SYNCHRONATOR is a video and audio research project by Gert-Jan Prins and Bas van Koolwijk in an attempt to use a combination of current digital and analogue means in order to make more use of the characteristic visual qualities of such techniques.
During their work period within the framework of a residency at Impakt
in April/May 2006, a laboratory was arranged in the Impakt building,
for Van Koolwijk and Prins to conduct their collaborative experiments. By sharing their technical knowledge they set out to tackle
the difficulties concerning the recording of complicated, merged and distorted video
and audio signals.
As part of the residence, a publicly accessible workshop was organised,
in which the use of interfaces,
videotronics, video/audio software and improvisation in electronic
music in the context of AV improvisational performance were examined.
Beginning of June 2006 a first audio-visual SYNCHRONATOR
performance
was presented as an Impakt event, together with screenings and
presentations of works by related artists.
A DVD with new works was released on the Cavity label in july 2009, followed by the release of the electronic SYNCHRONATOR device in november 2009.
Gert-Jan Prins www.gjp.info
Prins has created an electronic system with circuits from radio, TV and transmitter techniques, which produces feedback sounds and TV signals. He regularly co-operates with E-RAX, The Flirts with Cor Fuhler, and MIMEO.
Bas van Koolwijk www.basvankoolwijk.com
Van Koolwijks audio-visual productions can be seen as an attack on the illusion of the medium itself. With custom-made software and electronics he exposes the face of the machine which lives behind the placating veil of the televised image.
Impakt is an independent organisation for contemporary sound and image.