I see this video as an interesting attempt to use digital media to revisit the experience of live performance. The team that worked on it grab Animal Collective’s performance using green screen that allowed them to create something else starting from musician’s motion.

They are transformed into anonymous silhouettes filled with animated patterns to enhance, or reduce, the contrast with the background images. It’s particularly interesting the animation that is applied to the silhouettes in the last sequence when they seems melting, it reminds of the image of sweaty musicians at the end of an intense performance.
If you don’t know what I mean look at Evgeny Kissing interpretation of Franz Liszt’s “La Campanella”, you can see it here.

Digital technologies allowed videomakers to set this atypical concert in an abstract location, they are immersed in a cloud of fluid geometrical shapes and figures that look like bacterias. These shapes, colours, background and the patterns into musicians silhouettes follow the music, growing in colour and intensity as the music grows.

With the new technological developments I believe the next step should be bringing this kind of visual experience into a live performance and I don’t think it will take a long time, considering that Amon Tobin’s ISAM is already a reality.