Cabaret Voltaire - "Kirlian Photograph" -- Waveform visualization

This is a visualization of "Kirlian Photograph" by Cabaret Voltaire, released in their 1979 album "Mix-Up"

Kirlian photography is a photographic technique which involves high-voltage charged objects over photographic film. The film registers the corona around the objects, giving it a weird ghostly appearance. The technique is claimed to register the "aura" of objects and living tissue, but the workings of this photographic method are well understood enough to dismiss those claims.

Either way, the pictures are pretty cool looking, and I tried to capture their looks in this visualization.

This is basically the song's waveform wrapped around a logarithmic spiral. The center of the spiral is the past waveforms. Each frame leaves an afterimage that decays in a 33 color palette. This worked pretty well to simulate the "feel" of the corona effects you see in the Kirlian photos, especially given the song's heavy use of white noise, which shows as random, chaotic peaks.

The song itself won't please everyone, but I like it a lot. Been wanting to post it here for a while now.

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Music

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• Cabaret Voltaire
• kirlian
• photograph
• mix
• up
• photography
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• visualization
• hd
• waveform
• timbre
• corona
• high
• voltage
• electronic
• white
• noise

[777pusher]

My Bose headphones coupled with this visual effect actually tickled my brain early on. Very niiiiiiiiiiicely indeed!!!!! Lost interest visually, after a couple of minutes. Will subscribe for sure, as this is fascinating eye candy. Would love to see multiple techniques (scripts?), integrated together, throughout the different moods within the music. Thank you for your efforts here, a definate A!

[1ucasvb]

@777pusher Yeah, well, I'd do something more fancy if I could, but I'm not technically skilled enough. I just really wanted to have this song up on YouTube, but I wanted to give it a little more purpose other than just being there. :)

[stevieweinberg]

what is the program that's doing this?

[1ucasvb]

@stevieweinberg I wrote a Python script to output the frames.

[MrOoppoddoo]

Thank you.

[777pusher]

@1ucasvb After I posted I thought of this. This Visualization could overlap other images, perhaps. I have ZERO tech know-how, but it should surely be simple to get random scenes or imagery occurring behind the visual effects. Sorry, I'm just getting into making videos for underappreciated music, and I have to write down ideas somewhere, so why not on posts? If you happen to check out one of my videos, you will see I have no real clue....

[JinxxxieSiouxAsh]

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