Freq based light show

Wasillaguy · #1 02-23-2015, 11:59 AM

I was surfing Kickstarter and saw this.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...-music-to-life

I hope they get rich. It's about time someone made an inexpensive freq based light controller.

Pio1980 · #2 02-23-2015, 02:28 PM

Back in the early 1970s I had an idea for something that would hook up to a stereophonic input and the antenna connections to a color tv to display x/y patterns in color depending on frequency, but never followed up. Would have been a hit with stoner a'philes no doubt.

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nailer · #3 02-23-2015, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Pio1980

Back in the early 1970s I had an idea for something that would hook up to a stereophonic input and the antenna connections to a color tv to display x/y patterns in color depending on frequency, but never followed up. Would have been a hit with stoner a'philes no doubt.

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David Berning did this back-in-the-day.

Dondilion · #4 02-23-2015, 05:24 PM

I believe the light effects wear quickly. Still there might be a reasonable market
for cheap devices.

Pio1980 · #5 02-23-2015, 05:42 PM

It could work well with flat panel LCD sets as accompaniment to music listening. I remember doing it monochrome X/Y on an o'scope jug with "We're only in it for the Money" many times and being able to later recognize passages on sight. Larger and in color would have been a blast.
I was going to mod a color game console to do a colored gyrating expanding/ contracting ball of Lissajous looping keyed to L/R binaural input.
Surely someone has done some computer programs to visualize sounds by pitch and frequency in repeatable shifting color and geometric patters based on programmable parameters.

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merrylander · #6 02-24-2015, 10:45 AM

I have only one question - Why?

Pio1980 · #7 02-24-2015, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by merrylander

I have only one question - Why?

Because it's possible, entertaining, and possibly instructive. Imagine a method to render music visible in a way that makes emotional sense to someone profoundly deaf for instance. Kinetic art on a linear time base, combined with two vibrational transducers for the fingertips of each hand.

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merrylander · #8 02-24-2015, 01:06 PM

Well that makes sense however to me it would be a distraction, in fact when I am really concentrating I close my eyes.