Crazy innit. iTunes launched, what, 9 years ago and still we listen to our albums gazing at one static jpeg of the single or artwork of the album. Arcade Fire’s synchronised artwork for their new album The Suburbs looks to change things. Each track on the album has an individual image that appears on your iPod when it’s played, with the lyrics then appearing on the screen as they are sung. Think of it as a sing-a-long analogue MTV video. Oh, the good old days of music packaging. In a similar vein, there’s a new music visualisation piece in our namesake – Mother, that can dynamically load/unload sketches. You can then mix the visual output in a manner not unlike VJing, to accompany both recorded and live music. Music + visuals = happiness.

Image: The Guardian

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