Oscilloscope Music - Planets
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as the example of oscilloscope music, where the song itself is the visual, in XY mode.
What it is
Planets is a track from the audiovisual album Oscilloscope Music, in which the audio signal drives an analog oscilloscope directly. The left channel sets horizontal deflection and the right sets vertical, so the sound draws vector graphics.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2017 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Recommends filoeleven · 2021-01 · on “Encoding Data in Dubstep Drops”
Along the same lines, these crazy fools are making oscilloscope music, where the song itself is the visual. [this video]
Cites leni536 · 2017-06 · on “After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface”
Oscilloscope music. The idea is that you display the left and right channels on an oscilloscope in XY mode. [this video]
Cites solarkraft · 2020-06 · on “Toto’s “Africa” Played on Tesla Coils”
Your description immediately made me think of oscilloscope music, in which an image is made with 2 audio channels being shown on an oscilloscope: [this video]