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From the Album Say It
Available Now on iTunes, Amazon and all other places fine records are sold.

Directed by Jared Raab
Cinematography by Peter Dreimanis
Produced by Josh Warburton

Working with artist/computer programmer Rob Bairos, the video was recorded entirely off of a vintage oscilloscope. Oscilloscopes are used for viewing voltages, primarily in the sciences, medicine, engineering, telecommunications and industry. Though other people have reprogrammed oscilloscopes to display images in the past, the “video to scope” process used in this video is the first of its kind. The images you see are made up of a single point of light, moving quickly across a screen in order to draw shapes – that means the entire Born Ruffians video for “What to Say” displays vector images made from only one continuous line. The footage was shot once on video, edited, converted for use on the oscilloscope (using a live visuals program called TouchDesigner) and then shot again directly off the vintage machine.

Special Thanks:
Warp Films
Leila Hebden
mediancontemporary.com

TouchDesigner is made by Derivative in Toronto, Canada.
derivative.ca

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  • dipyadeep 1 year ago
    wow
    limbofonto.blogspot.com/
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  • abgely 1 year ago
    great!
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  • Andraz Jeric 1 year ago
    This is awesome.
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  • Imaginatio plus 1 year ago
    Great work! Thank's for sharing the process.
    Love the room or the set up at the beginning and the end.
    Fav times:
    2:45 (the little dot is amazing)
    3:47 (reminds me of bill plymptom)
    4:17 (amazing set up)
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  • Darth Tater 1 year ago
    I like the result, but what is a conventional B&W CRT TV if not an enhanced oscilloscope that displays images made from only one continuous line?
  • Jared Raab plus 1 year ago
    @Darth Tater... Too true. The only difference is that a CRT doesn't display vector images. Rob has actually created a patch for the scope that behaves much more like a CRT and creates images through scan lines on the scope, but we didn't end up using the effect in the video.
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  • Barrie James Sutcliffe 1 year ago
    Brilliant video, excellent work. The song doesn't really suit the technique somehow but... whatever.
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  • Doug Curtis 1 year ago
    Amazing work....amazingly simple (sort of) and yet genius. Great work guys!
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  • ferrinspace 1 year ago
    cool`
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  • Sam Shiryaykin 1 year ago
    great!
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  • scott saw 11 months ago
    Love this! Just picked up an o-scope at a garage sale yesterday and suddenly obsessed with them. This is the coolest thing I've seen one do - inspired to experiment myself. Great work - cheers.
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  • Shane Lester 9 months ago
    Awesome. Very hot idea, tho I wish the music fit it more.
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  • rybotron plus 6 months ago
    Amazing work
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