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Oscilloscope Music N-Spheres

137 points by webmaven 2y ago

spencerflem 2y ago
This is so lovely <3
larodi 2y ago
How is this not a demoscène product? Cause it very much seems to be, though not mentioned as such in the text …?
- lmpdev 2y ago
  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 2y ago
  Do the definitions of these two overlap? Apart from having music and images?
smusamashah 2y ago
This means this is also the perfect audio visualisation ever. You see exactly what you here.
wayvey 2y ago
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/ https://oscilloscopemusic.com/software/oscistudio/
- Brian_K_White 2y ago
  I approve of this enthusiasm, but TFA is already oscilloscopemusic.com
- phkahler 2y ago
  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: 1) Cathedral by VanHalen 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 2y ago
    I think it is plotting music on an oscilloscope. It just happens to have some very meta visuals.
  - das_keyboard 2y ago
    From TFA: > Oscilloscope Music is music that creates it's own visuals. > 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 2y ago
    > 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 2y ago
geden 2y ago
Ah ha. From a decade ago now: Clark - Superscope https://youtu.be/TKYrwuxLZtY https://youtu.be/TKYrwuxLZtY Clark - Riff Through The Fog https://youtu.be/efnsrLg03e4?si=grC1M4XlXdV1L6VB https://youtu.be/efnsrLg03e4?si=grC1M4XlXdV1L6VB
bArray 2y ago
That music is an experience, really nicely done. Does anybody know if the executable will run under Linux?
mattrick 2y ago
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 https://youtu.be/OP7sTQQ0Blw
cnity 2y ago
The machine elves are gonna love this.
dylan604 2y ago
That has to be the fanciest packaging for a floppy disk I have ever seen
Rygian 2y ago
If you want to approximate an X-Y oscilloscope on your system, check out https://github.com/timstr/oszilloskop https://github.com/timstr/oszilloskop
pornel 2y ago
Oscillofun is the first one I've seen, and I still love the music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4YyI6_y6kw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4YyI6_y6kw

137 points by webmaven 2y ago

spencerflem 2y ago

This is so lovely <3

larodi 2y ago

How is this not a demoscène product? Cause it very much seems to be, though not mentioned as such in the text …?

lmpdev 2y ago
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 2y ago
Do the definitions of these two overlap? Apart from having music and images?

smusamashah 2y ago

This means this is also the perfect audio visualisation ever. You see exactly what you here.

wayvey 2y ago

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/ https://oscilloscopemusic.com/software/oscistudio/

Brian_K_White 2y ago
I approve of this enthusiasm, but TFA is already oscilloscopemusic.com
phkahler 2y ago
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: 1) Cathedral by VanHalen 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 2y ago
  I think it is plotting music on an oscilloscope. It just happens to have some very meta visuals.
- das_keyboard 2y ago
  From TFA: > Oscilloscope Music is music that creates it's own visuals. > 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 2y ago
  > 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 2y ago

geden 2y ago

Ah ha. From a decade ago now: Clark - Superscope https://youtu.be/TKYrwuxLZtY https://youtu.be/TKYrwuxLZtY Clark - Riff Through The Fog https://youtu.be/efnsrLg03e4?si=grC1M4XlXdV1L6VB https://youtu.be/efnsrLg03e4?si=grC1M4XlXdV1L6VB

bArray 2y ago

That music is an experience, really nicely done. Does anybody know if the executable will run under Linux?

mattrick 2y ago

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 https://youtu.be/OP7sTQQ0Blw

cnity 2y ago

The machine elves are gonna love this.

dylan604 2y ago

That has to be the fanciest packaging for a floppy disk I have ever seen

Rygian 2y ago

If you want to approximate an X-Y oscilloscope on your system, check out https://github.com/timstr/oszilloskop https://github.com/timstr/oszilloskop

pornel 2y ago

Oscillofun is the first one I've seen, and I still love the music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4YyI6_y6kw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4YyI6_y6kw