Gert-Jan Prins & Bas van Koolwijk - Synchronator

Since the early years of video art, works have been made which do not actually produce a standard TV signal waveform and therefore cannot be directly recorded. Some are based primarily upon magnetic distortion of the normal TV scan pattern, others utilise a Cathode Ray Tube as if it were an oscilloscope screen.

Gert-Jan Prins and Bas van Koolwijk´s Synchronator project continues a lineage of experimentation originally embarked upon by the likes of Nam June Paik and the Vasulka´s. Both artists teamed up after a shared need to transcend the technical limitations of the video signal and through a shared aesthetic. Accessing the inner working of their audiovisual equipment, they crosswire sound and image to produce a glitchy synaesthetic montage - sometimes with tantalizing hints at representation as seen in the online video.

Synchronator is dysfunctional roboid ghost in the machine, choreographing an interference dervish to a montage of extreme noise textures.

Alongside this release, the duo plan to issue the "Synchronator box", a small piece of electronic gear, with audio inputs and a video output, translating audio signals straight into PAL or NTSC video signals.

Original recordings were produced with the SYNCHRONATOR device for PAL video.

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