Wow, I'm watching your videos for the first time in a few years. As always, the music is superb, but you've made huge strides with the algorithms for rendering the scores! This is amazing! Great job!
@smalin I showed this to my slightly hearing impaired friend, and he really wanted to compliment you on your program. He said that the thickness of the lines in relation to the volume really helped him truly "hear" the piece and let him enjoy the music a thousand times more. Thank you so much for your great work!
Congratulations! This is most MAJOR breakthrough towards the main goal! Amazing new insight into geometry of music. Weaving! I think you made an important transition from one dimensionality of all previous years to two dimensionality-interconnection and texture. Now all voices have their own pattern but much more they are now visible also in time so you made a big step towards depicting a most important thing - tempo/rythm. Strings and weaving is genius! Congratulations! We are all amazed..
@smalin Technically I've only been subscribed for two but I've been watching your videos for at least 4. I just was out of town and away from my account for a week and missed this upload.
I'm surprised I missed this upload. Smalin, I absolutely love this version. It's so hypnotizing, and the animation really flows with the music. Been a lot of progress in the last couple months, looking forward to whatever you put out next.
I find this the most effective of your visualisations so far (together with the balls-and-lines). There is a calligraphic sensibility about this, as well as a near-rococo feel, that really befits the dignity and poignancy of the music.
This is incredible, everything about it: the music, the visual aesthetics, the beautiful engineering behind this software and its concepts. Kudos to you for creating something that maps together auditory and visual information and displays it with such emergent beauty.
Amazing! Wish there was some way to denote the open A / fingered A notes differently though. They have different timbres. But that's just me being nit-picky, great vid!
@justmegan82 I agree with you 100%. Listening to it I felt like it was rushed and there wasn't much room for emotional expression and playing with the tempo and whatnot.
@xValeify After I finish a video, I usually watch it a few times, looking for errors I'd overlooked, or things that I might do better, or trying to get ideas for what kind of project to do next ... and then I stop and upload it to YouTube. But when I finished making this, I found myself watching it over and over --- long after there was any reason to --- giggling with delight.
@smalin You earned it. This is the best one you've made yet and I am glad to be able to reap the fruit of your labors as a member of the audience. May your creations never end!
Just wonderful! I have been playing this piece since very early in my life, and I have to confess, I have never enjoyed so much, by playing it on my head, and looking at your visualization. Thank you so much!!
Gosh, was it really written to be played that fast? I've only ever heard this played on guitar. I suspect it would be impossible to do it at that tempo.
This may sound odd, but I've always wanted to hear this played on a banjo. Think about it.
@smalin Well...hopefully soon...because I'd love to be able to do this to my own compositions for my own personal enjoyment...because this is the only reason why I watch these videos is purely for the visual accompaniment....plus the musics ALWAYS good!
and ...ive watched this video loads of times...I love it!
@eldiagrama The pitches come from MIDI (which I export from a notation program, after entering the notes), the dynamics come from the audio, and the synchronization I do by hand.
Wow! This is probably one of my favorites, I like how the line weight increases as the sound becomes louder. I like how easy it is to follow when there's only one instrument. Well, there isn't much to not like to be honest. Well done!
@dostha You should follow the link under "About this video..." to the page where I'm documenting the series of experiments this came from, and from there to my web site where you can read the history of the project.
This is wonderful, congratulations. What an imaginative way to show string crossings, and the dynamics work really well, very intense. The kids at school will love it...
The loops around the colored notes is quite beautiful, and the fact that it's musically meaningful is a plus. It wouldn't be as attractive, but perhaps if the line looped around the note but didn't cross over itself, that would be a more accurate representation of the bow movement. Not sure if it'd work...
@johngillbuckman I did some experiments with that (see the log under About this video...), but I found that to follow the melodic line put a lot of constraints on what else you could do at the same time. The most effective, I think, was to use connected (vs. separate) to show phrasing (groups of notes in one bow stroke), and not to bother with bow direction (which I decided was more important to the player than to the listener).
