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phosphor 88.1
A 30-second kinetic piece: the studio as a CRT terminal powering on, drawn frame by frame.
frame 000 / 899 · 0.0ssceneA
Silent, and it does not start on its own: the piece is a CRT powering on, with tearing, roll and static throughout.
- 0–3ssceneApower-on, and the BIOS block
- 3–9ssceneB~/studio $ whoami → astrolabs
- 9–14ssceneCfive words, one at a time
- 14–15ssceneMontagethe montage: ten cuts in one second
- 15–21ssceneDthe astrolabe, and the dial at 88.1
- 21–27ssceneEthe statement, then the layout and the terminal
- 27–30ssceneFsign-off, and the tube goes dark
what it is.
Thirty seconds at 30fps, 120bpm. The whole piece is Canvas 2D in one HTML file where every scene is a function, stepped frame by frame in headless Chromium and scored by a synthesiser written in numpy. Nobody asked for it; it exists because a visual language is easier to judge in motion than in a screenshot.
- year
- 2026
- built
- out of curiosity
- stack
- Canvas 2DPythonFFmpeg