shagieMar 2024Recommends
Have you watched the Animusic series ( [link] ) ... especially Pipe Dream - ▶ this video Be sure to watch the "Creating the Animusic DVDs" pair of videos. [link]
in “Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) [video]” · View on HN
"Pipe Dream" - Animusic.com
"Pipe Dream" - Animusic.com on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2019–2024.
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'Pipe Dream' is the best-known piece from the first Animusic DVD, a computer-animated music video in which fantastical machines play music. The animation is driven by MIDI data.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN people bring it up whenever music-playing machines or robot bands come up, as the classic CG precursor.
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“Have you watched the Animusic series ( ) ... especially Pipe Dream -”
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jonathankorenJan 2023Cites it
Reminds me of a real world Animusic video ▶ this video Also, at first I thought was going to be the person (or persons) that have their own restored Rock-Afire-Explosion bands and then reprogram them to play contemporary songs.
in “Engineer has built and programmed a terrifying all-robot band” · View on HN
retzkekJul 2021Cites it
Inspired, I presume, by those awesome ray-traced animations from the early oughts? I had started sketching ideas on how to make that a reality (pneumatics and magnets mainly) but never got beyond concept. Specifically this one: ▶ this video
in “The Alexander: Why did you build such a long piano?” · View on HN
bitwizeApr 2019Cites it
See also: The Floppotron: Music played on old floppy drives, hard drives, and scanners. [link] Animusic: CG animations of fantastic machines playing music. The animation is parameterized to the MIDI input. Attempts to build real-world working models of these machines or machines like them have been made, with varying levels of success: ▶ this video Compressorhead: An all-robot heavy metal band. Famous for Stickboy, the band's four-armed, headbanging drummer, or at least Stickboy is what I remember most about the band. [link]
in “Moritz Simon Geist’s robots make technical techno” · View on HN
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Animation & visual effectsMusic performance & songsComputer graphics & renderinganimusiccg animationmidimusic machinesray tracing