There is a small mistake with your notation in Bar 54... In bar 53, the Higher alternating notes are C# E C# E C#... in Bar 54, it's reversed E C# E C# E...
Just thought I'd let you know... It's a beautiful animation by the way - probably one of your best, if not THE best.
@dt0dt0dt0 I was born with perfect pitch... It's how I can easily listen to a piece of music and arrange it for the piano... I notice these things. I just thought it was worth mentioning because smalin seems to put the most incredible detail into his animations - I just wanted them to be perfect.
The older animations seem "simplistic" now compared to your current work, but I think they have their place & I think work well for the large scale Beethoven orchestral works also.
And (oops) I was going to ask you to explain about the colouring of the notes but I've now followed the links and found your explanation (and just found the 1996 doco for the 1st time which I now need to go away and watch.)
There's little I can add that hasn't been said already below. Magnificent work! Thanks so much.
I think you're developing & selecting excellent animation styles for different performance styles & requirements. The "calligraphy" style is excellent for this, just as "Aquarium" and "Clair de Lune" each suited their own styles also. But I still love to fall back to the style of e.g. the d min toccata and fugue original too!
The shading on the dots distracts and takes attention away from the calligraphic strokes. Perhaps just have it a plain, mono-coloured dot, or with gentler shading?
@smalin Oh, no, I meant the shading on the dots, not the colouring. The different colours are great, but the shading on the dots is slightly distracting.
i've been enjoying your work for a while now. thanks for your creations. (also i just thought of something. this one really captures the almost sewing-feeling of using a bow on strings. sometimes bach plays the same note on alternating strings and that's really hard to represent visually. how about make the thickness of the dots represent different strings? i would never have thought of it if it weren't for your work and my experience. THANKS!) Keep up your good work!
@sc1592 I'm uploading another right now; it's polyphonic, which means I couldn't extract loudness information easily, so it's not as delicate and expressive as this one, but it is similar.
I understand it's all meant to be positive but sometimes there are just way too many helpful suggestions (though you graciously acknowledge many of them). I'm happy to say, quite simply: "AMAZING WORK" as always!
@Inexor I've been thinking about this stuff for over thirty years, and I have a huge backlog of ideas I'm dying to try out. It's very rare for a viewer to suggest an animation technique I haven't already thought of that I think is more worth trying than the things I've already thought of, or to suggest a piece of music I haven't already considered that I would like to do.
Of all your new animations, this is my favorite one. Also, this is one of my favorite classical songs. So, together its a good combination. My all time favorite song is Holst's The Planets. It would rock if you did that one.
Can't tell you how much I've been enjoying the variety lately. I loved the bar graphs because they made it really easy to understand the structure of the pieces, but the explosion in the variety of shapes, forms, colors over the past year has been amazing! Any plans to take on the Ricercar a 6?
When I close my eyes the music is going somewhere, but your animation has it obediently, patiently passing by. What if there was more of a sense that the "camera" is trying to keep up? And I feel showing all the pitches coming makes it seem more rigid and mechanical, why not have the line seeming to carve it's own path?
I think you focus too much on accurately representing aspects of how the music is played rather than how it feels. What if instead of getting accurately measuring the loudness in a technical sense and changed the thickness, you guesstimated it at various points, so the visual loudness was relative to the preceding phrase, for instance? Or depended on where we were in the melodic narrative?
Have you considered using something like a cubic spline to trace a path from pitch to pitch, instead of (mostly) straight lines, or the curves with kinks in some of the other experiments? I would think it would make the trajectory of the pitches look more natural
@slaytesics I've done some experiments with that (see the link under About this video...), and I haven't yet figured out something that completely works. So far, I like this better than any of the ones that show bowing.
