TORNADOSAURUS REX. Those shapes are the waveform visualized! I'm super happy that you decided to watch this video. Consider sending it along to someone who loves music/art/math/computers/Blender. OScilloscope Music blew my mind when I first saw it. hope you enjoy this video half as much as I enjoyed making it. Jerobeam and Hansi are super intelligent guys and I learned quite a bit from them. I'm considering dropping another video from my visit with them. Supporting their arty by buying OsciStudio from Hansi and music from Jerobeam would be pretty awesome. Their stuff can be found at: oscilloscopemusic.com/ If you enjoyed this and would like to contribute to more content like this, becoming a Patron of Smarter Every Day is the #1 way to help. www.patreon.com/smartereveryday . If not, no biggie, I'm super glad you took the time to watch!
+ルトヴィク That was indeed stellar. In my laser light show version of this, I only explained it. I had something like that in the back of my mind, but never did it. That was the "Had to do it" perfect thing to display.
could you hook me up with one of those modern digital scopes you always ramble about on your channel so i can find out?? what was that manufacturer again?
@ElectroBOOM Sr! I have a question for you who may know. You see Hansi's shirt? @4:40 With the yellow wrapping line... Do you know what that is? Seems like a graph of some sort.. maybe something electrical? Thanks. I love your videos too.
It's actually a little bogus, because the images are in the sound, but not represented by the sound that you are hearing... Basically the music is arbitrary to the image. Notice when the image changes, but the sound doesn't really and basically no matter what it shows the sound isn't necessarily consistent with things. This is actually really easy to cheat and they could just show the oscilloscope doing what ever and just play the music with it, but even if they didn't all you do is encode the information into the sound to draw the picture, but it could be inside of any sound and even further reality dictates that it is arbitrary, because everything about it is mathamatical, and math can not actually represent sound in a way that is not automatically arbitrary...
@@dickrichard626 It is very easy to proof, you litterlary can put the sound from the video into oscilloscope simualtion and it will do the images one to one as it was dimonstrated. The reason why you don't always hear how the image changed it because it is using the frequencies which your ear is cannot hear (very high one).
@@dickrichard626 You can play 'normal' sound at one level and have the sound that makes the image at a pitch that is outside of human hearing. People have done this before. I wouldn't call that Bogus exactly, you are still drawing with sound. Looks like a lot of there example stuff wasn't doing that though.
I bumped into Jerobeam - Shrooms some time before this vid, and it absolutely blew my mind. I think my old comment is still back there too lol. Then when i first saw this vid from behind the scenes and things really explained in detail my mind got completely blown up again. Physics and math and our universe are just crazy man. It's indescribable
15:04 PLEASE, please, PLEASE make this the new smarter every day intro, it’s... idk what to say, ON POINT for this channel. Dope episode, I learned a lot, who agrees with me!?
Lines with tones: "That's a neat trick" Basic 2D animations: "Whoa, dealing with a pro here" Complex 3D visualization: *foaming at the mouth in disbelief*
This is literally the most interesting thing I have ever seen on TH-cam. I don't know why, but its just fascinating what people can do. I would never in my life have thought of plotting sound on a X and Y plane, never mind creating 3D objects out of it. I am going to go and lie down for a bit.
"WELCOME TO AUSTRIA" Not gonna lie, the video could've ended right then and I would have been happy... but Destin has done it again. I cant wait to show this video to every person I know. Seriously cool stuff
It was at that point that I had to take my headphones off and explain to my wife what I was laughing about. And yes, I had her watch the video, cos there was no way I could explain.
Toshi Kasai is another artist who does this. I saw him open for Red Kross and The Melvins at First Ave in Minneapolis in I think 2019. He performed live with several oscilloscopes of varying size around him. It was pretty amazing.
P.S. This is at the other end of the Dunning-Kruger Spectrum: When you're so smart, you say: "This trivial. Any idiot should be able to understand it."
the reason it crashes is because the dot has to move very fastly to create these images if you make the dot move with zero speed youre basically telling the program to both draw an image but the dot needs to stand still
@@boraberkil7038 No I think a cpu can't understand machine code for divide by zero because if you did 10 divided by zero it would be infinity? Because 10 divided by 1 is 10. 10 divided by 0 is ? .. I think they should have just edited in that any number divided by zero should be zero, but instead it just creates infinate loop and locks up the process. WIndows can close it but back in the day it caused a blue screen which you could not recover from.
OMG Destin when he started animating the trig functions, I had a flashback to old films of analog computing with targeting computers using cams and planetary gears - my mind is awhirl, now I need to figure out now how to integrate analog computing structures into making scope music. You're right, the World needs to know about this! (I know, let's call SmarterEveryDay - problem handled!) It's such fun when Art, Math and Science converge - a true STEAM curriculum! (And, Divide-by-zero crashes it -- wait, so, aha, this really IS math-with-computers...) Major Kudos on one of your craziest most intriguing videos yet!
12:29 Honestly, that thing just blew my mind. I've learned sin and cosine functions in school and know how to solve complex equations involving trigonometry but never really knew the true concept behind it. Watching the points turn into frequency waves is literally the coolest thing I've seen all day. Literally mind blown right now.
