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Comment by bane

Old-skool demoscener here, I applaud this effort because it's both an attempt at adding "more" to the music and because it also shows that sometimes interesting ideas end up getting developed multiple times. When I was a kid there used to be these videos [1] that just crammed interesting computer generated graphics in with a custom sound track -- the one I'm linking to here had music composed by Thomas Dolby for example.

True, the demoscene produced lots of this kind of stuff also, but with as many different purposes and goals as similarities. I don't think of your effort or the video I linked to as being demoscene because they don't share the same ethos. Sting [2], and other big pop stars [3] played around with this kind of audio-video (sometimes interactive) stuff when people thought multimedia meant "CD-ROM" and FMV.

I think your effort here sits very comfortably in the context of these kinds of audio-visual efforts. Nicely done!

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KWyXopLxac 2 - https://archive.org/details/sting-all-this-time-interactive-... 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSdI7HEn6EU

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