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Creator: K A R B O R N
Title of Work: The Wondrous Wobbulator Machine for Young and Old Like
Year of Creation: 2015
Link to Project Work: http://artwork.karborn.com/The-Wondrous-Wobbulator-Machine-for-Young-and-Old-Alike
Link to Artist Bio: http://www.karborn.com/
John Karborn, a new-media audio-visual video artist, developed The Wondrous Wobbulator Machine for Young and Old Alike by feeding geometric still frames into a custom-built wobbulator, a device that visualizes frequencies and wavelengths of a given sound. To record these, he uses analog video sequences (VHS, for example) while a given frequency is being passed through the wobbulator — what results is the geometric animation to the right. Algorithmically, the wobbulator utilizes a combination of manual control feedback and an oscillator that produces a visual representation of the image being manipulated by the given sound waves.
My current work is in the field of audio-visual performance art, which makes K A R B O R N’s methodologies valuable towards my practice. As a whole, K A R B O R N’s work follow similar themes, using a combination of narratives and acting and sound and still frames to produce video works and documentations that are altered by time and noise.