I was hard at work this morning preparing for a variety of things and it just so happened that I had Jonathan Corum’s ‘Kepler’s Tally of Planets‘ work on my screen and BBC Radio 6Music playing in the background. By chance, on came the Daft Punk track ‘Get Lucky‘ and suddenly Jonathan’s planets were dancing.
The fusion between music and visualisation is something that I’ve been interested in for a while now, primarily in an atmospheric sense. In the way that audio in a movie adds to the emotion and sense of story, I’ve been wondering what impact musical accompaniments to visualisations might have, particularly interactive/animated ones.
For DRM reasons I can’t publish the iMovie re-enactment I started making but you can recreate the experience yourself by playing both these YouTube videos together.
I have started to formulate some ideas for my next generation of talks around this concept and the fusion between Hint FM’s ‘Wind Map‘ and Debussy’s ‘Claire de Lune‘ was another I felt worked (keep replaying to the Wind Map video to get full effect of the entire musical track).
So, which mashups do you think would work?