[HN Gopher] Oscilloscope Music N-Spheres
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Oscilloscope Music N-Spheres
Author : webmaven
Score : 123 points
Date : 2024-12-01 15:52 UTC (4 days ago)
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| spencerflem wrote:
| This is so lovely <3
| larodi wrote:
| How is this not a demoscene product? Cause it very much seems to
| be, though not mentioned as such in the text ...?
| lmpdev wrote:
| I am not an expert but I believe CRO music grew independently
| of the demoscene movement
|
| It's been around longer and the overlap might not be as large
| as you'd expect
| badcppdev wrote:
| Do the definitions of these two overlap? Apart from having
| music and images?
| smusamashah wrote:
| This means this is also the _perfect_ audio visualisation ever.
| You see exactly what you here.
| wayvey wrote:
| The Oscilloscope Music scene has really come a long way! I love
| the aesthetic and that got me started on a project to convert an
| old portable CRT TV into an oscilloscope. There's something
| really satisfying knowing that the visuals directly mirror the
| sound. Getting something visually pleasing while still sounding
| musical is a really interesting challenge. Hansi Raber from
| oscilloscopemusic.com even wrote his own software for that
| purpose: https://oscilloscopemusic.com/software/oscistudio/
| Brian_K_White wrote:
| I approve of this enthusiasm, but TFA is already
| oscilloscopemusic.com
| phkahler wrote:
| TFA is not putting music on an oscilloscope. Some of it is
| actually plotting frequency vs time in the video, so it's nice
| demo stuff but not true oscilloscope music.
|
| Long ago I did like you and converted an CRT TV to accept audio
| on the deflection coils (left, right -> X,Y). I can highly
| recommend 2 particular songs for that setup:
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| 1) Cathedral by VanHalen
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| 2) Lunatic Fringe by Red Rider
|
| By all means use a CD if you can rather than MP3 - I'm not sure
| how degraded the MP3 would be so maybe it's fine.
| afandian wrote:
| I think _it_ is plotting music on an oscilloscope. It just
| happens to have some very meta visuals.
| das_keyboard wrote:
| From TFA:
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| > Oscilloscope Music is music that creates it's own visuals.
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| > The same signal that goes to the speakers is also fed into
| an analog oscilloscope to draw green glowing lines.
|
| > The left and right audio channels correspond to the
| horizontal and vertical axes of the image.
|
| > Parametric functions are meticulously crafted to create
| synesthetic geometries in a lab aesthetic that is retro and
| futuristic at the same time.
|
| > The tricky part is to create images that sound good and
| vice versa, which demands novel methods of synthesis, mixing
| and mastering.
|
| This is exactly was TFA does.
| dylan604 wrote:
| > but not true oscilloscope music.
|
| you must have a very unique definition of music. by every
| definition I've looked up, this meets all of them.
|
| because surely you're not disputing the oscilloscope part of
| it
| phkahler wrote:
| >> because surely you're not disputing the oscilloscope
| part of it
|
| Yes, I'm disputing the oscilloscope part of it. An
| oscilloscope does not plot pitch vs time. You could devise
| circuitry to do something _like_ that.
|
| Having plugged audio directly into an oscilloscope, I can
| say that's not how it works. Well, not all of it. The into
| seemed more like it might actually be left/right audio into
| a scope, but the other parts did not.
| dylan604 wrote:
| > Having plugged audio directly into an oscilloscope
|
| i'd suggest you do it again before making baseless
| accusations. they provide you the ability to download the
| audio. they even provide a bit of software to drive
| lasers with the data.
| neckro23 wrote:
| > An oscilloscope does not plot pitch vs time.
|
| You're right, it doesn't, and that's not what's happening
| here. It uses the X/Y deflection mode of the
| oscilloscope, plotting left channel vs right channel.
|
| If you don't believe it, play it on an oscilloscope
| yourself. (I have!)
| geden wrote:
| Ah ha. From a decade ago now:
|
| Clark - Superscope https://youtu.be/TKYrwuxLZtY
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| Clark - Riff Through The Fog
| https://youtu.be/efnsrLg03e4?si=grC1M4XlXdV1L6VB
| bArray wrote:
| That music is an experience, really nicely done.
|
| Does anybody know if the executable will run under Linux?
| mattrick wrote:
| If you like this sort of thing, I highly recommend checking out
| C. Allen's work. The visuals and music are both really
| impressive, in my opinion the best out there:
| https://youtu.be/OP7sTQQ0Blw
| cnity wrote:
| The machine elves are gonna love this.
| dylan604 wrote:
| That has to be the fanciest packaging for a floppy disk I have
| ever seen
| Rygian wrote:
| If you want to approximate an X-Y oscilloscope on your system,
| check out https://github.com/timstr/oszilloskop
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