Lissajous Fun 01

In 1970-71, at SUNY Albany, encouraged by the filmmaker / video artist Tom de Witt, I began experimenting with putting the output of the Moog synthesizer through an oscilloscope, making “Lissajous figure“ graphics with it. I eventually made a piece with it, and several years later converted it to video, but I can only find a couple of stills from that piece - where the video master is, and how recoverable it is, I don’t know. However, John Dunn’s Artwonk 4.0 has a Lissajous module, so one can make real-time animated Lissajous figures with the program. After 37 years, I can return to using a technique I liked way back when. This short piece is an example of that. The soundtrack is also produced by the Lissajous module. I took 2 stills from the video, converted them to sound with Rasmus Eckman’s free “Coagula“ program, and then put those into Camel Audio’s Alchemy softsynth. I time-stretched them, and played a sequence of microtonal clusters with those sounds, and recor