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Oscilloscope Music โ€” What You See Is What You Hear!

This is a visualization created on the screen of an oscilloscope by a musical piece:

Primer is an introduction to oscilloscope music, a genre and art form where vector visuals are formed by the music itself. The image is produced by using the left audio channel to control the beam on the X axis, and the right audio channel to control the beam on the Y axis.

Once I wrapped my brain around what was happening here, I found this to be quite an impressive achievement: creating beautiful & coherent visuals from non-discordant music. (via waxy)

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Jennifer L Levering

It's giving Severance

Roberto Ranon

If you like this, check out the work of Jestern AKA Alberto Novello, from Italy: https://www.jestern.com

He does audiovisual installations using lasers instead of oscilloscopes (but also uses them for smaller installations, as well as vector displays), but the concept of visualizing sound is the same

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