Dissociative Fugue

The music is 'Dissociative Fugue' by Archetribe. The title of the track is not a musical fugue, but an impression the loss of identity closely related with Dissociative Amnesia.

A downloadable, better-looking version of the video can be found at http://www.stretta.com along with more cool stuff including free music.

If it were not for youtube, I wouldn't have bothered creating this. At least here, there is the possibility someone may stumble across it.

Here is some synesthesia for you. This was an attempt to visualize some of the abstract noise that goes on inside my head when listening to music. At first blush, it may not seem that different from a software visualizer. Unfortunately, visualizers are bound by the analysis of a stereo mix. While a it may extract information from certain frequency ranges, it can't really tell a clarinet from a duduk and represent each discretely. Here, each element has its own visual counterpart.

I read that some people lack the ability to distinguish the individual parts of a piece of music clearly. This blew my mind. Perhaps it will help others hear music in a different way, or grasp some of the more subtle interplay of the individual parts.

A better sounding version of the audio file can be found at:

http://www.last.fm/music/Archetribe/_/Dissociative+Fugue

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Dissociative
• Fugue
• synesthesia
• Archetribe
• Waterworks
• abstract
• 3D
• computer
• animation
• Adobe
• After
• Effects
• electronic

[VJFranzK]

Truly excellent audio / visual work here! Did you have the MIDI data from the song to work with, or was it synched by hand? (which truly would have taken forever!)

[stretta]

I exported the individual audio tracks out and keyed from that.

[chenierchenier]

this is not a fugue!!! retarded video!

[stretta]

Correct, it is not a fugue. It is a piece of music called 'Dissociative Fugue' about that mental state. Please read the description.

[spencnaz]

Fantasia of 1940 attempted a similar concept with their visual interpretation of Bach. It's way ahead of it's time to say the least.

[stretta]

Yes, the opening Toccata of Fantasia is by far my favorite - it was also the most abstract.

[tnix80]

You're very right, a lot of people don't have an appreciation for more complex pieces because they don't get what is going on. No wonder prog rock died and pop has boomed. For the record I love bach and am a musician so I can here the interplay of parts but it is interesting to see it visually.

Whether you believe it or not, some drugs (for me weed and especially dxm) enhance your ability to hear the different parts in a piece of music and generally increase your enjoyment of them.

[the14yroldpianoman]

I'm actually addicted to this song :D

[ChemicalComedown]

Absolutely amazing work, very creative and original !!! : )

Thumbed up and subbed ;D

[Nexthendrix2112]

holy shit

[camronlp]

Pretty cool, reminds me of that music video for run run run by phoenix

[xagcx]

Brilliant, one of the few recognizable captures of Music synesthesia I've seen.  Naturally it doesn't match mine but I can the translation. I wish there was a Synaesthesia visualization construction studio where you could create effects that you could trigger in time to match what's in a song. At any rate, thank you very much for sharing this.

[kribbod]

maybe its the alcohol but i only heard corny new age music. And i wondered if the animation correlated with the music at all. i tried to find the maracas, is it the waveformy thing? something though that did correlate was the presence of weed and prog music. and LSD and traffic lights..

[MortiCarthago]

this is amazing

[masterkhufu]

Do you also perceive individual pitches at various colors as well, or it is just related to different instruments?

If so, for you, which notes represent which colors?

[GunnardDoboze]

@the14yroldpianoman

[GunnardDoboze]

I played the Duduk on this track....I really enjoy working with Matthew.