Tektronix Oscilloscope Music
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I recently picked up a vintage Tektronix 603 X-Y monitor. Time to draw nice pictures with sound to showcase it! And when the Tek is paired with music from talented Austria-based artist (not Dutch as I mistakenly say in the video) Jerobeam Fenderson, it becomes truly spectacular.
Music files can be obtained from:
oscilloscopemusic.com/
The track played in the video at 8:53 is "Shrooms".
Here are some videos of Hansi and Jerobeam (Chris) showing some of the behind the scenes "making of":
This great talk by Hansi about the software development and how he met Chris:
• Oscilloscope Music and...
This short one showing them working together on some of the tracks:
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Here are some great videos of Hansi and Jerobeam (Chris) showing some of the behind the scenes "making of": This great talk by Hansi about the software and how he met Chris: kzread.info/dash/bejne/m4FppLlwZaaxerQ.html This short one showing them working together on some of the tracks: kzread.info/dash/bejne/e4mCrs9vm7uzqZM.html I kid you not, I applauded spontaneously mid way through the first one.
The most amazing thing is how listenable it is as music
i really like how the flute signal looks on the XY display :D
If my brain is ever transferred into a robot, I want an oscilloscope for my mouth
@GenesisRasphotos
7 жыл бұрын
Skooks entire face*
@kya_se
5 жыл бұрын
@@GenesisRasphotos entire body*
@realperson9951
5 жыл бұрын
yes
@wirklichhaltsmaul
5 жыл бұрын
Like Caren from Spongebob?
@finn8665
4 жыл бұрын
I WANT TO BE AN OSCILLOSCOPE
"And of course we want the mushrooms to move just like in real life" LOL the guy must've been on mushrooms when he made that!
@llMarvelous
4 жыл бұрын
He definitely was 😂🤣
@iamconnortheandroidsentbyc2859
4 жыл бұрын
It's a reference to the kick starter promo for a vectorscope album
@jesuswasjewish5289
3 жыл бұрын
Infected mushroom
this reminds me of the instrument in futurama that alllows people to create pictures with music
@Lixxide
Ай бұрын
Holophonor ?
I CAN'T EVEN FUCKING 3D ANIMATE AND THAT GUY DOES IT ON A FREAKING ANALOG OSZILLOSCOPE
@teknikal_domain
7 жыл бұрын
Lot's of patience, I bet.
@ashwadhwani
7 жыл бұрын
passionce
@Fader2003
7 жыл бұрын
maybe you should get you a KORG Workstation.....
@alm3333
7 жыл бұрын
Naah. It's all math.
@cerulity32k
3 ай бұрын
Lots of math, engineering, and creativity. I'm trying to make my own oscilloscope art framework.
I have never been so amazed in my life.
@ralfjung4156
6 жыл бұрын
I was so flashed !
proof of the incredible and mesmerising beauty of the natural analogue world
@tiberiu_nicolae
7 жыл бұрын
Created with the OsciStudio software.
@MilezAwxy
5 жыл бұрын
No that's not proof, Jerobeam Fenderson makes his music on digital software: Pure Data, MaxMSP, Ableton, OsciStudio & Blender. You can achieve the same results with a FM synth, digital or analogue.
@TheSimoc
2 жыл бұрын
@@MilezAwxy What a heck are you trying to say? No matter what tools you use for making art, absolutely doesn't undo the fact of purely analogue end result where incredible picture art gets conveyed by incredibly pleasing musical audio signal by very nature of purely analogue world.
@jamieostrowski4447
2 жыл бұрын
@@MilezAwxy Yes but the image won't be as "warm".
Has a really really cool vibe to it. Sounds like an FM sound synth. Has this old school demo feel to it. love it
@MollariB5
7 жыл бұрын
haha, reminds me of going straight to the local computer shop straight after college and grabbing the latest demo disk fro the Amiga 500
@thomasrosebrough9062
5 жыл бұрын
Youre exactly right! It sounds like an FM synth cause that's one of the two main effects he uses, FM and RM, to make the shapes. He uses one wave's frequency to Modulate the Frequency (FM) of another.
3:46 I swear I can see a hollow tube made of chicken wire rotating. The thing is, I can change which way it’s rotating. Up, down, left, right.
@novadotflac
4 жыл бұрын
WOAH
@jstnptchtt
4 жыл бұрын
Actually... that’s the Dual Axis Illusion, awarded the Best Illusion of the Year... in 2019. More than three years after this video was published.
WOW this is freaking awesome, no idea how I missed this entire concept, especially with 8 scopes sitting around idle... Thanks for the vid!
8:30 Noooo!!! Right when he was gonna do the 3d mushroom field part of the demo! I wanted to see how that was gonna look on the bottom display! Just 5 more seconds maaannn... Why interupt it right there? Ohhh the pain...
