Last month, a friend of mine lent me an oscilloscope. I wasn’t sure exactly how to use an oscilloscope to make art but apparently everything is a researchable sub-genre on the internet and “oscilloscope art” is no exception. I learned about the amazing Austrian duo of Jerobeam Fenderson & Hansi Raber and their OsciStudio utilities for drawing on scopes. Fairly quickly, I got up to speed with the software, making some basic shapes and letterforms using complicated glitchy sounds sent from the computer to the scope. Some artists embrace this noise and mold it into music so that the music itself creates the images. For most of my experiments, I kept the oscilloscope noises out of the video and only used them to control the shapes. Instead, my synthesizers sent MIDI to the computer to control the shapes as they played.

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