2.9M views · Oct 3, 2016 · 3:18 · 1 HN recommender · 3 mentions · discussed 2017–2021
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.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN cites it as the example of oscilloscope music, where the song itself is the visual, in XY mode.
“these crazy fools are making oscilloscope music, where the song itself is the visual.”HN comment, 2021
“these crazy fools are making oscilloscope music, where the song itself is the visual.”
Songs whose waveforms themselves form the visuals on an oscilloscope.
Along the same lines, these crazy fools are making oscilloscope music, where the song itself is the visual. this video
“The idea is that you display the left and right channels on an oscilloscope in XY mode.”
Music drawn as images by feeding stereo channels to an oscilloscope in XY mode.
Oscilloscope music. The idea is that you display the left and right channels on an oscilloscope in XY mode. this video
“in which an image is made with 2 audio channels being shown on an oscilloscope”
Example of images created from two audio channels on an oscilloscope.
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
