N-SPHERES

[@itsblonk]

aww yea can't wait to listen to parametric functions

[@FTNomad]

You win comments today!

[@OMNI_INFINITY]

*Technically parametric functions can make any sound, so....*

[@DerpScout]

@@OMNI_INFINITY use AI to convert a song into parametric functions and play it back thru the oscilloscope :D

[@cabaucom376]

The real paramore...

[@TempOne-vh4fd]

This would have been a way cooler way to learn about graphing functions in algebra.

[@Marxon1134]

The fact that you're able to store it as lossless functions instead of normal audio files is honestly genius.

[@inues]

It's like an SVG but for sound instead of vector graphics

[@KManAbout]

​@@inuesexactly

[@luminousfractal420]

wonder how hard it would be to reverse engineer music into it.

[@pesseguitos]

what does that mean?? i don't understand...

[@pesseguitos]

​@@inueswhat is SVG

[@afrosheenix]

Dude you MUST go to Revision demo party next year and enter this into the wild style category. Hundreds of nerds will cheer for you. This is amazing work.

[@SnapSV]

THIS! I don't understand how Jerobeam hasn't gotten involved in Demoscene yet.

[@ryanmalin]

@@SnapSV Its because he's already on the top. Id still love to see him make an appearance

[@TachyBunker]

yess. I was in the Revision demo party and with my partner Bus Error, we did an oscilloscope demo by the way!!! Got 2nd place only though in Wild -_- if interested, look up "Shadow Vortex Bus Error"

[@Leosalvaje_]

@@SnapSV Demoscenes... damn a nostalgia trip!

[@zanzlanz]

A whole EP WITH VISUALS on a 1.44 megabyte floppy disk!?? This is historical! AMAZING!! AMAZING!!! Function is an intensely creative quine, and core just flat out rocks - from start to end, this is a pure creative masterpiece.

[@logalot]

I mean, no video files need to be stored

[@PockyBum522]

The actual windows binary with visuals and audio is 41kb. My mind is absolutely blown.

[@judaspriestforever153]

@@logalot dude it needs loseless wavs that are like gigs in size usually how

[@doraexplarora]

​@@judaspriestforever153the visuals (and audio, the same exact data in this case) is all made using functions

[@zanzlanz]

@@PockyBum522 41kb!? That's incredible! Demoscene is BACK, woo!

[@aeternalux9175]

Imagine an entity from another realm would start communicating with us in this way. Gotta write this into my book...

[@jonathanporter5223]

This dude straight up pulls out a floppy disk, loads it into a external USB reader connected to his laptop, runs the program, and then all hell breaks loose. Honestly, I have no clue what this is, but I do know that it is awesome...and I want one.

[@zanzlanz]

I see the duration of this video is a little over 31:41. Very spherical of you, Jerobeam!

[@infinitesimalphilip1470]

It all comes full circle.

[@LEGrease]

Holy

[@ihrbekommtmeinenrichtigennamen]

@@infinitesimalphilip1470 Or... half-circle, I guess :D

[@khaitomretro]

Video is 31:42 pi is 3.1415... The second 1 gets rounded up to 2.

[@MrEel-dc4kh]

@@infinitesimalphilip1470 Call me irrational, but jokes these bad should be considered a sin.

[@pauljs75]

The kind of stuff we should beam into space, just to confuse and amuse any aliens that could possibly pick it up.

[@JamesO512]

Really incredible! I'm glad that there are people in the world doing things like this!

[@halfpastkeight]

When a new video comes out the earth heals a little more. What a wild ride.

[@КириллЦветков-щ2ц]

the fact that this is on a floppy as a demo is just mindbending. you're a genius.

[@meltingmug]

So, this is what hearing shapes is like without being high. Neat.

[@marcospalacios1241]

seeing and hearing shapes

[@recocath]

I listened to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot one night, in the dark and on probably a gram of mushrooms. I saw shapes and figures on a three dimensional plane in tune with the music much like you see here. It was bonkers. I cried at various points. Regardless, this is a remarkably similar visual experience

[@MattHudsonAtx]

It's p good high too

[@tehlaser]

speak for yourself bro

[@mr.gummie3472]

@@MattHudsonAtx can confirm

[@itswompie]

This dude is the next Tony Stark

[@Xlipsy]

When I was a kid.. this was how I imagined TRON. Your work is Amazing.

