what's up I'm Destin this is an
oscilloscope you've seen oscilloscopes
before and you may have been intimidated
by them there's a lot of knobs and like
clicky things and it looks like
something you could really mess up
really easily but they're actually
pretty simple devices the only thing an
oscilloscope does is display a voltage
over time and you can change those time
bases to see whatever you need to see so
you can do some analysis right I've got
two different microphones set up I've
got the left channel here running to the
vertical axis I've got the right channel
here running to the horizontal axis now
if you combine these two in a really
interesting way something pretty cool
happens watch this whistle vertical axis
watch this whistle horizontal axis if we
combine them we can literally draw
things I'm about to show you something
incredible there's a whole subculture of
people that have dedicated all of their
free time to drawing things on
oscilloscopes
with sound I'm going to cut these lights
outs and I'm going to come over to that
camera right there I've got three
cameras set up and I'm gonna push in to
this oscilloscope and I'm going to show
you one of these tracks it's called
blocks it was specifically written to be
displayed and heard with the use of an
oscilloscope okay let me push in here
cut the lights off here alright here we
go
you are looking at the sound you're
hearing all of these waveforms were
created using math to be both audibly
and visually interesting at the same
time
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welcome to Austria
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yeah okay so welcome to Austria
this is Hansie hey and this is Joe
veeneman these guys make oscilloscope
music and today we're gonna see if we
can learn how it works and there's a lot
of smoke in here sometimes scared that
my neighbors will call the firemen out
you do it all the time that's awesome
okay let's learn Jer beam is the artist
Hansie is the genius to see the genius
yes he's the genius so what do you do
you're the programmer yeah I program and
then also try to invent new techniques
but really ours
separation is not so strict so terrible
systolic programmer and I know a tiny
bit about music also so there's like a
there's like a Venn diagram here and
you're more the art and yeah and open up
really and so you're are you trying to
do this whole thing yourself like this
is a whole genre now did you start it I
know there were some people who did sort
of similar things before but to this
extent like with you know with the
entire album I think that was not done
before okay so you you've created an
album that people can download yeah so
I'm gonna need to break it down an
oscilloscope has two signals is that how
it works
yeah so why it works like the
etch-a-sketch sort of where you have two
knobs and you can move the dot up and
down and left and right there's these
two inputs and one input moves it up and
down and then removes it left and right
but it's always a dot like even when you
see a line it's really just a doctor
going very fast so it's because it kind
of burns its image onto your retina but
persistence of vision is that why on
your retina also the screen itself like
the dissipation of the of the energy is
not so fast so there's some
so on the right we have Asti studio
which stands for oscilloscope studio and
their software that you created right
yeah exactly we develop it as we go
along and it's specifically for the
purpose of making shapes for the
oscilloscope but to be clear you sell
this oh yeah music yeah okay all right
what does it do it connects to blender
there's a bridge and so blender is this
3d modeling application which you can
use to make your shapes and what I can
do here is I can add stuff for instance
a cube and then it sends it right over
into our studio and it converts it into
a sound along the way a sound that again
makes this really model that you were
drawing in the first place so you've
built a bridge between blender which is
like one of the most popular 3d modeling
animation yeah
in these software packages yeah and so
your software is a bridge to an
oscilloscope so that people can
visualize 3d objects with sound yes
exactly that's things like how did you
do that with like with math right yeah
Mattson programming its algorithms
mostly really yeah so you're really good
at math I'm all right to be honest I'm
all right yeah is always a way up get it
so so what can you do so let's get this
in here so that's a cylinder yeah so
here it's very slow and you can see sort
of how it figures out the paths what
it's doing uh-huh and if I make it
faster we start to
again see the whole shape so you you
take this object and you you divide it
up into pieces so that we can draw
segments or lines is the idea is more to
find the past which you could follow
with your pen without ever lifting the
pen okay that's the main idea and so
this maps is from the 70s roughly it's
called the postman problem dart routing
problem also really yeah okay so the the
postman problem is how do you get to the
most amount of points in the shortest
distance right it's how do you how do
you visit each street in a city map
basically okay how do you go each Street
at least once
what's the least amount of doubles how
do I change the art to rotate rotate and
give it a second and then let it update
man that's crazy dude so it's even nicer
if you just animate it directly over
here because you can get much more fluid
motion and you can actually hear how the
few points changes to sound dude you're
insane man yeah it's just the start of
it so now how do you make music teach me
maestro
what do you do so I'm just gonna use one
of the example objects in there I'm
gonna use a t-rex and I rotate that in
blender right yeah was done in blender
and it's just the object sent to OC
studio and now of course I can do the
same things here with rotations and
changing the perspective a little bit
and now I can just animate parameters
wait a sec wait a second can we just
stop and appreciate that I never knew
that t-rex sounded like no you know okay
I'm sorry didn't mean to interrupt so
you've already seen the trace plug-in
and now I can also just add an envelope
to this and then it switches to the
Timeline view and now here I can just
draw timelines and repeat them and so
you see now this just happens and it
animates it and this is basically how I
make music I use lots of different
parameters that are here then all these
plugins and I animate them to create
music out of them so you use keyframes
it's pretty much like keyframes just
like in video editing software that's
what you do and now for example if I
also animate the grid
then I can do like sort of generative
melodies
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it's almost a song already can you take
the string source Rex and have him
slowly rotating as it's beating like
that of course really maybe in this
direction so you can pick an accent yep
I can also do this and also one cool
thing about the software is that these
sliders don't really have any
limitations you can also just type in
