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# Animusic - A Computer Animation Video Album (Special Edition)

**Brand:** lytle, wayne
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- **What is this?** Animusic - A Computer Animation Video Album (Special Edition) by lytle, wayne
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Product description          This DVD appeals to adults, children, musicians, engineers, animation fans...all kinds of people! It makes them smile, laugh, or stare in amazement. It really shows off fancy TVs and Home Theater systems. Over 140,000 units have shipped worldwide. DVD Features and Bonus Material include seven completely different music animations, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound and 2.0 stereo mixes, Fully animated musical menus, Director's comentary, Behind-the-scenes set construction shorts, 16:9 widescreen version of "Pipe Dream", Animusic's first animation "Beyond the Walls" (1996), Art development slide shows for each main animation - including production stills, screen shots, and sketches, Unique Solo-Cam viewing, That adds up to 3 hours of material on the DVD! Model: ANIMUSIC1 Manufacturer: ANIMUSIC             .com          Watching Animusic is like being mesmerized by the world's most elaborate Rube Goldberg devices: You're so astonished by their ingenuity that you can't look away. This "computer animation video album" is the brainchild of Wayne Lytle, a progressive-rock keyboardist and 1988 graduate of Cornell University's Program of Computer Graphics. Modifying techniques originally applied to the visualization of scientific data, Lytle partnered with graphic artist and 3D modeler Dave Crognale to create elaborate virtual stage sets and imaginary musical instruments that are driven via MIDI interface to virtually "play" the music that Lytle has composed for them. "The music drives the instruments," explains Lytle in his engaging DVD commentary, "and not the other way around." Using proprietary software called MIDImotion, Lytle and Crognale have invented self-playing musical instruments that exist in a magical realm of musical and mathematical precision, perfectly synchronized to the kind of fully-synthesized prog-rock that Lytle obviously enjoys (and if you're a fan of Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman, you will, too). It's the kind of audiovisual bombast that appeals to some more than others (and there's something oddly impersonal about removing humans from the performance of music), but Animusic is so intricately clever that anyone can be captivated by the meticulous novelty of these beautifully engineered musical marvels. Take, for example, the most popular track, "Pipe Dream," in which thousands of animated balls take on a life of their own, popping out of an intricate system of pipes and barrels and bouncing, with percussive precision, onto all varieties of strings, drums, xylophones, timbales, cowbells... it's just hypnotically amazing. The same holds true for all of these videos, and while the colorful 3D rendering of Animusic (first released in 2001) is no longer state-of-the-art, the underlying mechanics remain timelessly appealing. For this special edition DVD released in 2004, Lytle opens his toy-box to reveal the creative process of Animusic from conceptual drawings to final 3D rendering. There's also a "solo-cam" function allowing viewers to switch angular focus from one instrument to another, along with animated set-construction demonstrations to show how everything fits together in the realm of Animusic. The 5.1-channel surround mix makes Animusic a perfect demonstration disc for high-end video systems (this is nothing if not a geek's delight), and Lytle's first animation (from 1996) is included along with a sneak-peek at Animusic 2, the follow-up DVD released in 2005. --Jeff Shannon

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## Customer Reviews

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    Awesome animated music!
  

*by J***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 9, 2023*

Second time buying. I love everything about animusic. Very creative way of viewing music. No genres to be focused on any age group. Look them up online and read about how they put these videos together.

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    ...a yin-yang of music and animation
  

