https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pavkvv/video-of-liquid-crystals-under-a-microscope-max-cooper

Most of us associate liquid crystals with LCD computer monitors. You can get a peek of the crystals in that quick pop of rainbow that you see when you press your screen with your thumb. But when viewed under a microscope as they transform into different phases, the crystals that lie under our mundane monitors are a lively, trippy explosion of color and movement.

Musician Max Cooper set his new song “Music of the Tides” to footage of morphing, pulsating liquid crystals moving through phases, called mesophases. The result is a psychedelic trip, without the drugs.