I discovered them some years ago while diving through the depths of youtube and was extremely amazed. It's great that your giving them a much wider audience through your channel!
I knew the work of these artists and understood the link between sound and scope display. Still it was great to see your vid and get an impression of tools and methods they make art with. Thank you!
anyone else: welcome to Austria! *just a rave party-themed, just-enough-stereotype-to-be-funny joke with a dance fest* Destin: welcome to Austria! *Is really in Austria*
Something interesting about this kind of music is that it isn't soley audible, and so really the audible part of it isn't *as* important as the visual component, they both play a part in providing an interesting and entertaining experience, and sometimes the balance shifts from one to the other throughout the song but it's always very cool no matter what!
@@wyattf.3837 It's actually fairly simple. The same signal used to produce a specific image on the scope's screen can be fed into a speaker (appropriately transcoded of course). Your simply replacing an electrical signal traveling through a wire with waves moving through the air. 2D, 3D or whatever doesn't matter that much here. Needs to be projected onto a 2D plane to be displayed on the scope so that's really just the first step before encoding the image as a sound that a speaker could play. Regardless it's a cool fusion of art and science.
Trigonometry is so under appreciated. It’s misunderstood as the study of triangles, but it’s so much more. Everything we experience comes from waves, frequencies, vibrations, etc. Trigonometry is the study of nature.
I have to admit. I was kind of "ehhh" on the title and topic and all. But then I clicked and my mind was very soon BLOWN AWAY!! You never disappoint! You are amazing!
@@ocAToccd I saw that same bad Segue (seg-way) from time base to XY. For an Engineer, Destine disappoints me at times. He does get some admittedly relatively minor things wrong. This should have been all obvious to him... However, I've been doing the same thing with lasers on a screen and walls since the mid 1980s with a Radio Shack Color Computer which has a 900 kHz clock... );-D)
@iQurious The right hand half of the 475 oscilloscope has controls for the timebase. He is not using that part of the instrument so there is no constant-speed horizontal scan from left to right. In the XY mode that he is using the spot is deflected away from the center in real time and the only time factor is persistence of vision and (much less) of the screen phosphor. By the way, in English the words THERE and THEIR are spelled differently because they mean different things.
+Simon WoodburyForget, et. al. . Not quite. The time element goes into XY mode by how fast the dot moves around the screen. . Higher frequencies make it traverse the pattern faster (also less flicker) AND that is what makes the various tones/notes. Slower is lower tones and can allow flicker to be apparent if if gets down around in the 20-30 Hz region. It is a dot-to-dot drawing on steroids. It is a variable speed dot-to-dot drawing. . There can't be any real z dimension on the scope. The illusion of depth is created by the part of perspective that makes things further away appear smaller to the eye and that just takes a little trigonometry .. I've done this since the 80s, but with a laser dot on the wall/screen. I could also display it on my scope.
This takes me back to my mid-70s electronic music professor in college -- a man named Joel Chadabe, who (like these guys) knew a wide range of stuff. I remember him creating Lissajous figures on an oscilloscope with inputs from a classic Moog analogue synthesizer. Great stuff!
That's not hard; most of the "science" channels on YT are ridiculously "captain obvious" brain sludge, which require ZERO intelligence to watch or mentally process (I reckon there's a good reason for that - the creators AND viewers want to entertain/be entertained, and people's brains and attention spans are getting lazier!)
Well, that explains a lot. I've seen some of your shorter stuff and thought that was the sound the oscilloscope was making because it was drawing those shapes. I figured that was the reason behind the obnoxious computer sound effects in the 1979 Alien movie. I work in electronics, but all of our instruments are digital, so I haven't messed with an analog scope since college. But then I started questioning what an oscilloscope actually sounded like.
I think this video is single-handedly why veritasium made that video about why analog computers are coming back. These guys figured out a way to use the scope to measure trigonometric functions, and someone in science realized that you could use that to map calculus formulas. This video quite possibly laid the brickwork that the new wave of computers might follow for the next 5 decades depending on how well people can use it.
I love ALL of your videos but as someone who's an electrical engineer and a musician, this is the most incredibly fascinating video I've seen in a long time. If you could create a follow-up video with these guys a while later I would love it. The quantity of thoroughly entertaining video they (and of course you) created in such a short period of time is remarkable. Thank you for broadening my horizons by finding such fascinating people from all over the world so frequently. Destin, somehow you never disappoint. I'm proud to become smarter every day.
I played with various wave functions on o-scopes in labs (sine, square, triangle, sawtooth, etc.), so the basic geometry samples were pretty obvious. The Tetris blocks were really cool. The Tetris blocks in motion were a fantastic visualisation in varying frequency, volume, and left/right balance. The Tornadosaurus Rex though! That one threw me for a loop. I love the 80s scifi vibe (heh, that's a pun), but I'm also wondering what a more modern scope could do with multiple trace colors and variable trace lengths and integration. You might be able to make solid and layered surfaces instead of just line art. It would be the world's noisiest hologram.
