One fateful night in the tavern... Bard (drunk): "Hey. Hey. You, uh...You know what'd be an amazing instrument?" Artificer (wasted): "I know EXACTLY where you're going with this."
This is literally SO underrated. Can't believe it's got 6.5K dislikes when not only does it SOUND this good, but the fact that it's animated 100% correctly in a world where they can't even animate someone to play 1 instrument correctly is just baffling
The compositional skill here is insane. Like, it’s one thing to write a cool song, it’s another to write a cool song with only string instruments, but it’s a whole other level to write a cool song with only string instruments that then looks cool when animated on imaginary instruments
@Zytrik X Humans did the 3D modeling, and music composition but then the ai takes the midi files that the composer made and animated each individual instrument that the midi file tells it to do. Most of the animating is done by computers. It makes more sense when you hear the directors commentary
I went about 15 years thinking these videos were a figment of my imagination. It was always such a treat to watch these during music class in elementary school. Happy to have rediscovered them!
Same! Like I saw these when I was a lot younger but I could never find them. The only thing I could remember was "mathematical music" which somehow led me back to these and it brings me so much joy
It's such a beautiful melody, but it's almost haunting how it seems incomplete. There's a couple of instruments that aren't being used that seem to be missing pieces, and I just can't help but imagine what must've happened to the artificer who designed this instrument to leave his masterpiece unfinished.
Here's something I bet you don't know. Even though though this song appears midway in the LP, it is actually the last ever made (and greatest) animusic piece from the whole 2-part series. I guess that is why it is my favorite.
I am here to tell the sad tale of Animusic. My father and I first saw this on a TV screen inside a best buy. We decided to investigate further and found out that they had made one movie the first one Animusic 1. He and I found it a great delight and went home and watched it several times within the next however long it was. We then caught wind of an Animusic 2. This proved to be fruitful. We did indeed find Animusic 2 and it was just as wonderful as the first one if not more. We then heard wind of a 3rd. We waited and waited and waited. And no Animusic 3 ever showed up. Well then the internet became a thing and in my later teenage years I decided to look up what happened to them. The software they used to animate ended up being not functional or they tried to upgrade it and they ran out of money something along those lines. And they could not make any music three and they gave up on that dream and there has never been anything like that since.
They were ahead of their time. If they did this now, I have no doubt it would go over well and TH-cam and Patreon would help fund a project such as this.
When I was about 7 years old my rather eccentric neighbor gave me the animusic 2 dvd, he was always very nice and gave me a lot of gifts that were always related to things I liked/was interested in and at the time I was learning to play guitar. This piece was my first exposure to the sound of a variety stringed instruments and I watched it probably a hundred times if not more. It made me understand fingerpicking much faster than just watching human guitarists and I had a visual representation of different musical parts building upon each other to create a whole song. I still love it
There’s like a Blu-ray disk full of these animations and they all have different music, and as a kid, I was obsessed with every one of them. I thought they were the coolest looking animations ever, and I absolutely loved the music. It was fascinating just watching how these worked and these videos always give me such a big feeling of nostalgia lmao ok that’s all cisgbfjajgcha
I remember in elementary school our music teacher would sometimes just turn Animusic DVDs on for us to watch. I'm turning 19 this year, and I'm still mesmerized by this song in particular. The way the "fingers" on the instrument work in tandem to strum their strings with no mistakes whatsoever (yes, I know it's an animation) was always something that intrigued me as a small 8-year-old. And the haunting interlude melody that plays between the more intricate upbeat portions helps capture the idea that perhaps this strange multi-acoustic device was created on a now long-abandoned world broadcasting the sound of what their creators had once created. If this was a real automated instrument I could buy, I wouldn't mind paying like, $10k for it at all. So cool.
this thing if somehow real would be priceless man! The creators main accomplishment would be this, and he would never sell it unless it was easy to re produce, which probably wouldn't be the case, but if you havent yet check out the wintergatan marble piano, or any other type of contraption. If its really an interest, maybe you are into engineering and you should try to make something cool. Always something new to dream up.
Fun fact: the animation is technically playing the instrument, the program used to animate would animate the instruments to match the recorded music So, if someone were to screw up a couple notes in a song, the animation would also ‘screw up’ those exact notes
Thank you for giving your eldritch horror proper enrichment! They’re very intelligent and sensitive creatures, and the popular perception of them as murderous is from understimulated individuals kept in improper environments. Giving them creative outlets makes them far less lethal!
My Grandfather passed away from cancer when I was 13, he was a very kind and caring man. He lived about 2 hours from my house and he would visit about 2 times a year and every time he came he would bring the animusic DvD with him. Its a treasured memory and I am so happy I found this again!
exact same story, except he was my great grandpa and passed away in 2012 when i was like 9. He loved animusic so much, he's the reason i know about it.
Bad little children will have their bones become part of the music. You can see how it grew childish fingers when it needed them. Where do you think the saying "you are what you eat" came from?
@@Amocles I had the same creepy reaction as you describe when I saw this for the first time. My opinion is that the mechanical arms look just a bit too organic - like crab's legs. {shudder}
@@Amocles I could be wrong here, but I read several years ago that the guy who created this video did it for what amounts to a homework assignment for some kind of CGI class. The same article claimed that he had received an "A" for it, but it was an internet article so it may be b/s
Remember hearing this as a child, still have a CD of it and man, can't say I didn't miss this animation music, since this is a world class masterpiece that is just way to unknown nowadays.
Well it could be made into one! Remember, not all SCP's are dangerous or scary or creepy, some of them could be cool, sad, friendly, or even nice! This could just be an SCP instrument, one of a kind that plays itself upon request.
I swear to everyone here, I will make this one day. I am a mechanical engineer hell bent on blending the worlds of engineering and music more than what it is today. Just like the Wintergatan, I will make stuff like this a reality one day.
