What a great way to seduce watchers into listeners. The visual representation directs the ears to listen for what the eye sees. Very fresh and impressive.
thats a great way to teach Handicap childs and other persons to learn what music ist.. In a chaos of hundred tones, suddenly through many color objects, you see everything in a distinct place and time.. I can follow everything, and i have fun with some music that i could hardly hear for a long periode... I lernt to love such music with this optimal help... my gratitude to the engineers that made this happen.... ❤
As somebody who has very intense visual synesthesia.... THANK YOU! The room is still spinning 5 minutes after the video finished. How wonderful. And people say you need drugs to have hallucinations as vivid as this.
In some versions, its easy to forget how truly unsettling this piece really is. That's definitely not the case here, this is an utterly brilliant performance
As a jazz freak, I am obsessed with the Rite! The transition between the end of the intro and that beautiful bitonal stamping ostinato to start Augurs. Super crunchy! ☺️
I was falling half-asleep watching this (the visuals are hypnotic) and that zoom at 23:13 actually made me feel for a second as if I was being sucked into the music and jolted me back awake to me this sounds like an epic "duel of the fates" between good and evil (or something like that), trading blows, backing off, striking back at each other on and on to an unknown, unresolved fate maybe the battle never ends
Still one of my favourite videos of all time, bookmarked for years. I would warn users of Bluetooth headphones that the microscopic delay between sound and visual is not the best way to view this.
I work with people who have perceptual problems: mainly on the autism spectrum, (these from birth) and also elderly people who are losing cognitive function.(Dementia or AD) These Musanim works are visually stunning, but I am fascinated too... by the idea that those who are struggling to deal with their own changes in brain function, might be opened to a new way of literally 'SEEING" music. Thank you for putting a beautiful, provocative 'bug in my ear"...!
I love how this animation of the entire song portrays the sheer complexity and beauty within Igor's Rite of Spring. This definitely makes me love the suite even more.
4:56 just this whole part with the violin ticking in the background is my absolute favorite If that was extended for an hour, sleeping would be made better
Even ignoring the awesome music itself, was there ever a composer that mastered the individual characters of the various orchestral instruments better than Stravinsky? Just the wondrous use of the instruments, such as using the bassoon at the extreme high end of it's range to play that strained initial theme. Pure genius.
Génial, géant, je suis éblouis en cette nouvelle année 2016...qu'elle beauté, je n'ai jamais vu une tel précision, beauté graphique, prouesse technique, j'aimerai bien savoir comment cela se trace...équations, capteurs...une vrai performance qui met en valeur le travail du musicien. Je suis émerveillé...je recommande aux amateurs et me conserve cette éblouissante imagerie pour une oeuvre exceptionnellement rare. Bonne Année à tous. Ssi de FRANCE
It has always amazed me just how unashamedly raucous this is in places. It's a delight every time I hear it. The animation superbly illustrates the score. Just amazing.
Very impressive. And beautiful. Also helps one to appreciate the complexity of the score. Resembles an animated Piet Mondrian painting -- the multicolored squares and lozenges. A lot of time and effort were obviously expended in order to create this video, but the result must have been very satisfying to the animator. MANY thanks.
What can i say? Speechless. It took me forever to enjoy this piece and to at least understand the textures, layers (and lots more) of the orchestration.... and u made it easier... I am so happy that theres someone like you did this animated video. My salute goes to you!
Utterly fascinating. This has been one of my favorite pieces for decades. I am no musician, can't play a note much less read a score, and of course this score is beyond complex. But watching this just once has given me more insight into the way it all works together than a fifty times just listening. Thanks you so much! Two partially off-topic asides. One... I attended a live performance of the Rite by a local orchestra. Something less radical opened, and Rite came after the intermission. The number of people - old people - who left at the intermission was just horrible. Two... My favorite performance is Dutoit conducting Montreal on Decca.
I agree! I m a professional musician for over 40 years and have played this piece, but I find this completely fascinating as well. This would be a good way to introduce people to another way of enjoying music, "reading" it as it were, and enjoying it in a different way.
