THE DICHROMATIC LIVE VIDEO DELAY SYSTEM: OPEN CALL FOR ASSISTANCE
The Live Video Delay System is currently fully operational as a single-loop, monochromatic system, and while I consider the creative potential of this system to be essentially inexhaustible, the idea of building a dual-loop, dichromatic system remains an exciting possibility to me.
In basic terms (assuming the reader is already familiar with the system's operation in general), a dichromatic system would allow both red laser and blue laser activity to accumulate on the same screen. Since each accumulation/layering process depends upon extreme color isolation, these two activities would merge visually but would in fact remain photographically independent. Blue light cannot pass through the red filter, and red light cannot pass through the blue filter.
Creatively speaking, this is very exciting, because it would mean not only reaching new levels of pattern interaction and growth, due to this uniquely isolated handling of the two autonomous (and potentially different length) "loops", but also the potential inclusion of a second drawer, and thus a more complex type of performer interaction.
I am currently seeking assistance to put together instances of the dichromatic Live Video Delay System in studio, gallery and/or concert performance settings in New York. Below is an inventory of system components, indicating what remains to be sourced:
COMPONENT
OWNED
NEEDED
NOTES
VIDEO PROJECTOR 1
✓
Reasonable contrast ratio
VIDEO PROJECTOR 2
✓
"
VIDEO PROJECTOR 3
✓
"
VIDEO PROJECTOR 4
✓
"
VIDEO CAMERA 1
✓
VIDEO CAMERA 2
✓
VIDEO CAMERA 3
✓
NTSC; reasonable color rendering; consumer model okay
VIDEO CAMERA 4
✓
"
DVR 1
✓
DVR 2 or BROADCAST DELAY LINE (15+ SEC)
✓
DVR must support delayed playback, e.g. Sunkeen DVR08 (Allen Avionics); NTSC
VIDEO MONITOR 1
✓
VIDEO MONITOR 2
✓
NTSC; image quality not important; composite in/output
RED LASER POINTER
✓
BLUE LASER POINTER
✓
Wavelength must be within the range of 450-473nm
DARK RED LIGHTING GELS
✓
LIGHT-MEDIUM RED LIGHTING GELS
✓
Roscolux #23, #25 & #26 (20x24" sheets)
BLUE LIGHTING GELS
✓
Rosco E-Colours #119, #120 & #068 (21x24" sheets); Roscolux #74 (20x24" sheet)
CABLING
✓
✓
TBD; high quality composite video cables, adapters and couplers (both RCA & BNC) particularly useful
Specific forms of assistance sought include donations or pledged loans of equipment, monetary donations for equipment purchase or rental, venue assistance, reduced rate venue or equipment rental, publicity. Needless to say, assistance of any kind would push this project forward immeasurably, and would be acknowledged publicly at every appropriate opportunity, as well as permanently on this website.
Please contact me if you would like any further information, or to register interest.-- Alex Carpenter, August 2010
Live Video Delay 2 (Alex Carpenter)
V: Monochromatic Live Video Delay System improvisation. Recorded at MELA Foundation, NYC, September 2009.
M: Chord From The Second Delphic Hymn. Performed by Music of Transparent Means. Recorded at De La Catessen Gallery, Adelaide, August 2005.