It’s definitely possible. Crafting the actual instrument itself would be the hardest part, but I studied the mechatronics behind the “fingers” in school and I feel like that wouldn’t be too bad.
I remember watching this in elementary school... I'm 23 now. I was absolutely mesmerized by the animation and was in a battle of wondering if this was a real machine/instrument. I really couldn't tell at that age lol Still love this. Feels nostalgic
I remember my music teacher showed this to my class in fourth grade. It looks just as awesome now as it did all those years ago! She was totally amazing! I came back to see it again, and by the end, I noticed I was smiling without even realizing it. This is totally an amazing masterpiece!
@@ghdhfgh6125 Well, I sometimes comment a lot on things! I clicked on your account and saw I was already subscribed to you. I’m not quite sure where you saw me.
Imagine this self-playing instrument just strumming the same song for eternity, with no one around to hear it... something about it feels so chilling and lonely
I love that there could be an entire empty world outside of these instruments with nothing but bizarre landscapes and scenery to explore. It’s such an unnerving yet cool concept
I get this exact feeling! It's so hard to put into words. It's like getting out of bounds in a videogame and seeing the edges of the world stretch on forever, knowing you're completely alone in a strange and empty space.
Glad I’m not the only one that has this weird interest in the liminal(?) aura vids like this give off. Early animation in general tends to have that aura.
I remember seeing these vids like these on my local PBS station and I was completely hypnotized by the musical tech of it all, not just the beauty of the music (especially when they did the bouncing balls, and laser light videos)
Music is essential to all walks of life. It's one of the timeless few things that delivers peace, happiness, and unity. It has the ability to take us into the deepest fantasies within our minds or bring us to our knees in tears. Thank you for this little ditty
@@kyleetie5608 I disagree .... it's hitting the notes and the timing is right ..... I am not a professional musician , but I know enough about music to see it's accurately portrayed .... OBVIOUSLY we do not know the TUNING of those "instruments" , but that aside , the mechanics look real to me ..... not sure what you're seeing that says otherwise
Saw this in a thumbnail as I was scrolling, I hit my mouse so hard it shot across the table. I adore this. I love the beat, the bass drop, watching the 'fingers', noticing all the other things as it pans around, I get lost in this every time I watch it. There are things you remember throughout your life that stay with you forever, when I first saw this I was mesmerized. Absolute genius. Thank you.
This makes me think of a story of a musician who just wanted to play music forever, catching the attention of a witch who then grants him his wish and infuses his soul with this intrument to play for eternity.
It had lain there for years-a testament to a dead civilization, long since gone and forgotten by time. For years, it had collected dust in the empty mausoleums of a civilization, patiently waiting for its masters to return and allow it to fulfill its purpose once more. One night, as the moon rose in a velvet-black night sky sprinkled with stars like diamond dust, a lone mouse searching for food happened upon this curiosity. It quickly came to realize it held no food, but as it left, it happened to accidentally trip a wire deep inside of it. Gears turned. Strings tightened. Pulleys went up and down, levers went back and forth, and echoing through an empty city of the dead, with nobody to appreciate it... The machine played its song once more.
Holy buckets Batman, I'm in awe at how wonderful these crabs play together. This whole instrument must be a one of a kind. I've never seen anything like this before.
There is something so beautifal here that I can barely articulate. its beautifal, i love how they move. It makes me feel so encouraged, so comforted, so relieved, and so determined
Atop a high tower on an abandoned planet slowly drifting away from its mother star, a strange instrument plays a hauntingly beautiful melody for seemingly hundreds of millennia. Nobody knows how it remained functional without the aid of its creators other than it’s mysterious organic mechanisms and ability to mend itself. It is said that the tower acts as a landmark for souls traveling across the Milky Way and a beacon for lost souls trying to find their way back.
Astronaut: Houston? Houston: Yes? Astronaut: I'm picking up something... Melodic Houston: Explain Astronaut: I-I don't know, oh no no no no Houston: What's going on? Report!!! Astronaut: THE GROOVE, IT'S TOO FONKY *dances to death*
This showed up in my recommended after 14 years. I had completely forgotten about this channel and it feels like a distant memory, I guess because it is, but this totally holds up even after all this time.
FINALLY FOUND IT I got this on DVD somewhere, but that has been lost a long time ago... At least now I can take comfort in knowing where I can find it.
Given how the harp section of the instrument never gets played, I like to think this was an unfinished machine. Perhaps the craftsman who'd spent his entire life on this one contraption slowly had what was left of his soul sucked out by the cruel passage of time. The harp was supposed to play itself, but the craftsman had little time left. The master craftsman could hear the ticking of the clock, and used his sweat, tears, blood, and poured the last fragments of soul to compose this lonesome song. As he took his last breath, what he heard was the sound of the instrument he'd worked on his whole life. Unfinished, yet undoubtedly his greatest masterpiece. His magnum opus. Slowly, he felt naught but the cold of the night, and the warm glow of the moonlight. His last thoughts were those of contentment with a hint of regret, wishing to the night sky that maybe someone, someday, under the same tender glow of the moon, could finish the legacy he had left behind. Even after the passing of this great mind, his instrument continues to play. Be it to an audience, or to the moon which its creator saw last. Eternally, until the world returns to the dust and void from which it came.
Intriguing concept! I have a feeling the upright "harp" with curved embellishments was included to balance the visual, since the instrument wouldn't look quite as ethereal and complex without it, and it's clearly not a functional or structural component. Beautiful design!
maybe the harp was the only part that the creator played. everything else was automated but that because maybe no machine could mimic the amount of skill that the creator could put into the harp playing
I'm so TOTALLY going to use this in a future D&D campaign as something to give the players a clue or quest. Just picturing this thing makes me think of multiple souls of bards gone before their time, but their love of music and their will to keep playing anchored them to the material plane and turned them into this.
