February 2nd, 2008

Magnetosphere

magnetosphere

When I look at these animations - dynamically generated by music and Proce55ing code - I feel like I’m looking inside an atomic process, or present at the creation itself.

I’ve found that they look great behind lyrics during worship. I created these clips by capturing the output of The Barbarian Groups’ Magnetosphere iTunes visualizer. The code is complex, and beautiful: it integrates Perlin Noise, gravity, decay, particle physics in a unique visual expression.

I’m researching ways to pipe live audio into this visualizer, for an interactive worship visual experience. It’s possible, just beyond me at the moment.

More in this vein from Robert Hodgin’s fascinating blog, Flight 404.

Flight 404

I find myself drawn to a point in the future, a point in space where VJ interactive applications, multitouch interfaces, and worship experiences converge and create a totally new experiential art form.

It won’t be my life, but spending one’s days exploring these mysteries - where math and beauty intersect with meaning - would not be a wasted life.

Posted in Film & Video, Worship Media

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I found an interesting talk from Ken Perlin on the history and uses of mathematical noise, such as making computer graphics appear more random, natural and lifelike.

Allan,

I like your vision!

We just got back from the Zoe Conference in Fresno.  During worship sessions, they had the traditional slight animation PPT, but also live art (three diffferent paintings were done during sermons over the weekend), a very vigorous sign language interpreter, and other art forms.  I think you should pitch them about doing the vision you describe above in a worship experience.  They’d be just the kind of group who could experiment with it and show people what might be possible.

Wow, so glad you got to go to Zoë Conference! I’ve heard great things about that. I just did the worship media here at our Luis Palau conference, with Mark Harris (4Him). Things went well, and I got some good feedback from people - validation that some of the ideas I’m exploring are valid and worth further study.

I’ll bug you about Zoe later.

WAITWAITWAIT

You were in Abilene? EXCUSE ME…and you didnt call? Seriously…I hope you were in a plane OVER Abilene or I am going to feel way neglected.

Uhh, no… not in Abilene. You referring to a tweet? That was to a friend flying from Houston.

This thread is about music visualization. What do you see when you worship?