[@vyachachsel]

thanks for making sure that not only people that don't have an oscilloscope can experience this, but also those that cannot buy the album.

[@_fragment]

i'm not sure if anyone else has mentioned this, but: *the shapes that the face at the end of "core" spews out is the tracklist to oscilloscope music (the 2016 album).* first off, the face itself afaik is representative of jerobeam fenderson, as it is their profile picture on bandcamp. now, if you look at the ending sequence of core, you will see that the face spews out seemingly random shapes in groups. *pay close attention to them:* dots, lines, blocks, circles, spirals, spirally spheres, unusual polygons, mushrooms, smiley faces and a stick figure riding a bicycle. the dots, lines, blocks, circles, spirals, and mushrooms all match with tracks on the album directly. then, the spirally spheres are those from the track "planets", the unusual polygons are from the track "asteroids", the smiley faces are a symbol that pop up multiple times in the track "deconstruct", and the bicycle stick figure is visually identical to the one seen in "reconstruct". n-spheres ends with jerobeam spewing out the tracklist of oscilloscope music. jerobeam fenderson is a GODDAMN GENIUS

[@meoutpeace]

an early comment of mine said "wtf jerobeam"

[@Ihaveunusualtaste]

wow easter egg on the oscillscope goes crazy!

[@rejedy]

yeah!! i noticed the callback of the album while i was in the live!! it was so cool to see those happen

[@valk_real]

Fantastic

[@rayurebob3724]

I have been following your work for a decade, since the very beggining, and in the mean time I became a developper. Back then I was already stunned by your work. Today, I see this, and my man, I have no words because there are no way to describe how much of a fucking feat this is. This is both an ode to mathematics and IT. This is truly magnificient work. I fucking love it. Very impressive demo.

[@flush3rt]

and it only took 6 years 🫡

[@greatnate9492]

Still faster than GTA lol

[@dylanbksp]

​@@greatnate9492Crazy we got a new Jerobeam Fenderson album before GTA VI

[@winkystinky]

I thought you was volx

[@flush3rt]

core might be the best thing i've seen (and heard) on youtube this year. great stuff jerobeam

[@Kenneth_H_Olsen]

Worth every second 👍

[@DaTwinkie405]

The sphere jumping onto the planes with the ripple effect made my brain tingle. You're a madman. In the best way.

[@Akareyon]

The Hilbert curves? 'twas great.

[@juniorsynthwave1261]

I LITERALLY CANNOT put into words on how insane the last track was. The complex patterns, the 3D perspectives, and the part where it just becomes an actual banger with the bass and such, especially the part where it becomes hardstyle for some reason on JUST OSCILLOSCOPES, and ALL THAT from just some advanced and complicated math expressions... Wow... I was actually on my mouth agape when the 3D parts came, I was severely astonished. _(in a good way)_ You know what they say: The best parts always comes last. Also the fact that all those fit into a floppy is fascinating. The long wait was absolutely worth it.

[@youtuberconsuming6411]

yes i am also totally blown away. this is a masterpiece

[@istoOi]

finally after all those years ... a use for my external usb floppy drive.

[@_Addi_]

This is what the Mechanicus jams out to.

[@mgmchenry]

This is the sound of sitting down to take a test, trying to remember the right hand rule for EM wave propagation and realizing your adderall was accidentally LSD

[@its_an_inkstar]

And the crown rests firmly on his brow. Glory be to Jerobeam Fenderson, the Sound-Seer.

[@notmyrealname8818]

youtube recommended coming in clutch with this

[@soma_donat]

This is my favorite art form. I can't even fully express my amazement towards this masterpiece. I feel like too few people know about oscilloscope art.

[@lucunix]

the fact that you can have a thing like THAT on a floppy disk just makes me wanna buy it even more. Even the idea itself to use a very primal floppy disk for a very primal piece of music art is just absolutely DOPE

[@Ihaveunusualtaste]

absolutely insane how you guys created a menu for this that is realtime rendered! Pioneers you are!