This was the last thing I shared with my Brother from Ohio when he came to visit me in Florida. Upon returning home a couple weeks later he went to the doctor was diagnosed with cancer and passed away the next month. Thank you 💞
Random person: “so do you play an instrument The bard in the pub he is talking to: “why yes, I play the doubleelectricacousticviolincellobass crabspider stringed instrument or ‘DEAVCBCSSI’ for short
Remembered, how I was seven years old, and my mom showed me this video, but I didn’t really like this melody then. But now it’s such a nostalgic song for me… I want to go back to this times 😔
Many years ago when my music teacher played this video in class it has just stuck to my brain. It's like fever dream to me. I'm glad that I was able to come back to this nostalgic video.
I didn't say with my own eyes I wouldn't believe it that's freaking amazing well-crafted well music sounds great awesome on everybody who put their effort into making these things thank you!
HOLY HELL this is a throwback, I remember once in a while my music teacher would put this movie on for the class and I always thought this was the freakiest thing with the "spider" legs in my mind.
I remembered that one week when my Band instructor was sick, so he assigned the substitute to make us watch a whole bunch of these, it was interesting!
Not sure what is most impressive. That someone actually played this music... that someone even wrote it... that someone dreamt up this amazing musical contraption... or that they were able to bring their image to life. Also impressive is the graphical detail, the feeling of exploration as it pans around, and a sense of autonomous life from the mechanisms. To put all this together 'accurately to the music' is absolute quality on all levels 👏👏👏👏👏
I don’t think anyone has ever played it - at least the music in the video is synthetic using synthesizers and samplers to replicate organic sound :) The MIDI data used for that is the same that drives the animation.
This is definitely a MIDI track, albeit the most realistic MIDI strings I have ever heard. Such that, from a distance, you could probably mistake it for real strings!
The Resonant Chamber: A grand machine made by the dwarves of old. The current location of the device is unknown. It is made entirely of living wood. For an hour each day, it plays a new masterpiece. When it's song for the day is complete, it appears to begin to re-tune itself and begin making up a new song for the next day. It is unknown if the device is sentient at this time. Annotation: SCP classification upped from "Safe" to "Euclid" after the accidental discovery of listeners growing exceedingly hostile against any and all things that may be considered to be interrupting the Resonant Chamber's song.
Would be so awesome to actually build an instrument like this, and program it to be played in this fashion! So incredible that this was all done NEARLY 20 YEARS AGO!!!!!!
For sure. I saw pogo sticks on TV in 2014 or somewhere around there, I was glued to the TV. I also investigated it further.I next saw resonant chamber and I was hooked. Then pipe dreams. Absolutely beautiful,stunning music. I didn't hear anything more. I have tried to find out what happened to the creators, not a lot of luck. And I totally agree with you that it's so sad whatever happened, because this kind of talent should be able to shine for the whole world to enjoy. I have the few videos that exist, this person or persons were brilliant. I hope they know that.
Wow , I still remember how I was impressed when I see this for the first time 13 years back . Only good old vodka make me remember this again and rewatch it again now !
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My friend's tarantula saw this, he's a guitarist now.
Raevyn Crowes lol 😆
😂
No violin, no real spider, but close enough, I suppose: th-cam.com/video/177V7wMVuEE/w-d-xo.html :)
Slow
hahahah
"So, what instrument does your party's bard play?"
_looks at their elaborately-dressed artificer_
'It's... complicated.'
I was thinking it might be a bard/artificer multi
i'd say all of them
I'M STEALING THIS
maybes he's actually just the mage, and he doubles as the bard, by using magic to power this... thing.
One fateful night in the tavern...
Bard (drunk): "Hey. Hey. You, uh...You know what'd be an amazing instrument?"
Artificer (wasted): "I know EXACTLY where you're going with this."
For an instrument that looks like some Lovecraftian horror, it makes good music.
yeah!
Pat Metheny owns a similar instrument in real life
Why no call it the Frankenloot? Or the Frankenbass? Or the FRANKENTAR!?
@@dustpan7006 oh well
@@dustpan7006 no wonder I enjoy his work
This is literally SO underrated. Can't believe it's got 6.5K dislikes when not only does it SOUND this good, but the fact that it's animated 100% correctly in a world where they can't even animate someone to play 1 instrument correctly is just baffling
Furthermore - it was made in 2008. CGI wasn't even 10% as good as it is today, but this still looks genuinely appealing
@@notveryartificial4486 it was actually made in 2005!
@@bigolteefies so, not even 8%
wdym there are zero dislikes🤨
@@supremeocumstain8760 6.7 thousands. TH-cam just doesn't show it unless you have special tool installed
The compositional skill here is insane. Like, it’s one thing to write a cool song, it’s another to write a cool song with only string instruments, but it’s a whole other level to write a cool song with only string instruments that then looks cool when animated on imaginary instruments
I mean technically nobody actually animated the instruments, the AI did all the animating work (or at least most of it)
And then make it in 5/4 😂
@@hydrochloric007 wait it was an ai? What
@Zytrik X Humans did the 3D modeling, and music composition but then the ai takes the midi files that the composer made and animated each individual instrument that the midi file tells it to do. Most of the animating is done by computers. It makes more sense when you hear the directors commentary
@@hydrochloric007 ohhhh ok thanks
Fun Fact: The moon is a different phase every time the window is in view.
It only goes to show the time it took to put this in place :-)
No, it's just a different window every time
@@melissameloche4616 LOL
Another Fun Fact: There are 4 different moons :0
Aren't there 4 windows, each of one with one moon? ( so 4 moons)
I went about 15 years thinking these videos were a figment of my imagination. It was always such a treat to watch these during music class in elementary school. Happy to have rediscovered them!
