Both this recording, and your new midi animation style are very good, thanks for posting it! I'm excited to see a new version of MAMPlayer for the first time in six years.
I would disagree with a previous comment. I absolutely love this particular animation! I can't stop watching it. Something about this one has me hooked from the beginning to end. I think that the triangles, and the way that they connect during longer notes makes the piece so fun.
I absolutely love this new animation style. It seemed odd to me at first, but watching it go by, i became lost (in a good way) in it, and the music. I love it!
I have to say @smalin , I really do love your videos. Except in this one i don't particularly enjoy the animations. Mainly because I find it harder to watch, where as in your early videos your more simple animations are very simple to follow, I do however like the Caterpillar animations, and other one's that make watching the music more comprehensible.
As pretty as this version is, I must say that it is not as easy to visualize the music... I have to admit that I preferred the other one. Slightly less loud and easier to decipher.
Sure, you have a lot on your plate as far as requests go, but can you tell us what you're working on? I read somewhere you said you'd try to complete the Beethoven symphonies, but any sort of list would be appreciated. I'm hooked! thanks, and keep up the good work
@rds769 Except for long-term projects and ambitions (such as a live-performance version of my software, Bach's Chaconne or all of Chopin's piano music), I make decisions about what to work on next without planning; at some point, it just hits me "I've got to do this piece" and I start working on it. That happened with the Mozart Requiem movement five days ago; three days later, it was complete. Right now, I don't know for sure what's next. Could be Franck or Vivaldi ... or not.
This video alone has made me appreciate classical music on an entirely different level. There is something incredible about seeing the music move and weave together
Looks super cool! Especially when all of the instruments are playing at once! It might just be me, but I think it looks a lot like Fantasia's animation with all of the pastel colors and sharp angles :)
Well... I enjoy clasical music as I write code, and beethoven is my favorite. Sometimes I daresay I "understand" him through his music. But this! I can't take my eyes off this and go back to coding! And when I do so with a superhuman-feat-of-will, some part of music comes up and I wonder how it looks like on the graph so I alt-tab back! Congratulations. You are awesome. As a programmer too. I hope I hear much more of you.
@MrJhstuff It's a different answer for each aspect of each video. The compositions are in the public domain if they were written before 1923 and almost never otherwise. Very few of the performances are in the public domain. And, of course, the graphics are not in the public domain. But the answer to the "all" question is no.
Basically, I favor this over the old bar-graph notation, it's more trippy ;-)
But the goal is still to make music more understandable, right? I see to (smaller) problems here:
1. The time warp works best with rubato-heavy pieces like your Debussy Arabesque. There the notes are "drawn" to each other. Here however it creates a kind of "pseudo-rubato".
2. The rhombes for the small notes, together with the time-warp create a "squareness" of the notes. I think, there are smoother in reality ;-)
@flippert0 I agree with both your criticisms. The time warp makes the "now" moment prominent, a good thing (matches perception), but it makes the true rhythm less visible. Adding the barlines helps (since they provide a reference) but it doesn't completely solve the problem. In this piece, there are tempo distortions (at the pauses), and it would be good to see those clearly. I am trying to find ways to show the smoothness of melodic motion; see my latest experiments (w/Bach cello suite).
@smalin hey, I need some advice for piano playing, I just got done with moonlight sonata (1 movement) a few weeks ago and now I am woking on für Elise, what song should I do next that is between those levels??? (It can be any composer)
@smalin In the second last chord of the phrase (from 4:30 to 4:31), it sounds like a note is misbowed because I hear a note followed by another note that's a tone lower and then it sounds like it's stopped. Sorry my music terminology sucks...
@smalin thank you for uploading these great videos with the great music,you make my day,you are my youtube hero..keep up the good work..i see from your comments that you are an intellectual person..may God bless you
Every time I watch one of your videos I wonder if great composers see some kind of visual representation in their minds analogous to this, or even if they see sheet music in much this way...
In any case I love your visualizations; they enrich my experience of music immensely.
@smalin For me, this video could pass in Disney's Fantasia. Always a pleasure to watch your videos. I've waited a bit too long to see your new video, though. What took you so long?
I like the idea of visualizing music, but I think you're giving a very linear view of how it is. As the audience, we shouldn't been seeing the notes up ahead, that's more of the musician's role. Is there any way you could program a version where it's as if we are riding the notes? I mean, where the x axis here is instead coming out of the screen instead of horizontally? That way, we'd be watching the notes currently playing, possibly their dynamics influenced by the size..?
@asdfuogh Sounds like you're interested in a very different thing than I am. I am a musician, and as a musician, I like seeing what's coming. I like following music with a score. My animations are my attempt to share that experience with people who can't read music. I don't think it's as interesting when you can't see what's coming. You can cover up the right side of the animation if you want to see what that would be like. (This animation shows dynamics with size, btw.)
At 00:51 the timpani or something else in the low register repeats the di di di dah theme. Before seeing this animation, I probably never heard that component. I am in my late 50's, have not studied music, loved this piece from childhood, but probably up to now never learned to listen carefully enough to get some of the subtle contributions of the notes to the sense of the overall work. Your animation helps cure me of that cultural poverty. This is your best result to date; thank you.
I do like this best of the animation techniques you have shown so far. The dynamics are a big part of the music and I think it's cool that you can show them in the animation. So in all you show volume, pitch, duration, and a hint about the distinct timbres; an impressive 3 1/2 dimensions presented visually.