Nice evolution of waveform music. I used a Tek 465b Oscilloscope (with the DM44 Digital Mutimeter integrated on top) to visualize music in the 1980's, it had 2 channel input, A and B delayed triggering with an external Z-input on the back. Used a Moog Synthesizer for inputs which was fun. Also, you should try using an old 1968 vinyl synth recording called "Switched on Bach" (Walter Carlos) for a new input to look at and have fun with, all recorded with Moog tracks, creates the most amazing geometrical patterns, I guarantee it will amaze you. I still have my Tek 465b, and it still works like a champ :-) Once in a while I bring it out to make audio patterns with. Thanks for sharing and helping to expand and keep this medium alive. We can all learn from vibrations and patterns.
I did not expect Blocks to slap so hard, omg. I thought it would sound horrible but make pretty drawings. Nah, it’s just flawless music that is its own visualization. Amazing
When he starts showing the visualization of sin/cos with the circle, tringle, and waveforms you can actually see Destin's mind being blown on his face. Starting around 12:07. :D
I think the biggest take-away from this video (and just about any other SED video) is the full on "Destin Mind Blow" in just under a minute starting at 11:55 Beautiful!
Dustin, I just found this video today. You made me go to my lab closet, get out my Tek 475 that I bought new about 30 years ago and just give it a little hug :-) In the years i've had it, absolutely nothing has been done to it. I have a scope calibrator. I check the scope once a year. Not only is the beam within specs, it's on the reticle line! No replacing caps, no calibrations, no nothing. Let's see the chicom junk still be working in 30 years. Oh, one other thing. Tek's bandwidth rating is the maximum frequency that the scope is still within specs. The chicom manufactures specify the bandwidth as when the trace is down 3db or by half. I have an alarm set in my phone's calendar that reminds me every 6 months to get the scope out and turn it on to make sure the caps stay formed. I admit to using a Rigol 4 channel 200 MHz digital scope. I'd rather be using a Tek or Agilent but I'm retired now and on a fixed budget. Dude, you're the best of u-toob and it's hard to wait for your next production. This old engineer really appreciates your work. John
Yeah man, I’m not sure how I missed this. When you look at the orbits of the planets... I mean.... frequencies, vibration- is there sound in a vacuum?? They say the Apollo Astronauts heard a hum, but there’s also tape (not conspiracy) where they say it was actually more like a choir. Clearly the universe operates like this.
Ive been reading about the philosopher Heidegger and in his writings he explains that he wants people to have a free relationship with technology. I didnt quite get what he meant by that but watching those two guys use technology in their own artistic way using math and music made me understand how beautiful it is to have a free relationship with technology.
TORNADOSAURUS REX.
Those shapes are the waveform visualized!
I'm super happy that you decided to watch this video. Consider sending it along to someone who loves music/art/math/computers/Blender. OScilloscope Music blew my mind when I first saw it. hope you enjoy this video half as much as I enjoyed making it. Jerobeam and Hansi are super intelligent guys and I learned quite a bit from them. I'm considering dropping another video from my visit with them. Supporting their arty by buying OsciStudio from Hansi and music from Jerobeam would be pretty awesome. Their stuff can be found at: oscilloscopemusic.com/
If you enjoyed this and would like to contribute to more content like this, becoming a Patron of Smarter Every Day is the #1 way to help. www.patreon.com/smartereveryday . If not, no biggie, I'm super glad you took the time to watch!
BLENDER!!!!!!!!! MY FAVORITE!!!!
You might want to pin this, it took a bit of scrolling before I saw it.
This is one of the coolest things i've seen!!!
Instant hit.
Grab the lsd
15:05 No joke this should be the trailer for your channel, the main video that people first see when they go to your channel's home page.
Eighthed!
Yeah.
100 bil %
Does youtube still use trailers for non mobile?
Yeah
12:07 is the best visual explanation of sine and cosine, that i have ever seen.
Best explanation I've ever *heard* as well hehehe
That part blew my mind
Better than any explanation of sine and cosine I've ever gotten in a math class.
+ルトヴィク
That was indeed stellar. In my laser light show version of this, I only explained it. I had something like that in the back of my mind, but never did it. That was the "Had to do it" perfect thing to display.
Right, it just clicked why sin^2 + cos^2 = 1. Seeing it in motion made so much more sense
These guys are super smart! I guess you could do the same thing on modern digital scopes, but it looks much cooler on an old fluorescent scope!
could you hook me up with one of those modern digital scopes you always ramble about on your channel so i can find out?? what was that manufacturer again?
I read this in your voice
@ElectroBOOM Sr! I have a question for you who may know. You see Hansi's shirt? @4:40 With the yellow wrapping line... Do you know what that is? Seems like a graph of some sort.. maybe something electrical?
Thanks. I love your videos too.
Legend commenting on legend
Just don't go electrocuting yourself with those modern digital scopes.
This brought a new meaning to the word “music video”
More like "visualizer"
It's actually a little bogus, because the images are in the sound, but not represented by the sound that you are hearing... Basically the music is arbitrary to the image. Notice when the image changes, but the sound doesn't really and basically no matter what it shows the sound isn't necessarily consistent with things. This is actually really easy to cheat and they could just show the oscilloscope doing what ever and just play the music with it, but even if they didn't all you do is encode the information into the sound to draw the picture, but it could be inside of any sound and even further reality dictates that it is arbitrary, because everything about it is mathamatical, and math can not actually represent sound in a way that is not automatically arbitrary...
