Joshua Ellingson
@ellingson.tv
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I helped create this ad for Audible’s new adaptation of George Orwell’s “1984”. More info and credits at the post on YouTube. #1984Â
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"1984" Theatrical Ad for Audible
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtu.be/nBoJGgFYtyA?feature=shared
10 months ago
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Today is the 40th anniversary of “Fright Night”! Here’s a thing that I made for Sony Pictures.
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This Is Just Like Fright Niight
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
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2 months ago
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Sample practice with clips from “Japanese Relocation” 1943 U.S. Office of War Information propaganda film, manipulated live with my audio gear and VDMX.
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Japanese Relocation
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/6BryTx-ncag?feature=shared
2 months ago
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Project clips for May - June 2025
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Project Clips for May - June 2025
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/sHpT9QwmaFo
3 months ago
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Sample session with a 1970s Woolmark advertisement on a sideways Hitachi television.
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#experimental
#audiovisualism
#normastoneman
#digitakt
#hapax
#VDMX
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Woolmark Sample Practice
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/jKsuQMK3llA?feature=share
4 months ago
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Sample practice with clips from a vintage Pepsodent commercial on a General Electric black-and-white television.
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#digitakt
#hapax
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Pepsodent
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/z6U_uAyFhfU
4 months ago
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Saturday sample practice with Norma Stoneman singing “Don’t Change” from the the Brian Henderson Bandstand show in 1968.
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#audiovisualism
#normastoneman
#digitakt
#hapax
#VDMX
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Norma Stoneman "Don't Change"
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/QIZyuIAShtY?feature=share
4 months ago
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reposted by
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egg price watcher
4 months ago
Credit where it’s due: Scott Galloway cooked here
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Wednesday sample practice with clips from Mahalia Jackson’s historic performance prior to Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech in 1963 in Washington DC.
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Mahalia Jackson on Panasonic Travelvision
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/XY-Yfg5NzfA?feature=share
4 months ago
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Here, a "Pepper's Ghost" reflection effect is created directly from the picture tube of a Zenith "Spirit of '76" black and white television into a glass bowl. The oscilloscope graphics
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Oscilloscope Pepper's Ghost from '76 Zenith TV
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/Ed_ZyBh0HMg?feature=share
4 months ago
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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”.
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#audiovisualism
#moanin
#digitakt
#hapax
#VDMX
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Moanin'
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/zKmLBQBbGto
4 months ago
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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.
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#audiovisualism
#realtime
#synthesizer
#moog
#newmediaart
#television
#art
#videoart
#vdmx
#vintage
#digitakt
#metropolix
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Boogie Woogie Man
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/GYe3-JTjw2U
5 months ago
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Friday morning Digitakt practice with a 1967 “American Bandstand” clip on a General Electric 20” portable black and white television.
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#audiovisualism
#realtime
#synthesizer
#moog
#newmediaart
#television
#art
#videoart
#vdmx
#vintage
#experimental
#digitakt
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Bandstand
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/zlDTzv43ZUw?feature=share
5 months ago
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Further exploration with “Dolphin”, a film from 1979 by Michael Wiese.
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#audiovisualism
#realtime
#synthesizer
#moog
#newmediaart
#television
#art
#videoart
#vdmx
#vintage
#experimental
#dolphins
#digitakt
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Dolphin
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/18gozei5iso
5 months ago
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Friday sample practice with clips from “The Conquest of Light”, a film from 1960 by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
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#audiovisualism
#realtime
#synthesizer
#moog
#newmediaart
#television
#art
#videoart
#vdmx5
#vintage
#experimental
#light
#digitakt
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Television Waves '25
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/lTZCA-wL3co?feature=shared
5 months ago
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Saturday sample practice with clips from “The Holy Ghost People”, a 1967 film about Pentecostal Christians by Peter Adair.
