LZX COLOR CHORDS Owner's Manual

COLOR CHORDS

OWNER’S MANUAL

COLOR CHORDSLZX INDUSTRIES

RED, GREEN & BLUE TRIPLETS

The name Color Chords is a reference to the work of video synthesis pioneer Stephen Beck, who developed the Direct Video Instrument
One (DV #1) in 1971. Beck’s work has been a tremendous source of inspiration to us over the years, especially his conceptual thinking
about the video synthesizer as an artistic instrument. Rather than a focus technical and engineering functional blocks such as mixers,
VCOs, and so on, he created an instrument with artistic principles in mind: form, texture, and color. It is with this same mindset that we
are designing our current series of video synthesis modules.

The “color chord” modules in Beck’s instrument introduced the video synthesis concept of a shape being mixed to Red, Green & Blue
color channels using a matrix mixer as a compositional tool. While our design is quite different from the modules in the Direct Video
Instrument One, the spirit of the idea lives on through Color Chords.

Lars Larsen
December, 2016

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COLOR CHORDS
OWNER’S MANUAL

Written by Lars Larsen

Published December, 2016.

LZX-CC-OM-V1.0

COLOR CHORDSLZX INDUSTRIES

LZX Industries
814 SE 14th Ave.
Portland, OR 97214
USA

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Creative tools for video synthesis

and analog image processing.