His work for Miami Vice led to big-time commercial success. Hammer eventually scored 92 episodes of Miami Vice , each requiring him to compose and record twenty minutes of music a week. It was as close as Hammer got to burning out. The Mind's Eye is a 45 minute video of computer animation. The animation is fluid, three dimensional, and looks as if it were airbrushed.
Vistas pull back into wider vistas, patterns unfold, and the imaginary view moves about rooms.
Director Michael Boydstun has done a good job to edit diverse clips together coherently, including some that was used in the film The Lawnmower Man . In fact, I ve always considered music to be my ultimate reality. I try not to think about anything too much and just let it happen, that's always the best approach. Hammer scored the music frame by frame and the result works to draw the viewer into the movie. For the CD, the music has been re-mixed and sequenced different, with the idea of enhancing the listener's experience.