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The Fragment Itself

By 0004: ZeroΣ
For C0109 Das Fragment

I went down a rabbit hole for this one, didn't have time to polish it as much as I would've liked but such is the way things go.

I had a few iterations of this before I landed on my current idea. Thought about making a game, thought about writing a piece, tearing a keyboard apart, you know just artsy things.

Then I was cleaning out a bunch of old Physics equipment from a lab, and when the stack of oscilloscopes became rows wide I thought to myself "This seems pretty wasteful I wonder if I can do anything with these?"

And then I went on Reddit. Which is, by all rights normally a mistake, however this time it was not. For a glorious moment Reddit became useful and I discovered oscilloscope music. There is a ton of this out there, but the main idea is that you utilize an oscilloscopes visualizations of wave-forms in order to make a song that both is visually appealing and sounds good, I accomplished one of those sort of, but I'll take it!

So I did what any sane person does and I made a midi of the song, a really poor midi mind you I have very little music experience outside of percussion, and I picked some instruments and went to town. Does it sound good? Nope! But it looks really cool. I spent most of the time on the intro text...and admittedly that is the part that sounds the best anyway, but I included all my mucking around anyway. Who would've thought Fourier analysis would've been useful???

Anyway, enjoy my beautiful ear curdling music and for once, maybe enjoy without headphones.