@@dickrichard626 It is very easy to proof, you litterlary can put the sound from the video into oscilloscope simualtion and it will do the images one to one as it was dimonstrated. The reason why you don't always hear how the image changed it because it is using the frequencies which your ear is cannot hear (very high one).
@@Garguler It's all arbitrary...
@@dickrichard626 You can play 'normal' sound at one level and have the sound that makes the image at a pitch that is outside of human hearing. People have done this before. I wouldn't call that Bogus exactly, you are still drawing with sound. Looks like a lot of there example stuff wasn't doing that though.
Did they just make a new "Smarter Every Day" Intro for you...? How nice of them.
This needs to happen. Why doesn't this have more likes?
@@TruthIsTheNewHate84 Guess most people like the "hey its me destin" haha.
This *HAS* to be his new intro
Incorporating it in future intro's here and there would be cool af, as a callback and its just cool to watch
Yeah, the first couple seconds of the clip would make a great into:
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM
SMARTER
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM
EVERY
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM
DAY
"what's your hobby?"
"I watch sounds".
Teacher "you can't see sound"
Brings out oscilloscope.
@@Kafj302 why no. You can see at chanro plank or something like that..
*confused genos noises*
Tell that to your shrink and you'll be sent to the psych ward for Schizophrenia
My teacher Lied this whole time
15:37 - 15:40 MUST become the intro for the next few videos at least.
No other way. It MUST become one of the new intros !
DESTIN, COMPLY. THIS MUST BE DONE!
I came to the comment section to request the exact same thing!
Your intro needs to be redone in oscilloscope!!
Plus it should be made into a dubstep song
This is honestly one of the coolest things I've ever seen in my life.
agreed
sacred geometry
I bumped into Jerobeam - Shrooms some time before this vid, and it absolutely blew my mind. I think my old comment is still back there too lol.
Then when i first saw this vid from behind the scenes and things really explained in detail my mind got completely blown up again.
Physics and math and our universe are just crazy man. It's indescribable
“I think if you want to input a stupid number you should be able to input a stupid number” this man is my hero
"I think we're all grown-ups, it's fine"
thats the beautify of "zero warranty" licenses: users can blow up their hardware, and its their problem : D
So zeroes are stupid?
Noted
Only a good concept if you don't have to give tech support to your software!
@@larrybud If you're capable of using this software, you probably don't need tech support.
"Welcome to Austria!" Thank you! I've been here for fifteen years, finally somebody said it.
Same haha :D
That's such a good deep cut. Bravo!
lol oh man, you were waiting a looong time.
I live in Germany, so ...
"I'll be back." -- T-800
THIS WAS THE MOST ENJOYABLE SEIZURE I'VE HAD ALL WEEK
I've been using oscilloscopes for the best part of 40 years, this BLEW MY MIND! Absolutely fascinating! Thanks.
is the same as lasigious figures but wayy more advanced
I watched the whole thing with a stupid smile on my face.
Multiple times.
Not stupid, SMARTER! xD
Welcome to austria
Vay gardaşım
So did I! I had sooo much fun watching this video, and I bet Destin had lots of fun making it!
HAHA exactly the same here!
15:04 PLEASE, please, PLEASE make this the new smarter every day intro, it’s... idk what to say, ON POINT for this channel. Dope episode, I learned a lot, who agrees with me!?
Totally agree, do it Destin, pleeeeeeaaaaseeeee...
Y E S
Edit: W E L C O M E T O A U S T R I A
I concur do it...
This is a late comment but he has to do it
My mind was blown with 2D Tetris, then turned to mush when it went to 3D. Incredible talent. Well done guys.
Lines with tones: "That's a neat trick"
Basic 2D animations: "Whoa, dealing with a pro here"
Complex 3D visualization: *foaming at the mouth in disbelief*
As a digital musician and as someone who is starting to get into computer animation, this is even more amazing to me
i'd love to hear any songs you've relea- oh..
You could teach trigonometry with this, and people would actually listen
They'd have to listen
Lol
Cue my musicology students who run away screaming the moment they hear "sinewave" .__.
And even potentially understand!
Joachim, thank you, you just made my day.
Day...made
"Maths and programming, algorythms mostly"
When you're a programmer and you don't want to explain what you're doing
@@AlkisGD Did I misspell something? English isn't my first language
@@xGOKOPx algorithms met rhyhtms xD
@@xGOKOPx this, by far, is the best misspelling i have ever seen xD
There's really not much to say lol. He's a wizard.
Or Cubers (Rubiks cubes)
15:21
"what kind of music do you listen to?"
"uh, it's complicated"
*_S T A B I L I Z E D C H I C K E N_*
Peach Pit! 😀
@@_mb_b_th_v_b_ and stabilized chicken! 😺
Well dang! It is complicated!
