Oscilloscope Music - Planets

Jellybean Fenderson · 2.9M views · 2016-10-03 · 3:18

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Overview

Planets is a track from the audiovisual album Oscilloscope Music, in which the audio signal drives an analog oscilloscope directly. The left channel sets horizontal deflection and the right sets vertical, so the sound draws vector graphics.

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HN cites it as the example of oscilloscope music, where the song itself is the visual, in XY mode.

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Music performance & songs Electronics & circuit design Creative coding & generative art

What people said

filoeleven · 2021-01 · Recommendation
Along the same lines, these crazy fools are making oscilloscope music, where the song itself is the visual. [VIDEO]
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solarkraft · 2020-06 · Reference
Your description immediately made me think of oscilloscope music, in which an image is made with 2 audio channels being shown on an oscilloscope: [VIDEO]
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leni536 · 2017-06 · Reference
Oscilloscope music. The idea is that you display the left and right channels on an oscilloscope in XY mode. [VIDEO]
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