Nine Inch Nails, currently touring their Lights in the Sky tour, has raised the bar for live performance visuals. According to Reznor, it all started with a relatively simple idea.

“I wanted to see how I could use video as an instrument,” he says, “and try to really make the stage feel like it’s organic — like it’s part of the overall set.”

They’ve done precisely that, as ~40% of the visuals are rendered on the fly utilizing rhythm, vocal and optical input from the band. Check out this article in wired for tech specs and video.

Makes me really sad I missed it their Seattle show.