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Oscilloscope Music - Planets

Name: Oscilloscope Music - Planets
Description: 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.

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.

“these crazy fools are making oscilloscope music, where the song itself is the visual.” (HN, 2021)

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Along the same lines, these crazy fools are making oscilloscope music, where the song itself is the visual. [this video]

Songs whose waveforms themselves form the visuals on an oscilloscope.

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@leni536 Jun 2017 Cites it

on HN thread After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface

Oscilloscope music. The idea is that you display the left and right channels on an oscilloscope in XY mode. [this video]

Music drawn as images by feeding stereo channels to an oscilloscope in XY mode.

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@solarkraft Jun 2020 Cites it

on HN thread Toto’s “Africa” Played on Tesla Coils

Your description immediately made me think of oscilloscope music, in which an image is made with 2 audio channels being shown on an oscilloscope: [this video]

Example of images created from two audio channels on an oscilloscope.

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