Oscillofun

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Oscillofun is a piece of audio that is both music and a vector animation. Played through an oscilloscope in X-Y mode, the stereo signal draws images in real time.

HN people keep coming back to it as the first and still favorite example of oscilloscope music, a stereo stream that doubles as vector animation.

“stream of stereo samples that are music, and also a vector animation if interpreted as the X and Y deflection signals on an oscilloscope”

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@pornel2024 · in “Oscilloscope Music N-Spheres”
Oscillofun is the first one I've seen, and I still love the music: ▶ this video
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@kazinator2015 · in “Oscillofun (2008) [video]”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
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@ugh2011 · in “Oscillofun”
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@kazinator2024 · in “Images that Sound: Generating spectrograms that are also images”
Oscillofun: stream of stereo samples that are music, and also a vector animation if interpreted as the X and Y deflection signals on an oscilloscope. ▶ this video (History of numerous appearances on HN).