Animusic 🎼 Visual Music

AniMusic 🎼Visual Music

Animusic is a renowned animation company specializing in the 3D visualization of MIDI-based music. Unlike traditional visualizers that react to audio frequencies, Animusic’s proprietary software, MIDIMotion, uses MIDI data to drive the physical movements of virtual instruments, ensuring every sound corresponds exactly to an on-screen action.

Resonant Chamber (Animusic)

Remastered 4K 60FPS 
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Key Facts and History

• Founder: Computer animator and scientist Wayne Lytle founded the company in 1990 (originally as Visual Music).
• Breakthrough: Their most famous work, "Pipe Dream," featuring a complex Rube Goldberg-style machine that fires balls at percussion instruments, became a viral sensation and even sparked rumors that it existed in real life.
• Major Releases:
  • Animusic (2001): The debut video album featuring tracks like Future Retro, Aqua Harp, and Drum Machine.
  • Animusic 2 (2005): The sequel included popular pieces such as Starship Groove and Resonant Chamber.
• Current Status: While the company is largely dormant, a third installment (Animusic 3) has been in development for years following a successful but troubled Kickstarter campaign. 

Notable Virtual Instruments

• The Stick Figures: Bouncy, spring-like instruments that "walk" and perform on specialized platforms.
• Resonant Chamber: A self-playing, multi-stringed instrument housed in a mysterious, dark chamber.
• Aqua Harp: A serene, water-powered instrument that plays delicate melodies. 

For a look at the 'runaway hit' that defined the series and its innovative mechanical visualization: 

"Pipe Dream" - Animusic.com

 https://youtu.be/hyCIpKAIFyo?si=PugkaOlNl9nbh8ly

AniMusic 🎼 Visual Music
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#	AniMusic 🎼 Visual Music	Time	Views
1	Resonant Chamber (Animusic) - Remastered 4K 60FPS	4:31	1.9M views • 3 years ago
2	Pogo Sticks (Animusic) - Remastered 4K 60FPS	3:20	3.9M views • 3 years ago
3	Making Animated Percussion In Real Life - Animusic Pipe Dream Tribute	10:50	205K views • 1 year ago
4	Pipe Dream (Animusic) - Remastered 4K 60FPS	3:24	13M views • 3 years ago
5	Cathedral Pictures (Animusic) - Remastered 4K 60FPS	6:07	2M views • 3 years ago
6	Animusic 1 & 2 ~ 4k 60fps Remastered!	1:18:22	210K views • 4 years ago
7	Starship Groove (Animusic) - Remastered 4K 60FPS	4:06	1.6M views • 3 years ago
8	Full Circle - Original Music Animation	4:39	401K views • 1 year ago
9	Animusic ~ Beyond the Walls 1996 (Remastered 4k 60fps)	4:39	119K views • 4 years ago
10	Stick Figures (Animusic) - Remastered HD 60FPS	5:21	1.6M views • 3 years ago
11	Heavy Light (Animusic) - Remastered 4K 60FPS	6:28	1.2M views • 3 years ago
12	Animusic 3: What ACTUALLY Happened - Krazy Ken's Tech Talk	16:14	183K views • 4 years ago
13	Gyro Drums (Animusic) - Remastered 4K 60FPS	4:11	1.4M views • 3 years ago
14	Rails - Original Music Animation	4:08	112K views • 1 month ago
15	ANIMUSIC - Future Retro - HD Recreation	4:50	62K views • 9 months ago
16	Animusic "UHD" 4K 60fps (upscaled from blu-ray): Pipe Dream and more	42:03:00	436 views • 3 years ago
17	Acoustic Curves - Animusic 1 - HD Recreation	5:39	55K views • 2 years ago
18	Future Retro - Animusic Cover With Marbles	3:21	242K views • 1 year ago
19	animusic the harvester	6:08	47K views • 1 year ago
20	Drum Machine - Animusic 1 - HD Recreation	3:26	142K views • 2 years ago
21	Animusic - Starship Groove (but I made the audio entirely on my phone)	4:06	54K views • 2 years ago
22	Pipe Dream - Animusic.com	3:29	16M views • 17 years ago

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Animusic, LLC is a dormant animation company specializing in the 3D visualization of MIDI-based music. Founded by Wayne Lytle in 1990, it is currently a registered limited liability company in New York and had offices in Texas and California during its active stages. The initial name of the company was Visual Music, but was changed to Animusic in 1995.

The company is known for its Animusic compilations of computer-generated animations, based on MIDI events processed to simultaneously drive the music and on-screen action, leading to and corresponding to every sound. The animated short "Pipe Dream," showed at SIGGRAPH's Electronic Theater in 2001, details the use of this specific sequencing.

Unlike many other music visualizations, Animusic uses MIDI information to drive the animation, while other 3D programs animate figures or characters to the music. Any animated models in Animusic are created first, and are then programmed to follow what the music, or MIDI information, instructs them to do.

Many of the instruments appear to be robotic or play themselves using seemingly curious methods to produce and visualize the original compositions. The animations typically feature dramatically-lit rooms or landscapes in rustic and/or futuristic locales.

The music in Animusic is principally pop-rock based, consisting of straightforward sequences of triggered samples and digital patches. According to the director's commentary track on Animusic 2, most instrument sounds are generated with software synthesizers on a music workstation. Many sounds resemble stock patches available on digital keyboards, subjected to some manipulation, such as pitch or playback speed, to enhance the appeal of their timbre. 

Software programs

According to the company's FAQ, animation is created procedurally with their own proprietary MIDImotion engine. Discreet 3D Studio Max was used for modeling, lighting, cameras, and rendering. Maps were painted with Corel Painter, Deep Paint 3D, and Photoshop. They have also created their own software called ANIMUSIC|studio that is based on scene-graph technology. According to an August 2015 newsletter, Animusic was using Unreal Engine 4 for the production of Animusic 3.

😲 What the F#%# Is Animusic? 😲
By Claire L. Evans - October 16, 2014

https://www.vice.com/en/article/what-the-fck-is-animusic/
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