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#034 howlTwo screaming faces (AI-made) wrecked by computing the whole analog video path rather than drawing any glitch: two unsynced cameras, a circuit-bent frame buffer whose address and data lines the drums short out, an NTSC composite signal, a TV receiver that loses horizontal, vertical and colour lock, and a CRT that finally collapses to a dot, over a 124 BPM MS-20 style sequencer bassline, all synthesized live in the browser. #033 trailA black-and-white dancer (AI-made) turned frame by frame into a cloud of points pushed out by its depth map, with a copy of the pose frozen in space on every kick and shutter click and left drifting back; seen from the front it looks like plain video, until the camera swings round and the afterimages turn out to be a long three-dimensional band, like a slow shutter in 3D, which dissolves into smoke on the last bar. 120 BPM dark techno, all synthesized live in the browser. #032 anchorSix 1990s Japanese TV faces (AI-made) — a newscaster, a weather presenter, a shopping host, an enka singer, a child actor and a masked wrestler — with their eyes, nose and mouth cut out as boxes by in-browser face tracking, the look and the face switching on the beat: floating boxes, colour boxes on a grey face, jittering copies, crushed and torn colour, boxes wired together, and a giant mouth under cursor arrows, over 128 BPM breakbeats with a 1 kHz test tone at every cut, modem chirps and a time signal, all synthesized live in the browser. #031 smokeA column of white smoke on black (AI-made) turned into 1-bit dots, with the trick changing every two seconds: video echoes on the dub delay, the column multiplying from one to eight, a spring-reverb wobble climbing up on each rim shot, photocopy generation loss, an optical soundtrack running up the edge, and the dithering method swapping beat by beat; grey ghost plates trail the moving edges and the smoke rewinds on the kick. 120 BPM dub techno, all synthesized live in the browser. #030 eyeA black-and-white close-up of an eye (AI-made) cut into rings around the pupil, each ring redrawn in a different screen (coarse dots, reaction-diffusion mazes, concentric lines, radial lines, fine dots, photo) and turning one way or the other on every beat; the pupil gapes on each kick and the rings reshuffle on the metal snare. 144 BPM industrial techno, all synthesized live in the browser. #029 relicA single black-and-white photo shattered into about a million points of light that drift like smoke yet keep pulling back toward the picture: drawn in on each breath, snapped back on each beat. A mesh and numbers traced from the moving particles flash with the kick while the camera chases one point after another. 128 BPM glitch techno. Inspired by camlasky's "Minerva" and dith_idsgn's "Cloud datas". #028 bender1980s game and computer screens (a ship in a starfield, wireframes, a green terminal, color bars, a grid horizon, a tunnel, plasma) drawn live and bent through 30 knobs of a circuit-bent analog video box in the spirit of Tachyons+: color, posterize, invert, rainbow, key, trails, sync drift, streaks, noise, CRT and VHS, frame rate. The knob sets change with the music every half beat. #027 keyerEight black-and-white clips of people (AI-made), broken up as if run through an analog keyer and a CRT. The person changes every two beats and the glitch (normal, inverted, darkened, stretched sideways) every half beat; dark areas are keyed to pure black and the rest is drawn in VHS-smeared scanlines. Heavy 64 BPM kicks with CRT whine. Inspired by the glitch work @enternull made for Sampha's "Can't Go Back". #026 locusA 15-second loop borrowing the look of Ryoji Ikeda's datamatics: a gene map, base sequences, bit stripes, a star catalog and line projections drawn in black and white with thin blue and red lines, cut to eight bars at 128 BPM. The sound comes from the same tables, so a sine tone rings as the cursor crosses a gene and the sequence letters become the sound itself. #025 footage80s Horror Footage: fifteen AI-made clips and stills styled like a low-budget 1980s sci-fi horror movie dubbed onto VHS (masked cultists, a skeleton in a specimen tank, a wireframe skull, a stretching mouth, a screaming woman, an alien autopsy) cut on every beat and run through false color, melting, dripping pixels and split bands under the hiss, dropouts and tracking noise of a worn tape, some cuts torn apart by hard VHS noise as the sync fails and the picture rolls into bands, waves sideways and breaks into oval dots, set to a slow, ominous 64 BPM electronic score of bell-like ostinatos in 7 and 9, tubular bells and a heartbeat, the score all synthesized live in the browser. #024 sproutShoots sprouting from the center of empty space, curling along a swirl and splitting into branches, drop tens of thousands of tiny cubes that drift in the shape of the branch before colliding, scattering and fading, glowing blue, violet, pink and cyan under a VHS haze, with every kick of a hypnotic 127 BPM dub techno track sprouting new shoots and pulsing the light and the glitches, all synthesized live in the browser. #023 meltEight AI-made portraits of women, tinted like the Kadokawa paperback covers Ichibun Sugimoto painted for Seishi Yokomizo: the surroundings sink to black, the midtones shift to an eerie color each scene, and only the red lips stay. Each face is split down the nose and one half keeps dripping downward, melting; the side is picked at random for each new woman. A 15-second, 64 BPM decadent loop of warped tape, needle crackle, a music box and deep reverb. #022 frostThe