This is literally the most interesting thing I have ever seen on TH-cam. I don't know why, but its just fascinating what people can do. I would never in my life have thought of plotting sound on a X and Y plane, never mind creating 3D objects out of it. I am going to go and lie down for a bit.
There is no way that the matress company payed enough for this ad placement.
Definitely
"WELCOME TO AUSTRIA"
Not gonna lie, the video could've ended right then and I would have been happy... but Destin has done it again. I cant wait to show this video to every person I know. Seriously cool stuff
It was at that point that I had to take my headphones off and explain to my wife what I was laughing about. And yes, I had her watch the video, cos there was no way I could explain.
15:37 No kidding, this should actually be your intro. Especially the final scene with your logo. Thats just beyond cool.
well he'd basically be stealing that from Techmoan and Jerobeam.
@@tylergarza8695 he can request for permission
@@tylergarza8695 read what you wrote again
totally!
@@tastyham I did. You should try it.
Toshi Kasai is another artist who does this. I saw him open for Red Kross and The Melvins at First Ave in Minneapolis in I think 2019. He performed live with several oscilloscopes of varying size around him. It was pretty amazing.
The way that dude just brute forced some trig functions in ableton live to draw a circle on an o-scope seriously blew my mind.
that was a vst plugin that looked like it has puredata/ a virtual circuit board
@@richardmiller4258 I use ableton, I opened max once and thought "yeah no". I'm mindblown
P.S. This is at the other end of the Dunning-Kruger Spectrum:
When you're so smart, you say: "This trivial. Any idiot should be able to understand it."
Make 15:00 your intro PLEASE. it would sum up everything you do quite well.
I totally agree with you
Awesome!
You should do an entire video on the relationship of the circle, sine and cosine. I wish I had this visualization when I was taught this in school.
"you can divide by zero and crash in this program" 😂 what a great feature
It is. As Hansi said, we're adults. We don't need a computer nanny.
@@IlBiggo I mean some might benefit from one tbh.
Time stamp?
Edit: Never mind, you're good
the reason it crashes is because the dot has to move very fastly to create these images if you make the dot move with zero speed youre basically telling the program to both draw an image but the dot needs to stand still
@@boraberkil7038 No I think a cpu can't understand machine code for divide by zero because if you did 10 divided by zero it would be infinity? Because 10 divided by 1 is 10. 10 divided by 0 is ? .. I think they should have just edited in that any number divided by zero should be zero, but instead it just creates infinate loop and locks up the process. WIndows can close it but back in the day it caused a blue screen which you could not recover from.
This video finally answered the final boss question :
Do scientist have parties
Yes they're called Demo Competitions.
When science math meets MDMA 😂😂😂
And they dance to 3D animations in sound form
@@ptw783 Austria has amazing mdma tbh haha
I work for @tektronix in the oscilloscope group. We appreciate you using one of our products 😊
@@HotDogRacing they typically only allow Tek employees or if you're with one. PM me and I can ask...
I've got the 475a with the multimeter built-in; it's a fantastic product!
Why the heck do you guys not sponsor smarter every day? We should totally work together.
My DM63 is still working today
SmarterEveryDay they are too afraid to blow up in fame even more
Haha. “Welcome to Austria!” The most genius segment of any of your videos.
Hey man, have you noticed somebody has uploaded bunch of science videos on your electronic rave channel?
Dude. This is seriously one of your best videos. never imagined something like this existed!
Pretty much what I came here to say. I was so impressed the entire time.
This is the closest Destin's ever gonna get to an acid trip.
watching this I feel like I'm having an acid trip
@@theanarchist9733 Acid trips are way more colorful 🙂
You are assuming that there wasn't acid involved in this.
As far as we know
@@WarrenGarabrandt I'm no expert, but sure there was. :D
OMG Destin when he started animating the trig functions, I had a flashback to old films of analog computing with targeting computers using cams and planetary gears - my mind is awhirl, now I need to figure out now how to integrate analog computing structures into making scope music. You're right, the World needs to know about this! (I know, let's call SmarterEveryDay - problem handled!)
It's such fun when Art, Math and Science converge - a true STEAM curriculum!
(And, Divide-by-zero crashes it -- wait, so, aha, this really IS math-with-computers...)
Major Kudos on one of your craziest most intriguing videos yet!
THANK YOU FOR GIVING RECOGNITION TO JEROBEAM HIS ALBUM IS IN MY TOP 20 OF ALL TIME AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
12:29 Honestly, that thing just blew my mind. I've learned sin and cosine functions in school and know how to solve complex equations involving trigonometry but never really knew the true concept behind it. Watching the points turn into frequency waves is literally the coolest thing I've seen all day. Literally mind blown right now.
As a nerdy synth sound producer (trance and progressive) the level of nerdiness in this video is mindbendingly awesome. Keep it up!
More like mindblendingly awesome :D
Hands down one of the coolest things this world has to offer. This would be a great way get kids interested in math and science.
*_Oscilloscope Music Festival 2020!!_*
15:38 NOW WE KNOW WHAT SMAERTER EVERYDAY SOUNDS LIKE. New intro theme Destin!
Why are you yelling?