I'm a struggling self-taught composer. One of my biggest difficulties is convincing myself that I'm writing something worth listening to, worth publishing, worth working on. The use of software such as Finale has helped me to HEAR my music, so that I don't need to pay instrumentalists just to hear my music out loud. Now I've dusted off some of my older compositions of which I only have the midi files remaining, I can bring them back to life with this visual extrapolation to SEE! Thanks so much.
Amazing, Fantastic, Brilliant, I dont have enough word to express my gratitude for this piece of work, a true masterpiece! Congratulations and Thank You! My hat off to you Sir!!!!
Nothing is more striking about this piece is the orchestration. I hear practically every emotion displayed beautifully, and every impressive aspect of each instrument highlighted. It seems like a very practical model for studying orchestration.
Fantastic! To represent such a complex piece as a spectrogram is an incredible achievement. Its all completely accurate and a joy to watch with the music.
+musanim I think your animation style livens up an incredible composition, and shows the nuances clearer than only the music, the rite of spring is fantastic and complex and you brought softness into the interpretation, so thanks!
Bravo!! This is so impressive on so many levels, and I am amazed that it is a synthesized performance which I wouldn't even have guessed if it wasn't for the cello solo at 20:00 which is a bit synthetic. A very enjoyable and fascinating video, many thanks!!
absolutely fantastic! - the visual aspect really illuminates the tonal ,harmonic , rythmic ...etceterra... I could focus on aspects and continuity that otherwise my ears alone had never grasped- thank you!
Lo he visto completo, en full screen y es algo realmente alucinante, fantástico, adictivo, fuera de lo común, especialmente en la parte donde las imágenes parecen tener una distorsión del tiempo, es algo genial y si alguna vez se hace en 3D será algo fabuloso de ver, oír y experimentar. Muchísimas gracias por el video, ha sido una grata experiencia.
smalin¡¡Seguro que si !! Veo todos sus videos y en todas las ocasiones me quedo gratamente impresionado, es maravilloso su trabajo y lo admiro mucho, ya he puesto muestras de su trabajo en Facebook para que mis amigos también lo disfruten y se hagan adictos como yo a sus hermosos videos.
The Dance of the Earth. I first saw Disney's Fantasia on VHS almost twenty years ago. I FINALLY know the name of this movement. THANK YOU. This is what "god-mode" sounds like.
I am new to these animations and I am impressed by the variety of takes. I love the aesthetic aspect and the relationship of the visuals to music. The movement adds a great deal to this "notation" and brings out the structure of the pieces. The medium seems to be perfectly made for this piece, it brings out the rhythms, harmonic blocks, changing textures and instrumentation - very fascinating and impressive work. I am looking forward to experiencing more of these animated works. Thank you for sharing your inspired work.
I really appreciate 5:32 - 5:51 . One of my favourite parts in that movement. c: The Spring Rounds was also done beautifully, it being one of my favourite modern compositions of all time. The pace and the richness of the strings during the early stages of The Mystic Circles of the Young Girls was also reeeeally nice, gave me chills.
Great work here. You're right that the sound on this performance is very clear. I've always wondered why virtual orchestral software isn't used to recreate historic recordings, instead of cleaning/enhancing/stereo-izing them.
Superb in every respect. Mesmerizing. A new view for me of an old familiar work. How stirring to have my passion for this music brought to life again! Respect and thanks for your artistry.
This piece has inspired my own compositions so much for so long. It got me to experiment with polytonality and polyrhythms. It directly inspired a piece for orchestra I'm writing called "Astros." The way it's instrumented has taught me a lot too, such as dampening dissonances by placing them between different instrument groups. I'm glad that this piece is still extremely influential over 100 years after it's initial premiere.
Yes: spreading dissonances across timbres makes it harder to hear that they are dissonant; this piece sounds very different, harmonically, in the piano version.
Nice to find other composers. This is the piece that got me into orchestral music, before all I listened to were soundtracks, damn that was a while ago.
Yay! I started this project (about forty years ago) because I enjoyed following along with a score when I listened to music, and I wanted to make that experience better. So, I guess I've succeeded --- at least, for you.
