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
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
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.🖖👍
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.
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
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
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!
What's cool is how these were done behind the scenes. These are not just animations made to match the music made separately of each other, but animation driven by the music itself. The creators only had to define the animation for what a note looked like on each instrument and the timing window the animation had to line up with each note. From there, the software would figure out which instrument to animate and the timing to play them at just the right time so you hear that note right as the string gets plucked by one of those picks.
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.
Wow, listening to this ~8 years later feels heart wrenching, I used to listen to animusic all the time as a child and this one was one of my favorite, before listening I didn't remember any parts of this song but when the second guitar kicked in I remembered all of the song and it felt like an emotional trip...
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... .
This guy definitely a genius. Hard enough to make a good song as it is, this man creates from scratch software the takes midi files and creates physically accurate instrumental movement.
Wintergatan is famous for his ball machine that plays music. In his new version he realized after rewatching the Animusic videos how important it was for the real life drums to “absorb” the impact from the ball and ‘bounce’ to really sell the image and art…
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
Cant not watch or leave!!! The more you study it, the more you see, the more you realize things are seemingly, right!! Boggles my mind!! In the end, quite fun!
My kids and I used to watch these frequently. One just graduated high school. The Other just finishes college. I'm putting together a play list of all the songs we listened to back when they were young for their combined graduation party. The animusic tunes figure prominently into the mix ❤
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 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.
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.
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.
@@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."
Man I miss Animusic 😢 it’s so nice having it back again 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 I feel depressed or what society became from making friendly wholesome animations and songs like this the nostalgic shows we used to watch and the logos that came with them The times when trick-or-treating was actually safe to do Nowadays it’s all wars viruses politics and fighting what has society become 😢
I remember me and my sister would just sit, sit and listen to the entirety of animusic 1 and 2, we would come up with stupid ass scenarios where these songs would fit. No wonder we're both writing shit now.
The bass goes super hard. I’ve loved Animusic ever since like… 2013. I’m 16 now with a job. Good times. They shoulda made a 3rd installment, but life happens. Childhood classic though❤
For me it's mainly the fantastic composition. It's just great music. The animation is really cool, but I could just listen to Animusic in my car, no visuals, and absolutely jam out to it.
These animations wouldn't hit nearly as hard if they didn't have amazing music to accompany them. Thankfully, these tracks are amazing and listenable without the visual aspect.
![[SFM] Risky Recital](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/RzNkY1_Nk3o/mqdefault.jpg)
Every few months Animusic returns from the depths and it calms something in me
Same here... I come back here often for a good dose of it.... And life is good again...
@@Wookie8058 same
Oh yes.
@@Wookie8058 Maybe you should buy the DVD. Animusic 1 and Animusic 2.
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.
@@mathphysicsnerd XD Good old internet!
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.
This is one of the things that made Animusic magical: the instruments seemed to be playing for the pleasure of it!
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 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
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.
@@Helldragon789 And there is a little volume easter egg where at ~4:10 you hear more vibraphone than the rest of the band
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!*
@@tinypinkittycatyeehaw
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-
And how the strings are slightly damaged from all the notes being played.
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.🖖👍
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
The day where my birthday is you edited
I don't even care about the animated part anymore, I just keep coming back because this is genuinely an amazing song.
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
And what you wrote is beautiful. A painting in prose. 👏👍👍
Doot4246
That was *b e a u t i f u l* 😢
I felt like I’d ascend to heaven after hearing this 😢
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.
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
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
After a few years and countless recommendations I thought it high time to check out an animatronic video. Let me tell you, I am MIGHTY IMPRESSED
What's cool is how these were done behind the scenes. These are not just animations made to match the music made separately of each other, but animation driven by the music itself. The creators only had to define the animation for what a note looked like on each instrument and the timing window the animation had to line up with each note. From there, the software would figure out which instrument to animate and the timing to play them at just the right time so you hear that note right as the string gets plucked by one of those picks.
Once the drums come out to play, the whole arrangement sounds like something Liquid Tension Experiment would make and I'm all here for it
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
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.
I love to see how each "instrument" is smoothly gliding into position before it starts to play...
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
i used to watch this when i was 7,5 years later and this hits me with an ocean of nostalgia
Jeezus that bass drop at 2:13 is so crazy, I love this song so much
Saw this in second grade and it reserfaces in my mind like once every 6 years and its always awesome
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.
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.
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.
Wow, listening to this ~8 years later feels heart wrenching, I used to listen to animusic all the time as a child and this one was one of my favorite, before listening I didn't remember any parts of this song but when the second guitar kicked in I remembered all of the song and it felt like an emotional trip...
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.
This guy definitely a genius. Hard enough to make a good song as it is, this man creates from scratch software the takes midi files and creates physically accurate instrumental movement.
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😅
Wintergatan is famous for his ball machine that plays music. In his new version he realized after rewatching the Animusic videos how important it was for the real life drums to “absorb” the impact from the ball and ‘bounce’ to really sell the image and art…
マジで神曲すぎて脳の快感物質が止まらない
音楽と未来のテクノロジー好きにはたまらない動画
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 😊😂.
