This isn’t your run-of-the-mill DVD. Be warned, some may be unsettled by the contents.

No, it’s not a Hostel-style eye-gouging, or a Texas Chainsaw Massacre blood-fest, it’s actually a set of short films from a Brighton-based duo who are content on showing our ‘worlds in flux’.

How so? Through the power of sonic animation, of course!

Using different audio capturing devices, the Semiconductor team of Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt unite audio and visual imagery through modern-day technology to create short films that are often staggering.

Brilliant Noise sees the team working with the NASA Space Sciences Laboratories in Berkley, California to create an audio/visual piece in conjunction with images from the Sun and its solar flares.

The static sounds and piercing images you are presented with are simply astounding. There have been criticisms from some parts of the U.S. government as to why there has been money spent on such ventures, but only a complete ignoramus would be able to miss the mind-bending spectacle on show.

It ceases to end there. The sheer sight of Northumbria reverberating to the actual sounds of seismic movements from in the area over previous years is incredible, and the creation of a mini web-world through electron particles on 200 Nanowebbers never fails to impress.

It’s not all crazy bug-eyed visuals though, as some of the pieces are things of real beauty. The Sound of Microclimates is staggering. Creating small eco-systems that surround modern-day Paris and its architecture is pure fantasy.

From the cloud around a skyscraper, to the dust-storm/hurricane blowing in a busy district, it really is a wild imagination in cellular form. And as the night draws in and the lights of the city migrate, it shows the innocent fun to be had when inanimate objects become somewhat animated and natural.

Other highlights include the city that is created through the sounds of an electric storm captured from within a city itself, with some high-pitched sounds actually recalling the start of Sorry You’re Not A Winner by Enter Shikari, strangely enough...

The music video for Múm’s Green Grass of Tunnel is a beautiful scene, with starlings flocking together to migrate over mountains and rugged terrain to their home, and the Mini Epochs video shows the changing urban landscape over years in just a few seconds.

The most revealing segment however comes from the scientists who are asked the formidable question: “Can science prove everything?” The answers are incredibly eye opening, as well as brazenly thought-provoking.
 
Apparently, science doesn’t have to be boring after all…

There are a few segments which are either uneasy to watch or listen to, or are just a bit too interpretive, but they are still in the minority.