Definitely different in parts than a live performance. Mostly a balance thing ie "the strings are totally overpowered by the horns there", but this is a fantastic digital representation and the visuals made me notice things I've never heard before (as they get blended in so much with everything going on) and I've been listening to this for nearly all of my 45 years on Earth. I can't read music, but I can "follow" a score in that my dad taught me some piano as a kid and I forgot how to really read music, but enough to follow along with a few slips. This is more enjoyable :)
Many people who know this piece well have said that they noticed things for the first time while watching this video. To share it (and see a little more about it), you can use this short URL: riteanim.com
I do not know this piece well but, as I was "watching" my music, it struck me how well the animation helped me to understand the complexity this particular piece; a wonderful aid for someone who can't read sheet music. But that's only part of it...I am intrigued & impressed by the coding that must have gone into creating the graphical score.
Amazing job! Very much appreciated getting to see all of the various orchestral parts visually. The quality of this MIDI performance was fantastic, honesty took me a moment to realize it was midi at all!
A far better visualization of one of the most incredible landmarks in musical history than Walt's. A piece that must be seen (it IS a ballet, after all) as well as heard. Fantastic work here!
+musanim Thank you! This had to be a labor of love for you. It approximates how I visualize music in my head (as a musician), but I never could have brought it to actual visualization as you have. Extraordinary, man. And what a great piece for visualization! Stunning!
+musanim Your system for visualization makes me curious now how other modernistic classical works might look. Ligeti, for example. Probably look like a TV not tuned to a station, huh? Copland would be interesting. Shostakovich, too. I think the more complex and arhythmic passages render the best visuals. Just an opinion, of course. I watched some of the Beethoven, Bach and Mozart visualizations you did and enjoyed them, but their order and more predictable patterns weren't quite as fascinating to me as Stravinsky.
Wonderful! I am very familiar with the music, and have followed along with the score numerous times. This version does help for a few reasons: maybe just the scrolling, because in the old days part of the fun/challenge was not losing my place. But as it goes by your score helped my notice instrumentation details that I would miss with a regular score. I would recommend this for folks not familiar with the music, as a way to be introduced to it. I think it is both informative and engaging. I'm a fan. Now on to the Holst! :-)
The animations reveal the complexity of compositions. I would also like to see ONLY wavy lines to indicate the crescendo and diminuendo sound vibrations of the various musical instruments. The harmonization of colours is beautiful.
Musical vibrations (the lowest pitch we can perceive is 32 cycles per second) are too fast to see. I've done some experiments with showing dynamics, but to do a really good job, I need a recording with each part recorded separately; so far, nobody has made one of those for me.
I'm beginning to really like it. The piece is kind of, unique? (if that's the right word) Thanks for the video and keep up the good work. I enjoy each and every one of these animated scores of yours.
I've been listening to this work for 30 years and have studied the score for it's orchestration, sonic palette and overall complexity. John Williams was obviously influenced by it. I have to say, this is an incredible mash up rendering of a midi/virtual instrument performance and visual representation. It blew me away! Congratulations. Incredibly interesting. After viewing, I tried reading lines of text on my screen and my brain was seeing all the text moving smoothly to the right (even though it wasn't really)
I don't know. Your named sounded familiar, so I Googled. I was curious to know why you were studying The Rite ... thought you might be a composer or a music theory teacher or ? ... I have a terrible memory ... I'm very pleased with this video, and would like lots of people to see it, so when I find somebody who reacts strongly to it, I want to know more about them ...
Hard to believe this is from the year 1913! There couldn't have been many movie scores like this until the 1940s and 1950s. This was absolutely way ahead of its time! 3:24-4:44: I would imagine here is where John Williams got his inspiration for the theme from 'JAWS'! :-)
It's fast, a bit tight towards the end (time compressed - slightly rushed feeling, doesn't have the loose groove of Berlin under Karajan,or deep pocket of London under Tillson Thomas, but this is magnificently realized - just beautiful to see. Well, done, really well done. Thank you! Wow! LOVE IT
Completely blown away. This video wins the Internet PERMANENTLY ;):):):) I fell in love with the Rite from Michael Tilson Thomas and Ralph Grierson's '72 EMI / Angel recording of the first composer's two-piano reduction (to rehearse the ballet premiere). It's like an x-ray of the structure and it spoiled me; I haven't found an orchestral version I couldn't pick a bone with (usually balance issues of one sort or another). I understand the Bernstein / Columbia '58 NY Phil version is supposed to be definitive, but I haven't heard it yet. But this MIDI version is damn near perfect. Actually, technically it *is* perfect ;) I have nothing but superlatives for your presentation. I love the way thick notes spread out horizontally in both directions and then shrink back. I love your choice of shapes for instrumental colors, and your color choices as well. Totally rings with my intuition. You mentioned you had issues working with the MIDI file. Did you make this using pure audio input, or did you have any access to the MIDI synching information?
