequency complex waveforms, audio playback, and feedback loops that fully exploit their latent visual spectrum. Inspired by early video tools such as the Sandin Image Processor and the Paik-Abe Synthesizer as well as contemporary programming and error-based approaches to sound and moving image, RGB.VGA.VOLT revives an analog aesthetic that has acquired a renewed power and potency in the present era of digital immateriality.

###### Work metadata

- Year Created: 2014
- Submitted to ArtBase: Wednesday Aug 6th, 2014
- Original Url: http://jameshconnolly.com/rgb-vga-volt
- Work Credits:
  - jamesconnolly, primary creator

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