[@FullScreenTV_]

He’s back!!! No one does IT like you.

[@PockyBum522]

Me: "This album is extremely good" "Thanks it comes on a 1.44mb floppy" Me: "It...WHAT?"

[@dafoex]

Could you argue that this is generative? Like if you're playing the music on the fly from just instructions, rather than simply a recording, you're generating the music each time.

[@TarigonTetradactyl]

@@dafoex sure its generative but the instructions were written by a person

[@Fhardervig]

@@dafoex Sure you could, though the music being easily representable by parametric functions, isn’t too different from various encoding schemes, and eventually even analog vs digital. So you’ll have to decide at what level it becomes generative. Any lossy audio compression format doesn’t really hold the waveforms, but rather a representation for you to generate a somewhat faithful recreation. That seems pretty generated to me. Though same about lossless audio compression formats, e.g. FLAC. At the other end of the spectrum, even the uncompressed WAV is ultimately a finitely accurate digital sample of the true analog signal. So even if pulse-code modulated representations are essentially just the raw digitized waveform, you’ll eventually have to generate a physical signal to play it back. That last part is mainly me playing devil’s advocate, but it’s a fun question to think about!

[@metacortexvortex2131]

This is a freaking masterpiece 👏 Excellent work!!!! One of the greatest achievements in art Ive ever seen.

[@harleymatthews5091]

Today is a big day for us osci nerds 😂

[@spam_sampler]

🫡🫡🫡🫡

[@pasmoluiso]

YES

[@AbeTweakin]

Idek what any of this is, but I'm still glad youtube recommended this to me. My brain feels fuzzy

[@recurvestickerdragon]

osci aussie

[@mrtootybutbut]

HOLY SHOOT! whyle watching this for the most part i thought it looked sorta like a gamecybe tech demo. i compleatly forgot this was made of sound! MADE OF SOUND! this looks so far past a sine wave i cant even understand how this is possible! you have created a truley special form of art. and seeing you evolve over time from funny boing to this is amazing! spectacular work mr jerobeam

[@harleyandmee]

Well worth the wait. This is my favorite album/release of 2024. Absolutely bangs and truly some of my favorite sounds - amazing what you can do with sound waves. Man, what I would give to experience this at a proper Midwest Rave.

[@canm0m]

Simultaneously chiptune and demo, and the music and the sound is the same signal - this is just amazing. Not just conceptually but also the visualisations are so creative and it's genuinely a bop.

[@jaycedar]

My ears have been treated to some tasty visuals! Bold but ingenious move to distribute this on a 1.44MB floppy, well done

[@KingAzaz]

I had the biggest grin for all 30 minutes. This is phenomenal!

[@ravarcheon]

oh my god you can seek and pause in the executable and it actually holds the frame's sound and everything, this is the most insane thing i've ever seen and the fact its only 153kb too this is the level of optimisation i live for, its rare you ever see these sorts of impressive things nowadays

[@supernova-31415]

What do you mean it holds the frame's sound? Like the sound on the paused frame is extended while it's paused?

[@ravarcheon]

@@supernova-31415 yea, when you pause, it continues the oscillator drawing the current frame, its really cool

[@flutterbree]

The animations are always so different?? How do y'all manage to manipulate a single laser beam into SO many cool shapes and animations?? ❤❤

[@austinpittman1599]

Did I just experience synesthesia? My cats are looking at me like I know something I shouldn't.

[@Styku]

This is the best thing I saw on the Internet ever and I am here since the beganing. I am speachless.

[@javieralla]

Maravilla de ingeniería matemática. Flipo

[@melo_the_marten]

Core sounds dope af

[@BobbieBunny]

I love how the live chat just freaked out at the end

[@bakkerem1967]

Smells like Apex Twin 🙂 Math, meet Art. Art, meet Math !

[@raosthegray7090]

Intersect is honestly one of, if not the best electronic song ive ever heard and with it being a unique and visually impressive way to make music. You and Hansi are beautiful artists

[@Siya0000]

Breathtaking...

[@ExtremeSquared]

I was expecting a high level of effort like last album. But this is surprisingly high.