The audio and the MIDI both came from my collaborator, Jay Bacal. My animation software gets its score data from a MIDI file, but in most cases, it's a MIDI file that I create myself, and my software expects that file to be structured in a particular way that Jay's file was not, so I had to do a lot of work modifying the MIDI file so that it could be used.
That's wonderful; thanks for commenting. Could you explain how the video has helped? Hearing your explanation might help me explain to others why this video is useful. Thanks.
Great music and great accompanying animation. I only realized at the end of ''Mystic Circle of the young girls'' that this is actually synthetic.He made it feel real.
![8-bit Rite of Spring (full) [Famitracker, VRC6]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/GG2LR5wnKKM/mqdefault.jpg)
What a great way to seduce watchers into listeners. The visual representation directs the ears to listen for what the eye sees. Very fresh and impressive.
thats a great way to teach Handicap childs and other persons to learn what music ist..
In a chaos of hundred tones, suddenly through many color objects, you see everything in a distinct place and time..
I can follow everything, and i have fun with some music that i could hardly hear for a long periode...
I lernt to love such music with this optimal help...
my gratitude to the engineers that made this happen.... ❤
It’s amazing how this piece can give prehistoric imaginations
As somebody who has very intense visual synesthesia.... THANK YOU! The room is still spinning 5 minutes after the video finished. How wonderful. And people say you need drugs to have hallucinations as vivid as this.
As someone who loves this music because of one particular Disney film-
23:18 Tyrannosaurus rex. The most feared predator to ever walk the planet!
In some versions, its easy to forget how truly unsettling this piece really is.
That's definitely not the case here, this is an utterly brilliant performance
That's because it's not real.
13:34 Ah yes, my favorite springtime tune :)
Someone: MIDI can’t be very expressive.
Me: 9:18
As a jazz freak, I am obsessed with the Rite! The transition between the end of the intro and that beautiful bitonal stamping ostinato to start Augurs. Super crunchy! ☺️
8:24 - 10:35 my favorite ugh
Mine too
I was falling half-asleep watching this (the visuals are hypnotic) and that zoom at 23:13 actually made me feel for a second as if I was being sucked into the music and jolted me back awake
to me this sounds like an epic "duel of the fates" between good and evil (or something like that), trading blows, backing off, striking back at each other on and on to an unknown, unresolved fate
maybe the battle never ends
Stegosaurus vs. T Rex
In Disney’s Fantasia that’s what they did. all dinosaurs VS T rex
Still one of my favourite videos of all time, bookmarked for years. I would warn users of Bluetooth headphones that the microscopic delay between sound and visual is not the best way to view this.
I work with people who have perceptual problems: mainly on the autism spectrum, (these from birth) and also elderly people who are losing cognitive function.(Dementia or AD) These Musanim works are visually stunning, but I am fascinated too... by the idea that those who are struggling to deal with their own changes in brain function, might be opened to a new way of literally 'SEEING" music. Thank you for putting a beautiful, provocative 'bug in my ear"...!
works for vets with brain issues too!! I live this stuff. this and that animusic
32:23 onwards is one of my favourite parts, it's so full of emotions like anxiety and fear and it's so climactic
I love how this animation of the entire song portrays the sheer complexity and beauty within Igor's Rite of Spring. This definitely makes me love the suite even more.
4:56 just this whole part with the violin ticking in the background is my absolute favorite
If that was extended for an hour, sleeping would be made better
Then the horns come in and it's like woaaahhhh.
Best version of this piece ever! Perfect instrument sound, perfect timing... and the whole recording without coughing idiots at the concert hall...
KhunThomat it's synthetic. "Jay Bacal performed and rendered this piece using virtual instrument software"-from the description.
Moth I know it's synthetic. But damn good synthetic! ...and of course, therefore without coughing idiots...
