Tektronix Oscilloscope Music

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:
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This short one showing them working together on some of the tracks:
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[@CuriousMarc]

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: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n36Yc4ptaqh-gLM This short one showing them working together on some of the tracks: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4axfaBsoL2Ar5I I kid you not, I applauded spontaneously mid way through the first one.

[@holnrew]

The most amazing thing is how listenable it is as music

[@EpicLPer]

I CAN'T EVEN FUCKING 3D ANIMATE AND THAT GUY DOES IT ON A FREAKING ANALOG OSZILLOSCOPE

[@teknikal_domain]

Lot's of patience, I bet.

[@ashwadhwani]

passionce

[@Fader2003]

maybe you should get you a KORG Workstation.....

[@alm3333]

Naah. It's all math.

[@cerulity32k]

Lots of math, engineering, and creativity. I'm trying to make my own oscilloscope art framework.

[@north7500]

If my brain is ever transferred into a robot, I want an oscilloscope for my mouth

[@GenesisRasphotos]

Skooks entire face*

[@kya_se]

@@GenesisRasphotos entire body*

[@realperson9951]

yes

[@wirklichhaltsmaul]

Like Caren from Spongebob?

[@finn8665]

I WANT TO BE AN OSCILLOSCOPE

[@wackycorgi3001]

"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]

He definitely was 😂🤣

[@iamconnortheandroidsentbyc2859]

It's a reference to the kick starter promo for a vectorscope album

[@jesuswasjewish5289]

Infected mushroom

[@RinoaL]

i really like how the flute signal looks on the XY display :D

[@RickSanchez-qq2my]

this reminds me of the instrument in futurama that alllows people to create pictures with music

[@stupossibleify]

proof of the incredible and mesmerising beauty of the natural analogue world

[@tiberiu_nicolae]

Created with the OsciStudio software.

[@MilezAwxy]

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]

@@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]

@@MilezAwxy Yes but the image won't be as "warm".

[@detaart]

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]

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]

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.

[@ThorWedd]

I have never been so amazed in my life.

[@ralfjung4156]

I was so flashed !

[@denisethasder8193]

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]

WOAH

[@jstnptchtt]

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.

[@thedrwatson4363]

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]

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]

@@axipixel5811 hell yeah no idea what you said but I agree

[@douro20]

It's actually not entirely his work. The DSP algorithms for the 3D projections were developed by mathematician Hansi Raber.

[@CuriousMarc]

The software Raber developed (and anyone can get it at: asdfg.me/oscistudio/index_grey.html) deserves ample credit.

[@hansiraber]

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]

+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]

woah... are you douro20 on lighting-gallery?

[@douro20]

alertec2202 Yes.

[@buzinaocara]

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]

Guardatelo sul video originale

[@thomasrosebrough9062]

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]

Maybe that is a sign. You must buy an oscilloscope!! It will change your life!!!

[@ChadtuvaQueen]

Here you go m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKW1Z2ZjmsiIhNE

[@Noodleude]

I've been wanting an old analog scope for a while. this just put it higher up on the list!

[@Sigmatechnica]

I want some oscilloscope music that displays a geometric calibration pattern like the very expensive calibration plugins generate!

[@CuriousMarc]

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]

@@CuriousMarc oooh this software looks good, i'll see what it can do!

[@fusion2x]

Now input this waveform into a tesla coil array!

[@ashpowell9451]

WOW this is freaking awesome, no idea how I missed this entire concept, especially with 8 scopes sitting around idle... Thanks for the vid!

[@jarno7]

Imgine this on LSD, woah

[@georgeniculescu]

imagine that your brain uses the same math, as the visuals are comparable, while on acid ;)

[@___-dj2dw]

So, that is how the Infected Mushroom do their music!

[@jcims]

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.

[@stupossibleify]

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]

If you make the approximations small enough, they have minimal effect.

[@ihateyourusernames]

This stuff is absolutely mindblowing. So amazing, thanks for sharing!

[@davidcrunkmd]

Absolutely amazing! Coolest experiment ive seen since Cymatics.

[@ubernode54]

way cool. thanks for sharing. particularly the dual view with the two channels separated.

[@timstill152]

I love how some notes appear as a rotating sort of basket. Certain sounds are not only sonically beautiful but also visually.

[@mattelderca]

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!

[@pauljs75]

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.

[@BRANITOR]

I would say that slightly psychedelic is an understatement !!!

[@Bartisim0]

Thanks for a transcendent video, @CuriousMarc!

[@alexeykokh8240]

This is just amazing, how simple is the idea

[@robertw1871]

Can’t imagine the time involved in something like that… pretty neat

[@LeandroR99]

WOOOOOW this is amazing. I don't even have words for express how I liked it.

[@tedvanmatje]

Returning to watch this years later and it still sends me into a geek drool :)

[@ronniepirtlejr2606]

This is amazingly mind-blowing! Talk about having a hidden digital Easter egg in music. This is a continuous clutch of Easter eggs!👍

[@TheSimoc]

Analog easter egg ;)

[@MaxPare]

that is absolutely crazy and cool. And i love the music.

[@easyerthanyouthink]

others have done this many times before, but this guys work is awesome aswell !

[@vidasvv]

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 !