For real!!!
Same! Like I saw these when I was a lot younger but I could never find them. The only thing I could remember was "mathematical music" which somehow led me back to these and it brings me so much joy
same!! i actually was starting to think i made the whole thing up now i have it back, like grasping a warm light of a memory from long ago
right i thought it was a retroactive acid trip
Same for me. Makes me realize how fast my life has gone by. It's like opening a corridor of my mind that hasn't been opened in all those years.
Imagine walking into an ancient, crumbling castle, and this instrument was in the middle of a chamber, just playing by itself...
That's why the "ancient, crumbling castle" was empty and crumbling!!!
"Do you know what we need to do? We need to get the fuck out of here, right now."
😂
We need to get down on our knees and thank Animusic..
And that's why I'd be in the crumbling castle!
TH-cam is just almost 12 years late to recommend me this...
6 year old me would of loved getting this in recommendations
Lol
Agreed lol
Just got recommended to me too, what is going on
I feel ya brother.
"How long did it take you to tune this?"
"Yes"
it not real
The kicker, it tunes itself. I'd imagine w/ all the moving fingers.
Wouldn't this be amazing if someone brought it to life?
Phoenixgaming1045 stfu
Only If Intel did this instead of the other one
Phoenixgaming1045 no shit Sherlock
It's such a beautiful melody, but it's almost haunting how it seems incomplete. There's a couple of instruments that aren't being used that seem to be missing pieces, and I just can't help but imagine what must've happened to the artificer who designed this instrument to leave his masterpiece unfinished.
Thanks... Now I'm wondering too! 😨
This should be a SCP article
The harp-like instruments that aren’t being used could just be sympathetic strings. Sympathetic strings are used to make the instrument more resonant.
@helldragon789, the "artificer" was a computer, because this "instrument" is computer graphic animation.
@@czar-das , this "instrument" isn't real. It's computer graphics. The motions of the graphic have been synchronized to prerecorded music.
Here's something I bet you don't know. Even though though this song appears midway in the LP, it is actually the last ever made (and greatest) animusic piece from the whole 2-part series. I guess that is why it is my favorite.
2008 me: "Such impressive animation!"
2021 me: "The action on that 8-string is ridiculous!"
Oh damn I noticed it too. Though to be fair it’s still kind of high on all the instruments.
y u have to alert me to that lol
sooo same, i have make an animation and modélisation school, so i feeling same things
It's really good animation for It's time
That shit's like an inch high XD
Imagine just hearing this music in a house, then walking into the room and seeing this goddamn thing playing itself
That be lit
That would be awesome
Haha. playing itself.
Big funny haha
That would be terrifying and amazing at the same time
I am here to tell the sad tale of Animusic.
My father and I first saw this on a TV screen inside a best buy. We decided to investigate further and found out that they had made one movie the first one Animusic 1.
He and I found it a great delight and went home and watched it several times within the next however long it was.
We then caught wind of an Animusic 2.
This proved to be fruitful. We did indeed find Animusic 2 and it was just as wonderful as the first one if not more.
We then heard wind of a 3rd.
We waited and waited and waited. And no Animusic 3 ever showed up. Well then the internet became a thing and in my later teenage years I decided to look up what happened to them.
The software they used to animate ended up being not functional or they tried to upgrade it and they ran out of money something along those lines. And they could not make any music three and they gave up on that dream and there has never been anything like that since.
I'm not reading all of this
Very sad to hear that they can’t make more 😢😫
They were ahead of their time. If they did this now, I have no doubt it would go over well and TH-cam and Patreon would help fund a project such as this.
@@itsnotit08why take the time to type a comment then?
I think part of the money thing was that one of the creators stole some of it. Im not quite sure but after that I’m pretty sure everything fell apart.
When I was about 7 years old my rather eccentric neighbor gave me the animusic 2 dvd, he was always very nice and gave me a lot of gifts that were always related to things I liked/was interested in and at the time I was learning to play guitar. This piece was my first exposure to the sound of a variety stringed instruments and I watched it probably a hundred times if not more. It made me understand fingerpicking much faster than just watching human guitarists and I had a visual representation of different musical parts building upon each other to create a whole song. I still love it
There’s like a Blu-ray disk full of these animations and they all have different music, and as a kid, I was obsessed with every one of them. I thought they were the coolest looking animations ever, and I absolutely loved the music. It was fascinating just watching how these worked and these videos always give me such a big feeling of nostalgia lmao ok that’s all cisgbfjajgcha
Is it just me or these videos freak me out? Not sure if they freaked me out all those years ago but now- _ehehhh3he_
GoAwayImDrawing I HAD IT TOO
@YUKPYTHON same here bro
We have this ones dvd and the 2nd one at our local library. It was my childhood Pandora
For an assignment, I transcribed this song for a 6 piece string ensemble and performed it in music school. Always been a favorite!
I remember in elementary school our music teacher would sometimes just turn Animusic DVDs on for us to watch. I'm turning 19 this year, and I'm still mesmerized by this song in particular. The way the "fingers" on the instrument work in tandem to strum their strings with no mistakes whatsoever (yes, I know it's an animation) was always something that intrigued me as a small 8-year-old. And the haunting interlude melody that plays between the more intricate upbeat portions helps capture the idea that perhaps this strange multi-acoustic device was created on a now long-abandoned world broadcasting the sound of what their creators had once created. If this was a real automated instrument I could buy, I wouldn't mind paying like, $10k for it at all. So cool.