Even ignoring the awesome music itself, was there ever a composer that mastered the individual characters of the various orchestral instruments better than Stravinsky? Just the wondrous use of the instruments, such as using the bassoon at the extreme high end of it's range to play that strained initial theme. Pure genius.
Ravel?
I would say Struass; every single one of his symphonic poems are outstanding
@@null8295 good point
This makes me love this very unusual piece even more. The complexity towers over most other pieces.
This helps me make sense of the music. I've always found it quite challenging without the ballet to watch, but it's actually quite exhilarating.
Génial, géant, je suis éblouis en cette nouvelle année 2016...qu'elle beauté, je n'ai jamais
vu une tel précision, beauté graphique, prouesse technique, j'aimerai bien savoir comment cela se trace...équations, capteurs...une vrai performance qui met en valeur le travail du musicien. Je suis émerveillé...je recommande aux amateurs et me conserve cette éblouissante imagerie pour une oeuvre exceptionnellement rare. Bonne Année à tous. Ssi de FRANCE
Thank you so much for this work! I have been imagining this for decades! A great jon doing the visualization.
23:10 I love how it starts to zoom in. So epic!
THE T-REX RUN!
Impressive. 20:30 - 20:40 is absolutely sublime.
It has always amazed me just how unashamedly raucous this is in places. It's a delight every time I hear it. The animation superbly illustrates the score. Just amazing.
Very impressive. And beautiful. Also helps one to appreciate the complexity of the score. Resembles an animated Piet Mondrian painting -- the multicolored squares and lozenges. A lot of time and effort were obviously expended in order to create this video, but the result must have been very satisfying to the animator. MANY thanks.
Even if it's just a virtual instrument recording, the sound quality is just so astonishingly beautiful.
What can i say? Speechless. It took me forever to enjoy this piece and to at least understand the textures, layers (and lots more) of the orchestration.... and u made it easier... I am so happy that theres someone like you did this animated video. My salute goes to you!
Utterly fascinating. This has been one of my favorite pieces for decades. I am no musician, can't play a note much less read a score, and of course this score is beyond complex. But watching this just once has given me more insight into the way it all works together than a fifty times just listening.
Thanks you so much!
Two partially off-topic asides. One... I attended a live performance of the Rite by a local orchestra. Something less radical opened, and Rite came after the intermission. The number of people - old people - who left at the intermission was just horrible. Two... My favorite performance is Dutoit conducting Montreal on Decca.
I agree! I m a professional musician for over 40 years and have played this piece, but I find this completely fascinating as well. This would be a good way to introduce people to another way of enjoying music, "reading" it as it were, and enjoying it in a different way.
23:05-23:20. I fell out of my seat.
Thank you for this masterpiece.
You're welcome.
I'm gonna start a 3 day riot
are we still on?
Stravinsky, Rite of Spring (complete), metal arranged for electric & acoustic guitar by Joe Parrish
Genre: Progressive metal
Hell yeah! Stravinsky is and always was progressive metal... Parrish just made it that much more obvious.
I'm a struggling self-taught composer. One of my biggest difficulties is convincing myself that I'm writing something worth listening to, worth publishing, worth working on. The use of software such as Finale has helped me to HEAR my music, so that I don't need to pay instrumentalists just to hear my music out loud. Now I've dusted off some of my older compositions of which I only have the midi files remaining, I can bring them back to life with this visual extrapolation to SEE! Thanks so much.
Bravo!! This is stunning! If Stravinsky were alive, he would be amazed on what you have accomplished. Thanks
Danke!
Wow ... thank you again.
Amazing, Fantastic, Brilliant, I dont have enough word to express my gratitude for this piece of work, a true masterpiece! Congratulations and Thank You! My hat off to you Sir!!!!
Nothing is more striking about this piece is the orchestration. I hear practically every emotion displayed beautifully, and every impressive aspect of each instrument highlighted. It seems like a very practical model for studying orchestration.
Fantastic! To represent such a complex piece as a spectrogram is an incredible achievement. Its all completely accurate and a joy to watch with the music.
One of my favorite musical part is the evocation of the ancestors
unbelievably amazing animation, congratulations for the profound concept and actualisation
+musanim I think your animation style livens up an incredible composition, and shows the nuances clearer than only the music, the rite of spring is fantastic and complex and you brought softness into the interpretation, so thanks!
