Prog Rock on Next-Gen 3D Music Visualization

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I was searching through old and new music visualizers in order to 
replace just having the album cover play on YouTube for the album, Synemotion. (Until I find time to make the rest of the videos)

One next-gen 3-d music visualizer APEXvj has some interesting effects. It might be that the graphics are well done or the algorithm, the 
Finnish programmer, Simo Santavirta used. But it seems he found a “way 
to detect these rewarding moments in a song and to use them to add 
visually stimulating components at the right time.”
As he states on his website:“According to several studies, when you listen to music 
your brain is wired into an anticipation-reward mode. It’s sort of like 
humming a song and waiting for specific sound patterns to emerge.

When they do, or even better, when an unexpected pattern surprises 
you in a positive way, your body rewards you by producing dopamine. 
Dopamine makes us happy, creative and motivated!The intended result is to strengthen the dopamine producing effect when we experience music.”
His technology is browser based using WebGL in Chrome and it was very
 easy to test out the songs because the development uses the Soundcloud 
API.
It was quite difficult to get the visuals into a video. But, of 
course this app is not for making videos but for “real-time” VJing or 
live peformance. 
With a few trials and errors and quite a few capture software 
programs, I believe this is a somewhat satisfactory result, at least 
something for your eyes as well as your ears.
Tell me if you feel any "happy" neuro chemicals after seeing and hearing :)

Here are the videos:

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waterinsilence Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: May 31 2013 Location: Greece Status: Offline Points: 62	Topic: Prog Rock on Next-Gen 3D Music Visualization Posted: May 21 2015 at 11:14
	I was searching through old and new music visualizers in order to replace just having the album cover play on YouTube for the album, Synemotion. (Until I find time to make the rest of the videos) One next-gen 3-d music visualizer APEXvj has some interesting effects. It might be that the graphics are well done or the algorithm, the Finnish programmer, Simo Santavirta used. But it seems he found a “way to detect these rewarding moments in a song and to use them to add visually stimulating components at the right time.” As he states on his website: “According to several studies, when you listen to music your brain is wired into an anticipation-reward mode. It’s sort of like humming a song and waiting for specific sound patterns to emerge. When they do, or even better, when an unexpected pattern surprises you in a positive way, your body rewards you by producing dopamine. Dopamine makes us happy, creative and motivated! The intended result is to strengthen the dopamine producing effect when we experience music.” His technology is browser based using WebGL in Chrome and it was very easy to test out the songs because the development uses the Soundcloud API. It was quite difficult to get the visuals into a video. But, of course this app is not for making videos but for “real-time” VJing or live peformance. With a few trials and errors and quite a few capture software programs, I believe this is a somewhat satisfactory result, at least something for your eyes as well as your ears. Tell me if you feel any "happy" neuro chemicals after seeing and hearing :) Here are the videos:
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