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Oscilloscope Music - Planets

Jellybean Fenderson · music · Watch on YouTube

Music performance & songsElectronics & circuit designCreative coding & generative art

What it is

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 recommends it

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

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “these crazy fools are making oscilloscope music, where the song itself is the visual.”

    Songs whose waveforms themselves form the visuals on an oscilloscope.

    filoeleven, 2021-01 · Recommendation · in “Encoding Data in Dubstep Drops”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: oscilloscope, xy mode, audiovisual, vector graphics, electronic music

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