Watch an Artist Build 20 Sound-Generating Oscillators in 20 Minutes

Live coding music is pretty badass, but hacking together actual hardware oscillators in real-time in front of an audience with a countdown clock is something else entirely.

This was the task of artist/comedian/musician/hacker Darsha Hewitt at the Chaos Computer Club’s Chaos Communication Congress gathering in Germany: build 20 analog oscillators more or less from scratch live. Create Digital Music’s Peter Kirn calls it “calisthenics for electronics.” Which sounds about right.

The result is funny but also intense. Does she pull it off? You’ll have to watch/listen for yourself.