I'm in the same boat friend :]
This was apart of our education experience😁
Glad we have not forgotten things from our early days :)
this thing if somehow real would be priceless man! The creators main accomplishment would be this, and he would never sell it unless it was easy to re produce, which probably wouldn't be the case, but if you havent yet check out the wintergatan marble piano, or any other type of contraption. If its really an interest, maybe you are into engineering and you should try to make something cool. Always something new to dream up.
Fun fact: the animation is technically playing the instrument, the program used to animate would animate the instruments to match the recorded music
So, if someone were to screw up a couple notes in a song, the animation would also ‘screw up’ those exact notes
@@johnmoreno6903 thats brilliant 🤣
Thank you for sharing! 😂
SAME he used to put it on every now and then on his whiteboard. WAYYY back in first and second grade
I was so blown away by Animusic when I first saw it on public television by both music, and graphics.
Thank you for giving your eldritch horror proper enrichment! They’re very intelligent and sensitive creatures, and the popular perception of them as murderous is from understimulated individuals kept in improper environments. Giving them creative outlets makes them far less lethal!
Yogsothoth just needed to learn the chgeon
😂 I want to write a book on that now!
Finally, someone who understands *Proper* Lovecraftian horror husbandry
My Grandfather passed away from cancer when I was 13, he was a very kind and caring man. He lived about 2 hours from my house and he would visit about 2 times a year and every time he came he would bring the animusic DvD with him. Its a treasured memory and I am so happy I found this again!
I’m sorry for your loss, and yeah my grandparents had this dvd when I was a kid too. Such good memories.
That was... nice to hear actually.
I'm sorry for your loss.
exact same story, except he was my great grandpa and passed away in 2012 when i was like 9. He loved animusic so much, he's the reason i know about it.
I have a pet hamster
I remember my elementary school music teacher would show us these when she was too lazy to teach and it scared the shit out of me when I was a kid
Bad little children will have their bones become part of the music. You can see how it grew childish fingers when it needed them. Where do you think the saying "you are what you eat" came from?
Dude, i just got the creeps too wtf what is the intrinsic creepy value in this i can't peg it?
@@Amocles I had the same creepy reaction as you describe when I saw this for the first time. My opinion is that the mechanical arms look just a bit too organic - like crab's legs. {shudder}
@@WildStar2002 yeah for real. It's like it's alive. Sitting there thinking about what note to play.
@@Amocles I could be wrong here, but I read several years ago that the guy who created this video did it for what amounts to a homework assignment for some kind of CGI class. The same article claimed that he had received an "A" for it, but it was an internet article so it may be b/s
I remember watching this in my 3rd grade music class way back in 2005. Crazy to think I'd see it again after nearly 20 years.
Remember hearing this as a child, still have a CD of it and man, can't say I didn't miss this animation music, since this is a world class masterpiece that is just way to unknown nowadays.
This thing looks like it should be an SCP.
Well it could be made into one! Remember, not all SCP's are dangerous or scary or creepy, some of them could be cool, sad, friendly, or even nice! This could just be an SCP instrument, one of a kind that plays itself upon request.
it damn should be indeed
Bruh, just YES. That'd be my favorite one. XD
I’ll get to typing
@@dogpenguin1239 post link when done please
this artifact is the eternal prison for the souls of seven bards
Whoa that's a cool idea
Is Merlin one of them?
A wizard imprisoned them there after he discovered all 7 of them making love to his wife.
@@Darth_Insidious dont you mean to the wizards 7 wives? He might be trying to make a supersorcerer.
@@margaretthomas2415 Merlin Prismriver? I'm pretty sure she's a trumpeter and there's no trumpet here.
RIP to everyone looking for this nostalgic masterpiece.
They are all dead? Why are they all dead?
I swear to everyone here, I will make this one day. I am a mechanical engineer hell bent on blending the worlds of engineering and music more than what it is today. Just like the Wintergatan, I will make stuff like this a reality one day.
with so much advancement in technology, I hope it does get made
It’s definitely possible. Crafting the actual instrument itself would be the hardest part, but I studied the mechatronics behind the “fingers” in school and I feel like that wouldn’t be too bad.
@ThinkGamer | Animusic Remaker Oh for sure. If I want to do it in my lifetime, it’s more than a one person task😂
You should recreate pipe dream as well
Ok buddy
I remember watching this in elementary school... I'm 23 now. I was absolutely mesmerized by the animation and was in a battle of wondering if this was a real machine/instrument. I really couldn't tell at that age lol Still love this. Feels nostalgic
Wouldn’t it be cool if some of these were real? Actually, Intel built a real-life recreation of Pipe Dream before.
Sameee these blew my mind back in school. Not just the animation but the musical pieces themselves. Such great nostalgia.
Same, I think everyone has seen this at some point in their elementary school music class. Resonant chamber is probably my favorite Animusic song.
Don’t worry I thought this was real until I was 15
Same here, growing up around the same time watching this on PBS I thought it was the most brilliant thing
When you want to be a musician but your father wants you to be an engineer!
Wintergatan.
Look them up.
@@jaydenyamada2916 lol was about to say
@@jaydenyamada2916 i literally just came from MMX #46
this isnt engineering, this is 3d animation.
@@cranberryjuice3998 r/wooooosh
this is impressive as hell, 14 years later and it's still better than a ton of people who consider themselves animating professionals
It was made 18 years ago. It released on TH-cam 14 years ago
To be fair, it wasn’t animated by humans, the sound and models were put into a machine with some code and it came out nicely animated
@@GlowingEraserwell their animation software was built from the ground up so 🎉
I remember my music teacher showed this to my class in fourth grade. It looks just as awesome now as it did all those years ago! She was totally amazing! I came back to see it again, and by the end, I noticed I was smiling without even realizing it. This is totally an amazing masterpiece!
you're not alone we all feel the same it is a memory we all get to share of good times
i recognize this acc from somewhere but I literally can’t remember where
@@ghdhfgh6125 Well, I sometimes comment a lot on things! I clicked on your account and saw I was already subscribed to you. I’m not quite sure where you saw me.
