Oscilloscope Music is audiovisual music, where the visuals are drawn by the sound. In order to get the closest possible correlation between image and sound, the exact same signal that is connected to the left and right speakers is also connected to an analog oscilloscope's X and Y inputs, producing complex lissajous images.

Since roughly 2013 Jerobeam Fenderson and Hansi3D have created ever more elaborate techniques to explore this largely uncharted field of audiovisual music.

Forums

• Oscilloscope music subreddit
• Vector synthesis group on facebook
• OsciStudio Forum

Tutorials

• Introduction by Samantha Cobado, Eric Kahn, Ruby Min
• Calibration file (wav, 192kHz, 8 sec, 3MB)

Similar and related endeavors

• Vector Hack Festival: a festival dedicated to vector displays
• vectorsynthesis: a puredata library for oscilloscope music
• XYscope: a library for Processing to render graphics on a vector display
• osc_txt: Online Line Drawing tool that outputs wav files
• dood.al Oscilloscope: Online player and equation editor
• Woscope: Online player