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Chopin's Waltz Op.64 No. 2 In C# Minor fed through an RF converter into the antenna of an old TV.

Edit (10/17/07): Very similar to Carsten Nicolai's 2000 work "Telefunken" carstennicolai.com/?c=works&w=telefunken
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  • winkyface 2 years ago
    That's cool!! What a coincidence, Im learning the same song on piano. Are you playing the song to a microphone and sending it to the tv or playing it from a cd? How are you doing that?
  • Kyle McDonald 1 year ago
    Thanks! It's coming out of my laptop from a recording. If you want to play with the idea, you can take an iPod or CD player and use an 1/8" to RCA cable (a Y cable like some of these tinyurl.com/3xd9vs) and plug it into the headphone jack at one end and the video audio input on the TV end. Be sure to turn up the iPod/CD all the way so the signal is strong enough to make the TV think it's video.
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  • winkyface 1 year ago
    okay thanks ill try that:)
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  • swelements 1 year ago
    amazing idea - very inspiring
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  • clickykbd 1 year ago
    dig it.
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  • hippies 1 year ago
    This is just great.
    It's the best way to get the message inbetween the notes.

    I love it.

    Johnny.
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  • MikeMcG 10 months ago
    Alright, not such a good idea for me. I took my RCA cable (usually I use it to hook things up to my stereo) and I tried it in one TV. Unfortunately it only made the thin purple bars bounce. So then I tried it on a different TV and I got great results. Unfortunately I noticed everything was getting all static-ey so I moved some cables around (after getting shocked) and then I noticed that the charge was getting worse. Like, I went to tap my spacebar to stop the song and I got a really big shock.
  • Kyle McDonald 10 months ago
    Yikes! I'm not sure why that would happen, but try it with a portable device instead of something that has to be plugged into the wall instead.
  • MikeMcG 10 months ago
    Like, a portable TV? I used my laptop because my iPod wasn't doing much. I think I just don't know what I'm doing. =P

    Despite the shocking, it was still really cool to watch.
  • Kyle McDonald 10 months ago
    Yeah, like an iPod or laptop. If your laptop works, try running it on battery power. Also, if the iPod doesn't work it must be because the volume is too low -- unless there are are peaks of a certain value most TVs won't try and interpret a signal as video. Glad you're having fun regardless :)
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  • Floris 10 months ago
    Oh what a brillant idée. Very exelent
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  • Jason 10 months ago
    Interesting idea!
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  • c son 9 months ago
    im sorry i dont get what your trying to accomplish. enlighten me?
  • Kyle McDonald 7 months ago
    Sorry for the delayed reaction -- I was just trying to get a visualization of audio from a television and explore/understand the form of a composite video signal.
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  • James 5 months ago
    Oh wow, I've totally done this before by accident. Plugged in my Creative Zen with the Audio and Video backwards.
  • Kyle McDonald 2 months ago
    Nice... when I "discovered" this (i.e., read up on the structure of composite video and predicted it), I was surprised I hadn't done it on accident before...
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  • david_bowman 2 months ago
    Thank you for the inspiration! What if we have live-modulated sines ,saws etc for input? hmm..
    I'll make a try when I go back at home.

  • Kyle McDonald 2 months ago
    That should work, I wrote a Max patch at one point to modulate the output and got some interesting results -- really just horizontally symmetric things, but results nonetheless. If you throw an Arduino into the mix you can also really open up the possibilities.
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