The KC Symphony will perform this over the weekend, but listening/watching this version brought me pure joy. Thank you.
1 week of simply piano
Absolutely Brilliant! I've always loved this music, and watching this graphical animation made me appreciate it exponentially more.
Bravo!! This is so impressive on so many levels, and I am amazed that it is a synthesized performance which I wouldn't even have guessed if it wasn't for the cello solo at 20:00 which is a bit synthetic. A very enjoyable and fascinating video, many thanks!!
I've been corrupted.... can't listen to this without visualizing dinosaurs fighting and dying.
+Daniel Hudelson Thanks Oba-I mean Fantasia!
That's the most beautiful thing ive ever seen.
Completely choked up.
Thank you
Mesmerisingly wonderful.
I noticed that at the last chord, the double bass' notes spell the word dead
Yep. It's really prominent on the Famitracker version of Rite of Spring, which shows each note being played: th-cam.com/video/GG2LR5wnKKM/w-d-xo.html
Only two words "It's hypnotic" AWESOME THANKS
Thank you very much, Mr. Malinowski. You've put in a lot of work for our enjoyment.
Personally, I think the imagery of early Earth's violent atmosphere goes better with this than a human sacrifice.
Astonishing. A wonderful way to watch the music. Thank you.
+Jeff Jeffery I'm glad you appreciate it; if you want to help, please tell your friends and colleagues about this.
absolutely fantastic! - the visual aspect really illuminates the tonal ,harmonic , rythmic ...etceterra... I could focus on aspects and continuity that otherwise my ears alone had never grasped- thank you!
Been waiting for this for a long time. Thank you Mr. Malinowski.
I haven't listened to the Rite without your videos for one year...
Lo he visto completo, en full screen y es algo realmente alucinante, fantástico, adictivo, fuera de lo común, especialmente en la parte donde las imágenes parecen tener una distorsión del tiempo, es algo genial y si alguna vez se hace en 3D será algo fabuloso de ver, oír y experimentar. Muchísimas gracias por el video, ha sido una grata experiencia.
Thank you for your kind words. I hope to improve my skills in the future.
smalin¡¡Seguro que si !! Veo todos sus videos y en todas las ocasiones me quedo gratamente impresionado, es maravilloso su trabajo y lo admiro mucho, ya he puesto muestras de su trabajo en Facebook para que mis amigos también lo disfruten y se hagan adictos como yo a sus hermosos videos.
jose rey angel hernandez cruz Thank you for your help in sharing my work.
The Dance of the Earth.
I first saw Disney's Fantasia on VHS almost twenty years ago. I FINALLY know the name of this movement. THANK YOU.
This is what "god-mode" sounds like.
god mode?
Listen to the section starting at 14:07. That's what I mean.
Enjoy the ride.
I am new to these animations and I am impressed by the variety of takes. I love the aesthetic aspect and the relationship of the visuals to music. The movement adds a great deal to this "notation" and brings out the structure of the pieces. The medium seems to be perfectly made for this piece, it brings out the rhythms, harmonic blocks, changing textures and instrumentation - very fascinating and impressive work. I am looking forward to experiencing more of these animated works. Thank you for sharing your inspired work.
8:24 - 10:17....the best part. And animated score: good job, musanim!
I really appreciate 5:32 - 5:51 . One of my favourite parts in that movement. c: The Spring Rounds was also done beautifully, it being one of my favourite modern compositions of all time. The pace and the richness of the strings during the early stages of The Mystic Circles of the Young Girls was also reeeeally nice, gave me chills.
Great work here. You're right that the sound on this performance is very clear. I've always wondered why virtual orchestral software isn't used to recreate historic recordings, instead of cleaning/enhancing/stereo-izing them.
1. listeners are interested in history
2. virtual renditions are seldom as musical
3. making virtual renditions is more work
Yet another fantastic work of art, Stephen.
Verdaderamente impresionante no había visto slgo así. ¡Genial! No domino el idioma inglés. Saludos desde Monterrey N.L México.
Superb in every respect. Mesmerizing. A new view for me of an old familiar work. How stirring to have my passion for this music brought to life again! Respect and thanks for your artistry.
Thank you.