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#audiovisualism
#realtime
#synthesizer
#moog
#newmediaart
#television
#art
#videoart
#vdmx5
#vintage
#experimental
#pentacostal
#digitakt
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The Holy Ghost People
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/dS9NiRWZpfc?feature=share
5 months ago
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Sample practice with Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” from a live performance in 1959. If you haven’t heard the original, I recommend finding it on YouTube. There’s so much emotion in it.
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#audiovisualism
#realtime
#synthesizer
#moog
#newmediaart
#television
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Strange Fruit
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/ePl1QW1wQi8
5 months ago
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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
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Easter '25 with Moog Subharmonicon
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/izVAlHF9mCg?feature=share
6 months ago
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Happy Easter Weekend, friends! Here’s a little marshmallow peeps dance party for Easter 2025.
#peepersghost
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Peeps Dance 2025
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/yMFzJS19RB0
6 months ago
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Thursday night sample practice with The Ross Sisters’ “Solid Potato Salad” number, manipulated in realtime with a Digitakt 2 sample computer and VDMX.
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Solid Potato Salad Redux
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/iSCakpN0j8s?feature=share
6 months ago
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Charlie Chaplin from “The Great Dictator” (1940) on a sideways Hitachi color television with sounds from my synthesizer and VCV Rack.
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#audiovisualism
#charliechaplin
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6 months ago
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Here’s a clip from Reverend Jesse Jackson’s appearance on Sesame Street in 1972 reciting “I Am Somebody” (written by Reverend William Holmes Borders, Sr.).
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I Am Somebody
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/sbcEhFlMCFg?feature=share
6 months ago
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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.
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Teddy Brown with Digitakt II
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/Bvdn-OJNv7c?feature=shared
7 months ago
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Monday synthesizer practice with the Moog Subharmonicon and “Glacier Park Studies”, a film in the Prelinger Archives at
archive.org
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#audiovisualism
#glacier
#subharmonicon
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Glacier Park Studies
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtu.be/7tSB7cCRcJs
7 months ago
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Thursday sample practice with a @stylophone_official CPM DS-2 Analog Drone Synthesizer and a vintage TWA worker complaints film.
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#twa
#stylophone
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TWA Complaint
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/h6XHbXp1B7I?feature=shared
7 months ago
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Braille Playboy thrift score!
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7 months ago
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Come see my piece "3 Sears Televisions" at @brassworksgallery gallery in Portland Oregon on March 8th.
#avart
#videoart
#television
#peppersghost
#siam
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Three Sears Televisions
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtu.be/Ck-D9ios0eM
7 months ago
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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.
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#audiovisualism
#realtime
#synthesizer
#elektron
#digitakt
#newmediaart
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7 months ago
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Sunday morning synthesizer practice with a Nice 'N Easy commercial on a Sony Trinitron television.
#avart
#audiovisualism
#realtime
#synthesizer
#moog
#newmediaart
#television
#art
#videoart
#vdmx5
#vintage
#experimental
#digitakt
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Nice 'N Easy on Sony Trinitron
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtu.be/2TC3ta5pcQc
8 months ago
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In this experiment, sound created with oscilloscope software resolves into the image of a rotating skull reflected into a bell jar from a Sony Trinitron television.
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Oscilloscope Skull
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/CgwMdqu3cmU?feature=share
8 months ago
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Found a new dome at the thrift today.
8 months ago
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Anyone else have the term “soup beans” stuck in their head all week?
#doechii
8 months ago
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Sample practice with the Elektron Digitakt II and “The Swingin’ Six”, a 1967 film promoting the then-brand new zip code standard.
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Before Zip Code - 2025
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/-FmOc1p6gNQ?feature=share
8 months ago
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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.
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#audiovisualism
#realtime
#synthesizer
#moog
#newmediaart
#television
#art
#videoart
#VDMX
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Special Days In February
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/1ntbbLumMrs?feature=share
8 months ago
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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.
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#audiovisualism
#realtime
#newyork
#greenwichvillage
#digitakt
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Greenwich Stumble
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/p3BUeQ_sz-k?feature=share
8 months ago
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In this experiment, live oscilloscope visualizations travel between three Sears black and white televisions, triggered by a Digitakt II and VDMX.