@@pomegranatechannel because it's cool
I discovered them some years ago while diving through the depths of youtube and was extremely amazed. It's great that your giving them a much wider audience through your channel!
I knew the work of these artists and understood the link between sound and scope display. Still it was great to see your vid and get an impression of tools and methods they make art with. Thank you!
anyone else: welcome to Austria!
*just a rave party-themed, just-enough-stereotype-to-be-funny joke with a dance fest*
Destin: welcome to Austria!
*Is really in Austria*
next time i have a hipster duel i'm definitely bragging about my musical taste being austrian oscilloscope trance
Lmao
So obscure. So minimalist.
"Austrian Oscilloscope Trance" -- I"m seeing an old SNL-"Sprockets" skit in there somewhere...
Her: What kind of music do you listen to?
Me: It's... complicated...
What kind of music do you watch?
Oscilloscope Music
Her: What kind of tv do you like
Me: Music
Her: oh, like mtv?
Me: uh
i'm listening to a bunch of cubes
It's complex.
ftfy
I like coming back to this video every so often because the music mixed with visuals is so entertaining
I was so impressed when it started sounding like music
Started to sound like Deadmau5
Something interesting about this kind of music is that it isn't soley audible, and so really the audible part of it isn't *as* important as the visual component, they both play a part in providing an interesting and entertaining experience, and sometimes the balance shifts from one to the other throughout the song but it's always very cool no matter what!
@@OrangeC7 exactly
I bought a Tektronix 760A (a scope that’s exactly designed for showing audio) specifically for watching oscilloscope music. It’s so awesome.
Could you record video and play it into the oscilloscope to train yourself to see with sound?
Wyatt F. You can already do this! The more sound you hear on the left, imagine something expanding horizontally and vertically for the right.
@@mattshilling yeah but i wonder if there is an easier way they could set this up like pitch an loudness could be other dimensions
@@wyattf.3837 It's actually fairly simple. The same signal used to produce a specific image on the scope's screen can be fed into a speaker (appropriately transcoded of course). Your simply replacing an electrical signal traveling through a wire with waves moving through the air. 2D, 3D or whatever doesn't matter that much here. Needs to be projected onto a 2D plane to be displayed on the scope so that's really just the first step before encoding the image as a sound that a speaker could play.
Regardless it's a cool fusion of art and science.
Smarter every day #224 Drawing with sound
Smarter every day #225 I Took LSD And Made A Music Video
And that's when we finally prove scientifically that math is better than acid.
Came here to make that joke
@@sireuchre ok, but what if you do math on acid
@@flyingchic3n If you take proper dose there is no maths. There is no 'is' even. :-P
@Garion Prak Sorry you are thousands of miles ouside your jurisdiction
Trigonometry is so under appreciated. It’s misunderstood as the study of triangles, but it’s so much more. Everything we experience comes from waves, frequencies, vibrations, etc. Trigonometry is the study of nature.
This blew my minds! That's exactly what youtube was made for, to amaze, to teach, to experiment!
I have to admit. I was kind of "ehhh" on the title and topic and all. But then I clicked and my mind was very soon BLOWN AWAY!! You never disappoint! You are amazing!
"An oscilloscope just shows a voltage with respect to time"
>Immediately explains it running in XY mode
Exactly... I just thought "Destin are you messing with me??" 🤨
@@ocAToccd I saw that same bad Segue (seg-way) from time base to XY. For an Engineer, Destine disappoints me at times. He does get some admittedly relatively minor things wrong. This should have been all obvious to him... However, I've been doing the same thing with lasers on a screen and walls since the mid 1980s with a Radio Shack Color Computer which has a 900 kHz clock... );-D)
@iQurious The right hand half of the 475 oscilloscope has controls for the timebase. He is not using that part of the instrument so there is no constant-speed horizontal scan from left to right. In the XY mode that he is using the spot is deflected away from the center in real time and the only time factor is persistence of vision and (much less) of the screen phosphor. By the way, in English the words THERE and THEIR are spelled differently because they mean different things.
@iQurious In XY mode, time has nothing to do with the display. It is purely based on the voltage levels coming through each of two channels.
+Simon WoodburyForget, et. al.
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Not quite.
The time element goes into XY mode by how fast the dot moves around the screen.
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Higher frequencies make it traverse the pattern faster (also less flicker) AND that is what makes the various tones/notes.
Slower is lower tones and can allow flicker to be apparent if if gets down around in the 20-30 Hz region.
It is a dot-to-dot drawing on steroids.
It is a variable speed dot-to-dot drawing.
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There can't be any real z dimension on the scope. The illusion of depth is created by the part of perspective that makes things further away appear smaller to the eye and that just takes a little trigonometry
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I've done this since the 80s, but with a laser dot on the wall/screen. I could also display it on my scope.
This takes me back to my mid-70s electronic music professor in college -- a man named Joel Chadabe, who (like these guys) knew a wide range of stuff. I remember him creating Lissajous figures on an oscilloscope with inputs from a classic Moog analogue synthesizer. Great stuff!
I watched WAY too much youtube today and this is by a huge margin the coolest thing I've seen today. WOW.