Love listening to this, I am forever amazed just hearing and viewing this remarkable idea so relaxing, thank you all who produced this.❤
This is such an innovative way to visual express music. Very cool. 😎
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
Wow. Who writes like this, anymore? Obviously you do. Bravo! 👏👏👍👍
Cant not watch or leave!!! The more you study it, the more you see, the more you realize things are seemingly, right!! Boggles my mind!! In the end, quite fun!
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.
As an engineer I find myself watching this and saying, "We can build that". HAHA love it
Funny you say that 😊 I thought and believe the same when Law of the Land and Peace was declared talk about curvature 😅
@@JessicaWeiss-n2k HAHA Nice!
Moving drums: YES. LOVE IT
My kids and I used to watch these frequently. One just graduated high school. The Other just finishes college. I'm putting together a play list of all the songs we listened to back when they were young for their combined graduation party. The animusic tunes figure prominently into the mix ❤
I've always loved these PBS musical shorts..... Just WOW 🎶🥰👍
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
I was mesmerized by this when I first saw it. I wasn't sure what I was witnessing. And the songs were so good!
This blows my mind THIS IS AMAZING
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 absolutely love "Animusic"
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 don't know if anyone ever noticed the shadows! The align perfectly! AHHHH This was amazing when this came out, truly ahead of its time!
You have a really cute dog 😊
Amazing. I still get mesmerized by the precision and sound of it all.
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
@gegginstructure, the second set is more like hammered dulcimer music, but I agree with the rest of your description.
I thought the fourth was vibraphone?
Wow. Crystal clear. Seeing for the first time. Great.
😊 sounds by mysicial instruments
Bring me a 😃 smile
This certainly did
Smile
Yes
Thank
You😄🙂
THIS is the BEST sequence of Animusic !
Really
GREAT work!!
these are the kind of things that gove me so much nostalgia that i want to cry a bit and get teary eyed
An absolute triumph of melodic storytelling. I hope this lives on for future generations
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
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.
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
At first alienated, I liked it more and more with each bar.... very beautiful, for eye and ear.
I love this kind of music. I had the DVD of animusic but lost it. Will try to get it again later. Got my phone to listen to it for now
Oh how i missed hearing this. Brings back a lot of memories
Back in my days, this used to be a thing...
It used to be mine too 🥹
Beautiful, watching from Australia.
This is the first Animusic video I ever saw and it is still my favorite of all. 😍🤩💙
this is still mindblowing
@@Wintergatan_2 :)
This sorta gives me... Quest For Glory 1 vibes.
Back in the 90's, sitting in front of the old DOS computer playing QFG1 with my dad (RIP).
Man I miss Animusic 😢 it’s so nice having it back again 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I feel depressed or what society became from making friendly wholesome animations and songs like this the nostalgic shows we used to watch and the logos that came with them
The times when trick-or-treating was actually safe to do
Nowadays it’s all wars viruses politics and fighting what has society become 😢
What?
I could listen and watch these productions all day 🙂
Such a cool sick beat. Makes me remember my years in elementary school.
Same here.
Truly magical, and all out fantastically creative. visually stunning Thank You!
Absolutely brilliant saw these clios a few years ago
There is one and only one problem with this piece of music/video: It's not long enough, especially the final crescendo.
Simply (or complexly, if you prefer!) beautiful!
I remember seeing this in either 7th or 8th grade, was so fascinated by this! So awesome!
I remember me and my sister would just sit, sit and listen to the entirety of animusic 1 and 2, we would come up with stupid ass scenarios where these songs would fit. No wonder we're both writing shit now.
Was shown this in music class back in 4th grade 😅 still just as fantastic as it was then years later 👍
Gonna get stoned with the boys looking at Animusic
Stunning... It's so wonderful 🙏☀️
Just Beautiful... all the way around. Graphically and Musically!
1:27
I always find this part so dam beautiful
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
1:56 when the little under things that stop the vibration comes up, i can't explain but it gives off such *cracks knuckles* energy
The bass goes super hard. I’ve loved Animusic ever since like… 2013. I’m 16 now with a job. Good times. They shoulda made a 3rd installment, but life happens. Childhood classic though❤
The nostalgia is honestly crazy.
ah yes animusic back with their one of their catchy songs
For me it's mainly the fantastic composition. It's just great music. The animation is really cool, but I could just listen to Animusic in my car, no visuals, and absolutely jam out to it.
Incidentally, if you've watched this a thousand times, try it at 1.5x regular speed. It's a funky jam.
The intro is what I think of when I think of my childhood
That bass goes crazy
s l a p p p p p
This song feels like a "the day is finally here!" kinda song
Visually pleasing, audibly ezxcellent!!
These animations wouldn't hit nearly as hard if they didn't have amazing music to accompany them. Thankfully, these tracks are amazing and listenable without the visual aspect.
As a kid I always thought these were real machines
I remember seeing these videos on PBS every afternoon after school
These are the reasons why we NEED 3D TV 🥰👍
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas music should be visualized this way.
The sound of the instruments moving is exactly the same as the railguns in The Expanse.
Such a magnificent Rube Goldberg influence.