Music is very cool and overall design is interesting, but what caught my eye is how every sound makes sense. I mean - there is a lot of little moving parts that stop/muffle/otherwise influence strings to get the effect that can be heared in soundtrack. Every unique trick string instrument players use is somehow represented in a machine and animated. Also the strings themselves look quite amazing - they bend under the "fingers" like a normal string would, and vibration looks exactly as it should, even when "fingers" slide along the neck of an instrument to create the rising or lowering tone. The dudes who animated this clearly knew a lot about different string instruments, and held at least several different ones in their hands. It's genuinely impressive
This was made by Wayne Lytle and David Crognale and released in 2005 in Animusic 2 album. Check out other music pieces/animations from Animusic 1 and 2, they are also really cool! I agree, it's mighty impressive how detailed these animations are. They've worked on them for years, after all (and mastered this art/programmed the tools they needed for 15 years before this release).
@@KnightMirkoYo I grew up with those animations, and they were the ones that set the core of my music taste as an instrumental music. My favourite ones were Fiber Bundles and Heavy Light. Still are, and now, at the age of 20, my favourite kind of music is still this kind of electronic instrumental music. I just have decided to dive into a nostalgia recently, and re-watched the whole batch, and now, after I got a musical education and learned to play guitar and piano, I just looked closer and noticed so many details I could never figure as a kid
@@notveryartificial4486 That's awesome that they impacted you so much! I wish you keep playing instruments and start composing on your own. Music is one of the best things there is.
All of the Animusic videos made a sort of logical sense; after watching enough times, you could tell where each "note" of the instrument was. But for the reason you stated, I feel like this is the only one that can actually exist as a _real_ machine that can play _real_ music. (The Intel Pipe Dream project was synchronized with a MIDI track, so what you're hearing aren't really the sounds of the balls hitting the "keys.") Back in 2005, this definitely would have been pure fantasy from a technological standpoint, but with modern technological advancements, I'm certain you could get a group of luthiers, engineers, and programmers together to make a true, 1:1 recreation of this that works exactly as the original did.
this looks like homeboy just yoinked the actual files and rerenderd them with modern hardware, i cant see any weird ai upscaling like you usually do with remasters. this is amazing
Nah it's still janky, it's just harder to see because of the dated CG. There's noise around every moving part if you look close. "Homeboy" just added interpolation frames like every other RU-vid "remastered 4k" video
On the rocky shoals of an island somewhere deep in the Southern Pacific lies a peculiar lighthouse. A bizzare string instrument can be found on top of the tower playing an alluring tune for many centuries. No one was sure how it kept working for that amount of time as there are no signs of human inhabitants on the island nor any facility for it to produce energy, leading with many speculations stating that it contains unknown, possibly supernatural abilities to power and maintain itself. Legend says that by entering the chamber, depending on which verse the instrument is playing, exiting the room would turn you up in a different location, dimension or time. During the moment of pause after the instrument finished its piece and before it starts to play again, the room would be filled by the claps of the lost souls of wanderers and explorers who have traveled through this chamber and can't find their way back home.
Quite an unusual instrument. Looks like spiders underneath it are reaching over to pluck the strings. The more hammer-ish fingers look like oil well pumpers. But Cudos to the inventor, because it still is beautiful. Not everyone has a bizarre imagination as I have.
Looks like an ancient instrument of much more pleasant times now locked in the depths of the maze of time in one of the most hardest to get to rooms and space forced to play till the end of time as we know it. Anyone who has tried to retrieve it was struck by blazing lightning and turned to a statue of silver and platinum.
The fact the animusic series was from the early 2000s still blows my mind to this day 😅 core memories unlock eveytime im reminded of this amd watch them
Oh my god, RU-vid recommended me the Pipe Dream remaster and I’m so glad it did so I could find you putting out all the rest just in the last week! I saw your comment on that one about working on the others, checked out Acoustic Curves (my personal favorite), and then out of curiosity clicked to see if you had finished any others. What a pleasant surprise! Thank you so much for these remasters, they are such a gift for those of us who grew up watching them, one we can now pass on to the next generation in even higher quality.
This was the first ever Animusic clip I ever saw, on a Facebook post. It made me think of spiders and some kind of Star Trek style transporter accident that mesh several guitars together.
This was made by Wayne Lytle and David Crognale and released in 2005 in Animusic 2 album. Check out other music pieces/animations from Animusic 1 and 2, they are also really cool!
Watching this kind of video reminds me why it is necessary to have an open mind to the cultures of others and to understand what makes the mores and the charm of these. There are ones who will find this kind of music strange because they are not familiar with it but actually this is the kind of music that allows me to develop my own imagination and inspiration.
I would love a game where you can play this instrument. You could set up timing belts for each finger on each instrument, and customize the notes with effects like sustain or dampen, then hit play and the instrument would play itself complete with an animation. The beautiful original arrangements and meme songs would be a wonderful kind of chaos.
As far as I know, the stage for Pipe Dream is public, but I'm not sure about the other stages for Animusic songs. If they haven't been released, I hope they do!
One of your Animusic remastered videos showed up in my feed and I had to come look for this one!!!! Resonant Chamber is one of my comfort videos and it’s incredible to be able to see it with all the pixels! Too bad it takes away a tiny bit of the magic to be able to see it more clearly, it makes it more clear that it is just a 3d animation 😢
this would actually sound way cooler if it was real because all of the strings would be vibrating in response to all the other strings and sound awesome
This is another wonderful example of the human being intelligence and precision. I wish we spend more time surprising each other doing beautiful things stead of making war and hating each other. I am also musician and I am amazed with the creativity. It looks like something that would be fun to see in real life. Peace
It's so crazy that they animated this super over the top contraption that actually looks like it's playing they music. All the other animations they've done seem fairly easy to match what instrument goes to what is animated, but this? It's all strings. All overlapping each other. It's just so impressive and I can't believe that this was a possible thing in the year this was made.
The cool thing about all animusic films is that all animations are MIDI driven, meaning that you could record a different song using MIDI, run it through the program using the same camera angles, and get the same video out, but for a different song, and all the animations would line up with the new song. It is a really cool system.
The most difficult part of making the Animusic songs is making the stage. All of the instruments are hooked up to MIDI files, but that isn't helpful unless you program them what to do. Also, having to configure the complicated setup for this instrument must have taken a while. However, for some of the stages you have to go in and manually add some animations after applying the MIDI files, such as Starship Groove where they had to make the robots move around the ship and dance when they weren't playing, which you can't just use a MIDI file to do.
Whenever I listen to this I get the vibe of an old story that I can picture in my mind. However, I can’t recall the story in my memory.. it’s all a blur..
Incredible... unique... clever... original... fun... exciting... motivating. As for the artist... God blessed you with some kind of imagination! I love every one I've seen before this. I am not one to send friends links... but I'm sending out yours.
