#phonotrope video

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Tess Martin: How to Make a Phonotrope Video with Drawn Animation

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How to make a phonotrope video with a camera and turntable

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phonotrope! this was... incredibly difficult.

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A video showcasing my 7-inch playable vinyl phonotrope. This limited edition artist's multiple (edition of 25) belongs to a body of work entitled OUROBOROS which forms my creative response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

OUROBOROS:TEARS focuses on cycles of grief and mourning. The music on this disc was created by my collaborator Zev Farber. Interwoven within the repeating music loop of the soundtrack are audio fragments that recall electronic voice phenomena (EVP), sounds found on electronic recordings that are interpreted as spirit voices by parapsychologists (listen closely between 01:20 and 01:40). This artist's multiple is available for purchase. DM me for details.

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VIDEOS: Some of the more complex record player animations drawn by children at my Great Exhibition Road Festival workshop for Imperial College London the other weekend. I love what they’ve done with different colours, sizes of bike cogs and lovely decorative flourishes. This was my second gig with the phenakistoscope drawing activity, and it’s developing nicely, with results quickly improving. Where can I take this workshop next? Schools? Animation festivals? More art and science events? Hit me up for bookings! @exrdfestival @imperialcollege @thefestivalofmaking @brightonanimation @la_reine_et_l_oiselle @instantwarhol @cliveandrews @paradoxplacebrighton #opticalillusion #opticalillusions #phenakistoscope #phonotrope #animation #phasepatterns #trippy #artworkshop #childrensart #stem #steam #hypnotic #exrdfest (at Imperial College London) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfW4ZuHoPXX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Manifest countdown: Niels Mud!

Our animation discussion event is back at WORM on Wednesday, July 25th. This will be the last event before September due to WORM’s August closure, so be there or be square! As usual enter through Wunderbar, turn right and go up the metal stairs. We start at 20:00 sharp!

At Manifest we share and discuss animation that we didn’t make ourselves, but rather that we find interesting or inspiring. Each evening three pre-selected participants share something. We already met animator Nienke Deutz and composer Jason Staczek, and our third show & tell-er will be animator/illustrator Niels Mud, who is kindly making the trip from Tilburg, where he is based.

Mud Motion believes in the power of stories. Founder Niels Mud uses his graphic design background to reach the core of a message and through special concepts and techniques, he develops stories which unfold in both film and animation.

Mud Motion produces documentary and animated short films which often combine graphic design, illustration and 2D animation, and physical materials often play a key role in their approach. Niels’ films and installations are made for the cultural and educational sector, for such diverse clients as the Museum Boerhaave, Radboud University, Eye Film institute Netherlands and the publisher Malmberg.

Niels likes to mix live-action, drawn animation and even green screen together, as can be seen in the video above for the Zaans Museum in Zaandam, based on the visit of Russian Czar Peter to the city in 1693.

I came across Niels’ work through his phonotrope projects. Phonotropes are an animation technique where sequential drawings are spaced out on a disc, rotated and filmed - basically a modern version of Victorian phenakistoscopes. I was researching the technique for one of my own projects and was happy to learn of Niels’ work. He offers his designs for sale as slipmats for records on his site.

Another of Niels’ unusual projects is this one for the Stadsmuseum Harderwijk -projection mapping onto a model of an internment camp which existed in the city in the First World War. 

What will Niels bring to share? Come to find out!

See you Wednesday, July 25th, at 20:00, at WORM! Here is the Facebook event, the WeOwnRotterdam listing and the WORM listing. You can also sign up for our monthly e-mail, and don’t forget that Manifest is on Twitter, @ManifestRoffa!

Manifest is free, open to the public, and in English!

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A video showcasing my 7-inch playable vinyl phonotrope. OUROBOROS:TEARS focuses on cycles of grief and mourning. The music on this disc was created by my collaborator Zev Farber. This artist's multiple is available for purchase ($75 CDN + shipping). DM me for details. Vinyl printed by @vinylartco #vinyl #customvinyl #animation #animationdevice #phonotrope #zoetrope #photodisc #tears #eyes #loop #ouroboros

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Finally assembled my “Haeckel’s Tears” wedding cake #phonotrope with all it’s layers and gave it a whirl. I plan to build one more phonotrope, making the total for my planned installation three. Will video them with decluttered background once I’m done. Have also decided to build a silhouette-style animation — telling the story of Ernst & Anna Haeckel — to fit around the videos of the phonotropes. Stay tuned.

(You can hear Nick Cave playing distantly in the next room in this video).

