Visualizing "Kicks" by Sycamore Drive
Channel: Rob Cigna
Date: 2012-06-12

A visualization of the song "Kicks" by Sycamore Drive.
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Sycamore_Drive/

The visualizer is a C++ program whch uses FMOD to play the sound, CUDA to compute the discrete Fourier transform, and DirectX 11 to display the frequency spectrum. It was created as a exercise in these three technologies.

http://fmod.org/fmod-downloads.html#FMODExProgrammersAPI
http://developer.nvidia.com/category/zone/cuda-zone
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/directx/aa937781.aspx