any number and make it go like really
fast so that nothing makes sense anymore
but it creates some interesting we know
a tornado Tyrannosaurus Rex
yes one attorney a Tyrannosaurus Rex
sounds like it's a tornado soros rakes
chordate asaurus rex i know you
appreciate it because you built it but
like the world needs to know that you
can do this yeah it shouldn't matter
yeah
so I can also use different objects here
and you see it does just the same like
whether it crashes this is actually
something that you can do very nicely
nah see studio you can divide by zero
and then it crashes
really yes very high right yeah I like
to not put limits in the software like I
think if you want to input the stupid
number you should be able to import
astutely number really yeah I see like
we're all grown-ups rightly divide the
use of math sure be him really wanted me
to understand that you didn't have to
have fancy equipment to make its own
scope music you just had to know the
math he pulled up Ableton Live a digital
music sequencer and he quickly visually
programmed something using trigonometric
functions then he simply started
twisting knobs and proceeded to blow my
mind so basically the circle is strong
with the point that go
that goes around the circle all the time
now the thing that you learn in school
is the sine and cosine is about
triangles most
so these triangles would look like this
so the sign of the circle that is the
length of this line here and the cosine
is length of this line if you want to
see what these frequencies are playing
then you get this image here but you can
hugely proud dude did you just do that
with
you're doing a Fourier transform on an
oscilloscope using Fourier transforms
but it's basically just the finder to a
fine because I know what it is saying
you just
then you can see that this is the same
signal sign
they are just shifted a little bit so
that that's what the difference
the Sun actually is
it's just shifted 90 degrees you just
did that with knobs
basically just showing trigonometry
stuff that you should have learned in
school it's mostly an interesting
combination to use this very old device
which is almost forgotten and people
throw it out of the labs and but then to
apply new techniques to it most of the
mats we use is old old like 17th century
sort of maths and it's really still
there's there's something about it to
just work with it and to not just do it
as a maths exercise but to play with it
and look at it and feel it and I think
this the device really encourages you to
play with this type of mathematics so
the beauty of oscilloscope music is that
we're at the point in time in history
when digital technology is taking over
the world but we still have access to
analog technology so we can yeah we can
sort of rediscover it like stuff that
they could have done on the oscilloscope
if they headed digital technology so
it's sort of what if it is state I have
met a lot of smart people making smarter
every day like genius level people but
the interesting thing about cherubim and
Hansie is that they have genius-level
intellect in multiple areas math art
music like electronics programming these
guys are incredible so I wanted to see
how far I could push them over the years
I've made some really interesting videos
with a high speed camera on smarter
every day so I just wanted to see what
they could do with pure math so I took
some of the best hits right so like the
chicken with the stabilised head of
vortex collision the bullet hitting the
Prince Rupert's drop the solar eclipse
laminar flow I asked them what they
could do with just a couple of days in
pure math and what they sitting back was
absolutely incredible this is
mind-blowing
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this video was sponsored by Casper this
is an incredible amount of work I want
to explain this to you this was done
with a lot of different types of
software we've got SolidWorks Adobe
Illustrator this is an SVG file that the
Casper team sent me we've got Photoshop
in there we're using blender aussie
studio I'm using Adobe Premiere right
now this is sound Casper what is Casper
Casper sells mattresses and it's going
to change the way you sleep they send a
box to your house and you get to open it
next to your bed that's supposed to be a
bed there's a lot of vertices on it so
it's really hard for the oscilloscope to
model it but just trust me that's a bed
and the way it works is you get the box
it comes to your house and you get to
open the box and once you open it it's
amazing there's five different Casper
mattresses to choose from there's the
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Casper you want to see the wave inflate
on the oscilloscope don't you it's
happening right now
that's that sound that's the mattress
use your imagination there's a lot of
math involved so just pretend that's a
mattress and that you're really excited
to sleep on it the way the Katzman works
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it's really hard to keep all this
straight in my mind I've got this in my
ear I can hear the audio you can hear
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like it they'll take it back no
questions asked the reason you can buy
such an awesomely engineered mattress
for such an affordable price is if they
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directly from the people that invented
it seriously this is one of those things
where I thought I knew what a
comfortable mattress was like but I
didn't until I try to Casper you will
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select Casper mattresses terms and
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I also hope you enjoy a Casper mattress
i legit asleep on one and have four
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there's a bunch of other ads that I've
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Kaspar mattresses you can see her
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all right that's it let's go talk to
Hansie inter p.m. and thank them for
their time and all of the stuff they
taught us how to do it's incredible they
are legit wizards
please go support their work it's
oscilloscope music calm yes and you have
a YouTube channel right yes what's the
name of the YouTube channel it's just in
feminism okay and then you have Aussie
studio on oscilloscope music calm and
can people get these files like how does
that work we we don't just want to
release new tracks but we actually want
to release an EP where people can do the
same thing so it will include all the
Aussie studio files so that people can
open them and change every parameter
they want oscilloscope music calm get RC
Studio get the new EP play around with
the files that's cool man thanks for
doing this guys this is awesome and
thanks for being a thanks for coming
yeah thanks for the hospitality this is
amazing
so anyway I'm Destin I am getting
smarter every day these guys are awesome
Jerr beam Hansie thank you anyway have a
good one bye what is that thing to the
nose it's people going into a nose
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