Rauschfeld

Music Videos

Null Sphere

2024-06-23

An audioreactive visualizer, made in TouchDesigner. Music made in Ableton.

GESTALT_V17 / RF___240505:1923

2024-05-09

Some sunday afternoon shenanigangs with instancing, noise, and feedback in TouchDesigner. The audio is a loop from an unreleased track. Tilt-shifty blur added in Final Cut.

Music video »Sensor Mod (Deep Face)«

2024-03-02

Here I’m using the 1920s timelapse footage of plants like I did in Drone 2.12.24, but in a very different way. The flower videos were glitched using displacement and feedback loops in TouchDesigner and composited with a background made with GlitchNES that was filmed off of a CRT TV. These videos were further glitched with Resolume Arena and then edited in Final Cut Pro.

Also for the long drone part I took a photo of my eye and used the same displacement glitch method as with the flowers. In this case the displacement is controlled with a very slow LFO in TouchDesigner, so the effect keeps getting stronger the longer it is visible.

Music video »Drone 2.12.24«

2024-02-19

For this video I experimented with particles and different kinds of feedback. Source for the particles was this 1920s timelapse footage of plants blossoming. A lot of time went into preparing the footage, including upscaling, cleaing, luma-keying, editing, and positioning. The feedback loops in TouchDesigner were reset every 16 beats to match the pitch bend in the music.

Music Video for »redroom/black« by Rauschfeld

2024-02-08

For this music video both elements, the audio-reactive background grid and the audio-reactive lines, were made in TouchDesigner. It’s all in one patch but the two parts were recorded separately (with alpha channel) and then edited together with the background in Final Cut Pro. The separate recordings gave me a bit more flexibiliy and also made it easier on the CPU and GPU.

I made several versions of the white lines with different line widths, and different effects on top. In the end I used a version with very few effects (only blur and limit), because I felt it fitted the somewhat analogue/paper style best.

The lines start with just two points and gain a new point (and thus a new line) with every beat of the kick drum, resulting in around 370 connected lines at the end of the video.

In the beginning the lines are quantized to a grid which they lose during the second break of the track, making it even look a bit organic – especially towards the end with a higher number of points. The tranisition to the non-grid version was animated in TouchDesigner.

The texts on every node are basically just the coordinates for every point added together and then converted to letters with a Python expression in TouchDesigner.

For the music I once again employed the Fors Opal Max for Live device, Live’s own Operator synth and a bunch of effect plugins.

As for the title: At first I wanted to use a red background, but it looked a bit too to dark. I liked the title, so I went with it anyway.

Music Video for »Face in You« by Rauschfeld

2024-01-28

I finally took the plunge and started to learn TouchDesigner. The 3D model I used here is a low-poly scan of my face, cleaned up in Blender and imported into TouchDesigner, where I distorted it with noise, added some feedback loops and different materials for the different looks. I set up four cameras in TouchDesigner and recorded the whole track for each camera separately. These recordings were imported into Final Cut Pro where I edited the different scenes for the video.

This is also the first time I worked in 4K. For my usual analogue video low-fi glitchy stuff it isn’t really necessary but in this case I thought it should be worth it.

The music was made in Ableton, like the last track with the wonderful Fors Opal device.

Music Video for »A Cube (Drift)« by Rauschfeld

2024-01-14

The basic visuals for this video were made with the wonderful glitchNES for the Nintendo Entertainment System (used in an emulator here). I filmed the glitchNES visuals off of an old CRT TV to make them less pristine and to add the good old CRT scanlines.

Then I processed the CRT glitchNES visuals in Resolume Arena, mostly using the Threshold effect to make them monochrome black and white (in reality they’re very colorful) and the Edge, Trail, and Shift Glitch effects. For the Shift Glitch effect I made some parameters audio reactive to different parts of the frequency spectrum. These visuals were projected inside the cube using Resolume’s Cube effect.

I recorded several versions of this with different effect combinations and then edited them in Final Cut Pro.