That's not hard; most of the "science" channels on YT are ridiculously "captain obvious" brain sludge, which require ZERO intelligence to watch or mentally process (I reckon there's a good reason for that - the creators AND viewers want to entertain/be entertained, and people's brains and attention spans are getting lazier!)
@15:02 Welp, looks like Destin has a new intro video thing he can use.
12:00 How trigonometry at school should be taught.
Yeah, no way this was 4 years ago
No 5 years ago!
Why not?
This whole video I was just like “Waaaaaaaat”
It’s hard to even comprehend this
Just to imagine doing this blows my mind
"It’s hard to even comprehend this" - Frankly, it's not (people were doing this with *analog* wave generators for ages), but the guys are good.
I absolutely love watching Destin have his mind blown. His enthusiasm is contagious!!
The trick is having a passion to learn. With an openmind.
8:07 RARE FOOTAGE OF DESTIN going through the NEW BLENDER USER CYCLE
The old 3D cursor totally got him
Hilarious for someone that uses SolidWorks on a regular basis
Well, that explains a lot. I've seen some of your shorter stuff and thought that was the sound the oscilloscope was making because it was drawing those shapes. I figured that was the reason behind the obnoxious computer sound effects in the 1979 Alien movie. I work in electronics, but all of our instruments are digital, so I haven't messed with an analog scope since college. But then I started questioning what an oscilloscope actually sounded like.
I was like 'Dude. I was doing this like 20 years ago'.
Then I was like 'DUDE! I was NOT doing this like 20 years ago'.
My mouth dropped. ❤
ikr.... when you thougth you knew something about it, and yet you found that you knew so little... mind blown, imho hahahahha
13:09 - "It's just showing trigonometry, stuff that you should've learned in school"
Me: I feel very attacked
In Austria everybody learns that stuff in school...
@@INLF depends on the school
@@INLF I learned that, but my memory doesen't work at all
@@TheStillWalkin But actually it shouldn't - that's basic meth... ah maths
@@xuNsh1ne fourier transformations are not basic knowledge
Kids in school should be shown this as I hated Sin/Cosin in school because NOBODY EXPLAINED IT WELL
Sound waves are the most fun waves to study, I agree!
Well my teacher taught us well that we can teach others!
wow this is actually my favorite video for the past 5 years. this hits so many levels of wow. thanks
Therapist: The Oscilloscope Tornado Tyrannosaurus is not real, he can't hurt you.
Oscilloscope Tornado Tyrannosaurus: 10:38
It's called Tornadosaurus Rex >:(
read this comment before reaching that point in the video so now i'm hyped
@@fr0ztb1te hahahahha it's definitely worth the watch
15:55 The most dedicated Casper Sponsor to ever exist. Destin, you deserve a lifetime supply of Casper Mattresses
I like to try hard. Several people contributed technically to making this ad happen!
@@smartereveryday That was super cool though! I definitely want to convince my parents to get Casper Mattresses under your code!
_"Destin, you deserve a lifetime supply of Casper Mattresses"_
Imagine them in a stack, as in _"The Princess and the pea"_ story ^_^
I was smiling/laughing in awe the entire time. This is so freaking amazing and stunning in every possible sense.
I think this video is single-handedly why veritasium made that video about why analog computers are coming back.
These guys figured out a way to use the scope to measure trigonometric functions, and someone in science realized that you could use that to map calculus formulas.
This video quite possibly laid the brickwork that the new wave of computers might follow for the next 5 decades depending on how well people can use it.
I love ALL of your videos but as someone who's an electrical engineer and a musician, this is the most incredibly fascinating video I've seen in a long time. If you could create a follow-up video with these guys a while later I would love it. The quantity of thoroughly entertaining video they (and of course you) created in such a short period of time is remarkable. Thank you for broadening my horizons by finding such fascinating people from all over the world so frequently. Destin, somehow you never disappoint. I'm proud to become smarter every day.
I played with various wave functions on o-scopes in labs (sine, square, triangle, sawtooth, etc.), so the basic geometry samples were pretty obvious. The Tetris blocks were really cool. The Tetris blocks in motion were a fantastic visualisation in varying frequency, volume, and left/right balance. The Tornadosaurus Rex though! That one threw me for a loop. I love the 80s scifi vibe (heh, that's a pun), but I'm also wondering what a more modern scope could do with multiple trace colors and variable trace lengths and integration. You might be able to make solid and layered surfaces instead of just line art. It would be the world's noisiest hologram.
Ryan Nickles if you wanna see more, jerobeam fenderson has a youtube channel
15:42 should be part of a new intro. That logo is so dope!
KingBongHogger it’s so what?
@@Reactiontime6000 *Stop that.*
KingBongHogger
Stop what?
KingBongHogger I legit didn’t understand what u said
@@Reactiontime6000 Maybe learn how to read?
