1 HN user recommended this music video1 month2019–2024score 1
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
HN people bring it up whenever music-playing machines or robot bands come up, as the classic CG precursor.
'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.
“Have you watched the Animusic series ( ) ... especially Pipe Dream -” (HN, 2024)
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]
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]
CG animations of fantastic machines playing music, parameterized by MIDI.
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]
Ray-traced animation of music machines that inspired the commenter's ideas.
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.
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