AWOL_socket used audio-video feedback including live images from her workspace at Signal Culture as she worked, video and audio controlling each other, the Wobbulator, the vintage audio synthesizers, plus computer programming she did to use her facial muscles/expressions to further control the whole system. She later assembled and further manipulated the images using Max/Jitter creating a three-channel phasing piece. The title is a play on an old joke disparaging electronic musicians as being anyone with an available wall socket. Sound and video by Dafna Naphtali.

Blaarfarvevaerket (“Blue Color Works”) was a cobalt mining and industrial company in Norway between 1776 to 1898, at that time it was a main manufacturer of cobalt blue pigment. Naphtali used the Wobbulator, MVIP video synthesis, plus interactive controls she created using her own facial expressions as controls too, and later assembled in aleatoric layouts and phasing playback in Max/Jitter. Sounds by Hans Tammen using a Blippoo Box synthesizer. (Naphtali 2017)

Proprioception (Body Awareness)” is an assemblage of historic imagery, 70’s experimental video practices, and modern-day chaotic audio procedures. John Heartfield was a pioneer using collage and photomontage as a means to fight militarism and fascism in Europe. The work juxtaposes two camera streams pointing to Heartfield’s imagery and to crosshairs from an analog videoscope, using video processing equipment built in the 1970’s - a technology that was made to facilitate alternative, experimental and open practices. The processing in turn is controlled by audio from a modern-day synthesizer using chaotic procedures.

Bruchharsch is an electronic feedback loop between autonomous processes running on analog audio and video synthesizers. The use of oscilloscopes in this work is reminiscent of Tammen's work in the 1970s, in which he ran audio from an amplifier straight into coils of TV sets to create psychedelic effects during performances.