I have made some experiments with using the audio react functionality that the Trapcode plugin for After Effects contains. The plugin allows the user to chose the direction that the effect begins from, here is a sequence of three identical audio snippets:
The first video is a meditation on the user perspective that one might take - first person one point perspective in this case. I was trying to investigate how a mass of information might look like.....in this case it looks confusing. When the view rises above the mass, then there is some semblance of order.