My personal thought is it could perhaps benefit from having hints of realism, e.g. having a (stylized) face/figure emerge from the abstract layers. Maybe adding some kind of parallaxing to it might work out well too, to exploit the 'layers' a bit more.
The black and white sometimes feels a bit limited, but i understand your software causes this. Perhaps it might be an idea to have a 'video-mixer' on top of that device to distort and play around with the RGB a bit.
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Here's a possible example of what i ment with 'stylized face/figure' (by Ben Kelley)