knobs of a noise drone synth (cutoff, drive, resonance, mix, LFO, comb, delay, reverb) are wired straight into black-and-white 0/1 pixel graphics, turned by hand: pushed, pulled back, peeked open, chopped. Every 18 to 30 seconds the sound changes and the picture restarts from a single dot, as a kaleidoscope, contour islands, interference rings, a maze or a cellular automaton. #021 neo-yankeeFive scenes of Heisei-era yankee culture piled high in Harajuku colors (yankee girls, a pastel bosozoku biker, a dekotora art truck, a decorated bicycle and a gang meeting), looped over 128 BPM techno. The people, generated separately against a green screen and keyed out, turn bar by bar into floating 3D blocks, glowing slices or stay as they are, while the background melts into datamosh in the same neon. #020 coilA single closed line, with no start, no end and no crossings, endlessly reshaping itself to the light and dark of a black-and-white video of a man's face, packing into a dense maze in the hair, shadows and shirt while the background loops shrink toward the face and leave only round bulges outside the outline, following him without breaking as he bows his head, turns aside and looks back, to a 15-second loop of trip-hop at 64 BPM with every kick widening the spacing so the line pushes against itself and ripples, in the spirit of algorigraph's live "single elastic loop" system, all synthesized live in the browser. #019 rasterA black-and-white face photo cut into horizontal strips, each scaled a little differently so its outline repeats in sawtooth steps, and split into vertical bands rendered in different halftones (coarse round dots, a reaction-diffusion maze, fine dots, the photo itself, binary blocks and fine diamonds), the extra zoom swelling and receding in a wave every bar to a 15-second loop of minimal glitch techno at 128 BPM, with the kick pushing the wave out and the claps reshuffling the bands, in the spirit of toan_vu_huu's image slicer app, all synthesized live in the browser. #018 foldFour scenes of a city "incident" made with Veo and shot like 1996 camcorder footage, an underground ceiling caving in, an arcade crowd fleeing toward the camera, a building splitting and lifting into the sky, a lone figure in a rainy alley, cut together at 128 BPM with real datamosh (I-frames removed) smearing each scene into the next, time-displacement rings on every kick, slit-scan bands on the claps and a vortex on the closing snare roll, in the spirit of metr0punk's analog-horror reels, all synthesized live in the browser. #017 coronaAbout 4.2 million white GPU particles erupting like flames from the surface of a still black sphere, in monochrome, pulsing to a 15-second track of dark ambient with a 128 BPM four-on-the-floor kick, broken by inversions, RGB splits and slices on the claps, and datamoshed into blocks by the closing snare roll, all synthesized live in the browser. #016 shatterLow-poly rocks and triangle shards glowing blue on black, scattered and torn into blocks by a 170 BPM glitch breakbeat of metallic FM hits, rolls, granular stutters and fills, all synthesized live in the browser (playable with a KORG nanoKONTROL2). #015 idolwerkA fake MV for an idol group that doesn't exist, the four late-1970s Kraftwerk members recast as four Japanese women, built on the look of "The Robots": red shirts, black ties and stiff synchronized moves, with hyperpop glitches on top and a robot-voiced 808 electro track that turns hyperpop in the chorus. #014 vectorA triangle-mesh head glowing white like a vector monitor, in the spirit of the CG heads of Kraftwerk's "Electric Café", switching its angle, layout and 3D lettering on every beat to melodyless 808 electro and robot voices. #013 bluescreenA fake music video for a nonexistent hyperpop singer, with an AI-made gabber-hyperpop song: lip-synced screaming, frozen error windows, a dead battery and a blue screen. #012 screensaverFive AI clips that look like late-90s CGI screensavers, dissolving one per bar to a music-box and pad tune, smeared through VHS and torn as if the tape skips at every cut. #011 sugarrushA fake hyperpop MV for a K-pop four-piece that doesn't exist, one member cut out and multiplied over false color, bouncing letters, stickers and glitches. #010 ghostidolA fake MV for a K-pop girl group that doesn't exist, torn apart to gabber with VHS glitches, datamoshing, melting faces and fake karaoke lyrics. #009 squelchHundreds of thousands of fractal-flame points spun into threads and melted by a fluid, the ground flashing black, white and neon, all driven by the filter of a 155BPM hardcore acid line. #008 slowdiveAn AI video of a 10m platform dive slowed right down under VHS glitches — shifted lines, bleeding color, split RGB — with a mode that turns every frame into dots. #007 modlinesBlack-and-white photos rebuilt as coarse dither or brightness-driven wavy lines in a four-color palette, moved by tape wobble and kicks. #006 meltdownIts own source code, syntax-highlighted and melted into swirls and streaks by a displacement field, then dissolved into dots. #005 ascii_scanA woman's face and a 3D point cloud turned into ASCII characters, traced by a scanline that leaves color behind. #004 asciiA black-and-white portrait rebuilt as a grid of characters, glitch sounds driving density, line shifts and color offsets. #003 kaleidoAI-generated photos folded into a kaleidoscope, with brightness, repetition, layering and cuts driven by sound. #002 scannerA white point cloud reshapes with the sound, the camera cutting on every kick and snare. #001 strobeTurns a bundle of photos into a strobe-style video.