After I turned in Underground Lake as my final project, I wasn’t finished. So I kept working. I made this loop.

The background I made from a checkerboard, which I distorted+animated with Turbulent Displace and highlighted with Vegas. I pixelated it with the Mosaic effect to add sharp transitions, and then used a very complex Turbulent Displace to obscure the pixelation.

The Aurora effect was created with scatter, glow, and blur, applied to two overlaid audio spectrums.  The blue had a short durational average of 45 milliseconds to respond to the beat, while the green spectrum averages over 360 milliseconds to reflect chords.