[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

[nfixx]

Thanks for sharing this, and especially from the bespoke demoscene community! Sure, I now realize this concept in its most general form isn't that novel, and perhaps isn't as phenomenal, but, my motivations warranted it, and well, those fans of mine who've tried the new album packaging really seem to love it over the conventional package - audio/video.

I'll just keep it around, and perhaps tweak things as long as there's some passion for hacking on this some more or if it turns out to be that good for my fans...

Otherwise, thanks for that background you gave, and the interesting links! Discovering ideas you resonate with isn't easy either ;-)

[bane]

Sure! I'd say even to keep it up. Release the music separately as well, but these kinds of more sensory productions can be useful to keep fans and to get new ones. You could end up known as the artist the releases as apps as well as normal albums.

There's also no need anymore to frame releases as albums to be honest, that's a by product of the distribution medium. Just make what you like and resonates with the kind of fans you want and enjoy being creative.