Imagine this self-playing instrument just strumming the same song for eternity, with no one around to hear it... something about it feels so chilling and lonely
Quite fretful
You know I was thinking the same thing but I came to the conclusion conclusion that the instrument would be proud in its eternal and perfect function
@@Sam-um1wr Loyally playing its favorite
And cool
Comedy
I love that there could be an entire empty world outside of these instruments with nothing but bizarre landscapes and scenery to explore. It’s such an unnerving yet cool concept
Solidarity can be haunting, music is one of mankind’s greatest comforts. A unique juxtaposition that always intrigued me with animusic:)
I get this exact feeling! It's so hard to put into words. It's like getting out of bounds in a videogame and seeing the edges of the world stretch on forever, knowing you're completely alone in a strange and empty space.
The music world section of a Mario game mixed with Shadow of the Colossus?
this is my favorite youtube comment
Glad I’m not the only one that has this weird interest in the liminal(?) aura vids like this give off. Early animation in general tends to have that aura.
I remember seeing these vids like these on my local PBS station and I was completely hypnotized by the musical tech of it all, not just the beauty of the music (especially when they did the bouncing balls, and laser light videos)
Oh yeah. Pipe dream and Harmonic Voltage
Music is essential to all walks of life. It's one of the timeless few things that delivers peace, happiness, and unity. It has the ability to take us into the deepest fantasies within our minds or bring us to our knees in tears. Thank you for this little ditty
the amazing thing is that , even though it's "fake" , it is "correctly" playing the strings as if real .....
Someone get this guy a prize! 😝
Actually its not, not even close, tho the mechanics are convincing to the layman’s eye
@@kyleetie5608 I disagree .... it's hitting the notes and the timing is right ..... I am not a professional musician , but I know enough about music to see it's accurately portrayed .... OBVIOUSLY we do not know the TUNING of those "instruments" , but that aside , the mechanics look real to me ..... not sure what you're seeing that says otherwise
shure46 no... intervals are not accurate, for one thing. You can see this on the fretted & non-fretted “fingerboards”. Its very convincing, tho
@@kyleetie5608 Correct. Most of the frets look evenly spaced, but they should not be.
I'd love to see this re-done in today's CGI abilities. 4k, accurate string tension and physics. Watched this farrrr too often back in the day
Ngl the pogo sticks and the stick figures were my imaginary homies back in the day
I'd recommend Automatica
Watch Nigel John Standford's "Automatica" music video. Kinda short, but it seems to be similar.
Some people are updating the quality in 4K 60fps. But not like completely redoing it.
I maybe am a little late but th-cam.com/video/jKnRgsoO2ME/w-d-xo.html
Animusic is such a formative memory for me, so it's a real treat for this to be recommended!
Saw this in a thumbnail as I was scrolling, I hit my mouse so hard it shot across the table. I adore this. I love the beat, the bass drop, watching the 'fingers', noticing all the other things as it pans around, I get lost in this every time I watch it. There are things you remember throughout your life that stay with you forever, when I first saw this I was mesmerized. Absolute genius. Thank you.
i felt the same i watched this as a kid in music class, like dancing spider legs, all in harmony for the purpose to bring life to a world so silent
Yes, it is back in my recommended! Even after 6 years!
Same here. I love this stuff
Glorious
Appeared in mine 12 years after.
same
So soothing!
Therapist: Don't worry, the spider guitar can't hurt you.
The spider guitar:
Haha! I was thinking the same thing! It does look like a spider!
Nice Felix pfp
Thought I was the only one who was scared of the spider guitar as a kid lol
Haha it gave me nightmares
The floor is even shaped like a spiderweb.
This was the most intense nostalgia I've felt in a while. being in my 30s now, looking back at this... it's, haunting.
That beginning bass drop is the soul of this song
Yeeess
It's so cool honestly
the bass sounds so good yeah... Can't get over it 20 years later.
@@Top5cringwell said.
This makes me think of a story of a musician who just wanted to play music forever, catching the attention of a witch who then grants him his wish and infuses his soul with this intrument to play for eternity.
YES.
Perhaps you should write it. It's a great story line. I want to know what happens next!
Burn the witch!
I kinda want to live with thst
that is the story of how you were born, how life was created
It had lain there for years-a testament to a dead civilization, long since gone and forgotten by time. For years, it had collected dust in the empty mausoleums of a civilization, patiently waiting for its masters to return and allow it to fulfill its purpose once more.
One night, as the moon rose in a velvet-black night sky sprinkled with stars like diamond dust, a lone mouse searching for food happened upon this curiosity. It quickly came to realize it held no food, but as it left, it happened to accidentally trip a wire deep inside of it.
Gears turned. Strings tightened. Pulleys went up and down, levers went back and forth, and echoing through an empty city of the dead, with nobody to appreciate it...
The machine played its song once more.
Gave me shivers
I like your funny words magic man
Yes this is like a SCP entry description. And even then the story is so much more.
I would gladly buy any literature you ever publish
This sounds like the short story, “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury ngl
Holy buckets Batman, I'm in awe at how wonderful these crabs play together. This whole instrument must be a one of a kind. I've never seen anything like this before.
@sheilahusemoller3926, yes, it's "a one of a kind" computer program simulation instrument.
It's called CGI, I believe that stands for Computer Generated Imaging.
@@sheilahusemoller3926 , Computer Graphic Images.
