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.🖖👍
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
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.
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!
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
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.
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."
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 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! 👏 👏 👏
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 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.
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... .
0:35 Through the fire and flames verse 1:26 Thunderstruck-ish 1:35 Intro part of through the fire and flames 3:50 Windows sounds 4:08 Through the Windows and flames 4:42 Careless whisper
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.
SAME! 4 yr old me was dead convinced it was magic! (we had it on dvd and cd)!
Yall do realize the generation that is young adults and teenagers had this too? Only 9 somethings don't know this because of age.
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!"_*
The frame rate was _always_ there to fool us.
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.
Every few months Animusic returns from the depths and it calms something in me
I first saw this 15 years ago, and it still gets mysteriously stuck in my head about once a month
Same!
Omm I caught her drift what she sed
Same
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12-13 years ago for me, Same here even though i quit band after, this never left my mind and i always make my way back
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.
i love the detail around the 2 minute mark where the little stoppers move beneath the strings to make the notes less sustained
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
I wouldn’t necessarily call it a stopper, more like a damper.
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.🖖👍
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!
same tho
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
*Insert wild west adventure here!*
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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
I have watched this over and over and never noticed that until you mentioned it-
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.
Turned 14 as well :)
I turned 14 10 days ago
Exactly the same story for me…
The melody is just so meaningful even without words
could not have said it better
The beginning of it seems like part of the fire and the flames
@@them3lon8r72 exactly.
My music teacher showed this to us when I was in 5th grade. Last year it randomly entered my head. Today I finally found it.
Jeezus that bass drop at 2:13 is so crazy, I love this song so much
I love how the microphone is attached to the camera, so it really sounds like you're there with the panning of the drums and the instruments
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!
@@rayredondo6349 it sounded like the guitars followed the camera
i used to watch this when i was 7,5 years later and this hits me with an ocean of nostalgia
its been a while...
Tell me about it
*nostalgia has entered the chat*
Too long ey...? Heh...damn...good times back then huh?
@@siraemysteriahansblascovitz yep
Pp dan k
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
Amazing. I still get mesmerized by the precision and sound of it all.
I've always loved these PBS musical shorts..... Just WOW 🎶🥰👍
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.
I thought this was absolutely brilliant the first time I saw it years ago. I still think it’s amazing and I’m delighted to see it again.
It really has made an enormous impression on my life; my music teacher had shown this to me and it was love at first sight and sound 😊😂.
Can't believe I can see this video in 2022! Reminds me back in the college 17 years ago!
i remember it from elementary school😅
Not just what it looks like, when playing, and how it sounds, but how the instruments come in - as cool as the way they look.
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.
first set is done on Nylon, followed by the Steel-string (I think)
How ironic that the 2nd set sounds more like a harpsichord than the actual harpsichord set
Third is E-bass which people slap and pluck; slap bass
Damn... it really has been a while... How nostalgic...
I feel like a schmuck...I recognize this tune but can't place it. What song is it?
Really has been a while. Very nostalgic
@@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."
@@aweso100 almost forgot about that one
I could listen and watch these productions all day 🙂
I remember seeing this on a preview from bbc America, me and my dad latched on right away. My favorite part is when the blue basses show up
見る音楽発見！
すごく楽しい。
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 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
Back in my days, this used to be a thing...
If it were possible to tattoo a song, this would be it for me. I wish I could show others how this song makes me feel, how it lights up my soul.
This blows my mind THIS IS AMAZING
I was mesmerized by this when I first saw it. I wasn't sure what I was witnessing. And the songs were so good!
Such a cool sick beat. Makes me remember my years in elementary school.
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!
👏 👏 👏
THIS is the BEST sequence of Animusic !
Really
GREAT work!!
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?
The local PBS station used to occasionally drop one of the animusic bits in between shows. You might have actually seen it or heard it before.
@@liljenborg2517 i live in the netherlands and as far as i lnow PBS isnt available her
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
1:56 when the little under things that stop the vibration comes up, i can't explain but it gives off such *cracks knuckles* energy
Oh how i missed hearing this. Brings back a lot of memories
Truly magical, and all out fantastically creative. visually stunning Thank You!
That bass goes crazy
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At first alienated, I liked it more and more with each bar.... very beautiful, for eye and ear.
I absolutely love "Animusic"
Just Beautiful... all the way around. Graphically and Musically!
Omg, them memories😮😮 like 15 Years and still remembering it so clear
These are the reasons why we NEED 3D TV 🥰👍
The nostalgia is honestly crazy.
I remember seeing this in either 7th or 8th grade, was so fascinated by this! So awesome!
I don't know why, but these always remind me of the Terran music from Starcraft. Such good sounds, and such amazing animations 👍 real evergreens
1:27
I always find this part so dam beautiful
imagine this being a ringtone.
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.
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...
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Is that a u2 song? I love u2.
Was shown this in music class back in 4th grade 😅 still just as fantastic as it was then years later 👍
Such a magnificent Rube Goldberg influence.
I’ve been listening to this since I was… I can’t even remember. It’s so amazing I don’t even care.
0:35 Through the fire and flames verse
1:26 Thunderstruck-ish
1:35 Intro part of through the fire and flames
3:50 Windows sounds
4:08 Through the Windows and flames
4:42 Careless whisper
oh my goodness what a fantastic and scientifically made musical machine.
these are the kind of things that gove me so much nostalgia that i want to cry a bit and get teary eyed
I love this piece of music!
As a kid I always thought these were real machines
Fantastic music and amazing sound !
Original videos with the same soundtrack were released around 1þ years ago. Yeah, that's a lot
This song feels like a "the day is finally here!" kinda song
Some bit of kit and sounds great.😊
You can play this with one or 2 Spanish Guitars, it sounds AMAZING!
I think it would sound BETTER if the melody was played on a Hammond B3 -69 organ
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The future of AI in music.
Beautiful, ecstatic and captivating 😍🥰
Почему так мало лайков? Это завораживает. Спасибо.
Wow 😳. That's beautiful 😍
Ahh techtv eyedrops. Nostalgia.
I remember this used to be what we did in music class at school
Incidentally, if you've watched this a thousand times, try it at 1.5x regular speed. It's a funky jam.
wow, it´s amazing, a very good Song. it´s great
Been watching animusic for a long time haven't see a.bad one yet I love it
Its sound is beautiful!!!
Used to watch this when i was a kid can't believe its been ages
fantastico!!!
Beautyfull
muitíssimo interessante a montagem e sua didática auditiva, com baquetas percussivas em diversos tipos instrumentais de banda.
I remember seeing these videos on PBS every afternoon after school
Totally amazing technology. Love this.
This fascinating music made it a very happy day!
Oh boy. Time to get this song lodged into my cranium for the 620th time
the nostalgia 🥹
Beautiful presentation 👌
I'd forgotten how cool this stuff is
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That was so awesome ! Thank very much.
Beautiful song!
Love this song!!
This brought back a lot of memories
There is one and only one problem with this piece of music/video: It's not long enough, especially the final crescendo.
Wow. Never seen or heard anything like this. Amazing!!
There are two albums of those videos/songs. And they are 15 years old :D
They are very nice nowdays, but back then, every single bit was miraculous :D
@@notveryartificial4486 💯
Wow this was great. Thank you very much.
I love this🎼🎶😉👍!!!
ELP Lives on forever! ❤❤❤
Wow, super muzyczka ✨✨✨👏👏👏👏👏👏❤️
It's beautiful