This generation will not understand just how magical this was when it was first discovered. It was well advanced for its time. I remember having a hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that it was 3D and not real. Good ol' naive days.
I remember the chain emails passing off low quality copies of Pipe Dream as something made IRL *_"Look at what University of Iowa students made with farm equipment...AMAZING!"_*
There's something deeply satisfying about how they unfold, perform their number, and just fold back up and disappear with no one watching. Like they aren't playing for an audience, they're playing just to play.
My favorite part about the animations are how the percussive instruments have that worn spot where it hits… as if these songs have been played a thousand times. ahhh, Animusic will always be so close to my heart.
These videos have always been highly detailed. For instance in Reasonant Chamber there's little stoppers to mute the string instruments. I love just looking for the hidden details
Here I am. After all these years. I still get a thrill listening to this music and all the other offerings. But this one is special to me. At my age (75), it is the happiest, moving and visually captivating. Long live Animusic and may it return in my life time.🖖👍
The acoustical attention to detail is quite amazing. From the mallet materials to the dampeners and how the string vibrates different depending on the pitch
just turned 14 today, my father has been playing this for me since, i guess my first three years of life? He played it for me today and now i remembered how amazing the song and animation is, and good job making the quality so high tier, it's good to see that animusic is still going. edit jan 11 2023 i cant get over the song. ===================== edit: october 7th, 2023. still here, still listening, this has gotten me through a lot.
Same for me, but with my grandpa and I'm 15, but I still have all the melodies in my head and I'm amazed every time I see/hear it! The entire thing is so perfect ald there's so muvh variety, the high video quality makes it even better...
I'm 19, and yall are hearing some high quality stuff. This guy remastered the old Animusic. I remember when I used to listen to this on discs for the first quarter of my life. You were raised well. Don't let the world spout dirty words at you. Live your best life.
This is my all time favorite by Animusic. Sounds so noble and purpose-driven and free and solemn and nostalgic at the beginning... then you get the modern, treacherous funky section.... but that faithful old melody comes back to fight it off.... things get really intense... and in the end, the key change and tubular bells represent victory for tradition and growth for the present!
It always sounded kind of tranquil and Asian culturey to me. Then it gets to Asian mixed with rock, then back to the Asian. Then with the bells it’s just great. All round amazing animation and music
ik im a year late, but i just gotta say. that intro part has the same vibes as like. an old man sitting on his house patio at night gently rocking in his rocking chair, just fiddling with his old guitar, slowly getting more and more into the music as he contemplates his life, staring up at the stars, feeling the cool night's air. just strumming away and playing what his heart feels is right. THATS the kinda vibes i get from this and its beautiful
If you pay attention, when the camera turns around, the cymbals actually keep the same stereo placement, so while they are panned like they are shown in the video, the panning doesn't actually follow the camera. Good ear though for noticing the panning in the first place!
Thanks for uploading this treasure! I was 14 when my dad got the family a TRS-80 Color Computer for Christmas of 1980. Computer was a generous name for that device. 16KB yes Kilobytes of RAM, no function keys, a cassette recorder for storage, and it ran Microsoft BASIC which was one step above machine language. When I got into doing animation I had things like this in my mind but with that system I had a maximum of 8 pages to use on the lowest resolution with a few colors. Programming music wasn’t just transcribing notes. It was 8-bit audio and you had to put in how the pitch, duration, octave, all kinds of stuff. When I first saw Animusic on PBS years ago it was like seeing everything I always wanted to do but never could.
Great song. I've loved it since I first heard it back in 2000 something. I have my own lyrics for it. You know I can't live my life... without you... .
The first set to fall in and play is like a harpsichord, where the strings are plucked by the pick/plectrum. The second set is like a piano where the string are hammered. The third set seems to have both a plectrum AND a hammer. Not quite sure if any real instruments ever were made with that combination. But fun. The FOURTH melodic set is, of course, like a marimba or xylophone. Then in drops the chimes. And just after that, they all withdraw. Lots of fun.
@@davidmichaeldefranchi6164 this is the original song. It isn't based off a real song. May have some similar sounds, but Wayne Lytle and his team created these songs specifically for Animusic.
@@MarkMeadows90 True, EXCEPT for Cathedral Pictures off of the second collection. That was an adaptation of ELP's rock version of Mussorgsky's "Pictures At An Exhibition."
I remember hearing this in 1st grade and used to listen to this one all the Time and this is my first time listening to it in like 8 years. This one was my favorite and nostalgic I’m 15 now
Hey, no one commenting about the complex mechanism? Everybody commenting about the music quality (even about the microphones!), but none about the mechanism. Music like this a good musician can produce even better (and without worrying about microphones!). Here, the merit is of the instrument creator. The instrument and the programmer made an amazing job! Congratulations! 👏 👏 👏
Invisible amusetions. With a conductor only in spirit we know. A simple beginning threaded with chorus not lent on trance no genre refined fresh modifications spawn dar tempo arye. Blessings to this ingenious wiz doctor
I always wished they had boxed this tech. The Animusic system was designed to let you upload a MIDI file and the computer would figure out how to animate the "instrument". So it was more than just a "music video". They could rewrite the music and the system could re-animate it. I wish they could have created a "dumbed down" consumer version of this software that would let you compose your own music and watch the instrument play it. This was always my favorite instrument and I would love to play around writing songs for it.
I have never watched this before but for some reason, the melody was imbedded deep in my synapses and I felt some kind of nostalgia for something I never remember knowing?
I've always thought there was something familiar about parts of this even when I was a kid seeing this for the first time it's bothered me for like 20 years or however long it's been
I feel the same way as all of the commenters here. I felt that way the first time I heard this, at least twenty years ago. It's like a bit of racial memory, or something. Very nice anyway.