The starting point for the music were sequences made in Ableton Live with Fors Opal. I recorded each of Opal’s engines to a separate track in Live, and then heavily edited them to form the track structure. Some additional sub bass FM was added with Ableton’s Operator synth.

Music Video for »Tschunk Experte« by Henrik Wiegand

2023-11-17

This is a mix of footage provided to me of the various steps of preparing a Tschunk cocktail, and some 90s TV ads, mostly for drinks. Everything went through some analogue processing and was edited in Final Cut Pro, where some digital effects and final touches were added.

Music Video For »FBI« by Madtixx

2023-05-18

MADTIXX has produced an acid house track and I made the music video for it.

The video consists soley of (looped) scenes from the 1980s HK action comedy Mad Mission 2. I ran all scenes it through my analogue video glitching setup and rerecorded it on the computer to give the scenes an appropriate glitched VHS/analogue video look. Looping was partially made in Resolume, but most of the arranging and video looping was done manually in Final Cut.

Music Video for »Glowstick Glitterati« by cybørt

2023-05-01

A drum’n’bass’n’chiptune track made in Renoise, mixed and mastered in Logic.

For the video I made some hand drawn animations with Looom on the iPad and used them as a mask in Resolume Avenue over a glitched video of a fashion show. I added some effects in Resolume, recorded several versions and edited it all in Final Cut.

Music Video for »Frequency« by cybørt

2023-02-19

A heavily 90s inspired jungle track, made in Renoise with synth samples from my E-Mu Orbit 9090.

The video is based on this video from the Prelinger Archive. The morphing 3D cube is a render I made in Blender 3D, the animated diamond shape pattern is from Laak’s “Hand” VJ loop pack.

I used some effects in Resolume Avenue (like mirror, delay RGB, etc.) and then sent everything though my analogue video setup for some glitches and feedback. I re-recorded those scenes and edited everything in Final Cut Pro.

The break is of course the famous Amen break, the bass sample and the voice samples are taken from the first Zero-G Datafile CD. All the synth samples I sampled from my E-Mu Orbit 9090 “The Dance Planet” rack mount synth, which has all the 90s dance sound presets you can imagine. Processing wise I used Arturia’s Cold Fire distortion plugin and Shaper Box, mostly for bass distortion and wobble. Mixing and mastering were done in Logic Pro.

Music Video for »Terrific Like This (Goddamn Noise)« by cybørt

2022-09-04

Some 90s inspired rave/acid fun. The video consists of some 80s aerobics videos and footage from the 1984 Olympics - everything went through several of my circuit bent analogue video devices, was post-processed in Resolume, and edited in Final Cut Pro.

Music Video for »Das Leuchten« by TELE83

2022-07-19

The video was made with a sloppily 3D-scanned selfie, some 3D animations rendered in Blender, and two particle videos by Laak. All of this was processed through my circuit-bent analogue video setup and captured in Resolume, then edited in Final Cut Pro.

Music Video for »Programmschleife 2« by TELE83

2021-11-14

»Programmschleife 2« is the second TELE83 release. For the second release the themes are vintage japanese commercials, video games, and television shows from the 1990s. Made with the LoFi Future GBS 8100 and video feedback through the Panasonic WJ-AVE 5 and Edirol V-4 mixers, filmed off of a 21" CRT TV, and edited in Final Cut Pro. Music by me.

Music Video for »Programmschleife 1« by TELE83

2021-07-06

»Programmschleife 1« is the first release of my audio-visual project TELE83. It’s a trip through the German television landscape from the 1970s and 1980s. The video was made with the LoFi Future GBS 8100 and some mixer video feedback, filmed off of a 21" CRT TV, and edited in Final Cut Pro.

Music Video for »krantz11« by Rauschfeld

2021-05-01

This video was performed in realtime with the music with the Synesthesia video processing software. Music by me, composed on eurorack modular synthesizer, recorded in one take.

Music Video for »sandfoermchen3« by Rauschfeld

2021-04-25

This video was performed in realtime with the music, using the Synesthesia video processing software, glitching some old skate boarding footage. Music by me, composed on eurorack modular synthesizer, recorded in one take.