A Brian Eno Eyegasm

http://vimeo.com/10959289

This video, by Glenn Marshall, is created by an iPad running Marshall’s new app, Eyegasm, paired with Brian Eno’s Apollo soundtrack.

Eyegasm takes a generative approach to animation, creating ambient visuals.

The video is direct output from the iPad’s HD screen, which generates the animation in real-time at 1024 x 768.

This is cool – but I’m interested in seeing where apps like this lead.

Do you think generative visualizers like this have a place in electronic music performance?

10 thoughts on “A Brian Eno Eyegasm

  1. Is there something simular for windows ? this is something I have been looking for for a while to put with my music..something like this would be perfect.

  2. So, that's is a visual drone.

    * What control options are there? Maybe if you could enter a tempo.
    * Can it do other shapes than circles and nailclips?
    * what's the framerate? Just curious, looks decent with slow developments.

    @Ununpentium (that's element 115), you could try to get hold of Snoqualmie screensaver by Cool Edit author. It can do a lot of similar stuff.
    There has also been various visualization plugins for WinAmp in its time, and foobar2000 and other media players. They are limited but you can play around with some variables anyway.

  3. So, that's is a visual drone.

    * What control options are there? Maybe if you could enter a tempo.
    * Can it do other shapes than circles and nailclips?
    * what's the framerate? Just curious, looks decent with slow developments.

    @Ununpentium (that's element 115), you could try to get hold of Snoqualmie screensaver by Cool Edit author. It can do a lot of similar stuff.
    There has also been various visualization plugins for WinAmp in its time, and foobar2000 and other media players. They are limited but you can play around with some variables anyway.

  4. @Klik trak, thanks, so these programs would react to my audio
    and I can save it as video to say maybe laod into youtube ?

  5. No, I don't think they do. I seem to remember some winamp/foobar plugins claim to listen to the audio, but I never could see any interesting audio/visual connection.
    They'd have to do full spectral analysis and then generate video. Today's machines could easily do that.
    I liked Cell automata programs, there was one longlong ago called…. aarggh… yes: Bomb!
    that listened to audio/keyboard input.
    Whoa, there's still a link:http://draves.org/bomb/ viahttp://cell-auto.com/links/

    Bomb is old. Give it a quick look, if it looks interesting, browse the other ones.

  6. No, I don't think they do. I seem to remember some winamp/foobar plugins claim to listen to the audio, but I never could see any interesting audio/visual connection.
    They'd have to do full spectral analysis and then generate video. Today's machines could easily do that.
    I liked Cell automata programs, there was one longlong ago called…. aarggh… yes: Bomb!
    that listened to audio/keyboard input.
    Whoa, there's still a link:http://draves.org/bomb/ viahttp://cell-auto.com/links/

    Bomb is old. Give it a quick look, if it looks interesting, browse the other ones.

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