Rutt-Etra video synth: RIP Bill Etra

Mr. Banshee's icon

Just learned of video synth creator Bill Etra due to his passing. For those unaware, he co-created the Rutt-Etra video synth which produces some beautiful images that i thought might be of interest to those in the Max community, especially those using Jitter (admittedly i barely know anything about Jitter, so maybe this imagery might not impress the seasoned vets but it touched me).

Bill Etra explaining the synth:
https://youtu.be/PExbk6RgOo4

Woody Vasulka & Brian O'Reilly performing with it:
https://youtu.be/De4DWMyQBfU
*Woody & his partner Steina are early video art pioneers, dive deeper into their work...

Enjoy!

Roman Thilenius's icon

noticed the existance of the etra video synth just two days ago.

yaniki's icon

A few years ago in, the WRO Art Center (http://wrocenter.pl), with which I'm networked was presented an exhibition called "AC/DC/IT" (http://wrocenter.pl/en/ac-dc-it/). One of the installations in this exhibition, which I co-created, was build as a modern (but referring to some old-fashioned technologies) variation of the scanprocessor. Here is a link: http://paweljanicki.jp/projects_ctrend_en.html

The installation is based on MaxMSP patch.

2K's icon
Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

Mr. Banshee's icon

@2k thanks for sharing the patch!

2K's icon

Hi guys, leaving here a better version than the last one. Hope you enjoy.

rutt.etrak_.zip
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