Breathtaking. Congratulations on a long and brilliant career.
This is great work. I am overwhelmed by the future, now it is here!
We're way ahead of the future!
the most influential piece of music of the 20th century. An unqualified masterpiece!
@musanim I line where it expands (speeds up) @ 23:12. Great work on that!!
This piece has inspired my own compositions so much for so long. It got me to experiment with polytonality and polyrhythms. It directly inspired a piece for orchestra I'm writing called "Astros." The way it's instrumented has taught me a lot too, such as dampening dissonances by placing them between different instrument groups. I'm glad that this piece is still extremely influential over 100 years after it's initial premiere.
Yes: spreading dissonances across timbres makes it harder to hear that they are dissonant; this piece sounds very different, harmonically, in the piano version.
@@musanim The difference in sound of the piano version is actually what made me realize this.
Nice to find other composers. This is the piece that got me into orchestral music, before all I listened to were soundtracks, damn that was a while ago.
Where can I find your work?
@@Sploooks where could I check out some of your stuff?
Yay! I started this project (about forty years ago) because I enjoyed following along with a score when I listened to music, and I wanted to make that experience better. So, I guess I've succeeded --- at least, for you.
Definitely different in parts than a live performance. Mostly a balance thing ie "the strings are totally overpowered by the horns there", but this is a fantastic digital representation and the visuals made me notice things I've never heard before (as they get blended in so much with everything going on) and I've been listening to this for nearly all of my 45 years on Earth. I can't read music, but I can "follow" a score in that my dad taught me some piano as a kid and I forgot how to really read music, but enough to follow along with a few slips. This is more enjoyable :)
Many people who know this piece well have said that they noticed things for the first time while watching this video. To share it (and see a little more about it), you can use this short URL: riteanim.com
I do not know this piece well but, as I was "watching" my music, it struck me how well the animation helped me to understand the complexity this particular piece; a wonderful aid for someone who can't read sheet music. But that's only part of it...I am intrigued & impressed by the coding that must have gone into creating the graphical score.
This is some remarquable work you did. Thank you!
Impresionante. Maravilloso. Genial. Thanks a lot.
Thank you; you're welcome.
Amazing job! Very much appreciated getting to see all of the various orchestral parts visually. The quality of this MIDI performance was fantastic, honesty took me a moment to realize it was midi at all!
This is such good quality for a synthetic recording!!!
I'm going to see the Minnesota orchestra play this for a field trip next week! Can't wait!!!
This is totally amazing! congrats! incredible work
Stravinsky is God. Good work dude, this could be a good way to appreciate music thoroughly.
Thanks for the link the other day Stephen. This is superb.
Happy birthday, Stravinsky! Great video!
A far better visualization of one of the most incredible landmarks in musical history than Walt's. A piece that must be seen (it IS a ballet, after all) as well as heard. Fantastic work here!
+ellisberg Thanks!
+musanim Thank you! This had to be a labor of love for you. It approximates how I visualize music in my head (as a musician), but I never could have brought it to actual visualization as you have. Extraordinary, man. And what a great piece for visualization! Stunning!
+musanim Your system for visualization makes me curious now how other modernistic classical works might look. Ligeti, for example. Probably look like a TV not tuned to a station, huh? Copland would be interesting. Shostakovich, too. I think the more complex and arhythmic passages render the best visuals. Just an opinion, of course. I watched some of the Beethoven, Bach and Mozart visualizations you did and enjoyed them, but their order and more predictable patterns weren't quite as fascinating to me as Stravinsky.
it’s past midnight and i just watched the whole thing. i have school in the morning. i really need to sleep💖
Wonderful! I am very familiar with the music, and have followed along with the score numerous times. This version does help for a few reasons: maybe just the scrolling, because in the old days part of the fun/challenge was not losing my place. But as it goes by your score helped my notice instrumentation details that I would miss with a regular score. I would recommend this for folks not familiar with the music, as a way to be introduced to it. I think it is both informative and engaging.
I'm a fan. Now on to the Holst! :-)
The animations reveal the complexity of compositions. I would also like to see ONLY wavy lines to indicate the crescendo and diminuendo sound vibrations of the various musical instruments. The harmonization of colours is beautiful.
Piano notes? What piano notes?