@lorenzobertolini5541
5 жыл бұрын
Guardatelo sul video originale
@thomasrosebrough9062
5 жыл бұрын
I know right? I was just about to be like "Yes I finally get to see how it works!!" and then it's gone.
@MaxUgly
4 жыл бұрын
Maybe that is a sign. You must buy an oscilloscope!! It will change your life!!!
@ChadtuvaQueen
Жыл бұрын
Here you go m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/pKiGmJVmlca7ftI.html
I've been wanting an old analog scope for a while. this just put it higher up on the list!
So, that is how the Infected Mushroom do their music!
at 3:46, that's the same exact tone that comes out of a Federal Signal Modulator dual tone electronic siren. I mean, even the pitch matches.
@axipixel5811
6 жыл бұрын
That's because sirens are designed with music theory concepts in mind, even the oldfashioned rotor ones. The rotors had specfic mathematical numbers of rotors on each of the two spinners to do this. Sirens are designed to create extremely dissonant, out of tune chords between two notes. This is disturbing and generally creepy to the human ear, and this is on purpose. Honestly the old rotor sirens do a better job of it in almost all cases. Except the Chicago tornado sirens I swear they are more terrifying than the event itself.
@deephorizon1365
5 жыл бұрын
@@axipixel5811 hell yeah no idea what you said but I agree
I want some oscilloscope music that displays a geometric calibration pattern like the very expensive calibration plugins generate!
@CuriousMarc
3 жыл бұрын
That's an excellent idea! I think you can generate your own using Hansi Raber's OsciStudio software: oscilloscopemusic.com/oscistudio.php . That's Jerobeam's friend. Jerobeam also shows how you can use other free tools to make mathematical shapes easily here: oscilloscopemusic.com/software.php . I suspect you could do you test screen with these.
@Sigmatechnica
3 жыл бұрын
@@CuriousMarc oooh this software looks good, i'll see what it can do!
Very nicely done! I really like seeing the individual channel traces, I’ve been following Jerobeam for years and i think that is the first time I’ve seen those.
Now input this waveform into a tesla coil array!
Imgine this on LSD, woah
@georgeniculescu
5 жыл бұрын
imagine that your brain uses the same math, as the visuals are comparable, while on acid ;)
It's actually not entirely his work. The DSP algorithms for the 3D projections were developed by mathematician Hansi Raber.
@CuriousMarc
7 жыл бұрын
The software Raber developed (and anyone can get it at: asdfg.me/oscistudio/index_grey.html) deserves ample credit.
@hansiraber
7 жыл бұрын
yes, we do a lot of scoping together. but in this case it's completely jerobeams work. (there's also no osci studio used for the space scene at 13:11 , it's all done in max/pd ). a lot of it is really hard to credit actually, because everything exists already and it's just a matter of piecing it together differently. e.g. here's the butterfly: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_curve_(transcendental) and here are 3d projections: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_projection .
@CuriousMarc
7 жыл бұрын
+hansiraber Great to have you here! I am pretty convinced that even if I had been armed with the equations and the software I would not have come up with anything remotely as nice as this. Hats off to both of you!
@Snowcube
7 жыл бұрын
woah... are you douro20 on lighting-gallery?
@douro20
7 жыл бұрын
alertec2202 Yes.
This stuff is absolutely mindblowing. So amazing, thanks for sharing!
Absolutely amazing! Coolest experiment ive seen since Cymatics.
WOOOOOW this is amazing. I don't even have words for express how I liked it.
way cool. thanks for sharing. particularly the dual view with the two channels separated.
I love how some notes appear as a rotating sort of basket. Certain sounds are not only sonically beautiful but also visually.
Thanks for a transcendent video, @CuriousMarc!
Also some nice phasing and binaural beats. You see what's going on with the change in harmonics. If SETI ever gets "dubstep music" from space, this should be one of the ways it needs to be looked at. Messages purposely sent out are likely to be made fairly obvious, and this is one way where not too much math is needed for the icons and pictograms to be right there.
Thanks for this and all your great videos. Cheers.
This is amazingly mind-blowing! Talk about having a hidden digital Easter egg in music. This is a continuous clutch of Easter eggs!👍
@TheSimoc
2 жыл бұрын
Analog easter egg ;)
I guess what's even more surprising is that analogue to digital to analogue can still produce these intricate patterns despite the approximation of digitising techniques
@reddragonflyxx657
7 жыл бұрын
If you make the approximations small enough, they have minimal effect.
This is just amazing, how simple is the idea
Great stuff - thank you for showing!