[@TachyBunker]

Holy sht, 5:20 you broke my brain. You already did 3d before on the scope, but BOUNCING above a line and doing flips? I can't fathom where to start to make something like this!

[@Pxrchi]

The 3d part is somewhat simple if you use a transformation/rotation matrix to project 3d onto 2d, but all the distortions/ hilbert curve, the chaotic attractors, all amazingly hard trying to come up with the parametric equations used to define them. I seriously don't know how he does it.

[@815TypeSirius]

​@Pxrchi he is using recursive code on a gpu to convert to parallel friendly math. Probably

[@dtocksdtocks]

This is what you experience when going through a black hole in space.

[@thefoxoverlord]

This is so incredible, well worth the wait!! I think I might buy a floppy reader just for this lol

[@scrapwolf264]

been sittin here listening for twenty minutes and only then as i looked at the length i realized its 30 mins long, this video has somehow managed to hypnotize me for 20 minutes without me realizing

[@DanielJustinSnyder]

It was worth all of the failure in my life to witness this success. I'm ... a peice of my soul here. I ... thank you. Thank you so very deeply.

[@florptytoo]

❤

[@iAmKaprekar]

29:45 onward referencing the exact track order of the original Oscilloscope Music series, song by song, is such a nice touch!

[@theorangeoof926]

29:46 Dots 29:49 Lines 29:51 Blocks 29:53 Circles 29:55 Spirals 29:57 Planets 29:58 Asteroids 30:00 Shrooms 30:02 - Deconstruct (Smiley faces appear multiple times in this song) 30:04 Reconstruct “Khrậng” and “Nuclear Black Noise”omitted.

[@catlord9]

Love it!!! Just purchased the floppy version. Thank you for making a physical copy available, and thank you for the incredible mesmerizing work you all do.

[@funkminsta]

The 3.5" floppy we deserve 💾

[@ДмитроМінтенко-м7и]

babe wake up new jerobeam fenderson just dropped

[@BrilliantDawn]

the visuals in Core are really incredible, its wild that it's able to render so cleanly

[@theorangeoof926]

Yup, and freaking KZbin compression ruined it all again…

[@vave_house]

This is my favorite thing I think I've ever found. Just. thank you for making this.

[@Sh1nGaming]

This goes really hard! WTH?! ❤‍🔥🔥❤‍🔥🔥

[@brianrainer]

Wow what a masterpiece! Not only the music but the visualization as well! Well done!

[@neomatrix001]

This HAS TO BE uploaded to both voyager's tape recorders as a final message in a bottle or all human history would have been for nothing!

[@georgesmiley8971]

First two minutes I feel like I’m about to begin a big techno rave

[@trulyinfamous]

The last track is absolutely insane, it is surely your best work yet. Amazing.

[@TheFinalIllusion]

Wonderful work that deserves so much praise. Listening to it a third time… this is a feast for drummers.

[@michisarti4853]

this video is an enrichment vor humanity

[@MrBoko1234]

What an audio-visual feast. Absolutely incredible stuff, bravo!

[@fryz]

You will find me bumping this down my street at 3am. Fr though this shit is incredible. Love the concept, am glued to the screen but just have to pause to write this. Just wow.

[@AllRightsReservedNoSurndr]

Im imagining that shapes and colors colaborated with electricity to make music and dance at the same time.. this is so amazing with endless possibilities.. I love it i could listen to this for hours and watch it ss well. Thanks you for being a beautiful mind. Please upload more ,in tge mean time im gunna rewatch this. To think i almost keep on scrolling. [I]s knowing Better 🙃

[@rowdy9850]

My thoughts after a bit of listening were that, this is the new age of music or at least some extended form of said music. If this is not written into history as an influence or a truly ground breaking idea, then the world has truly done you all wrong. I swear I will sing this albums name to all that I meet. It is an absolute masterpiece. If Jerobeam Fenderson inst written into any modern music books I will make sure that they are in some aspect.

[@ChopndropLLC]

I quite enjoyed this. Thank you

[@soutyz1211]

damn attracktor goes hard

[@nuffsaid0]

The beauty and the complexity of the fact that these visuals are created with the sound is almost incomprehensible. Absolutely amazing.