[@donmoore7785]

The grand finale is spectacular. Great mind food.

[@alexcarter8807]

Nice lab you got going there! I love the *smell* of classic electronics! Electronics that were built by the pound!

[@grlg2]

Thanks for this and all your great videos. Cheers.

[@fandenivoldsk]

Great stuff - thank you for showing!

[@MrEp5]

Absolutely Mesmerizing!

[@MrWeAllAreOne]

Is this how sound creates the universe?

[@minkorrh]

This is quite interesting as it clearly shows the distinct link between music and mathematics.

[@williamcorcoran8842]

You enlighten us CuriosMarc!

[@SAoutlaw]

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?

[@TheGeeMaster1337]

This is legitimately hypnotic

[@rejm1161]

Looking at sound ! simply awesome.

[@bigdady2700]

thats just goes to show that a lot of tech from the past is still useful today

[@recrof]

that was seriously dope. Jerobeam Fenderson is a genius.

[@pattyluss]

So cool! I'd love to see a slow motion capture of this.

[@I967]

Those illuminated pushbuttons on the oscilloscope are great, I wish more electronics had illuminated pushbuttons.

[@krzysztofwaleska]

Beautiful. I love analog oscilloscopes or at least analog display.

[@TheStegosaurus_]

11:27 I love how there are also shrooms on the bottom display

[@spartanx5806]

wow ive been hypnotized!!!!

[@AiOinc1]

Now I get the whole TRSI "Beams of Light" demo!

[@AiOinc1]

What's the album you showed called?

[@CuriousMarc]

I think just "Oscilloscope Music". I added the link in the description.

[@AiOinc1]

CuriousMarc Thanks!

[@chichadisho3525]

sounds like NiN! great music and visuals. cant wait to try these while on

[@clochardcie9653]

thank you marc

[@shubhamsth]

woah this is amazing

[@geoptus]

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

[@thejasonknightfiascoband5099]

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.

[@dapowerfulmastermind]

man, i really want an oscilloscope; even more than before now!

[@amyshaw893]

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

[@rayhill1]

i can see this as a great music style

[@nutrashow]

Everybody got, mixed feelings, about the function and the form. Everybody got to deviate from the norm.

[@prot_ron2779]

This oscilloscope is way way much better compared to some of the other ones where the other ones have mismatching lines on their display.

[@orsike192]

that was more fun than any other mainstream music

[@andrebartels1690]

Thanks for sharing, that was nice :)

[@haweater1555]

Thousands of cats and dogs are going nuts right now as people are watching you make lissajous patterns with the function generator.

[@AppliedEngDesignUSA]

Very cool! Love it!

[@jsallen1946]

Whet you said was 2/3, a muaical fifth, was 3/4, a musical fourth.the next interval was a fifth.

[@romanb.6528]

Fantastic!

[@radiantjet418]

I LOVE IT!!!! I got to build my own!

[@alexcarter8807]

Aha! You replicated my "scope degoozerizer!" It's a fun circuit!

[@ultrahevybeat]

this feels like something from the future we never had. from a parallel universe

[@NautyEskimo]

Fourier series are so beautiful

[@AlexiaBobadilla]

4:50 woah why does it feels good to hear this, i like it 👍👍👍

[@imjoniiii]

"We want our mushroom to move, just like in real life"

[@NewMacFan]

That's amazing. Oh my gosh. I need to have this, too. :O

[@a.jmanning4567]

Awesome, thanks.

[@FUNKLABOR_DL1LEP]

WOW! Amazing

[@mememan1546]

As cool as this is, I always had doubts about this being legit, it's so cool that this album is.

[@nanotektor]

Imagine Kraftwerk's 'Wir sind der roboter' played all together with this. Super!

[@thomasrosebrough9062]

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.

[@fearlessjoebanzai]

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.

[@pc-sound-legacy]

Amazing!

[@nightrous3026]

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.

[@speaktrum5681]

Это надо показать Тиесто =D возможно скоро нужно будет ожидать такой психодел на известных дискотеках мира. Но это не точно. Очень круто сделано. В этом видео есть своя особая гипнотическая эстетика.

[@RissaNaChelle]

AMAZING

[@stephanbrenner3317]

Great and thanks a lot for this video. MAy I ask what the name of the music track is at the end?

[@CuriousMarc]

It's called "Shrooms".

[@wintermutevsneuromancer8299]

that was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@garyr7027]

Very interesting, I'm sure it took hours of work to come up with the right sounds to make those images... lots of experimenting.

[@dermitdrApe]

jerobeam fenderson is actually german living in vienna/austria! ;)

[@CuriousMarc]

Google confirms you are right! His real name is Christian Ludwig, lives in Austria. Sorry for the confusion.

[@EpicLPer]

CuriousMarc Holy shit, I need to visit this guy, I'm like 2 hours away from him only since I live in Austria too

[@2.7petabytes]

I’m geeking and tripping out all at once! Lol

[@oscarf.1933]

amazing!

[@drjmansplace5174]

Analogue mushrooms. Very cool. :)

[@StephenMcLeod]

I have no idea wtf is happening, but it is amazing.

[@supersaiyancommenter]

Oscilloscope: listens to flute Circle : **writhes in pain**

[@shavono8402]

THAT'S SO COOL