Love love LOVE this!!! Amazingly brisk performance, and the video seems to complement the solo violin line perfectly. I think you've struck a perfect balance here between visual beauty and faithfulness to the music. Well done sir. A tip of the hat to Lara St. John as well.
I think I set a new personal record with how many times I've watched the same youtube video in a row! I'm on four. The only thing keeping me from the fifth is a dinner date.
@pedanticmofo I've done animations without scrolling, but when I show the flow of time in some direction, I pick right-to-left (instead of left-to-right) as a convention; it takes practice to learn to watch my scores, and doing it backwards wouldn't add anything and would make it harder. I don't do top to bottom or bottom to top (usually) because what I show has more range time-wise than pitch-wise. If there was something I was trying to do for which changing direction helped, I would.
That rendering was especially powerful! I would love to transpose this to the electric guitar as it would be a fantastic taping/hammer on/pull off etude.
I really like this one over some of your more recent works. It's very pretty and certainly interesting to watch. Smooth yet frantic like a dancer performing for judges. ^-^
OK! sorry...i've just found out more about you and saw that you are an educator.
It makes lots of sense - this is the work of a professional. Bravo again!
otavioandradas 5 days ago
this is fantastic!
I see you even change the intensity of the lines depending on the dynamics.
This can be used for educational purposes. It really engages the viewer to understand music in other ways.
otavioandradas 5 days ago
Wow, I'm watching your videos for the first time in a few years. As always, the music is superb, but you've made huge strides with the algorithms for rendering the scores! This is amazing! Great job!
Meyermagic 2 weeks ago
@smalin I showed this to my slightly hearing impaired friend, and he really wanted to compliment you on your program. He said that the thickness of the lines in relation to the volume really helped him truly "hear" the piece and let him enjoy the music a thousand times more. Thank you so much for your great work!
dadhdj123 4 weeks ago in playlist Bach, J. S.
Life in the mind of a comet.
daftrhetoric 4 weeks ago
Beautifully done ;)
EnviroTemd 1 month ago
This is psychadelic. It is like cursive writing on the musical scale... in my brain. XD. Amazing!
Castle3179 1 month ago
Could you do Bach Chaconne?
jedenbeen 1 month ago
@jedenbeen I plan to.
smalin 1 month ago
Precision and beauty. What a joy
asturiaprince 1 month ago
this should be a instrument for kontakt :3
DesoloZ 1 month ago
Congratulations! This is most MAJOR breakthrough towards the main goal! Amazing new insight into geometry of music. Weaving! I think you made an important transition from one dimensionality of all previous years to two dimensionality-interconnection and texture. Now all voices have their own pattern but much more they are now visible also in time so you made a big step towards depicting a most important thing - tempo/rythm. Strings and weaving is genius! Congratulations! We are all amazed..
AntuQum 1 month ago
Lara st john is amazing.. She plays so perfectly.
sehnsto 1 month ago
0:22 and its reiterations sound so contemporary, it's insane
xylotehwarrior 1 month ago
Bravo.
mssmsn 2 months ago
It's so preeeeety... :) And I love how the dynamics are shown.
iLayPancakes 2 months ago in playlist More videos from smalin
@smalin Technically I've only been subscribed for two but I've been watching your videos for at least 4. I just was out of town and away from my account for a week and missed this upload.
Hazelrat10 2 months ago
I'm surprised I missed this upload. Smalin, I absolutely love this version. It's so hypnotizing, and the animation really flows with the music. Been a lot of progress in the last couple months, looking forward to whatever you put out next.
Hazelrat10 2 months ago
Correction, this song is perfect.
sehnsto 2 months ago
The ending to this is better than perfect
sehnsto 2 months ago
I would be curious to see a printed version of this.
