Oscilloscope Art – Part two
Thursday, 28 June 2007
Double Well Trap – Rabinal
A continuation from the previous post:
Ramsay Stirling left a comment in the original post with a link to the work of Ray Sweeten who uses oscilloscopes in a real-time performance setting to maximum effect. Pulsating figure-of-eight glyphs freak-out to the harsh drone of a scuzzy saw tooth wave in the intense ‘Altercations’. There is a bunch of other Oscillator waveform works on his site to be explored.
Rabinal has a Flickr set called ‘Chaos’ which aside from the garishly coloured fractals contains some interesting waveform analysis pictures and oscillator graphs. Some nice descriptions too that sound tres sci-fi to the uninitiated, take for example ‘Double-well trap (phase plane)’ – its description contains the poetic annotation ‘A chaotic transient and trap orbit in the double-well electronic oscillator.’
Finally, a couple of virtual oscilloscopes if you want to play, Xoscope for Linux & Zelscope for windows
No. 1 — June 28th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Thank you for citing my work. Pleased to know someone cares! Mary Ellen Bute is a long time favorite of mine, and my premier of Altercations in her hometown of Houston at the Aurora Picture Show was in part a tribute to her. Also of note is John Whitney.
No. 2 — July 9th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Also check out the visuals of Robin Fox, http://www.myspace.com/fox_robin who also uses Oscilliscopes.