An oscilloscope can be made to display shapes by playing sounds into it. Making music from these sounds while simultaneously drawing images with those sounds takes things to another level.
In the video I fix up and put an old oscilloscope to a new use, and show how you can watch these audio-visual demos even if you don't have a oscilloscope by using a computer.
If you want to skip the preamble and repair section and jump straight to the demo - it starts at 05:00
Useful Links
Jerobeam Fenderson’s Oscilloscope Music
http://oscilloscopemusic.com
Jerobeam Fenderson’s Youtube Page
https://www.youtube.com/user/jerobeam...
If you have any technical queries - the FAQs here should answer them
http://www.jerobeamfenderson.net/post...
Oscilloscope Emulator for Windows, Mac & Linux
https://asdfg.me/osci/
Reddit Oscilloscope Music Page
https://www.reddit.com/r/oscilloscope...
Here’s a link to a Free Oscilloscope Demo called Youscope
http://makezine.com/2007/08/29/yousco...
If you like seeing oscilloscopes put to unconventional uses - perhaps you'll be interested to see Quake played on one. https://youtu.be/GIdiHh6mW58
You may also be interested to know that the 'first video game' "Tennis for Two" was played on a scope display in 1958
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_...
If you have an old X/Y capable oscilloscope you'll probably need a pair of BNC male to RCA female converters like these http://amzn.to/2f67Qsk if you want to connect audio devices to it.
A troupe of 16 quadrotors (flying robots) dance to and manipulate sound and light at the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors' Showcase 2012.
Credits:
Event concept created by
Jonathan Santana & Xander Smith, Saatchi & Saatchi
Show Directors
Marshmallow Laser Feast
Memo Akten, Robin McNicholas, Barney Steel
http://www.marshmallowlaserfeast.com
Touché proposes a novel Swept Frequency Capacitive Sensing technique that can not only detect a touch event, but also recognize complex configurations of the human hands and body. Such contextual information significantly enhances touch interaction in a broad range of applications, from conventional touchscreens to unique contexts and materials. For example, in our explorations we add touch and gesture sensitivity to the human body and liquids. We demonstrate the rich capabilities of Touché with five example setups from different application domains and conduct experimental studies that show gesture classification accuracies of 99% are achievable with our technology.
We have built an imaging solution that allows us to visualize propagation of light at an effective rate of one trillion frames per second. Direct recording of light at such a frame rate with sufficient brightness is nearly impossible. We use an indirect 'stroboscopic' method that combines millions of repeated measurements by careful scanning in time and viewpoints.
The device has been developed by the MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture group in collaboration with Bawendi Lab in the Department of Chemistry at MIT. A laser pulse that lasts less than one trillionth of a second is used as a flash and the light returning from the scene is collected by a camera at a rate equivalent to roughly 1 trillion frames per second. However, due to very short exposure times (roughly one trillionth of a second) and a narrow field of view of the camera, the video is captured over several minutes by repeated and periodic sampling.
For more info visit http://raskar.info/trillionfps
http://femtophoto.info
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/science/speed-of-light-lingers-in-face-of-m...
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/trillion-fps-camera-1213.html