Artwork Title: Pavane
Artist: Nick Lai
The video is a kaleidoscopic visualization of an orchestral-electronic fusion piece generated with code in a process called livecode using a snapshot of the piece in Logic Pro. As the visuals are generated, rain effects have been added to increase the meditativeness of the piece.
Transcript
[RELAXING MUSIC]
[MUSIC BUILDS]
[MUSIC CRESCENDOS]
Video Description
Place marker moves on a music composition software screen.
Animation, rain drops fall and splash on the screen, as if they fell into water.
A star shape moves in the middle of the screen. It starts large and becomes smaller. The rain drops continue to fall.
More star shapes and colors are added to the star.
Animated piano keyboards rise from all four corners of the screen. They have gray software menus on them and are cut from an element of the software.
The piano keyboards grow out of each other and form the outer edge of the star, which has many elements from the original screen on it now.
The star now resembles a large asterisk of clear space on the inside and elements from the screen as the circle it floats in.
The star turns and disappears. A dark gray circle on a black background. The circle is made of many layers of circles that resemble a yarn material. In the center is a black circle. Around the center circle is a circle with white specks spaced out and in groups of two.
The circle flashes and becomes a hexagon.
Different shapes flash in the center in bright green and white.
The edges of the hexagon curve inward.
Now in the center is a hexagon with curved sides, inside a circle, inside layers and layers of hexagons, all with sides that curve inward. The inner layers have white specks and circles as a regular decoration.
The sides are now so bent inward that the shape takes the form of a star. All the inner layers transform as well.
Now little triangle shapes, but with just two sides, decorate the inner star. They all point outward. The third layer star has white tips.
Now the decorations disappear, then reappear. The Second layer star has white edges.
The shape continues to flash and change in subtle ways.
Now the third layer star has white dots at its tips and in the corners of the angled in sections.The entire star has grown so large that the outer layers are not all visible. The star turns gently.
The first central star now has taken over the second layer star. The second layer is not just a thin band of white around the first. It has a circle cut in its spokes. Everything continues to expand and turn.
The spokes of the star extend and flatten..