[HN Gopher] Oscilloscope Music
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Oscilloscope Music
Author : iamflimflam1
Score : 122 points
Date : 2023-08-09 14:46 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (oscilloscopemusic.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (oscilloscopemusic.com)
| TechPlasma wrote:
| I first encountered this with "Oscillofun" by Atom Delta, which
| absolutely blew my mind at the time.
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW1ZxR71VJI
| TheOtherHobbes wrote:
| There's a professional version.
|
| https://www.neoncaptain.com/
| morphicpro wrote:
| Nice! Also love I love this clark track.
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKYrwuxLZtY
| epilys wrote:
| One of my most favorite demoscene tracks is `Beams of Light` by
| TRSI.
|
| It's 4 channels, the front two show an animation video in an
| oscilloscope at X-Y mode and the rear two are the music. It's
| very impressive:
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVdWxKZVYC0
| 0xbadc0de5 wrote:
| Jerobeam Fenderson is good. His "Spirals" I think is his best
| work. However, I think "Globetrotter" by C.Allen is damned
| impressive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2YQD8Go_Hc as is
| "DANCER" by the same artist
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQjJZbgMw7E
| jcims wrote:
| Just got back from youtube with a fresh link to Chris Allen. No
| denying Jerobeam is the OG, but Chris does some INSANE stuff.
|
| Edit: Look at the replay chart in the youtube player for that
| Dancer track. It perfectly encapsulates the ramping intensity.
| blizdiddy wrote:
| Chris Allen is awesome. When Stable Diffusion was released,
| he had several amazing zooming morphing music videos up
| within a _week_. Almost a year later and they are still some
| of my favorite SD works.
| dylan604 wrote:
| "While we are not authorized to discuss the project specifics,
| we can assure you that the DANCER platform is meant exclusively
| for peaceful purposes. -DARPA"
|
| Bwahahahaha. I love it.
| quantumfissure wrote:
| Can someone explain to me exactly how this works? It's not the
| oscilloscope producing the sounds, correct? Rather the
| visualizations from an audio file?
|
| EDIT: Excellent, thanks!
| 0xbadc0de5 wrote:
| The left and right audio channels are connected to two
| oscilloscope inputs to control the X and Y deflection of the
| trace. Think of animated Etch-A-Sketch using music.
| variants wrote:
| https://piped.video/watch?v=4gibcRfp4zA
|
| Smarter everyday has a good video about it
| magicalhippo wrote:
| Most scopes have a 1kHz square wave signal output for
| calibration, surely all you need then are 20 filter boxes or
| so.
| planede wrote:
| The left and right channels are connected to the oscilloscope's
| X and Y input.
| creeble wrote:
| In 1977 I took an old B&W TV (tubes!), took the yoke off the neck
| of the picture tube, and put another one on.
|
| Then I ran the wires from the yoke to the speakers (left X, right
| Y) of an 8-track player that had a built-in amplifier, and popped
| in Wish You Were Here.
|
| Invited some friends over, had a couple of doobs and beers, and
| dubbed it the Orgasmatron, after the gadget in Sleeper. We were
| super excited to bring the rig to a bigger party the next
| evening; it was awesome.
|
| So the next evening my buddy and I are packing up the mess to
| bring to the party, and we start heading up the stairs from the
| basement lair of our family home. My friend had the TV by the top
| handle, leading the way.
|
| Suddenly we hear this little 'whoosh' and crack sound. Sure
| enough, my buddy had whacked the neck of the picture tube
| (sticking out the open back of the TV) on the banister. He was
| standing there on the bottom step, frozen. I burst into laughter.
|
| Another glorious invention that literally never made it out of
| the basement.
| dylan604 wrote:
| I loved how the scanning could be controlled in ways other than
| just the the back and forth sweeping of a boring TV picture. I
| loved some of the old arcade games to did this too. The nature
| of the scanning meant the graphics were not as "impressive",
| but for some reason, I enjoyed the game play over the side
| scrollers.
| ericye16 wrote:
| I have an oscilloscope at home and want to see these, what's the
| best way that doesn't involve stripping and soldering wires? The
| best solution I've come up with is stereo aux -> RCA adapter,
| then two RCA -> BNC adapters. Is there a better way of viewing
| these?
| tuckerpo wrote:
| I'm fairly sure RCA to BNC, left -> x, right -> y is how the
| guy in OP does it.
| hatsunearu wrote:
| you also need a very unusual DAC to view this with high
| fidelity--you need a high sample rate and it needs to be dc
| coupled.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| Somewhat related: I was at Science North and they have a couple
| keyboards connected to a laser projector oscilloscope. I played
| Prelude in C (because I'm a beginner!) and it was kind of amazing
| to see not just the beauty of the loops and curves but how you
| could clearly see the progression of the chords on the wall.
|
| I don't feel like I'm getting any better at piano but I love,
| truly, how I keep "discovering" all the secrets, musically and
| mathematically.
| gravitronic wrote:
| Science North is a treasure! You can also see from that laser
| display how pleasing sounds have a stable, synchronized
| relationship whereas atonal key combinations do not
| vram22 wrote:
| For a second I thought C referred to the C language.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I find it to be simpler to read than Prelude in C#. ;)
| ourmandave wrote:
| When ChatGPT replaces the DJ at your wedding.
| dylan604 wrote:
| More probably these people have such a deep understanding of
| what is sound, how it works, and how to control it that their
| achievements make you feel so small and inferior that you have
| to mock their accomplishments to make yourself feel better. I'm
| sad for you that you cannot appreciate their work. Is it
| because you can't understand what it happening?
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