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Has anything helped? 26, similar situation, have slowly lost my identity / personal narrative after years of school and work thousands of miles from my family.

Discogs, RateYourMusic, Wikipedia, occasionally online publications.

New music is not limited to contemporary releases; at this point we have a vast wealth of musical history available to us, with detailed primary and secondary information constantly being added to online indices.

It can be overwhelming. Streaming services provide a convenient solution to this problem, but lack context (and often content).

The growing archive demands we build a narrative. Think of your favourite artists; who were their influences, contemporaries, collaborators? All of this information is readily accessible. Look for side projects, collaborations, interviews, and retrospective articles. Context provides innumerable clues for where to go next. A few clicks and you can find yourself in new worlds, but also understand something of how you arrived there. A small selection of well-researched artists can blossom into a constellation given time, and new music will appear in multitudes.

It’s fundamentally an attack on public space and should be illegal. I’m sitting in a small public parkette right now within earshot of an establishment that has one of these things running 24/7. I don’t even know which one as I can’t locate the precise source of the sound. It emits a high pitched whining noise for about 5 seconds, at which point the frequency rapidly increases until it ends in a zap, followed by about 2 seconds of silence. This differential makes it impossible to ignore. It even permeates headphones. I like eating lunch here, as it’s close to my office and a nice space, but I often leave irrationally angry after being unable to relax in the midst of this omnipresent noise.

Sadly there doesn’t seem to be anything I can do about it.

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!