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Zürich Chamber Orchestra on a roll

Jason Fried wrote this on Apr 11 2008 / 11 comments

Jason Fried wrote this on Apr 11 2008 There are 11 comments.

Chris Tingom 11 Apr 08

This is definitely signal!

matt 11 Apr 08

Isn’t that how we all visualize music?

Antoine Valot 11 Apr 08

meh.

Michael 11 Apr 08

Sadly or not, since Guitar Hero, I do visualize all music this way.

Tomahawk 11 Apr 08

Reminds me a lot of Chemical Brother’s “Star Guitar”, by Michel Gondry. That man is a genius. See here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x26gg0_chemical-brothers-star-guitar-miche_music, and you can find more of his work on you tube when you search for his name.

Tomahawk 11 Apr 08

Forgot to mention that there is a great making of video (for the Star Guitar) here: http://www.broadcaster.com/clip/6143

Will 11 Apr 08

It would have been neater if the written music matched up with the music in the background.

Justin 11 Apr 08

@will—it does. It’s just one part (violin it sounds like). The tremolos and runs are perfectly in sync with the vid for me.

Thanks for posting, very cool video. On a similar note I’m reminded of the music animation machine: http://www.musanim.com/

Pretty neat way of visualizing music in a linear scrolling graph.

Dave Aiello 12 Apr 08

My first thought was that Chuck Jones could have created it.

Jorn Mineur 12 Apr 08

Example of Music Animation Machine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o

lincoln 12 Apr 08

This is just a clever rip off of mario paint. Now I defy you to deny this genius.

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