Even after all these years, watching this on a computer and network connection that would be almost unthinkable back then, this music is etched into my mind and almost brings tears to my eyes watching and hearing it again..late nights starring at the screen, marveling at the fact that the computer was actually generating the visuals and sound in real time..and losing myself in that first song...
Watching this again for the first time in almost 37 years ... I closed my eyes and was transported with just that first synth tune to my carefree teen years. I do feel the tears now, what a time now to be alive to be watching this...
The first one is a strange game of telephone as apparently the person programming it never heard the original and went after the transcription of a friend. So the original sounds very different but is still recognizable.
@@Schmidtelpunkt It's available now in it's original form, finally after all these years. Search 'Stationary Ark' and you will find it. It's.....very different then what you may expect, but it grows on you. 😉
I stared at this for hours and hours on end. On a black and white TV, sitting on a wall to wall carpet, if you can imagine such a thing. I thought it was the finest thing in the whole world. And a little part of me still does.
So, let's put timestamps 00:00 John Mills-Cockell - Theme from A Stationary Ark 05:08 Rational Youth - Saturdays In Silesia 08:33 Vangelis - Spiral 09:41 Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 12:14 Closing Theme from Magic Shadows 12:43 Wendy Carlos - A Clockwork Orange Theme 14:12 Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygène Part II 17:32 Pachelbel's Canon 18:43 OMD - Enola Gay
let's Putintimestamps .. yes! Metoo, used to record it on tape around 1985 age 15, simply to replay 'again&again' also after C-64 switched off..... It sounds so very unique, ever since.
My friends and I on the west coast knew this program as 'Music/Graphics' for whatever reason. I still remember the night me and my best friend at the age of 16 dropped acid and watched this for fully 8 hours, tripping balls and seeing various demonic and angelic faces in the patterns made. Years ago I made a 'Music Graphics 2000+ soundtrack with the Milkdrop2 visualizer and all the original songs except goddamn Stationary Ark. I couldn't find a proper version of this song until this very year of 2022 when an upload of the opening of the show 'The Stationary Ark' was finally uploaded from a VHS copy of the original broadcast of the show. Finally, my dream collection is complete. And what a trip under mushrooms in 2022 it is all over again. Thank you for uploading this!
Habe das vor zehn Jahren schon mal wieder gefunden - und doch wieder vergessen. Heute wieder entdeckt. Die Musik hat nichts von ihrer Faszination verloren, obwohl sie objektiv betrachtet recht dünn klingt. Ein kleines Meisterstück.
@@Recon777x Oh, you don’t have the RUclips translation function? I found this C64 demo about ten years ago and did forget it again. Today I found it again. The music hasn‘t lost it‘s fascinating mood, although it sounds a little bit thin. A little masterpiece. Greetings from Germany🖖🇩🇪🤝
Thank you so much for posting this. This was one of my very favorite programs for my C64. I can not count how many times I would fall asleep listening to this and watching the visuals, as others have aptly stated, mesmerized. Fond memories... :-)
I spent hours of my youth watching this! I've only just found out about the Rational Youth Track - For years I thought it was called 'Saturdays in Suburbia' Of course It's a cold war song from Poland called 'Saturdays in Silesia' I also thought it was Rob Hubbard - Apparently not! Still love it - Takes me back to more innocent times!
Those early C64 games like Manic Miner and Flight Path 737 just beeped, but soon we would be amazed by the real power of the SID. As a kid I remember being amazed.
Brings back memories when we had a Commodore 64... its priceless how we leave old technology behind..... Bring back classics is always a good thing......
My gosh !!! It reminds me of my youth where i was just staring at the screen and listen to that fanatic music . You made my day, thank you sooooo much ❤
I searched for this and I really appreciate this upload! As young kid I loved that sound of the C64 and especially this songs with nice GUI's ... Oh yes I had a C64 at 8, I am from '75 ... thank you guys/girls for this!!!
I don't have any memory of this app but I must have played it a lot, because after 40 years it transports me right back into my youth remembering every single note of the first 2 songs.
I attended a local Commodore users group for a few years in my teens,, having a VIC-20 my parents bought me for Christmas one year. I still remember seeing this run there on a friend's SX-64 on my first visit and being blown away.
1972 here. This program combining 'Synth Sample' with the graphics generation program used made this the most memorable experience for a large number of C64 owning pirate kids it's absolutely amazing today.