Okiyah 2 months ago
I find this the most effective of your visualisations so far (together with the balls-and-lines). There is a calligraphic sensibility about this, as well as a near-rococo feel, that really befits the dignity and poignancy of the music.
xiangyik 2 months ago
This is incredible, everything about it: the music, the visual aesthetics, the beautiful engineering behind this software and its concepts. Kudos to you for creating something that maps together auditory and visual information and displays it with such emergent beauty.
chopinop9no2 2 months ago
this is the greatest ever.
geiroffenberg 3 months ago
I think it's the best visualization for solo pieces ! Just great ! Thank you & keep up this amazing work.
p0603987 3 months ago
I love this visualization, especially with a piece like this with so many quick note changes (not to mention dynamics) :)
Ianprime0509 3 months ago
Amazing! Wish there was some way to denote the open A / fingered A notes differently though. They have different timbres. But that's just me being nit-picky, great vid!
Xenocide31337 3 months ago
Love this but this particular recording is way too fast, IMHO. But very nice and mesmerizing to watch. Good for relaxation!
justmegan82 3 months ago
@justmegan82 I agree with you 100%. Listening to it I felt like it was rushed and there wasn't much room for emotional expression and playing with the tempo and whatnot.
greenday61892 1 month ago
fast forwarded connect the dots :)
PianoDude1011 3 months ago
This would look brilliant printed out on a long sheet of paper I think.
MrSharps02 3 months ago
This format works really well for a single melody line like this.
MIRobin22 3 months ago
Parts of this will work as embroidery too. Way to go Bach! I wonder what he would think of this idea.
nannymac47 3 months ago
Beautiful! Love it :-)
JayashriV 3 months ago
This one has one of the best graphics I've seen so far I think. :)
Priest105 3 months ago
Joyful - and the graphics only enhance the experience and appreciation of Bach’s genius. Thank you.
pernish1 3 months ago
this is SO CUTE. I LOVE THIS!!
hxxno 3 months ago
i absolutely love this one :)
xValeify 3 months ago in playlist More videos from smalin
@xValeify After I finish a video, I usually watch it a few times, looking for errors I'd overlooked, or things that I might do better, or trying to get ideas for what kind of project to do next ... and then I stop and upload it to YouTube. But when I finished making this, I found myself watching it over and over --- long after there was any reason to --- giggling with delight.
smalin 3 months ago
@smalin You earned it. This is the best one you've made yet and I am glad to be able to reap the fruit of your labors as a member of the audience. May your creations never end!
C0urante 3 months ago
@smalin haha i can see why. It's so fun and flourish-y =P Any time I play something now I'm going to visualize an animation like this.
xValeify 3 months ago
@smalin Funny, I found myself doing that too...
xiangyik 2 months ago
Hey smalin, this was just perfect!
Both the music and your graphic interpretation fit wonderfully together!
I think you created a very worthy piece of video for this beautiful piece of Bach's genius!
Many Greetings from Germany
ilten0 3 months ago
P.S Bach was a genius.
Horza1972ex 3 months ago
One of the best yet! A brilliant animation of a beautiful piece of music. Thanks.
Horza1972ex 3 months ago
Wooo~ I totally can't believe it can be so splendid when BWV 1007 Preludio becomes linearity.
hutianyi2007 3 months ago
(◕ᴥ◕し)
Did you know that you're awesome?
TheDuskMar 3 months ago
I LOVE this animation style! I always picture playing a musical piece like weaving sound and this just fits perfectly.
C3H10N4O2 3 months ago
This is the best animation I have seen on your channel this far, keep the good work up!
MelvinHardin 3 months ago
Very nice animation. I'm a fan of this one.
miiwiiplay 3 months ago
Just wonderful! I have been playing this piece since very early in my life, and I have to confess, I have never enjoyed so much, by playing it on my head, and looking at your visualization. Thank you so much!!
fualfalo 3 months ago
Just wonderful!
fualfalo 3 months ago
That was the greatest sewing performance I have ever seen
smtwl90 3 months ago
I think you may make the best videos on youtube.
