Synesthesia (Oscilloscope Music)

Composed for Music 109LC at UC Santa Barbara taught by Dr. Curtis Roads, Spring 2021.
Implemented from scratch in Max for Live/Gen, with a great deal of inspiration from the oscilloscope art of Jerobeam Fenderson and Hansi Raber. Recorded using Hansi Raber's software oscilloscope.
Link to 192 kHz audio file: www.dropbox.com/s/hqt1hiri8jw...
This is a reupload, the original was slightly out of sync.

[@thedtubeteam7981]

"Hey, can we get a Z axis going?" Perfect

[@Patricia_Taxxon]

This is actually just the best oscilloscope music I've seen since that very first jerobeam fenderson upload. Like, finally, the harmonic relations of tones & the patterns they create are actually being explored & it isn't just an obnoxious buzzsaw noise that draws a pretty picture where the pitch doesn't matter. Sorry, I have beef with how this microgenre has evolved.

[@ephemeralgod]

Agreed! It's always annoying to me when the music is sacrificed for the sake of the visuals.

[@Maxis_s]

Hey didn't you do inappropriate acts with underaged members of a discord server on multiple occasions and defend bestiality?

[@Maxis_s]

Didn't you do gross stuff with underaged people in a discord server?

[@Patricia_Taxxon]

@@Maxis_s i'm not interested in defending myself at length in a youtube comment thread, but the short version is that many of the allegations against me have been countered and retracted. I don't know if directly linking my statement will get my comment automatically filtered, but it is the one post tagged "#bookmark" on my tumblr account.

[@Maxis_s]

​@@Patricia_Taxxon that doesn't address you openly defending committing acts upon animals, wanting to introduce kids to kink, posting nudes on your twitter account for anyone, including minors which you knew, and saying that people are "dogwhistling" when saying that kids shouldn't see pornographic content

[@ahall99]

I appreciate the awesome feedback from everyone! I'm very short on free time these days, but I'd love to eventually post more oscilloscope music. Thanks for all the nice comments.

[@TwinklingStar0839]

id love to hear it, this is my favorite oscilloscope song.

[@DeMOSic465]

how did you make it? its really impressive. apparently you say you coded this yourself using your own tools or did i read wrong?

[@packmanias3389]

MOAR

[@sonicwaveinfinitymiddwelle8555]

It's crazy how accurate this simulation is for me.

[@Anklejbiter]

Woah. My two favourite oscilloscope artist, Jerobeam and C.Allen, have their own ups and downs. Jerobeam has really nice visuals, at the cost of harsher sounds. C.Allen has really good sounds, at the cost or messier visuals. This is, i think, the perfect balance between the two. it looks amazing, but also sounds incredible. And the music itself is well thought out. Might be my new favouriter.

[@Kh-ik3de]

You got that mixed up, just see icons rising by c Allen

[@ChrisAllenMusic]

Very slick! well done!

[@Sea_W0]

Into my playlist, easily the best track I've seen for an oscilloscope music.

[@LongGoneFuture]

This guy droped one banger and dipped

[@ReliantBird]

This is a small unknow gem I'm subscribing

[@nathanlawrence2484]

As someone with chromesthesia, this song is interesting to listen to in the dark lol (My visualizations are brighter in the dark with less visual disturbances! Very fun to listen to in general 😊)

[@phuqit4u]

The Panning & Spatial audio maneuvering is awesome!

[@user-uh2mg2lk3h]

This is lovely and terrifying at the same time, next-level of analog horror unlocked

[@JohnLRice]

This was really awesome! 👏👏👏👏😻😻

[@mkxpro55]

1:19 is the best istg

[@ahall99]

It was my favorite part to make!

[@harleymatthews5091]

This is seriously good! :)

[@vanic8129]

Your content is insanely incredible please spend more time in your life making this stuff I love it!

[@spamy67]

3:04 I straight up floated up from my chair

[@RohrAtom]

This is great! Would love to see/hear more from you.