Great upload-! Looked everywhere for this. Used to listen to this while working on Advanced Dungeons & Dragons maps and DM notes. Now, I can again-! Darn the nostalgia... Wow.
I haven't heard this since the late 80's! Been looking for it for years and finally found it! I seem to recall the version I had was called "Hires" not "Swinth"? Maybe that was just how it was named on disk so that's how I remember it. *EDIT: Nope, my memory is not failing me, according to CSDb it was also AKA "Hires & Songs" Anyway, huge thanks for the upload. Awesome. Love the Tubular Bells cover @ 9:40 and Oxygene II @ 14:10
Same here. I had completely forgotten about it until I heard 8 Bit guy playing it on a keyboard, then came on here looking for it. Seeing another video, they showed a loading screen with it author name, and showing it was originally uploaded to CompuServe. I don't even remember how I got it. It is possible via CompuServe. As a kid, I figured out that if I looked at Credit Card ads in magazines they would show a real example of a credit card number (now days they just show zeros). I found of that the CompuServe CC processing system would accept them., as back then verification was not instant.. If I opened an account on late Friday, using those CC number examples, I would have a free CompuServe account until Monday morning.
It was also called 'Music/Graphics' for those of us on the west coast of Canada and presumably the US as well. Strange how many times it's been renamed.
On a whim I typed in swinth and got this. Talk about time travel. When this came out I was one of the biggest “wares” guys in Chicago. In the day this triggered my imagination and have had a thing for synth and sound ever since. Now I sit in a room with pro synths and sound systems worth more than I could imagine in those days. Inspiration comes in unexpected ways.
I always loved the first song from this program...the music for The Stationary Ark an old television show....i was actually able to get ahold of the writter of this piece John Mills Cockell...he was surprised to even get an email regarding this song..i was after a Midi file or sheet music of this piece....he explained there was no MIDI at the time this was written so no MID file...such a haunting song....still to this date...
As a kid, I must have played this set over 100 times. Somehow, it never got old. But years ago, it stopped working. And thanks to you, now I get to hear it again. ^.^
Me trae grandes recuerdos de mis computadoras Commodore 64 y 128. Para su época y tipo de computadora era un desempeño de síntesis musical muy avanzado. Gracias por subirlo.
Yep. I was so inspired I made a WinAmp playlist with all the real versions of these songs in the early 2000s to run with the MilkDrop2 visualizer, except for 'Stationary Ark' which was finally made available now in 2022. It's as amazing as it was back in the 80s. 😀
I could SWEAR I heard the first song used as an outro on a TV show/program probably in the early-mid '90s.. It was only about 10-15 seconds of the song, and it also included the visuals IIRC. Does anyone have any ideea about this?
I had this as a kid, nostalgia overload! What's even more amazing, in spite how good this is, for 40 years people have been perfecting SID abuse. For example, this song also comes from a stock commodore 64: ruclips.net/video/upHnKwV-Ezs/видео.html
You should file a counterclaim against BMG. just because one part of the sound has their music on it, does not give them the right to claim all of the works.
Even after all these years, watching this on a computer and network connection that would be almost unthinkable back then, this music is etched into my mind and almost brings tears to my eyes watching and hearing it again..late nights starring at the screen, marveling at the fact that the computer was actually generating the visuals and sound in real time..and losing myself in that first song...
Watching this again for the first time in almost 37 years ... I closed my eyes and was transported with just that first synth tune to my carefree teen years. I do feel the tears now, what a time now to be alive to be watching this...
The first one is a strange game of telephone as apparently the person programming it never heard the original and went after the transcription of a friend. So the original sounds very different but is still recognizable.
@@Schmidtelpunkt It's available now in it's original form, finally after all these years. Search 'Stationary Ark' and you will find it. It's.....very different then what you may expect, but it grows on you. 😉
I cry with this, it was only in My memory, last time 1986....😢😢
I stared at this for hours and hours on end. On a black and white TV, sitting on a wall to wall carpet, if you can imagine such a thing. I thought it was the finest thing in the whole world. And a little part of me still does.
same
Had this program as a kid. This music absolutely mesmerized me. My parents hated it though, lol. I don't think they understood the beauty of it.
Had this program as well...though in my case my parents fully appreciated it. We all sat there mesmerized by it.
Tell your parents they are not paying attention.
Yeah, reminds me of when I brought my first Amiga home and showed my mom the Boing demo. She said, "That's nice. Dinner's in 5 minutes."
