Almost as soon as sound was introduced to film, people have been using animation to visualize what they heard. Here are two recent examples.

Unammed Soundculpture: A high tech approach using footage from a dancer recorded with depth cameras with music by Machinenfabriek. (4:56 minutes)

I Will Never Change: A more basic approach using actual vinyl records to visualize the sound waves created by dubstep producer Benga. (2:00 minutes)

Unammed Soundculpture
by Daniel Franke

Benga - I Will Never Change
by Us

For more animation, visit our Saturday Morning Cartoon Index.

René Walling is a fan of SF, animation and comics, this has led him to co-chair Anticipation, the 2009 Worldcon, be involved with fps magazine for more than a decade and start Nanopress, a Canadian small press. He looks forward to living on Mars where he would benefit from having more than 24 hours in a day.