Nice evolution of waveform music. I used a Tek 465b Oscilloscope (with the DM44 Digital Mutimeter integrated on top) to visualize music in the 1980's, it had 2 channel input, A and B delayed triggering with an external Z-input on the back. Used a Moog Synthesizer for inputs which was fun. Also, you should try using an old 1968 vinyl synth recording called "Switched on Bach" (Walter Carlos) for a new input to look at and have fun with, all recorded with Moog tracks, creates the most amazing geometrical patterns, I guarantee it will amaze you. I still have my Tek 465b, and it still works like a champ :-) Once in a while I bring it out to make audio patterns with. Thanks for sharing and helping to expand and keep this medium alive. We can all learn from vibrations and patterns.
I did not expect Blocks to slap so hard, omg. I thought it would sound horrible but make pretty drawings. Nah, it’s just flawless music that is its own visualization. Amazing
Nobody:
SmarterEveryDay: *WELCOME TO AUSTRIA!!*
@leon Reiterer :D Great!
I believe its a reference to electronic artists Soulwax
@@MeepFaceJohn Radio Soulwax / 2 many DJ's.... i love those guys!
This is one of the first good uses I've seen of this meme in a long time
leon Reiterer are you a painter
When he starts showing the visualization of sin/cos with the circle, tringle, and waveforms you can actually see Destin's mind being blown on his face. Starting around 12:07. :D
Weren't you midblown too?
19 min video?!
no way im gonna sit through all that math stuff...
*19 minutes later*
GIVEMEMORE
Mad props for respecting that 7k-series Tektronix. Those are iconic machines.
I swear with your channel, I legitimately get smarter every day.
All I see is some smarter everyday asmr!
(In the beginning)
ASMaRter Every Day
Her: what kind of music do you watch?
Me: it's complicated
If he asks what music you *watch* hes most likely as complicated as you if not even more
Me: GWAR.
It is hard to watch music in the first place
There's a joke that goes like "She was sending me mixed signals... So i did a fourier analysis"
@@antman7673 I've watched plenty of music on an o'scope..just a side effect of building/troubleshooting audio equipment.
Destin: listens to the track
Jerobeam: *You’re going to Austria*
This is the first thing I did with the oscilloscope I found in a dumpster behind my local college. its amazing what people throw away!
3:08 *Declassified Footage of the rave inside Area 51*
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!!!!
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hahahah
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I think the biggest take-away from this video (and just about any other SED video) is the full on "Destin Mind Blow" in just under a minute starting at 11:55
Beautiful!
"I don't like to put limits to the software. We should be allowed to feed stupid things to the program if we want to."
~Hansi
Man, I just love the moment when Destin says "WELCOME TO AUSTRIA" with this absolutely authentic austrian accent.
Well done!
Greetings from Austria.
This is like synesthesia without having synesthesia, very interesting. I'm a programmer and musician, maybe I should look into this.
have you looked into it yet
@@limeylimelime i dont think so
Ironically there’s an oscilloscope song called Synesthesia
Amazing to see you mind blown by the visualisation of the Fourier transform. Such a brilliantly simple way of displaying something so complex.
It's actually not that complex. The problem is, most teachers have no idea what they're teaching and further confuses and bores students.
I remember watching another video where someone animated Mushrooms and Butterflies on an Oscilloscope. Amazing stuff
Mom : - would you like to learn to play an instrument ?? or to draw?
Me : - yes
When you cant decide
‘Both’
I finally got my trigonometry, geometry, Fourier transform - Engineering math at 12:02 .... Thank you!
12:27 is the moment where your face goes ear to ear smile as your head explodes in amazement.
I was expecting sine wave lissajous, and then was pleasantly surprised to have been totally wrong.
lol
lol me too haha
Dustin, I just found this video today. You made me go to my lab closet, get out my Tek 475 that I bought new about 30 years ago and just give it a little hug :-) In the years i've had it, absolutely nothing has been done to it. I have a scope calibrator. I check the scope once a year. Not only is the beam within specs, it's on the reticle line! No replacing caps, no calibrations, no nothing. Let's see the chicom junk still be working in 30 years. Oh, one other thing. Tek's bandwidth rating is the maximum frequency that the scope is still within specs. The chicom manufactures specify the bandwidth as when the trace is down 3db or by half.
I have an alarm set in my phone's calendar that reminds me every 6 months to get the scope out and turn it on to make sure the caps stay formed.
I admit to using a Rigol 4 channel 200 MHz digital scope. I'd rather be using a Tek or Agilent but I'm retired now and on a fixed budget.
Dude, you're the best of u-toob and it's hard to wait for your next production. This old engineer really appreciates your work.
John
Thank you Destin for keeping TH-cam a smarter place,
"We're all grownups.... It's fine." Lmao
That's now my go-to line as a software engineer. (Working on semi-critical systems.) Lol.
THAT! WAS! AWESOME! I believe you have found nerd heaven!
nerd genius heaven
Yeah man, I’m not sure how I missed this. When you look at the orbits of the planets... I mean.... frequencies, vibration- is there sound in a vacuum?? They say the Apollo Astronauts heard a hum, but there’s also tape (not conspiracy) where they say it was actually more like a choir. Clearly the universe operates like this.
Ive been reading about the philosopher Heidegger and in his writings he explains that he wants people to have a free relationship with technology. I didnt quite get what he meant by that but watching those two guys use technology in their own artistic way using math and music made me understand how beautiful it is to have a free relationship with technology.