As a teenager I would turn out the lights and just get mesmerized. Only tunes I knew the names to was Tubular Bells and Enola Gay.
So, let's put timestamps
00:00 John Mills-Cockell - Theme from A Stationary Ark
05:08 Rational Youth - Saturdays In Silesia
08:33 Vangelis - Spiral
09:41 Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
12:14 Closing Theme from Magic Shadows
12:43 Wendy Carlos - A Clockwork Orange Theme
14:12 Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygène Part II
17:32 Pachelbel's Canon
18:43 OMD - Enola Gay
let's Putintimestamps .. yes! Metoo, used to record it on tape around 1985 age 15, simply to replay 'again&again' also after C-64 switched off..... It sounds so very unique, ever since.
My friends and I on the west coast knew this program as 'Music/Graphics' for whatever reason. I still remember the night me and my best friend at the age of 16 dropped acid and watched this for fully 8 hours, tripping balls and seeing various demonic and angelic faces in the patterns made. Years ago I made a 'Music Graphics 2000+ soundtrack with the Milkdrop2 visualizer and all the original songs except goddamn Stationary Ark. I couldn't find a proper version of this song until this very year of 2022 when an upload of the opening of the show 'The Stationary Ark' was finally uploaded from a VHS copy of the original broadcast of the show. Finally, my dream collection is complete. And what a trip under mushrooms in 2022 it is all over again. Thank you for uploading this!
Still beautiful in 2024. This music is eternal.
I've been looking for this for over 25 years!
same here mate, my brother just forwarded this to me and I’m in tears
@@eliaspoulogiannis Funny how we in Generation X are so hidden behind the scenes now in the world. ;)
But every now and again, nostalgia draws us out.
Habe das vor zehn Jahren schon mal wieder gefunden - und doch wieder vergessen. Heute wieder entdeckt. Die Musik hat nichts von ihrer Faszination verloren, obwohl sie objektiv betrachtet recht dünn klingt. Ein kleines Meisterstück.
@@Triplechorus2 English please.
@@Recon777x Oh, you don’t have the RUclips translation function? I found this C64 demo about ten years ago and did forget it again. Today I found it again. The music hasn‘t lost it‘s fascinating mood, although it sounds a little bit thin. A little masterpiece. Greetings from Germany🖖🇩🇪🤝
Thank you so much for posting this.
This was one of my very favorite programs for my C64. I can not count how many times I would fall asleep listening to this and watching the visuals, as others have aptly stated, mesmerized.
Fond memories... :-)
I spent hours of my youth watching this! I've only just found out about the Rational Youth Track - For years I thought it was called 'Saturdays in Suburbia' Of course It's a cold war song from Poland called 'Saturdays in Silesia' I also thought it was Rob Hubbard - Apparently not! Still love it - Takes me back to more innocent times!
Those early C64 games like Manic Miner and Flight Path 737 just beeped, but soon we would be amazed by the real power of the SID. As a kid I remember being amazed.
I had this program as a kid and I freaking loved it! Gave me the weirdest dreams too!
Brings back memories when we had a Commodore 64... its priceless how we leave old technology behind..... Bring back classics is always a good thing......
My gosh !!! It reminds me of my youth where i was just staring at the screen and listen to that fanatic music . You made my day, thank you sooooo much ❤
I searched for this and I really appreciate this upload! As young kid I loved that sound of the C64 and especially this songs with nice GUI's ... Oh yes I had a C64 at 8, I am from '75 ... thank you guys/girls for this!!!
I don't have any memory of this app but I must have played it a lot, because after 40 years it transports me right back into my youth remembering every single note of the first 2 songs.
I attended a local Commodore users group for a few years in my teens,, having a VIC-20 my parents bought me for Christmas one year. I still remember seeing this run there on a friend's SX-64 on my first visit and being blown away.
I love this so much. I can't believe Oxegene by Jean Michel was release in 1976. I was born in 1974.
1972 here. This program combining 'Synth Sample' with the graphics generation program used made this the most memorable experience for a large number of C64 owning pirate kids it's absolutely amazing today.
I had this for my 64. Best demo of graphics and sound for the 64 ever
Great upload-! Looked everywhere for this.
Used to listen to this while working on Advanced Dungeons & Dragons maps and DM notes. Now, I can again-!
Darn the nostalgia... Wow.
I actually had this program. It was mesmerizing, adjusting the trails and colors and listening to the synth music. Great stuff.
Ah, the excitement of those first home computers !!
