There's no such thing as stealing ideas, if it weren't for other people doing things we wouldn't be doing them either. This idea originally came from my science teacher, because we use to do stuff with sound in class. That was many, many moons ago though. I planned to do this for a while, but kept getting sidetracked. It took a friend linking something from Canon to get me to finally put this idea to work.
The setup is simple, all you really need is a speaker, some plastic, and a flash. Oh, and some paint or colored liquid of some type. Put some plastic over the speaker, and aim the speaker up. Set up the camera on a tripod, manual focus, and put something on the plastic where your focus point is and focus on it. Then, drop a few drops on the plastic, turn the music up, and wait for the magic.
Simple setup: Flash on wireless trigger on tripod from the left. I put a homemade cardboard snoot on the flash to direct the light towards the drops. A computer subwoofer from my old 5.1 surround system with the speaker facing the ceiling. I taped plastic over the speaker grill, which I took the fabric off of, didn't make much different but I thought it was giving too much vibration between it and the plastic. I put my camera on the tripod and set the lens to manual focus. I use LiveView to focus on something that I place where I want the focal point to be, usually it's just a wooden stick I have that I lay on the plastic.
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Once I have the basic setup done all it takes is to drop some paint, turn up the music, and snap shots. Camera settings are typically f/8, 1/250, ISO200-800 (depending on what I want to see in the shots), flash set to 1/128 power. Camera on burst mode, and basically hold the shutter while the music bumps. You can place drops where you want, then get ready to shoot. My old 5.1 system has a cabled power/volume control, so I can hold it in one hand and stand next to the camera to shoot. Otherwise I'd use a wireless shutter release if I had to.