Dissolve — your album art in particles, disintegrating

On screen

What Dissolve shows

Dissolve rebuilds your album art at the centre of the screen from tens of thousands of particles, one per point of the image. Formed, it is sharp: each particle is a square exactly the size of a cell. Every bar it disintegrates a different way: carried off by the wind, blown apart in an explosion, sucked into a vortex, falling as rain that bounces on the floor, cut into blocks that flip over, crumbling like sand. Then every particle returns to its place on a damped spring, in a wave, and the image reforms exactly on the downbeat.

On every beat a wave of depth crosses the image. The style changes with each phrase: full colour, neon monochrome, stipple. In build-ups the image vibrates and more and more particles break loose; on the drop everything explodes into a 3D cloud that turns for two bars before reforming. For EDM, house, trance, pop and hip-hop.