Musical vibrations (the lowest pitch we can perceive is 32 cycles per second) are too fast to see. I've done some experiments with showing dynamics, but to do a really good job, I need a recording with each part recorded separately; so far, nobody has made one of those for me.
Thank you Stravinsky. Thank you Malinowski. Brilliant music + brilliant technical graphics =Quantum spacial genius m+t=g
extraordinary. also mind blown that this is synthetic orchestra. sounds very good
Wow! Interesting how the visual helps me hear the complexity of this masterpiece. Very well done!
Incredible. I've never seen a video like this one.
Fantastic enhancement - exciting - thanks for this
I'm beginning to really like it. The piece is kind of, unique? (if that's the right word) Thanks for the video and keep up the good work. I enjoy each and every one of these animated scores of yours.
This is the greatest symphony I have ever heard
I've been listening to this work for 30 years and have studied the score for it's orchestration, sonic palette and overall complexity. John Williams was obviously influenced by it. I have to say, this is an incredible mash up rendering of a midi/virtual instrument performance and visual representation. It blew me away! Congratulations. Incredibly interesting. After viewing, I tried reading lines of text on my screen and my brain was seeing all the text moving smoothly to the right (even though it wasn't really)
Thanks for the appreciative report. Please tell your friends. (And, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_aftereffect)
BTW, are you the David Bindle at the University of Saskatchewan?
+smalin Yes, that's me. Have our paths crossed before?
I don't know. Your named sounded familiar, so I Googled. I was curious to know why you were studying The Rite ... thought you might be a composer or a music theory teacher or ? ... I have a terrible memory ... I'm very pleased with this video, and would like lots of people to see it, so when I find somebody who reacts strongly to it, I want to know more about them ...
Not only was my text moving to the right.... when I looked the room and tried walking, I felt dizzy and almost ill!
Hard to believe this is from the year 1913! There couldn't have been many movie scores like this until the 1940s and 1950s. This was absolutely way ahead of its time!
3:24-4:44: I would imagine here is where John Williams got his inspiration for the theme from 'JAWS'! :-)
5:24 Finally, the violin ticking can blend in with the melodies!
Breathtakingly beautiful, thank you so much!
It's fast, a bit tight towards the end (time compressed - slightly rushed feeling, doesn't have the loose groove of Berlin under Karajan,or deep pocket of London under Tillson Thomas, but this is magnificently realized - just beautiful to see. Well, done, really well done. Thank you! Wow! LOVE IT
Dave Tone Thanks, Dave!
Completely blown away. This video wins the Internet PERMANENTLY ;):):):)
I fell in love with the Rite from Michael Tilson Thomas and Ralph Grierson's '72 EMI / Angel recording of the first composer's two-piano reduction (to rehearse the ballet premiere). It's like an x-ray of the structure and it spoiled me; I haven't found an orchestral version I couldn't pick a bone with (usually balance issues of one sort or another). I understand the Bernstein / Columbia '58 NY Phil version is supposed to be definitive, but I haven't heard it yet. But this MIDI version is damn near perfect. Actually, technically it *is* perfect ;)
I have nothing but superlatives for your presentation. I love the way thick notes spread out horizontally in both directions and then shrink back. I love your choice of shapes for instrumental colors, and your color choices as well. Totally rings with my intuition.
You mentioned you had issues working with the MIDI file. Did you make this using pure audio input, or did you have any access to the MIDI synching information?
The audio and the MIDI both came from my collaborator, Jay Bacal. My animation software gets its score data from a MIDI file, but in most cases, it's a MIDI file that I create myself, and my software expects that file to be structured in a particular way that Jay's file was not, so I had to do a lot of work modifying the MIDI file so that it could be used.
I'm practicing Rite of Spring to play in university and this video has been tremendous help! Thank you!
That's wonderful; thanks for commenting. Could you explain how the video has helped? Hearing your explanation might help me explain to others why this video is useful. Thanks.
I think it's the visual aspect of seeing where the notes go help with playing the music.
Great music and great accompanying animation.
I only realized at the end of ''Mystic Circle of the young girls'' that this is actually synthetic.He made it feel real.
That really is sublime
Amazing! Music (naturally) but also video: great work!!
Fabulous! Love this especially in FULL SCREEN