Returning to watch this years later and it still sends me into a geek drool :)
When I was a teen in the 70's, I built what was called a lissie. Saw it in a magazine. black and white tv, remove the yoke and leave it connected. Then slip another one on. connect to two 70v audio transformers and feed it from a stereo. Pretty much the same effect. very cool demo Marc!
COOL video ! I connected my stereo to and old 21 inch TV's yolk doing the same thing back in the late 70's, neat as hell !
Absolutely Mesmerizing!
I would say that slightly psychedelic is an understatement !!!
Can’t imagine the time involved in something like that… pretty neat
Nice lab you got going there! I love the *smell* of classic electronics! Electronics that were built by the pound!
The grand finale is spectacular. Great mind food.
others have done this many times before, but this guys work is awesome aswell !
9:33 Amazing feat here. The shape seriously and eerily reminds me of the star fortress all over the world. Immediately where my mind went to. Does anyone else know what im talking about?
I love how when the lissajous figures are moving, you can make them rotate in different directions if you try hard enough. they tend to rotate along the y axis by default for me, but i can force that to change
that was seriously dope. Jerobeam Fenderson is a genius.
So cool! I'd love to see a slow motion capture of this.
This is quite interesting as it clearly shows the distinct link between music and mathematics.
This is legitimately hypnotic
Looking at sound ! simply awesome.
You enlighten us CuriosMarc!
Awesome !! these projections would have been right at home at a Gong concert ; ) Have played around with lissajous patterns but nothing like this !! - time to put my scope & sig-gen back to use, must try to recreate : D
Those illuminated pushbuttons on the oscilloscope are great, I wish more electronics had illuminated pushbuttons.
Thanks for sharing, that was nice :)
wow ive been hypnotized!!!!
Is this how sound creates the universe?
Right on! Funny... I happened to be playing a vintage Battlezone video game while on lysergic acid diethylamide just last week and that's pretty much what I was witnessing the whole time.
Very cool! Love it!
woah this is amazing
sounds like NiN! great music and visuals. cant wait to try these while on
Beautiful. I love analog oscilloscopes or at least analog display.
thats just goes to show that a lot of tech from the past is still useful today
I actually did stuff like this to test a vector scope i made from an old tv. First thing was sine, and cosine circle, then i made lissajous curves.
Fantastic!
This oscilloscope is way way much better compared to some of the other ones where the other ones have mismatching lines on their display.
That's amazing. Oh my gosh. I need to have this, too. :O
man, i really want an oscilloscope; even more than before now!
Thousands of cats and dogs are going nuts right now as people are watching you make lissajous patterns with the function generator.
thank you marc
Amazing!
Aha! You replicated my "scope degoozerizer!" It's a fun circuit!
I LOVE IT!!!! I got to build my own!
"We want our mushroom to move, just like in real life"
that was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that was more fun than any other mainstream music
Now I get the whole TRSI "Beams of Light" demo!
@AiOinc1
7 жыл бұрын
What's the album you showed called?
@CuriousMarc
7 жыл бұрын
I think just "Oscilloscope Music". I added the link in the description.
@AiOinc1
7 жыл бұрын
CuriousMarc Thanks!
WOW! Amazing
11:27 I love how there are also shrooms on the bottom display
i can see this as a great music style
Awesome, thanks.
I’m geeking and tripping out all at once! Lol
Thanks for this, it's fantastic. I can see (I think) why you have to change the coordinates to xy, as I imagine that the bottom screen is lr? Even if not, I can at least begin to see how you can build the images up.
amazing!
4:50 woah why does it feels good to hear this, i like it 👍👍👍
AMAZING
this feels like something from the future we never had. from a parallel universe
I heard similar sounds like those on mushrooms also had beings talking to me in tones and sinewaves such as these
I wish you had left the lower image in view for all of it. I've already seen the main view from the original videos.
THAT'S SO COOL
awesome !
Very interesting, I'm sure it took hours of work to come up with the right sounds to make those images... lots of experimenting.
As cool as this is, I always had doubts about this being legit, it's so cool that this album is.
Everybody got, mixed feelings, about the function and the form. Everybody got to deviate from the norm.
Oh wow I just got to the 'music' track bit, my 465 is getting a work out tomorrow.
Awesome
I have no idea wtf is happening, but it is amazing.
It's magnifisent! How's many music style a prototype for oxylograph?
Whet you said was 2/3, a muaical fifth, was 3/4, a musical fourth.the next interval was a fifth.
Imagine Kraftwerk's 'Wir sind der roboter' played all together with this. Super!
Awesome....
dude when you work with oscilloscopes for a while you feel like you understand how the waves actually work in your brain its weird like the separate right and left channels now I wanna try it with like a volumetric display like do we get 3d lissajou figures