Today, I have found something truely great in iTunes 8. No it’s not the ‘Genius’ feature or is it the new way to list your music. It is far more beautiful than all of that. It is the new iTunes Visualizer.

The moment I saw it, I was taken back to about a month ago. I was inside the Nob Hill Center at San Francisco for the FlashForward 2008 Conference. I remember watching same thing presented by one of the speakers. After a bit of digging, it all connects! Robert Hodgin of Flight 404 built this wicked visualizer called “Magnetosphere”. He had a great presentation at FlashForward that got the crowd really excited. And who can blame them? He presented his visualizer with one of his favorite tracks and it was a serious site. Well, my point is that if you’re into that kind of thing, you should it out in the latest iTunes. Turn the lights down and jack in your favorite beats.

Robert also built the following animation and submitted for a Radiohead music video competition at Aniboom. He didn’t win, but it would be a damn shame if more people didn’t see this.

Weird Fishes: Arpeggi from flight404 on Vimeo.