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This video is made with the help of a collection of failing hard drive sounds, while the video is a combination of failed pdf screengrap videos (by me).
It is the first time I made a (kind of) music video-thing all on my own. for the music I didnt use any composing software except for firefox ...
It is very lo-fi in a broken hifi way -if you get what I mean.

datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php

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  • _blank plus 3 years ago
    The images are beautiful, and I like the sound also. Sometimes when you are not an expert (I've read on your blog that you don't know much about music software) you get really interesting things, maybe by chance or maybe just because your views are different when you don't master something.
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  • Ross Phillips 3 years ago
    really nice stuff. How did you do it exactly?
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  • Rosa Menkman plus 3 years ago
    I wanted to make a video of the biggest pdf I have, it is 1000 pages and very heavy and when I scroll through it very fast, the letters disappear and you only see black and white abstract forms. So I used a screen video software and filmed what I saw, but when I finished this and I opened the 2 films I made, something else really weird happened. They both were, instead of black and white, coloured; the black and white forms changed into very slow moving colored blocks.. A real magical and unexplainable glitch. (but, my pc does this kind of things sometimes, he has a will of its own)
    When I found the website of the failing harddrive sounds I decided to make some music for the pdfs, but as I wrote down I am not a composer, and I dont know music composing software, I just opened up the samples in a lot of firefox windows and used this to turn them on and of...
    And then I loaded the pdfs in my vj program, made a live video form them, just inverting the colours and keying some other colors away and letting them move a bit faster and slower (the normal, not really intervening stuff) and used that as a live film for the music - so that is not edited.
    That is the complete process for you mr Philips.
  • jacob rendell chamomile vj 3 years ago
    wow this is a very interesting process - thanks for sharing!
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  • Flourish Klink 3 years ago
    I really love this video - I think that the fact that you're not an expert makes it better - it reminds me of that moment of fear when things have failed and you are suddenly faced with the terror of a blank canvas (hard drive)!
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  • clint enns 3 years ago
    this is really really wonderful!
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  • Rosa Menkman plus 2 years ago
    Thanks Flourish and Clint! :)
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  • cym 2 years ago
    Rosa, very nice video! And nice to find you here :-)
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  • Ariane Violet 2 years ago
    Wowowow.

    I'm so jealous.

    What was the screen video software you used?
  • Rosa Menkman plus 2 years ago
    Hey, i use modul8 to vj, so thats what i used to put the layers on top of eachother.
  • Ariane Violet 2 years ago
    Ah, damn. Only for Macs.

    But thanks for the reply! :D
  • Rosa Menkman plus 2 years ago
    but eveything i did witht the video can definately be done with any vj software around.. its only keying and moving the pace.
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  • Francis Co of AVANT MODE 2 years ago
    That was a nice motherboard-esque diorama. I enjoyed the progression of artifacts that moseyed on by.
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  • Emilio Gomariz plus 2 years ago
    great work! i love it.
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  • BpOlar 2 years ago
    nice job ...
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  • Eyes_For_Ears 2 years ago
    cool mosh°°
    ++
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  • sebastian tomczak 2 years ago
    Amazing video, I love it. And I really love your approach to it. Thanks so much for explaining the process.
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  • TELLEMAC 2 years ago
    i have tried your technic with the pdf and: on my pc at work:)) it works just amazing, but on my power book it doesnt f... change at all. it seems like the computer is just to powerfull, and there are no glitches-the pdf was f... big-1giga, now i am making a pdf from 9 thousand pictures, hope to get this effect which i had on my pc.
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  • cevitts 2 years ago
    mondrian tv,i love it
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  • simulacra 2 years ago
    great video.
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  • 3112htm 2 years ago
    very interesting and cool!
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  • eduardo melendez 2 years ago
    beautiful!
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  • Ocusonic plus 1 year ago
    would of been a really great piece of work if it was put together with animation/ music software, considering how it's done it's a brilliant piece of work
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  • phleg 1 year ago
    nice!
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  • david_bowman 1 year ago
    interesting !
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