Back in the 80’s there was a conspiracy theory that the music of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon was synchronized with the video in the movie The Wizard of Oz. Some called it The Dark Side of Oz. But, in reality the brain actively seeks connections, even when the audio and visual inputs are totally unrelated to each other. It was just pure coincidence that your mind found some connection, for example that the “mood” of the music changed perfectly with the scene. When in fact they were never choreographed together.
My point is that I work hard to intentionally align a piece of video with the audio narration. The two must align; you want to display some new object when it’s mentioned. Writing the code to visualize the scene of the world around the user. But this “random correlation” is also quite interesting.

I recently read some blog which mentioned that laser/light shows at a concert can be purely arbitrary. They don’t NEED to be in alignment with the music. Anything you do with a light, its color or direction of movement, can be completely arbitrary, unrelated to the music. There is no “right” or “wrong”. The color could have been red or green, and it could be angled left or right, or straight down. As a light technician anything works because the audience will SEE a correlation, even though there is none. And sure, you can always intentionally make the lights align “better” if you know the song. But what about a light show recorded at one concert, replayed to a totally different concert. Would the lights align with the music? At least would our minds think that they aligned?
So anyway, I decided to put these ideas together. That any good video can work with any good song. It worked with Dark Side of Oz, two totally arbitrary medias, blended together. I mixed a brief segment of two videos from YouTube: a music video that I love, mixed with a random “psychedelic” video that I had never seen before. While the music I chose is “trance like”, and meshes well with the psychedelic video, I now believe that any soundtrack could work with that video, possibly even Country Western music. 😊
I created a short YouTube video mixing these two videos together. Nothing exciting really. For me it was mostly a learning experience, understanding HOW to create videos like this and post them. A few more tricks in my toolbox. It was fun. And I figure that anything I create and post is yet another possible marketing opportunity for PeanutSoft and PlanetVRium. I hope you enjoy.