There is something so beautifal here that I can barely articulate. its beautifal, i love how they move. It makes me feel so encouraged, so comforted, so relieved, and so determined
When you have an engineering assignment at 7 but a band performance at 8
Atop a high tower on an abandoned planet slowly drifting away from its mother star, a strange instrument plays a hauntingly beautiful melody for seemingly hundreds of millennia. Nobody knows how it remained functional without the aid of its creators other than it’s mysterious organic mechanisms and ability to mend itself. It is said that the tower acts as a landmark for souls traveling across the Milky Way and a beacon for lost souls trying to find their way back.
Но даже это башни боится времени .
@@user-gt5si7ch6p ладно
What
Astronaut: Houston?
Houston: Yes?
Astronaut: I'm picking up something... Melodic
Houston: Explain
Astronaut: I-I don't know, oh no no no no
Houston: What's going on? Report!!!
Astronaut: THE GROOVE, IT'S TOO FONKY *dances to death*
time to add that in a game lol
let's be honest...it would be dope game
I absolutely love this song. It's my favorite out of all of animusic.
This showed up in my recommended after 14 years. I had completely forgotten about this channel and it feels like a distant memory, I guess because it is, but this totally holds up even after all this time.
Never realized this was in 5/4, such a cool time signature
Holy shit
It also has some parts that work best 10/4 and 10/8.
"SHE TURNED MY DAD ON, DAD ON, DAD ON"
@@XerosOfficial Fun fact: Drum Machine also has a 10/4 part. Crazy stuff.
But the beginning is 4/4
Yes, of course TH-cam would recommend this to me when I'm on shrooms.
Sounds like one hell of a trip bruh
Wait, there's an 'Im on shrooms setting' in yt O.o
Searches frantically
I've been watching this for years : )
Out of all the animusic contraptions I've seen I want this one to be made by somebody in real life the most.
I was OBSESSED with these videos as a kid. I'm so glad they found their way back to me.
It plays for all eternity, so that time has something to listen to.
yep
That was.. Hauntingly poetic!
Beautiful!
I have been searching for this for like 17 years. It was in the deepest recesses of my memory from elementary school
This is incredible how did someone make this masterpiece
FINALLY FOUND IT
I got this on DVD somewhere, but that has been lost a long time ago... At least now I can take comfort in knowing where I can find it.
Given how the harp section of the instrument never gets played, I like to think this was an unfinished machine. Perhaps the craftsman who'd spent his entire life on this one contraption slowly had what was left of his soul sucked out by the cruel passage of time. The harp was supposed to play itself, but the craftsman had little time left. The master craftsman could hear the ticking of the clock, and used his sweat, tears, blood, and poured the last fragments of soul to compose this lonesome song. As he took his last breath, what he heard was the sound of the instrument he'd worked on his whole life. Unfinished, yet undoubtedly his greatest masterpiece. His magnum opus. Slowly, he felt naught but the cold of the night, and the warm glow of the moonlight. His last thoughts were those of contentment with a hint of regret, wishing to the night sky that maybe someone, someday, under the same tender glow of the moon, could finish the legacy he had left behind. Even after the passing of this great mind, his instrument continues to play. Be it to an audience, or to the moon which its creator saw last. Eternally, until the world returns to the dust and void from which it came.
this is part of animusic lore. maybe
Intriguing concept! I have a feeling the upright "harp" with curved embellishments was included to balance the visual, since the instrument wouldn't look quite as ethereal and complex without it, and it's clearly not a functional or structural component. Beautiful design!
It's definitely not finished because each section is short of pluckers it seems like.
maybe the harp was the only part that the creator played. everything else was automated but that because maybe no machine could mimic the amount of skill that the creator could put into the harp playing
@@Scaarz I like this interpretation too
I've been watching these since I was maybe 4 or 5, and I'll continue to watch them til the day I die
I'm so TOTALLY going to use this in a future D&D campaign as something to give the players a clue or quest. Just picturing this thing makes me think of multiple souls of bards gone before their time, but their love of music and their will to keep playing anchored them to the material plane and turned them into this.
That's so perfect
I remember watching this over and over as a kid and thinking "Imagine trying to tune that giant thing"
My thought was almost the same: "How long would it take to tune that thing?"
Could you imagine restringing this fucking thing?
It's probably automated tuning and restringing.
Even though its an animated object, it might not be as bad because everything is sticking out BUT, it would take forever.
as a former band student re-stringing this would suck af
Yvonne Pham as an orchestra student, that is true
You don't need to restring something that haven't been in contact with sweat,, like a piano
This was the last thing I shared with my Brother from Ohio when he came to visit me in Florida. Upon returning home a couple weeks later he went to the doctor was diagnosed with cancer and passed away the next month. Thank you 💞
I daresay this is the most realistic sound to ever come out of Animusic. I seriously have a hard time telling if this is even a synthesizer or not!
Random person: “so do you play an instrument
The bard in the pub he is talking to: “why yes, I play the doubleelectricacousticviolincellobass crabspider stringed instrument or ‘DEAVCBCSSI’ for short
I feel like this is a Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs reference.
@@CozmixYT FLDSMDFR
Yes hahahaha 👍😁💙💜☮🔜
Person: what?
When the Artifacer takes 2 levels in Bard.
"What string instrument is that?"
"Yes."
Remembered, how I was seven years old, and my mom showed me this video, but I didn’t really like this melody then. But now it’s such a nostalgic song for me…
I want to go back to this times 😔
16 years later, and this still lives in a secret chamber in my mind. 😌
This gives a nostalgic feeling. Almost childhood like. It makes me want to explore this fictional world.
You’d be in for a treat. This is from the second installment.
We got to watch this in elementary school so it's definitely nostalgic for me :)
Many years ago when my music teacher played this video in class it has just stuck to my brain. It's like fever dream to me. I'm glad that I was able to come back to this nostalgic video.
I didn't say with my own eyes I wouldn't believe it that's freaking amazing well-crafted well music sounds great awesome on everybody who put their effort into making these things thank you!
