The Electronic Video Synthesizer: Interview with Eric Siegel by Jud Yalkut

Jud Yalkut

1970-1973

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The Electronic Video Synthesizer: Interview with Eric Siegel by Jud Yalkut (1970-73)
Published in Ohio Media, Dayton, Ohio, Vol.1, No. 2/3, December 1977/January 1978.
Also in Electronic Zen, 1984 (unpublished)

This article is compiled from two interviews that Jud Yalkut made with Eric Siegel in the early 70s. The first was a TV interview broadcast on WNET/13, New York, in 1970. The second was a radio interview broadcast on WBAI, New York, in 1973. The text features Siegel's technical descriptions of how the Electronic Video Synthesizer (EVS) functions, as well as its use as a means of altering consciousness. Siegel states that the "EVS is the instrument of the New Television" which "will be used as a means of self-expression and a way for constructive meditation, of a person communicating with his own inner self." In the interviews Siegel explains his idea of using the video synthesizer to transmit positive energy, stating that with this technique people who have advanced to "higher levels of consciousness" can convey their experiences to people in their homes watching TV.