Aug 22, 2014 02:18 PM EDT
Call it iTunes Visualizer 2.0--Australian artist Andy Thomas's recently built visualizer for birdsongs may pave a new way for tripping musically. As he calls it, his "audio life forms" take on a different shape--mainly the one they are singing about.
With a spark of creative input, Thomas has a flare for these kinds of conceptions. He's able to channel music in such a way that it personifies the actual animal that is producing the sound. In result: birdsongs like you've never heard (or seen) them before.
Thomas's newest creation initially begins as a drawing until its given life on the computer screen. Beautiful transformations, morphing between unique abstract shapes breathes life into something that was otherwise stock recordings from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.
And, thusly, you don't need LSD for this kind of trip.
Check him out.
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