James Connolly

DIY video synthesizer stills, 2010-2013

Prior to creating RGB.VGA.VOLT, I experimented with VGA signal hacking and housed my first DIY video synthesizer inside of an old RadioShack TRS80. Imagery from this device was covered by But Does It Float, and eventually led to Apple licensing an image to represent electronic music in their failed iTunes Radio platform.

Blues, cyans, greens, and red colors form vertical bars. Blacks, reds, greens, and blues make organic dark shapes. Greens, cyans, blues, and reds form jagged angled thick vertical lines. Green and red thin lines are overlaid on top of black.. Reds, yellows, and dark blues form jacket angled lines. Wide dark blue and red vertical lines over black, broken up by one horizontal black line. Blues, yellows, and oranges mix together in jagged broken shapes with a black horizontal line breaking them up.. Red and green shapes organically drift into one another at an angle. Blue vertical lines surround a wide vertical yellow-green bar with black behind.. Cyan and red angled vertical bars intermix with a vertical line down the center. Large rectangular black imperfect square on right side of tv monitor with a blue-black vertical bar at the left.. Reds and greens create dirty organic shapes above a black bottom half of the monitor. A RadioShack TRS 80 computer from the 1980s opened with custom wiring added, shown from the back.. A modified RadioShack TRS 80 computer from the 1980s viewed from the front. A modified RadioShack TRS 80 computer from the 1980s viewed from the side.

Image showing iTunes Radio from the early 2010s with an image from the DIY VGA Synthesizer used to represent electronic music.