#animation #animationdevice #animationtoys #zoetrope

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A phonotrope is a contemporary update to a zoetrope, a 19th-century pre-film animation device consisting of a cylinder with vertical slits and a sequence of still images placed inside. When a zoetrope is spun rapidly, a viewer can peer through the slits to see the animation. The phonotrope works on a similar principle to the zoetrope, but replaces the cylinder and vertical slits with a record turntable, lights, and a video camera. A polar grid is designed with a certain number of frames, and sequence of images is printed onto this grid. The grid is rotated on the turntable at a certain speed, with the animation made viewable when seen through a video camera set at a specific frame rate (the animation cannot be viewed with the naked eye). This is a brand new medium for me, and it comes with a host of challenges and limitations. The size of each "frame" on a phonotrope is quite small (just slightly over 1-inch wide, on average) and this results in animation loops that are more vertically-oriented in their design. Images with high contrast definitely work best. Here are the specifications for this phonotrope: Two rings of vertical paper, one 12" in diameter and the second 8". The 12" circle has 32 frames The 8" circle has 16 frames The phonotrope is rotated on the turntable at 45 rpm. The smartphone video used to capture the animation is set at 12 fps. #animation #animationdevice #zoetropes #phonotropes #phonotropic #jellyfish #seahorse #underseaworld #zoetrope #phenakistoscope https://www.instagram.com/p/BzvxUiqg3Tc/?igshid=19qhjt60fcrza

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Phonotrope test #362. At last, I’ve managed to get the image to (mostly) stabilize. 8 frames on 2’s, repeated twice. 32 frames in total, 45 rpm shot on 12fps video. I’m redrawing the jellyfish loop in Photoshop so that it’s simpler and has high contrast, as these types of images seem to work the best. #animation #phonotrope #zoetrope https://www.instagram.com/p/BuCBXbzgSf0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7segsxp5wyn5

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VIDEOS: Some of the brilliant eye-boggling record player animations created by children at my Great Exhibition Road Festival art-science workshop for Imperial College London last weekend. I picked these ones because they’re super simple but demonstrate the quirks of the phenakistoscope animation process. Parallel lines appear to spin, differences in strokes cause wobbly movement, dots can be animated and I love the dancing curlicues! I’m thinking this’d be a great activity to bring to an animation festival… @exrdfestival @imperialcollege @instantwarhol @la_reine_et_l_oiselle @cliveandrews #opticalillusion #opticalillusions #phenakistoscope #phonotrope #animation #phasepatterns #trippy #artworkshop #childrensart #stem #steam #hypnotic #exrdfest (at Imperial College London) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfMUmSGoK0m/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I was at Great Exhibition Road Festival at the weekend, commissioned by Imperial College to devise an optical illusion workshop in partnership with neuroscientists Anirudh Kulkarni and Mathilde de Kerangal. I got kids creating hypnotic spinning record player animations by tracing around bicycle cog teeth and using mobile phones to film the resulting drawing at different speeds on the decks. The combination of video frame rate, record speed and number of cog teeth created the illusion of movement in different directions to the turntable. Simple but weirdly effective! Not captured here: the lovely “oooh!” sound visitors made when they realised the spinning patterns came alive when viewed through their mobile phones! @exrdfestival #exrdfest @imperialcollege @instantwarhol @la_reine_et_l_oiselle @cliveandrews #opticalillusion #opticalillusions #phenakistoscope #phonotrope #animation #phasepatterns #trippy #artworkshop #childrensart #stem #steam (at Imperial College London) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfGxsMJIOtE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Testing out a modern update to the pre-cinema animation device called a phenakistoscope (aka a pinwheel animation). This trick uses a turntable, lights and a video camera and is called a phonotrope.

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Out of Frame, Out of Line, Out of Order, Out of Paper – photos and video!

Last weekend was special: for only three days we opened up the WORM UBIK space to brand new work created by 8 animators/artists – work that had as its thread the practice of animation. All of the 8 artists are somehow related to Manifest (either as host, or as past participants). The opening was very well attended, and we had a fair amount come through over the weekend as well, so a good many of you got to see the work in person. For those who didn’t get the chance to see it, here is a video documentation of the opening, and photos of the individual pieces created by Wiep Teeuwisse, Gideon van der Stelt, Simon Scheiber, Sasha Herman, Karin Rianne Westendrop, Natali Voorthuis, Alice Saey and Tess Martin (also project leader of the show).  All photos and video by Mihai Gui. This exhibition was supported by the Gemeente Rotterdam.

Out of Frame, Out of Line, Out of Order, Out of Paper – documentation video from Tess Martin on Vimeo.

The exhibition from the entranceway, with Tess Martin’s phonotrope installation in the foreground. Photo by Mihai Gui.

One of the three phonotropes of Tess Martin’s interactive installation ORBIT. Photo by Mihai Gui.

Simon Scheiber’s interactive installation. Photo by Mihai Gui.

Alice Saey’s five screen projection. Photo by Mihai Gui.

The front side of Gideon van der Stelt’s interactive installation. Photo by Mihai Gui.

The back side of Gideon van der Stelt’s installation. Photo by Mihai Gui.

Wiep Teeuwisse’s Cocoon. Photo by Mihai Gui.

Natali Voorthuis’ sound-based animation. Photo by Mihai Gui.

Karin Rianne Westendorp’s VR experience. Photo by Mihai Gui.

Sasha Herman’s 4-video installation. Photo by Mihai Gui.