I haven't heard this since the late 80's! Been looking for it for years and finally found it!
I seem to recall the version I had was called "Hires" not "Swinth"?
Maybe that was just how it was named on disk so that's how I remember it.
*EDIT: Nope, my memory is not failing me, according to CSDb it was also AKA "Hires & Songs"
Anyway, huge thanks for the upload. Awesome. Love the Tubular Bells cover @ 9:40 and Oxygene II @ 14:10
Same here. I had completely forgotten about it until I heard 8 Bit guy playing it on a keyboard, then came on here looking for it. Seeing another video, they showed a loading screen with it author name, and showing it was originally uploaded to CompuServe. I don't even remember how I got it. It is possible via CompuServe. As a kid, I figured out that if I looked at Credit Card ads in magazines they would show a real example of a credit card number (now days they just show zeros). I found of that the CompuServe CC processing system would accept them., as back then verification was not instant.. If I opened an account on late Friday, using those CC number examples, I would have a free CompuServe account until Monday morning.
It was also called 'Music/Graphics' for those of us on the west coast of Canada and presumably the US as well. Strange how many times it's been renamed.
This was one of my favorites - thanks for posting!
On a whim I typed in swinth and got this.
Talk about time travel.
When this came out I was one of the biggest “wares” guys in Chicago.
In the day this triggered my imagination and have had a thing for synth and sound ever since.
Now I sit in a room with pro synths and sound systems worth more than I could imagine in those days.
Inspiration comes in unexpected ways.
What was your nickname? did you upload to a bbs?
I was co sysop at BrainStorm BBS and went by E-Gore.
Best transfer I've seen and heard. I grew up on this. So amazing to experience it again
Remember that this computer, displaying this video and music content, RAN AT ONE MEGAHERTZ! ONE!!
I always loved the first song from this program...the music for The Stationary Ark an old television show....i was actually able to get ahold of the writter of this piece John Mills Cockell...he was surprised to even get an email regarding this song..i was after a Midi file or sheet music of this piece....he explained there was no MIDI at the time this was written so no MID file...such a haunting song....still to this date...
Ah yes. My 80s childhood. Still have my C64 and this program
For years I tried to remember this program.
As a kid, I must have played this set over 100 times. Somehow, it never got old. But years ago, it stopped working. And thanks to you, now I get to hear it again. ^.^
Nice
Commodore 64 goodness. Still have this on floppy and my original c64 from 1983.
Memories of my old 12 button tv set hooked to an old C64 and mono speakers, recording this to a tape deck. Man. Give me this any day.
Thank you. This program has a lot of memories for me.
I downloaded this at a whopping 300 baud from a BBS back in 1986 and played it constantly
Me trae grandes recuerdos de mis computadoras Commodore 64 y 128. Para su época y tipo de computadora era un desempeño de síntesis musical muy avanzado. Gracias por subirlo.
these songs only got better with time.
Egyre és egyre jobbak lesznek.
Yep. I was so inspired I made a WinAmp playlist with all the real versions of these songs in the early 2000s to run with the MilkDrop2 visualizer, except for 'Stationary Ark' which was finally made available now in 2022. It's as amazing as it was back in the 80s. 😀
Great to see and hear the good old C64 👍
Wasn't it called Lazer show
Thnx for this. I spend hours thoose days to exact that collection on my v64
I had this exact thing when I was younger. I also had another version which had other tunes, like golden brown by the Stranglers.
Wonderful melody
May the SID chip live forever. It would rock if they took the SID architecture and hard coded it on to a modern sound chip.
Had this in my public school as a kid! 😎
Thanks.... really. A piece of art and retrace
Oh shoot! I forgot about this, i used to play it all the time.
I could SWEAR I heard the first song used as an outro on a TV show/program probably in the early-mid '90s.. It was only about 10-15 seconds of the song, and it also included the visuals IIRC.
Does anyone have any ideea about this?
Excellent, good old times!
BTW: The third song (from Vangelis) is called "Spiral", not "Spilar" :)
Thanks, will fix.
thank you
5:08 oh yeah, baby
The final boss of music.
❤
I had this as a kid, nostalgia overload!
What's even more amazing, in spite how good this is, for 40 years people have been perfecting SID abuse. For example, this song also comes from a stock commodore 64:
ruclips.net/video/upHnKwV-Ezs/видео.html
You should file a counterclaim against BMG. just because one part of the sound has their music on it, does not give them the right to claim all of the works.
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