"Pipe Dream" - Animusic.com

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Pipe Dream is a computer-animated music video from Animusic, in which fantastic machines play music, with the animation driven by MIDI data. It is one of the studio's best-known pieces.

HN people bring it up in every thread about music machines and marble machines, as the CG version of those real-world builds.

“CG animations of fantastic machines playing music.”
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@shagie2024 · in “Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) [video]”
Have you watched the Animusic series ( link ) ... especially Pipe Dream - ▶ this video Be sure to watch the "Creating the Animusic DVDs" pair of videos. link
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@ben1742022 · in “Can Lego play the drums? [video]”
Don't forget Animusic: ▶ this video
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@jonathankoren2023 · in “An engineer has built and programmed an all-robot band”
Reminds me of a real world Animusic video ▶ this video Also, at first I thought was going to be the person (or persons) that have their own restored Rock-Afire-Explosion bands and then reprogram them to play contemporary songs.
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@retzkek2021 · in “The Alexander: Why did you build such a long piano?”
Inspired, I presume, by those awesome ray-traced animations from the early oughts? I had started sketching ideas on how to make that a reality (pneumatics and magnets mainly) but never got beyond concept. Specifically this one: ▶ this video
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@bitwize2019 · in “Moritz Simon Geist’s robots make technical techno”
See also: The Floppotron: Music played on old floppy drives, hard drives, and scanners. link Animusic: CG animations of fantastic machines playing music. The animation is parameterized to the MIDI input. Attempts to build real-world working models of these machines or machines like them have been made, with varying levels of success: ▶ this video Compressorhead: An all-robot heavy metal band. Famous for Stickboy, the band's four-armed, headbanging drummer, or at least Stickboy is what I remember most about the band. link
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@DrScump2017 · in “Marble Machine: Music instrument using 2000 marbles by Swedish band Wintergatan”
AniMusic envisioned a similar concept (animated film): ▶ this video
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