Oscilloscope Music - Pictures from Sound

Published on Nov 23, 2016 Techmoan

This one is in via Soviet Space Child. See the oscilloscope label at the bottom of this post for more. BTW, you can purchase the album that makes these images. Link below.

"An oscilloscope can be made to display shapes by playing sounds into it. Making music from these sounds while simultaneously drawing images with those sounds takes things to another level. CLICK SHOW MORE
In the video I fix up and put an old oscilloscope to a new use, and show how you can watch these audio-visual demos even if you don't have a oscilloscope by using a computer.

If you want to skip the preamble and repair section and jump straight to the demo - it starts at 05:00

Useful Links
Jerobeam Fenderson’s Oscilloscope Music
http://oscilloscopemusic.com

Jerobeam Fenderson’s Youtube Page
https://www.youtube.com/user/jerobeam...

If you have any technical queries - the FAQs here should answer them
http://www.jerobeamfenderson.net/post...

Oscilloscope Emulator for Windows, Mac & Linux
https://asdfg.me/osci/

Reddit Oscilloscope Music Page
https://www.reddit.com/r/oscilloscope...

Here’s a link to a Free Oscilloscope Demo called Youscope
http://makezine.com/2007/08/29/yousco...

If you like seeing oscilloscopes put to unconventional uses - perhaps you'll be interested to see Quake played on one. https://youtu.be/GIdiHh6mW58

You may also be interested to know that the 'first video game' "Tennis for Two" was played on a scope display in 1958
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_...

If you have an old X/Y capable oscilloscope you'll probably need a pair of BNC male to RCA female converters like these http://amzn.to/2f67Qsk if you want to connect audio devices to it."