MrJhstuff 3 months ago
Gosh, was it really written to be played that fast? I've only ever heard this played on guitar. I suspect it would be impossible to do it at that tempo.
This may sound odd, but I've always wanted to hear this played on a banjo. Think about it.
Astrobrant2 3 months ago
Fantastic animation! So cool!
Spades678 3 months ago
As much as the one before was very good for pre-empting the song, this is one of the more aesthetically beautiful visualizations you've done.
XArcane 3 months ago
Best visualization yet .
Doraeminemon01 3 months ago
This is one of the best visualizations I have seen you do.
u8qu1tis 3 months ago
Thank you!
KyotoMelody 3 months ago
How beautiful :)
choirfreak26 3 months ago
This is amazing. keep up the good work, i'm looking forward to your future videos
mythic414 3 months ago
bravo
Tito23892 3 months ago
That was INCREDIBLY entertaining. Thank you.
Bobman4671 3 months ago
@Bobman4671 Tell your friends. :-)
smalin 3 months ago
i love how it gets bolder in comparison to the dyanimics! brilliant!
M000tube 3 months ago
i've been following you for a while, and this is the best video yet. nice job!
sukitrebek 3 months ago
I know you probably get this alot but I buy the software?
bettythepumpkin 3 months ago
@bettythepumpkin It's not for sale (at the moment).
smalin 3 months ago
@smalin Well...hopefully soon...because I'd love to be able to do this to my own compositions for my own personal enjoyment...because this is the only reason why I watch these videos is purely for the visual accompaniment....plus the musics ALWAYS good!
and ...ive watched this video loads of times...I love it!
<3 Beth xxx
bettythepumpkin 3 months ago
Smalin, this visualizer is perfect for this type of music. Very, very nice choice and programming skills.
NerdCoalition 3 months ago
Love the way you do these animations! :-)
Lansdownekid 3 months ago
my favorite one so far, visually-speaking!
ConfuciousCarter 3 months ago
How you make this? is amazing
CANELAYCHOCOLATE 3 months ago
@CANELAYCHOCOLATE I wrote some software to do it.
smalin 3 months ago
@smalin That functions with Midi I suppose? Or does it "reads" the notes from sound?
eldiagrama 3 months ago in playlist Más videos de smalin
@eldiagrama The pitches come from MIDI (which I export from a notation program, after entering the notes), the dynamics come from the audio, and the synchronization I do by hand.
smalin 3 months ago
@smalin thank you for your promt answer. Keep em coming, :)
eldiagrama 3 months ago
that's good looking.
Ryak1234 3 months ago
Absolutely delightful!
Carassius8 3 months ago
awesome!
VitCor9595 3 months ago
very nice!
goldenhog 3 months ago
One of the best graphic!!
great!!!!
scalassaraprando 3 months ago
Wow! This is probably one of my favorites, I like how the line weight increases as the sound becomes louder. I like how easy it is to follow when there's only one instrument. Well, there isn't much to not like to be honest. Well done!
pierreaupeix 3 months ago
What criterium makes the line sometimes circle the note and sometimes touch the note?
RicSantiagoBrasil 3 months ago
@RicSantiagoBrasil The line loops the note when the direction changes between down and up.
smalin 3 months ago
I very much like this. Thanks for uploading!
How do you come up with ideas like this?
dostha 3 months ago
@dostha You should follow the link under "About this video..." to the page where I'm documenting the series of experiments this came from, and from there to my web site where you can read the history of the project.
smalin 3 months ago
This is one of your best visualisations. It's like every note blooms into a field of music.
DaydreamX 3 months ago
This is beautiful ! But maybe you could add more frames per seconds ? I feel like it's a bit laggy in 1080p.
PianoOtto 3 months ago
@PianoOtto The lag isn't on my end. I tried doing one at 60 fps instead of 30, and it looked worse.
smalin 3 months ago
Just watched again, maybe it's not the string crossings...can't be sure...still marvelous...
