Nov 19, 2009
Scan Processor Studies
The SCAN PROCESSOR STUDIES are a collection of works by Woody Vasulka & Brian O’Reilly. The full work is of total approximate duration of 45 minutes, with sections of various lengths, textures, and dynamic qualities.
The source materials were generated by Woody using a Rutt-Etra Scan Processor from the 1970’s that had been sitting on a shelf for years, and had recently been digitized. Woody came into Brian’s studio one day and asked him if he would be interested in using them to work on a collaboration, and the project began from there …
The works use sources excavated directly from the output of the Scan Processor, as well as further manipulations using Tom Demeyer’s ImX software. Extensive editing and layering and additional augmentations were done using Phil Mortons IP. The Sound was generated (mostly) by custom software developed by Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan and Brian, called NETHER GENERATOR, which sets up a number of complex real time feedback networks filtered and processed by various means.
