Thanks for sharing, these are really lush. It seems like high-frequency visuals have a lot of latent potential; frequency oscillation has been widely explored with audio, but less so with visuals, even though our ability to rapidly interpret complex rhythmic patterns exists in both fields. There is perhaps a long history of related work you're familiar with, but I first came across this type of phenomena in an early film by Tony Conrad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY5VryfCRig

Have you experienced significant perceptual changes from viewing them for extended durations? Are there specific sequences / parameters you've found to be more powerful than others?

If you don't mind sharing, I'm also curious to know what language you're using to write the software!

Key elements that I see are

synchronizing the audio with the video. Video strobes correspond to audio strobes.

Some kind of simple physical-metaphor sound and video logic. Like, bigger = lower, smaller= higher. Certain colors correspond to certain sounds. Simple stuff like that.Like cartoon logic.

Total engrossment of the senses. Fill them up compltelely (thus "whelmer"). I see smell, tactile effects... stuff like that, being incorporated later.

There is definitely some kind of trance thing happening.

There is another tech at my site (fleen.org) called "clouded plain" that uses moving intersecting vibrating stripes. MUCH hallucinations off of that. Little kids like it very much. They just stand and stare.

I wrote it in java.

You really should download a hq copy and view it projected large (like 6-10 feet tall) with nice speakers. Here : https://www.dropbox.com/s/6t9skr0ua4le5ma/whelmer46a_5m.mkv?...

The Tony Conrad is definitely the stuff. I'd love to see a hq version. Vimeo and Youtube really degrade it.

Could you talk more about the software that underpins this stuff? I saw in your comment that the audio is based of sampling of the visuals... is this written in Processing or something else?

I used to make stuff like this with processing + arduino for inputs, with some fun results that are sadly lost to time.

It's all open source. See fleen.org for my github.

The vibrating round thing. The "Whelmer". It's these randomly generated moving fuzzy rings. Moving in or out. Intersecting.

The sound isn't so much gotten from a sampling of the visuals as a sampling of the same data that the visuals also sample. That data being a big array of integers, basically.

To see it properly you really should download a high-quality video and watch it projected big (like 6' tall) with good speakers.

Here's a nice one : https://www.dropbox.com/s/6t9skr0ua4le5ma/whelmer46a_5m.mkv?...

Thank you very much! I'll try and see if I can get my hands on a projector again.

Generative art != glitch art, but these might be of interest to some people as well, since there was thread about a week ago on PNG glitching, and I went down a rabbithole saving links.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19075003

http://www.glitchet.com/resources

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mgpv3a/heres-what-happens...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYytVzbPky8

I am also curious about the audio generation.

see my other reply for more on this.

java has a nice low level audio generation tech where you just make a big integer array.

I take a radial sample of this field of cells, convert it to audo.... ok, there is no science going on here. I just fucked with the code until it sounded good. Several magic numbers involved. See my github at fleen.org/generative-art for the actual code. The sound generation is only a few dozen lines.

That was... interesting. Not so much watching but the feeling when the video ended. Sort of like when you drive for a while and stop and everything seems to be moving backward.

You need to watch a high-quality copy to get the full effect

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6t9skr0ua4le5ma/whelmer46a_5m.mkv?...

View it projected large (like 6-10 feet tall). Use good speakers too.

The vimeo link above might need an epilepsy/seizure warning...

well it does say "ULTIMATE STROBE HAZARD"

maybe it's because I've had a couple beers but I sat through the whole video and felt 0 effects after watching that

You need a high-quality copy, viewed projected large, with good speakers, to get the full effect.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6t9skr0ua4le5ma/whelmer46a_5m.mkv?...