*by P***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 16, 2006*

Having been a huge fan of instrumental music for quite some time, I found myself quite stirred by a short piece of music heard on my local PBS station very recently.  Together with the eerily beautiful dream-like synthesized melody, (a tune I later established was called `Harmonic Voltage') I was captivated by the accompanying high tech computer-generated images.  The way in which the catchy, electronic music was intricately and perfectly synchronized with the animated musical devices was breathtaking.  Overwhelmed by the design of the very imaginative, abstract looking instruments, how they operated, moved with the music, and the intriguing brilliance of it all, I rushed to my computer to learn something of this strange new art form called `Animusic'.I have viewed the DVD countless times in just a few days since its arrival from amazon.com.  I now proudly confess to being a new Animusic addict and convert!  I adore how composer/programmer/genius Wayne Lytle marries the rather nostalgic sounding MIDI music to cutting edge animation technology.  I say `nostalgic' because many of the tracks on the album remind me completely of my days as a video-gamer back in the early to mid-nineties, when many of the games would be accompanied by music of a very similar sound to Lytle's compositions on this DVD.  Indeed many of tunes could have been lifted straight from any number of later Super Nintendo games.  I'm heartened that there is still a place for this kind of sound in the 21st Century.  Lytle seems to magically breathe a totally new kind of life into it, thanks to the crisp, sharp graphics system that visualizes the music so fittingly.  If like me, (a little ashamedly) you used to occasionally switch on your video games just to listen to the music tracks - this DVD will be like going to heaven.It is also the painstaking and intelligently focused commitment to visual perfection and precision that makes this DVD album so great.  Every sound, from the full on pounding synths, to the quietist high-hat is visualized in some way - nothing whatsoever is omitted.  Lytle and his team go one step further, inventing instruments that despite their sometimes other-world appearance and design could almost be considered organic in light of how they seem to literally play themselves, with no human intervention.  Like an optical illusion, your disbelief is suspended, and you find that your brain begins to accept the notion that these robotized contraptions ARE playing themselves and producing wonderfully beautiful electronica as a result.  Jaw dropping moments abound as you delight in how even the tiniest nuances of the music are highlighted - the slap-bass notes in `Acoustic Curves' and the enchanting way in which the tiniest pipe on the organ in `Stick Figures' raises itself to reach just one more note, come to mind especially.  It is exactly this kind of level of attention to detail that lies at the heart of this successful new formula.Just to prove how broadly appealing Animusic really is, my cat loves it too and will paw the screen in an effort to play the instruments!Finally, I just HAVE to comment that the `bass tower' on Harmonic Voltage is my absolute favorite animation of all.  Lytle has brilliantly interpreted and visualized an abstract bass synth sound, cunningly using a pedal system that releases light and sound emitting radioactive grape juice.  Surely the DVD is worth getting, just to find out what that's all about?!

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    THE WORLD'S  NO.1 ! -MUSICAL ANIMATION
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 21, 2005*

I've been a collector of Virtual Animated DVDs, 3D IMAX related DVDs, thousands of Computer Screensavers, Game demos, etc for many years now. This is the best Animated Music on DVD I've ever encountered so far. This Title will  best suits you if you're a Computer graphic enthusiast,Instrumental or Acoustic music lover, MIDI synthesizer/Organ player or owner. DJs,Musicians,Electronics-Art-related professionals,etc will definitely treasure this DVD. Also ANIMUSIC will benefit owners of HiFidelity Sound System or High-end Video Projectors. IF you share the same interest as me or match any of the above criteria, then this is definitely the perfect DVD you must own in a lifetime! This is 21st century Art! I describe it as the 'Computer Style of future MTV'. The Animations are well engineered & extremely creative. Videos are sharp,colourful & vivid. The music are of high sampling bit rate featuring drum,bass,guitars,synthesizers along with various other instruments. The music sounds like its being dubbed in an SACD quality or being amplified through the 1-Bit Digital Audio Technology. Nevertheless, this isn't just any ordinary DVD-Audio but an intelligently Animated one! Well, we'r not actually looking into its quality of graphics or the kind of musical content it plays but, "HOW AMAZINGLY IT WORKS"? Its combinations of 'VISUAL,SOUND & CREATIVITY'. The fundamental feature is that the Animations actually synchronize with Music being played so precisely. The Acoustic Music are also being distributed all over your 4 speakers,centre & subwoofer evenly.  You won't get bored or tired even if u put it on the Loop Function. Not to mention that the 'ANGLE OF VIEW' on various instruments animating can be selected individually. Eventually, u won't leave your remote control alone. It's Special Edition Features 5.1 Surround Sound mix, a bonus of 1st Animation in 1996 by ANIMUSIC,a Widescreen version of *chapter Pipe Dreams, etc. My recommendations for ANIMUSIC Special Edition to achieve best performance are..., SOUND works best with any 5.1 Dobly Home Theater Subwoofer System. VIDEO works best with LCD/Plasma TVs and video projectors. And If you own any 2D to 3D viewing system or Virtual Head Mounted TV System,then THIS IS A MUST FOR YOU! Anyway,whatever TV/Hifi you own or whatever your interest may be, you won't regret experiencing this footage. It may be useful to different individuals in many ways like educational,entertainment,business or just plain pleasure. As for my opinion, I had classified it as a 'very rare & unique DVD' among my collections. Before u buy, just imagine its like a combination of various colourful Computer Animated Musical Instruments joining in as a band with your Midi Synthesizer across your very own living room! As a result u'll get the State-of-Art MTV, The Computer Way. Animation & Music begins here...IT'S EXTREMELY AWESOME! I can't wait for ANIMUSIC 2 launching this October 29.....all the best,Sinbad Hassan(Singapore)

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