Galaxy — a spiral galaxy of 80,000 stars

On screen

What Galaxy shows

Galaxy shows a spiral galaxy seen at three-quarters: a golden bulge, bluish arms, pink and blue nebulae, dust lanes. As in the real sky, no star follows an arm: each one travels its own orbit, and the arms appear where the orbits crowd together. The camera slowly swings from face-on to almost edge-on.

When the music is calm the galaxy turns slowly with wide arms and deep colours; as it builds, the galaxy speeds up, its arms tighten and a wave of light runs along them on every beat. Each section takes it from two arms to three, then four, and on the drop a shockwave crosses the disc. For ambient, progressive house, trance, downtempo and chill electronica.