A project that I've been keeping under wraps for two years has finally completed. Two years ago, a fellow graphics hacker coworker mentioned how he was doing the screensavers for Vista, since the official ones had gotten cut.
This made me jealous, and I wanted in. It was too late to do more screensavers, but the windows media people, seeing how nice the screensavers were, had asked for visualizations that matched. So I got in on that.
I took the WM vis framework and got a direct3D render context into it. Steve (the coworker) fixed some bugs in it and added some awesome post-processing filters. In lay-speak, we made music vizzes that could use a fancy gaming graphics card to do interesting things with music. I spent about 8 months of free time tinkering with this, and then spent a year in delays (mostly) and then certifications and requirements and checks and UGH man, what a hassle. The entire, official, Microsoft release process.
While working on and waiting for this project to finish, my demo group (the Northern Dragons) have released half a dozen demos, and won and placed in several competitions. :/ This is why I do demos!

In any case,
I now present,
for general consumption,

'Psychedelia'

http://www.wmplugins.com/ItemDetail.aspx?ItemID=1116

You will need a 3d graphics card to be able to run this. Anything recent will do.

Hypnobloom, Gigertron, Upcuber, and Distortion are my attempt to realise synaesthesia through graphics hardware. They fall quite short of a complete translation of auditory to visual sensation, but for certain types of music, music with a clean seperation of sound, they achieve it. Funk, talk radio, and minimalist techno look great. Fischerspooner, Macy Grey, and Aphex Twin are the best.