It's a pretty amazing music video on its own but there's a lot to it that's not obvious on first viewing. First of all: the director, Michel Gondry who is a fascinating story on his own. He's best known for his auteur films "Eternal Sunlight of the Spotless Mind" and "The Science of Sleep". Aside from that, he's done a number of music videos including the one above. The depth of the video might not be obvious at first but what it represents is a blending of film-making and the creation of electronic music. Like most music there are patterns that represent certain musical phrases and beats. Sometimes you get this in the form of formal music notation, sometimes you get something like this.
That's a kind of sound map that Brian Eno used for his landmark "Ambient 1: Music for Airports" (also one of my favourite albums). The following video is like that for Gondry's Star Guitar. Check it out and appreciate the insane depth of Star Guitar.
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