Video Sythesiser History - Steve Beck 

If you're into abstract visuals, DIY hardware and tech history you gotta love Californian dude Steve Beck. Here's a link to an illustrated talk by him covering his work he calls 40 years in 40 minutes. TV Kaleidoscopes, Tongan valve hacking, Islamic sacred video equations, Hendrix home videos and photon seances...its all here folks! http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/conversations/atc/ scroll down the list of artists and find Steve Beck. Stick with the video cos after a while the camera pans to the screen and stays there to show some great visuals from this video synth hardware legend. I love the bit where in the stoner 70's he goes live to air on 50000 watts of ERP with analog video waveforms. If anyone out there can send me a link to his original circuits I'd be most grateful.
I got this link from Jean Poole's great electro art blog Sky Noise at Sky Noise

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