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23. Born Ruffians 'What To Say' from the album 'Say It'
2 years ago
The video for the single "What To Say", from the upcoming album, "Say It".

The groundbreaking clip is a collaboration between director Jared Raab and artist/computer programmer Rob Bairos. The video was culled from footage recorded entirely off of a vintage oscilloscope. Oscilloscopes are used in the sciences, medicine, engineering, telecommunications and industry but this is the first time one has been used to create an original music video. The primary use of the instrument is for viewing voltages and is made up of a single point of light, moving quickly across a screen in order to draw images - that means the entire Born Ruffians video for "What to Say" displays vector images made from only one continuous line. The footage was shot once on video, edited, converted for use on the oscilloscope and then shot again directly off the vintage machine. Though other people have reprogrammed oscilloscopes to display images in the past, this "video to scope" process is the first of its kind.

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  • mpared plus 2 years ago
    this is brilliant ....so addictive sound posted at the curious brain
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  • Paula Carvalho 2 years ago
    loved!
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  • Alex Nakone Films plus 2 years ago
    Great concept...some images worked better than others. The morphing head singing at the end was a highlight!
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  • Devoted to Motion plus 2 years ago
    Very interesting proceedure. Can you explain to me exactly how you converted the video (digital I suppose) to a voltage input for the oscilloscope. How do you explain that only certain parts of the video (lips) were visible?

    Thanks
  • Jared Raab plus 1 year ago
    Basically Rob designed a patch for the program Touch Designer that does the following steps from the original plates of video we shot:

    -Turns the image black and white
    -Traces the image as a vector
    -Converts the image into a stereo audio signal that reads as an image on the scope.

    The last step is the most complicated and Rob would obviously be better at explaining it than me, but essentially the scope reads left channel audio level as X axis and right channel audio level as Y axis, which means the combination of the two tones (L/R) can recreate any 2D image. How Rob was able to calibrate those tones to fit the face of the scope, is why he is a genius.
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