00:55 Is DISTURBINGLY beautiful. When that bass gets involved, there's a dark, but also elegant quality to that melody that gives me chills.
Makes me think of something that would play during a montage of someone backpacking or something
Really shows the importance of bass.
@@jd_kreeper2799 *epico*
HOLY HELL this is a throwback, I remember once in a while my music teacher would put this movie on for the class and I always thought this was the freakiest thing with the "spider" legs in my mind.
That makes two of us 😂
It's still a bit freaky and unnerving, BUT BEAUTIFUL at the same time
The "spider legs" sorta creep me out, but I love the "pterodactyl heads"!
I was in awe in elementary to.
i remember my dad putting these on for me to watch as a kid. animusic was my childhood and i sure do miss it :(
These videos show up in my recommended at random points in time and whenever I see them it makes me unreasonably happy.
2020: APOCALYPSE
TH-cam: PLEASE ENJOY JAMMING SONGS
I think you mean 2021 007
If we can't even have a cool soundtrack for our slow descent into madness, what point is there?
Ah 2020. What a non-existent plane of reality
This is so elegant yet so terrifying.
Also TH-cam 12 years late wtf
seeing this as a young kid rlly stood out to me glad i got this recommended at 22 now.
When you realize this song is a love story in instrumental, that last measure hits hard
I remembered that one week when my Band instructor was sick, so he assigned the substitute to make us watch a whole bunch of these, it was interesting!
I don't know why but on the one hand this thing looks awesome and on the other hand it could be a creepy monster with those Finger.
sry for bad english
Never apologize for learning
indeed, it does look very creepy somehow.
Dunathon I believe its only creepy because of how sentient the movements of the "fingers" are.
imagine being in your room high as fuck and seeing this at your side, Hell no.
the time signature in that first part is so weird, but so genius. it switches from 4/4 to 6/4 halfway through every bar, thats insane
Perhaps that's what music...(*true music that we've forgotten)... is supposed to do.
It certainly feels that way.
I used to watch these all the time and finally, after years+me honestly forgetting about them up until now, this pops back up into my life
Not sure what is most impressive. That someone actually played this music... that someone even wrote it... that someone dreamt up this amazing musical contraption... or that they were able to bring their image to life. Also impressive is the graphical detail, the feeling of exploration as it pans around, and a sense of autonomous life from the mechanisms. To put all this together 'accurately to the music' is absolute quality on all levels 👏👏👏👏👏
I don’t think anyone has ever played it - at least the music in the video is synthetic using synthesizers and samplers to replicate organic sound :) The MIDI data used for that is the same that drives the animation.
This is definitely a MIDI track, albeit the most realistic MIDI strings I have ever heard. Such that, from a distance, you could probably mistake it for real strings!
The Resonant Chamber: A grand machine made by the dwarves of old. The current location of the device is unknown. It is made entirely of living wood. For an hour each day, it plays a new masterpiece. When it's song for the day is complete, it appears to begin to re-tune itself and begin making up a new song for the next day. It is unknown if the device is sentient at this time.
Annotation: SCP classification upped from "Safe" to "Euclid" after the accidental discovery of listeners growing exceedingly hostile against any and all things that may be considered to be interrupting the Resonant Chamber's song.
Kinda sounds like an SCP description lol
Scp - 8357 "The Resonant Chamber"
Object class - Safe
New scp file
made mainly of living wood, metal and an unknown stringlike material are also found in this SCP
Electro-spectro gram imaging shows no sign of internal electronics to move "arms".
Would be so awesome to actually build an instrument like this, and program it to be played in this fashion! So incredible that this was all done NEARLY 20 YEARS AGO!!!!!!
People creating stuff like this are on another level, even if this is animation, it's amazing.
This is creepy af and I want it
Hollow's Secondary Channel it looks badass af
Hollow's Secondary Channel its fake
No shit Sherlock what degree did you need to figure that out
well i thought you didnt know and no need to go insult me(well fail to insult me because it didnt work).
mo lang it did tho
I am devoting my life to building this. I am 65 now. I shall be 108 when it is completed. It shall be magnificent.
Want Help?
Worm Pie: Good for You! With Such a Positive Attitude, You'll surely Accomplish Whatever You're Planning!
Perhaps you require an apprentice to carry on your legacy should you pass
Record the process
I can help you, I am good at 3d modelling and rigging, as for the planning and animation, I'll leave that to you.
these were always soo sick and impressive. utterly mind-boggling and facinating. i think this one will always be one of my favorites.
For sure. I saw pogo sticks on TV in 2014 or somewhere around there, I was glued to the TV. I also investigated it further.I next saw resonant chamber and I was hooked. Then pipe dreams. Absolutely beautiful,stunning music. I didn't hear anything more. I have tried to find out what happened to the creators, not a lot of luck. And I totally agree with you that it's so sad whatever happened, because this kind of talent should be able to shine for the whole world to enjoy. I have the few videos that exist, this person or persons were brilliant. I hope they know that.
THIS CREEPED ME OUT SO MUCH AS A KID IN MUSIC CLASS OMG
yeah same cause i thought it was real lmao
Dude, I fucking loved it. I remember being obsessed when the music teacher would play these, especially this one.
All of these terrified me.
I'd hate to tune that thing
lol, probably take like ages!
JUST IMAGINE RESTRINGING IT
imagine makin the whole thing bottom to top
effecerunt yep.
Wintergatan could do that.
Wow , I still remember how I was impressed when I see this for the first time 13 years back .
Only good old vodka make me remember this again and rewatch it again now !
Not going to lie, just seeing this instrument (albeit and animation) in motion is just hypnotyzing to watch.
You have been recommended an absolute
*G E M*
I wasn't reccomended this. I questioned to find this beauty