[@ihavetwofaces]

That bit between 0:48 and 1:50 - I wanted that to never stop. The metronome was a great add, but then moving to the percussion while still using that same tempo was genius. I love how you aligned the periodicity of the rotations of the inner echos of the polygons to the beats so that they reached pi and 2pi on the 2nd and 4th AND used that opportunity to change shapes, giving it a very step-by-step feel, like you were telling us one complete phrase at a time. Absolutely lovely. I would really enjoy listening to a much longer track of just that, cycling through various patterns and arrangements.

[@something_nothing]

Exceptional. Both the music and visuals are really good in this.

[@cassandrachowmusic239]

Glitchy and aesthetic so good!

[@RecoveringSkoomaAddict]

Whatever this is that I found feels unreal.

[@endoi]

my heADPHONES DIED iand i thought it was part of the drop 💀💀💀💀💀

[@justabasichuman5057]

after 4 minuets and 20 seconds I have now decided to buy an oscilloscope

[@towelcat]

beautiful piece of art

[@egg.mpeg4]

this is extremely catchy and also looks awesome. one of the best oscilloscope songs ever. underrated

[@alganpokemon905]

One of the best oscilloscope musics lol, really well done

[@skylerric3]

this looks so good! :)

[@epidoge1010]

My headphones are going everywhere

[@snudget]

The real usecase for old analog oscilloscopes

[@Bandikit]

I love the fractal imagery you got going on here

[@mkxpro55]

you have got to make more of this

[@TachyBunker]

And Chris Allen didn't see it? So good!

[@AEGGO]

amazing! I absolutely loved it! 10th subscriber

[@m.i.c.h.o]

Holy crap this is so cool.

[@constantinoarroyo7104]

The coolest fractal ive ever seen

[@farquhaad3209]

Awesome

[@rayr268]

Crazy as heck

[@newbert9287]

These rotoscped electric lights fuel me like electrolytes Awesome stuff, man.

[@quarkymatter]

Holy fuck this is wonderful

[@purpleyoshi4020]

My neurodivergent 6 yr old loves this just all day all day all day

[@tharii314]

There goes the sexiest pentagons😅❤

[@nimblenums]

bruh this is the type of music you hear in AREA 15 Las Vegas like-

[@ahall99]

There actually was an interactive oscilloscope sound exhibit at Omega Mart last time I went, have you seen it?

[@nimblenums]

@@ahall99 was it the red laser thingys

[@mark177159]

The ending reminds me of if deadmau5 made music for Minecraft. Great sounds man, you should do some more!

[@pinatapaws]

YEAAAAAHHH THIS IS AWESOME

[@mr.m2675]

you should make more of this

[@xenontesla122]

Nice!

[@DeeDeeDiva2009]

It’s so great I have to make an intro!

[@brucefree8]

Very nice work! How do you run live music through Raber's oscillator? I can only put in recorded wav files. Also, cannot find any way or information on how to export anything.

[@Ener-G]

Awesome job man. I spend relatively little time per oscilloscope song (so more quantity and less quality, unlike my soundtrack pieces); I churn out a new oscilloscope song roughly every 4 weeks. But they're basic compared to some of the stuff you've done in Synesthesia. How long did this song take to make? (Also I'm gonna take a guess and say you used Osci-Render for at least part of this.)

[@ahall99]

Glad you enjoyed this! I actually implemeted this fully in Max for Live, so all the heavy lifting of integrating with Ableton was taken care of, but the math for generating all the sound/imagery was done from scratch. I'd say 2-3 months went into this project, but I was taking a light courseload, and thus had quite a bit of free time.

[@Ener-G]

@@ahall99 Very impressive!

[@vehicleboi5598]

you managed to add percussion without ruining the shapes somehow

[@endymcgufin4570]

At least it sounds more like music than what the creator of the thing has shows so far.

[@BonelessChickenStrips909]

0:13 What is this pattern called?

[@peter6312]

@SUIBIPAH looks like a 'fractal tree' or a 'fractal canopy'

[@ahall99]

Binary tree!

[@BonelessChickenStrips909]

@@ahall99 TY 🖐️

[@Zaun999Getsu]

What Jeffery Dahmer saw in the eyes of the dead.

[@ezcreations777]

this is gassed up shawdy

[@Gameboy_X3]

should have called it Tree(s)