ZRiMusic 3 months ago
This is wonderful, congratulations. What an imaginative way to show string crossings, and the dynamics work really well, very intense. The kids at school will love it...
ZRiMusic 3 months ago
love it !
this is how I usually connect my dots and sometimes my pen runs too
Bluzme 3 months ago
Best one yet! :D
TheFutileFetus 3 months ago
This one was one of my favorites yet! Do prefer black backgrounds though, but other than that, excellent!
Svish85 3 months ago
Bellissimo!
jack1973 3 months ago
That tangling line was perfect. It would be cool if you did a couple more like this... if the music fits.
Fuzzy192006 3 months ago
@Fuzzy192006 I did a polyphonic piece (but without dynamics) after I did this one.
smalin 3 months ago
The loops around the colored notes is quite beautiful, and the fact that it's musically meaningful is a plus. It wouldn't be as attractive, but perhaps if the line looped around the note but didn't cross over itself, that would be a more accurate representation of the bow movement. Not sure if it'd work...
johngillbuckman 3 months ago
@johngillbuckman I did some experiments with that (see the log under About this video...), but I found that to follow the melodic line put a lot of constraints on what else you could do at the same time. The most effective, I think, was to use connected (vs. separate) to show phrasing (groups of notes in one bow stroke), and not to bother with bow direction (which I decided was more important to the player than to the listener).
smalin 3 months ago
There is a small mistake with your notation in Bar 54... In bar 53, the Higher alternating notes are C# E C# E C#... in Bar 54, it's reversed E C# E C# E...
Just thought I'd let you know... It's a beautiful animation by the way - probably one of your best, if not THE best.
MrPeterJohnston 3 months ago
@MrPeterJohnston Omigod, you're right. I've posted a correction on my other channel (see About this video... for the link).
smalin 3 months ago
@MrPeterJohnston how did you notice that anyway? are you a wizard??
dt0dt0dt0 3 months ago
@dt0dt0dt0 I was born with perfect pitch... It's how I can easily listen to a piece of music and arrange it for the piano... I notice these things. I just thought it was worth mentioning because smalin seems to put the most incredible detail into his animations - I just wanted them to be perfect.
MrPeterJohnston 3 months ago
The animation fits the music perfectly
AltmmM 3 months ago
The older animations seem "simplistic" now compared to your current work, but I think they have their place & I think work well for the large scale Beethoven orchestral works also.
And (oops) I was going to ask you to explain about the colouring of the notes but I've now followed the links and found your explanation (and just found the 1996 doco for the 1st time which I now need to go away and watch.)
Thanks again!
ozmark7 3 months ago
There's little I can add that hasn't been said already below. Magnificent work! Thanks so much.
I think you're developing & selecting excellent animation styles for different performance styles & requirements. The "calligraphy" style is excellent for this, just as "Aquarium" and "Clair de Lune" each suited their own styles also. But I still love to fall back to the style of e.g. the d min toccata and fugue original too!
ozmark7 3 months ago
would you ever consider doing a beatles song?
pgurugp 3 months ago
@pgurugp I'd love to, but the copyright holder would have to give me permission.
smalin 3 months ago
Wow! This animation style is amazing! I love it more than all the others so far :)
MetaTheorist 3 months ago
probly my favorite animation so far
mranderson762 3 months ago
This style has to stay.
plijuh123 3 months ago
This should be taught in schools as a learning aid...
EverEvolvingApe 3 months ago
That's wonderful !
MrHoniko 3 months ago
Wow... Kinda reminds me of Google Maps!
AlmightyDuckBall 3 months ago
Amazing Animation!
Mathgenius21 3 months ago
The shading on the dots distracts and takes attention away from the calligraphic strokes. Perhaps just have it a plain, mono-coloured dot, or with gentler shading?
Voxezi 3 months ago
@Voxezi The color indicates the pitch class of the note.
smalin 3 months ago
@smalin I think it's just perfect...thanks for sharing your gift with us...and being so gracious about comments received.
