audio visualizer

Refers to animated imagery generated from a piece of music in real time, usually in the form of a series of pixelated bars (e.g. Danbooru post #6141816) or series of straight bars with fluctuating heights (Danbooru post #1718355).
Commonly seen in concerts featuring electronic music or in mixing consoles.

Not to be confused with sound wave.

The following tags are aliased to this tag: peak_meter and sound_visualizer (learn more).