Artist's Game Boy concerts get machine-based visuals

A gentleman who goes by the name Gieskes has created an interesting conflation of seemingly opposing mediums. The DIY'er / artist in question has combined Game Boy-based music with a low-fi, mechanical system of lights and motors, which create kinetic-art visuals that are synced to the sound. The concept is to build screen-saver-like displays which are actually created with analog equipment. The device features three components -- cans, lights, and a camera -- all of which can be "sequenced" much like the Game Boy, thus producing constantly changing (and changeable) effects. Want to see it for yourself? Watch the video after the break (especially towards the end) to learn how it all takes shape.

[Via Boing Boing Gadgets]

[strider_mt2k @ Oct 10th 2007 11:01AM]

I wonder if the visuals would go along with Super Marioland 2: Six Golden Coins?

[swingindh @ Oct 10th 2007 11:18AM]

Uhm, okaay. I think I stepped in the wrong room..

[Jon @ Oct 10th 2007 11:34AM]

Awesome. I love stuff like this! Thanks for the post engadget. BTW, "In Rainbows" so far so good.

[donald scott @ Oct 10th 2007 12:08PM]

it's like "sanford and son" meets "dj crappy".

interesting, but useless, imo.

ds

[Lex @ Oct 10th 2007 12:17PM]

...What?... I never understood art... and apparently I still don't. Its this just for looks or does it actually do something useful?

[josh @ Oct 10th 2007 12:34PM]

Yeah, as an obbject it's just a really cool peice of kinetic art. But alone from the whole contraption looking neat, it is actually just one big mean to and end of creating interesting and adaptapable peices of video art.

Of course, if you don't enjoy this type of art, it's most likely just junk...

[Chou @ Oct 10th 2007 1:31PM]

pretty...

[gfar @ Oct 10th 2007 2:34PM]

Just what we need -- another excuse for idiots to do ecstasy.

[Matthew Hilario @ Oct 10th 2007 4:37PM]

Yea but does it give massages?

[Mikey @ Oct 10th 2007 3:21PM]

Just what i need, another excuse to do ecstacy

[DarkFader @ Oct 10th 2007 3:22PM]

holy crap as in crapta(rti)stic :)

[Joe Shmoe @ Oct 10th 2007 3:45PM]

I think we'd be doing everyone involved a huge favor if we just blended this thing right now...

[Obsidiandesire @ Oct 10th 2007 3:53PM]

Does anyone else thing the whirring and etc contributes quite well as percussion to the music?

[john @ Oct 10th 2007 10:36PM]

Get a job. Honestly. No, You're parents are not proud of you.

[allaina @ Oct 10th 2007 10:55PM]

am i the only one that actually considers this kinda cool, not just as art, but as a visual addition to the music he creates?


then again, i actually already had some stuff of his on a mix someone gave me, i really like 8bit.

i'm not on x, either, ftw.

[Sirius @ Oct 11th 2007 7:44AM]

I particularly like the 'arty' design of his pcbs... adds to the whole theme.. altho if i submitted a pcb like that for my uni projects i'd probably get a 0 :(