LBURKHAULTER 3 months ago
@smalin Oh, no, I meant the shading on the dots, not the colouring. The different colours are great, but the shading on the dots is slightly distracting.
Voxezi 3 months ago
@Voxezi If the center weren't white, there'd be less contrast when it turns black (to show that the note is sounding).
smalin 3 months ago
@smalin Perhaps, then, a lighter shade of the colour; the middle colour in the gradient?
Voxezi 3 months ago
@Voxezi Sorry, it looks good to me, so I'm not likely to change it.
smalin 3 months ago
@smalin Sure.
Voxezi 3 months ago
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@smalin Perhaps, then, a lighter shade of the color; the middle color in the gradient?
Voxezi 3 months ago
i've been enjoying your work for a while now. thanks for your creations. (also i just thought of something. this one really captures the almost sewing-feeling of using a bow on strings. sometimes bach plays the same note on alternating strings and that's really hard to represent visually. how about make the thickness of the dots represent different strings? i would never have thought of it if it weren't for your work and my experience. THANKS!) Keep up your good work!
ImChallin 3 months ago
hi! i just wanted to say this was my favourite animation yet. i hope you make others like it!! thanks :)
sc1592 3 months ago
@sc1592 I'm uploading another right now; it's polyphonic, which means I couldn't extract loudness information easily, so it's not as delicate and expressive as this one, but it is similar.
smalin 3 months ago
WOW. i love how expressive this one was ! thicker brush stroke for accents, and the twirl to ' sew it together.. very nice !
adtuna1192 3 months ago
Very cool!!! Love it!
pianogirl98 3 months ago
I understand it's all meant to be positive but sometimes there are just way too many helpful suggestions (though you graciously acknowledge many of them). I'm happy to say, quite simply: "AMAZING WORK" as always!
Inexor 3 months ago
@Inexor I've been thinking about this stuff for over thirty years, and I have a huge backlog of ideas I'm dying to try out. It's very rare for a viewer to suggest an animation technique I haven't already thought of that I think is more worth trying than the things I've already thought of, or to suggest a piece of music I haven't already considered that I would like to do.
smalin 3 months ago
This style of video is really pretty.
MoarBubbleTea 3 months ago
Of all your new animations, this is my favorite one. Also, this is one of my favorite classical songs. So, together its a good combination. My all time favorite song is Holst's The Planets. It would rock if you did that one.
compaq1275 3 months ago
Can't tell you how much I've been enjoying the variety lately. I loved the bar graphs because they made it really easy to understand the structure of the pieces, but the explosion in the variety of shapes, forms, colors over the past year has been amazing! Any plans to take on the Ricercar a 6?
binkymagnus 3 months ago
When I close my eyes the music is going somewhere, but your animation has it obediently, patiently passing by. What if there was more of a sense that the "camera" is trying to keep up? And I feel showing all the pitches coming makes it seem more rigid and mechanical, why not have the line seeming to carve it's own path?
CraigNull 3 months ago
I think you focus too much on accurately representing aspects of how the music is played rather than how it feels. What if instead of getting accurately measuring the loudness in a technical sense and changed the thickness, you guesstimated it at various points, so the visual loudness was relative to the preceding phrase, for instance? Or depended on where we were in the melodic narrative?
CraigNull 3 months ago
Have you considered using something like a cubic spline to trace a path from pitch to pitch, instead of (mostly) straight lines, or the curves with kinks in some of the other experiments? I would think it would make the trajectory of the pitches look more natural
CraigNull 3 months ago
@CraigNull I just wrote this yesterday, I haven't had time to try anything else yet.
smalin 3 months ago
I commend your experimentation and innovation. It's great!!
azndude3600 3 months ago
I JUST WATCHED THE WHOLE PIECE WITHOUT BLINKING...
adzahmed89 3 months ago
Very nice visual and music :)
Rargeful 3 months ago
amazinggg o live this piece wowww... i enjoyed so much.. i jused play this piece years ago....
anaeht1 3 months ago
this is very nice and elegant looking but i really dont like the measure lines in there
piggemz 3 months ago
This is amazing. Your videos made me pay attention to this kind of music :)
michalis9 3 months ago
Very nice. Thanks smalin.