[@AlyzaRivers]

Core... broke me, i have no words, you've done it, i have no compliments that fit. Edit: i can say what broke me, the references, the drop, the gears, the atoms, the 3d, the rotation, etc...

[@VapidVulpes]

ah yes feynman's infinite quantum paths ehehehehhehehe :3

[@HHH21]

That's so cool!! 😮🙌

[@RedBloxStudios]

The animation itself is impressive The music itself is impressive If it was just a music video, this would actually be insane, one of the best of it's genre. But it is not just a music video. The visuals are just simply what the sound looks like (ish), and I don't know which is more impressive, the fact that the video sounds so good, or the fact that the music looks so cool. I'm only 8 minutes in and the shear detail is incredible. 3D rotation of a space filling curve being ripple-like distorted by an animated 3d ball WHILE a graph is visible showing the waveform of the backing track?! The fact that the audio is anything but white noise is a miracle!

[@TheAechBomb]

not only that, but the whole album, visuals included, takes as much space as an NES game. simply incredible.

[@benruniko]

A visual and auditory treat. The genius of the construction is flawless and the effect is both satisfying and mind-bending. A heartily recommended buy!

[@stemfourvisual]

That menu though. ❤

[@rhybreadguy]

Dang, this is precisely that pulsing, exact, full, strong electric stuff of imagination production, put into physical, comprehendible AV format. Amazing.

[@drewpizza4343]

I'm going to enjoy learning WTF I just experienced...thanks~

[@maxtester8824]

Gosh GOLLY, this is AWESOME!

[@dillerboy]

Jesus christ. Me remembering what a jerobeam fenderson is and watching this video on my tv has got to be one of my better decisions this year. Holy shit, what an audio-visual-math-demo experience.

[@UON]

As soon as I heard what a hilbert curve sounded like I SMASHED THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON WITH ENOUGH FORCE TO SHAKE THE PLANET (I use it a LOT in my animations)

[@florptytoo]

I can't even begin to express the immense joy this entire thing brings me. I'm giddy. I love it so much. Perhaps the best thing I've seen online so far. 😁

[@joaofernandes9458]

bro this is so good

[@B3L13V3R]

Haha. This is awesome! My poor phone!! 💀

[@TimmyM]

Why can I not stop watching this?!

[@jarr-bear757]

This has got to be one of the coolest things I have ever seen/heard, that first song absolutely gave me chills and reminded me a lot of Tron, and why I like Tron so much, and that's because it has such a futuristic vibe while using things that are NOT futuristic at all. Sending you all the love, keep up the fantastic work

[@brahmaputtra]

Mindblowing

[@GuardianOne24]

I refuse to believe that THIS is just a visual representation of sound waves. It’s TOO GOOD! It’s just *TOO GOOD!*

[@JamesSmith-ix5jd]

- How much math do you need? - Yes.

[@PatrickHogenboom]

Holy crap what an absolute masterpiece! WHY do I only have one thumbsup to give ? 3D, hilbert curves, negative space, attractors, sublime! Could you please not tick any more of my boxes ? I'm grinning my face off

[@kireetinaralas.2705]

I could imagine a TRON-style musical fps game where you can navigate through levels and kill demon void monsters with sonar parametric function abilities and attacks

[@florptytoo]

Like, you need an award for this. NEED one.

[@Pyroific]

this belongs in a museum

[@Karl_Masutra]

Only have seen this right now and immediately I had to order the floppy. This is unbelievable! What a fantastic artwork and brilliant science! Since having ordered your famous "OSCILLOSCOPE MUSIC" album I have been waiting for this. Great you are back. I appreciate it very much - Thanks a lot!

[@RobertoTifi]

A reminescenze tear run on my face when ive seen the FLOPPY disk. We used to store a full program, database and pictures in 1.44Mb. Magick days...😍

[@FullScreenTV_]

I have been a fan of this channel since I think 2017-2018. I just watched the smarter every day video about you guys I’ve somehow been missing for years.

[@FullScreenTV_]

Update! Been watching since 2016

[@NewtsOnAcid]

WHAT!? The level of effort Jero puts into every video blows my mind. Absolute genius

[@JamesO512]

Bravo!!! 👏👏👏