homemade noize

Found this video on TED. This is about the least mind blowing thing I have watched on TED. But then again the is some pretty amazing lectures on TED. Some them have completely changed the way I look at the world. This one is just kind of an intro to a video that is less impressive than explaining how the poverty will end. If you have never visited the site before you should check it out there is most likely a topic you would be interested in.

Anyway, I am interested in the idea of music generated video. I am not sure this is the best example of it(probably would not be on the site if it was not for the name Eno and Bryne.) VJ’s have of course been doing this sort of thing for a while. But I like the idea of using the computational powers of computers to generate visuals that relate to the music. What relates to the music is a highly subjective matter but computers can create visualizations that it would be difficult for human to do or too time consuming animate by hand. Considering the technology like Celemony’s Direct Note Access deeper analysis of pieces of music could lead to more complex and even more meaningful visualizations. And with processing power ever cheap this kind of thing will become more accessible to more and more people.

I found the link to these cool videos in the comment section of the TED video:

Magnetic Ink, Process video from flight404 on Vimeo.

Kind of related is a fun and simple music generated visuals of Audiosurf. It is a fun little game that does a great job syncing up to your music collection.