Freshman000000 3 months ago
A very very relevant animation for this piece. I've played a part of it and this is just how I see it when I play that segment.
Zappyguy111 3 months ago
I wonder if this would work better to show the bowing? (it loops every time the bowing changes)
slaytesics 3 months ago
@slaytesics I've done some experiments with that (see the link under About this video...), and I haven't yet figured out something that completely works. So far, I like this better than any of the ones that show bowing.
smalin 3 months ago
Love love LOVE this!!! Amazingly brisk performance, and the video seems to complement the solo violin line perfectly. I think you've struck a perfect balance here between visual beauty and faithfulness to the music. Well done sir. A tip of the hat to Lara St. John as well.
amadeus5889 3 months ago
Out of all the new things you've been trying, I like this style the best. Keep up the good work.
yourBALDneighbor 3 months ago
I'm glad you chose my favorite composer to go with the BEST animation technique you've used ever.
killaspongebob666 3 months ago
gah! it's beautiful.
morgandonovan 3 months ago
That was awesome!
drydyboy 3 months ago
What does it mean when the line loops around a dot rather than just pass through it?
stretchyrubberbands 3 months ago
@stretchyrubberbands The loop happens whenever the melodic direction changes.
smalin 3 months ago
@smalin I absolutely LOVE this style. It is simply an amazing way to notate a solo like this. Great work as always, Mr. Malinowski!
Music was amazing, too, of course. ;D
TheGilmer 3 months ago
wow, I really like this animation!
Felixjin 3 months ago
Lovely, it reminds me of needlepoint :)
Memoria777 3 months ago
this is beautiful hunny...!!
charissamarluk 3 months ago
I think I set a new personal record with how many times I've watched the same youtube video in a row! I'm on four. The only thing keeping me from the fifth is a dinner date.
ReThinkingTheism 3 months ago
With all the experimentation you've been doing, I wonder why you always stick to the right to left side scroll.
I really like what you've done here, though.
pedanticmofo 3 months ago
@pedanticmofo I've done animations without scrolling, but when I show the flow of time in some direction, I pick right-to-left (instead of left-to-right) as a convention; it takes practice to learn to watch my scores, and doing it backwards wouldn't add anything and would make it harder. I don't do top to bottom or bottom to top (usually) because what I show has more range time-wise than pitch-wise. If there was something I was trying to do for which changing direction helped, I would.
smalin 3 months ago
Outstanding! Phenominal performance and amazing visual!
SpikeREV 3 months ago
That rendering was especially powerful! I would love to transpose this to the electric guitar as it would be a fantastic taping/hammer on/pull off etude.
ReThinkingTheism 3 months ago
I really like this one over some of your more recent works. It's very pretty and certainly interesting to watch. Smooth yet frantic like a dancer performing for judges. ^-^
Nasalea 3 months ago
My only critique is that this animation fails to animate chords played by the same "track."
3transfat 3 months ago
Great work as always Mr. Smalin.
dannes22 3 months ago
This is the most beautiful animation yet made. Congratulations. This one works, it's ingenious and creative.
supermanadamio 3 months ago
Whoever created such animation is extremely creative.
Amarelaoo1 3 months ago
Wonderful, really like this animation :-)
brycedavis98 3 months ago
Amei, eu sempre adoro tudo que você faz!!!
Você está proibido de parar de embelezar A MÚSICA, viu, Menino Genial!!???
Radeir1 3 months ago
@Radeir1 Pretty funny thing to call an old man like me.
smalin 3 months ago