Live At Metro Television 1983

Three videos that come from an invitation by Metro TV in Sydney to demonstrate Stephen Jones's analogue video synthesizer at a seminar weekend called "Future Screen". His synth was installed into Metro's control room above the main studio and we did a two camera plus feedback and synth recording with the Cox vision mixer in the suite. Our hope was that the control voltages that ran the music could also be supplied to the video synthesizer such that an analogue between note and image could be presented - but there was no obvious result and so we discarded that ideal for hand tuning. We did several takes of each song and then some months later had the opportunity to do a proper edit, colourising and other camera layers at Heuristic Video. The entire work was done on PAL U-Matic tape. It's been pointed out by @pipefx64 that there was no copy on YouTube so I've supplied the best possible copy available to me. It comes from a master U-Matic tape that's been baked, time base corrected and re-synched with a better copy of the audio. There are still artifacts - it's quite old! Some things you might not know: There is text down the bottom of the screen in "Petrol" from a TRS-80 computer generating bogus psychoanalytical jargon. The loop of video at the end of the set was a physical videotape loop running through the synthesizer. We encouraged Stephen to add avocado onto the tape so that it slowly clogged and stop working.