I've just released a WebGL experiment that uses music to animate particles. It's meant to be exciting to both watch and create (the music - not composed by me - is pretty epic).
https://polygonjs.com/particles-music
And it's done with a visual node-based editor I'm working g on. Here is a tutorial of it in action.
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2WfjN_pVGgj32-ZJc_VNaZ...