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Flavorbuds
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtu.be/gk59zauILJU?feature=shared
8 months ago
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Orange Hulk sucks.
9 months ago
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Saturday night sample practice with clips from “Metropolis” (1927) by Fritz Lang. I’ve been revisiting older projects by trying to recreate them with new gear and workflows.
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"Metropolis" with Pepper's Ghost , Revisited
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/GGXrjS8F9cI?feature=share
9 months ago
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Synthesizer practice with the @moogsynthesizers Subharmonicon and clips from “Soul Train” on a sideways 19”Hitachi color television.
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#audiovisualism
#realtime
#synthesizer
#moog
#newmediaart
#television
#art
#videoart
#vdmx5
#experimental
#soultrain
#subharmonicon
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Soul Train Synthesizer Practicing
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/XafQBQL942U?feature=share
10 months ago
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Here are clips of some recent projects and experiments with audio and video from the last few months.
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Clip Reel - End of Year 2024
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/RmsdVP337eg?feature=share
10 months ago
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Tuesday night sampling with a clip from “Age 13”, a film by Sid Davis in the Prelinger Archives.
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#audiovisualism
#realtime
#synthesizer
#moog
#newmediaart
#television
#art
#videoart
#vdmx5
#vintage
#experimental
#digitakt
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"Age 13" Revisited
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/KYz-8ggVl5k?feature=share
10 months ago
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Samples from “Sweet Sue”, manipulated with an Elektron Digitakt, VCV Rack, and VDMX.
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#audiovisualism
#realtime
#synthesizer
#moog
#newmediaart
#television
#art
#videoart
#vdmx5
#vintage
#experimental
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Sweet Sue '24
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/2GEAwm1xc5g?feature=share
10 months ago
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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.
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"What This Country Needs" Revisited
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/EgBZUSMZwNs?feature=shared
10 months ago
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Sunday night “Pepper’s Ghost” experiment with a Sears black and white television and a glass vessel that I found today.
#avart
#realtime
#synthesizer
#newmediaart
#television
#peppersghost
#art
#videoart
#vdmx5
#vintage
#experimental
#diy
#imagineering
#maker
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TV Pepper's Ghost Experiment
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/_0Uh56jwoBM?feature=share
10 months ago
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For 20+years prior to making video art, I was an illustrator, graphic designer, and production artist. If I have any wisdom to pass on, it might be that you don’t have to let the expectations that you once had for yourself define who you are now.
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Before the video art
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/RdyOw1erYZg?feature=shared
10 months ago
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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.
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#audiovisualism
#realtime
#synthesizer
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“Who but the Lord”
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtu.be/bUAzVAz0-NI
10 months ago
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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. Â
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Ernie Plays The Moog DFAM
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lCWF6IQ_Fy0
10 months ago
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Sunday night synthesizer practice with clips from “ Transportation Of Prisoners”.
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#audiovisualism
#realtime
#synthesizer
#moog
#newmediaart
#television
#art
#videoart
#vdmx5
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Transportation Of Prisoners
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/JXhzwAffX_4?feature=shared
10 months ago
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Here are three vertical videos that I did for Korg featuring their Wavestate
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Korg Wavestate Projects
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtu.be/eIjLtI1f_iQ?feature=shared
10 months ago
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I helped create this ad for Audible’s new adaptation of George Orwell’s “1984”. More info and credits at the post on YouTube. #1984Â
#nineteeneightfour
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#utopia
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#nightmareworld
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#dreamjob
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"1984" Theatrical Ad for Audible
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtu.be/nBoJGgFYtyA?feature=shared
10 months ago
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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.
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#audiovisualism
#realtime
#avart
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Beat The Band, A/V Sampling
YouTube video by Joshua Ellingson
https://youtube.com/shorts/p9Ux8d62OyM?feature=share
10 months ago
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