Just a thread on the effect of visuals on music. Pretty broad topic here.
Just some ideas: stage setups, itunes visualizers (or any visualizer, which I can't get enough of), music videos, anything else you can think of.
Just wondering, does anyone else use the itunes visualizer? I find that it really adds to the overall effect of the music for me and it helps me really analyze all the little things that are going on that I would otherwise struggle to take note of. _________________
Just wondering, does anyone else use the itunes visualizer? I find that it really adds to the overall effect of the music for me and it helps me really analyze all the little things that are going on that I would otherwise struggle to take note of.
I never did but I'll go do that now.
Edit: I put my iTunes library on shuffle and the first song to come up was Eno's Sky Saw. The circles moving around and everything else was cool.
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Visuals definitely have an affect on my viewing/listening experience, the most recent example is Centipede Hz, Abby Portners visuals that go along with the music make the experience so much better, it takes an already great album to a whole new level.
Said visuals can be viewed here
http://video.answers.com/centipede-hz-experimental-movie-517452383
I prefer to make up my own visuals for music while I listen. Although I enjoy the whitecap visualizer from time to time, I find most visualizers incredibly tacky. _________________ Alt Right meme game on point
I FEEL DISCRIMINATED AGAINST AS A PERSON OF JUDGEMENT.
I'm listening to Holland 1945 with the visualizer right now and it seems like a cool thing to have on if I'm not browsing the internet, but I don't need it. Personally I've never considered visuals to be too important, but they are something to be considered all the same. An album with a great cover is easier to get into for sure, and a bad cover can make me listen to an album reluctantly. Music video are nice but I don't really watch them much, and a good stage set up is always great, but there's also a lot to be said for closed in, intimate set ups too.
Album artwork to me is HUGE. Albums are entirely auditory, so they need something visual to accompany them, and if an album artwork doesn't manage to capture the music then it can really damage the experience.
I've always loved liner notes too, especially additional art. Kid A has some great liner notes, and were well worth the quid I spent to have a physical copy.
I've used the visualizer, it was fine, but not something I'd make an effort to use. I've gotten to the point that unless I'm doing something else while listening to music I feel like I'm wasting my time. On a similar note, I also sort of feel like I'm wasting time if I'm doing something in silence. Both feelings are pretty flawed, but whatever.
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