@smalin , no, [consults Wikipedia] but no doubt Tufte's influences have filtered in my general direction. Have you seen the famous chart of the attrition of Napoleon's army?
@b43xoit In my most recent video (of a Bach violoncello suite movement), I show the instantaneous dynamics. In this one, all the notes become more transparent with time, so that you eventually see what's under them. Also, notes that just started come to the fore, so a note that is sounding is not obscured.
@smalin In your reply to me, are you talking about /watch?v=Dsf8kV63ivg? It looks as though you believe, as a matter of the psychology of listening to music, that the listener's thought travels up or down the scale linearly over time from a given note to the following note in the line of musical narrative that note belongs to. This view shows in the present animation, the one you use for the 'cello piece, and your bubble-and-line diagrams. I want to see the diminishing note at its pitch.
@smalin , I take back my implication that the present animation participates fully in the pattern of showing a line from a given note to its following note. You do here show the association between such notes, but you do it sufficiently subtly that it does not take away from the visual confirmation that the note is being held at its original pitch rather than being bent.
I see the fading you refer to, but I would make it faint from the start, based on the overall size of the envelope.
@smalin Why not use some good licensed stuff? CC-by, or even share-alike should be ok as you only add image to audio and keep the audio as is. They may not be as mainstream, but there certainly are modern-ish musicians out there providing liberative licensed music.
i would love you to try this animation software with some modern music, i'm not saying it is better than this but i would be interested in what it does with some dub step :D
@liborhaus I've done some modern music, but not as much as I'd like. The problem is that since I'm a YouTube partner, I need to have legal permission to use the recordings in videos I post here. If you know contemporary musicians and can get them interested (and get the things I need to make the animation: permission, audio, MIDI for the music), that'd be great.
@StewieSwan I'm surprised, then, that you think the horn part there is critical. It seems relatively insignificant to me: just another doubling of the chord sequence the winds are playing. At 6:52, the horns enter alone (or, rather, with only the timpani); that seems more important --- though still not significant enough to be a reason to not like this recording.
I like this far better than the "bar graph" version. Consider altering the appearance of the leading edges of the diamonds to more represent the percussion effect of sudden loud passages.
I personally prefer the barline style, the advantages of this style is that you can see the dynamics and volume, but the bar-like visual is still cleaner and smoother, you can see what's happening more clearly, and it's more enjoyable to watch.
@smalin Specifically shapes that suggest the sound of the instrument in question, like lines for Strings or circles for Brass. It would make it that bit more immersive.
I'm also another vote for the lines as opposed to the diamonds. Yes, the diamonds are pretty, but a little disturbing. The simplicity of the bar graph enhances the enjoyment of the music by allowing the listener to "hear" the subtleties in the music.
I never cease to be amazed at the creative ingenuity that allows us to "see" such magnificent music through the mind and genius of Smalin.....I cannot wait until Smalin and we who appreciate his fantastic endeavors have holographic capabilities in our own homes. Can you imagine the beauty dancing around us? My oh My! The future treats that await us all!
@ColtonBrook I didn't have anything to do with the album, but with the iPad/iPhone app: I did an animation for each song. She also uses these in her shows.
I love the new animation style. (I was actually skeptical about the diamonds when I saw the thumbnail, but they grew on me.) And, glad to see you're back!
Very nice, though some "wierd" orchestration could ruin it (i.e. instead of all instruments moving a similar interval between 2 chords, say, a major second, a few actually move sixths, or something else). It would be rather chaotic.
@DonnieTheKing Walt Disney hired Oskar Fischinger (whose animations are an inspiration for me) to work on Fantasia, but then insisted that Fischinger simplify his animations. Fischinger quit in disgust, telling Disney that he could use the "Disnified" results in his film, but not to put his (Fischinger's) name on it. We can only imagine what the result would have been if Fischinger had been given free rein.
@smalin didnt know that about fantasia. good work by the way; a little red nudge or something in the middle, where the play is, might be helpful. thx for the post
Nice to see that you haven't quit after eight months without a new video. In any case, shape-wise I would prefer bars over diamonds, but I like the way this new style looks, most specifically the transparency, the "smearing" of each note, and the measure bars. I'll be waiting for a public release!
I like the new technique, but it seems to be a little obstructive when there are a lot of instruments playing at the same time. This would be much better suited, i think, to pieces where there are fewer voices. The bubbles seem a little better for pieces with more voices.
@Cellomaster1234 I have mixed feelings about that. When there are a lot of instruments playing at the same time, the sound is more cluttered, and the graphics reflect that. For example, at a place like 1:14, where there are loud held notes at the same time as fast-moving notes, you see the fast-moving notes poking through, but the intensity of the held notes is very strong. Maybe I'll figure out a way to have both clutter and clarity.
@smalin It's good that you get some remuneration. I know what you are saying, but there are times when artists with a lot of talent are not rewarded financially and they hardly have enough to live on.
Plan is a fearsome word as plans do so often escape our nets. Your work is pure delight. You have several pieces that I "play" on my iPad (PianoMan) and seeing music helps be hear it better. Thank you for adding breadth to the deep and wide.
Everytime I see master pieces as these I share them on facebook in the hope someone will click like and say: Oh man this is so nice, now this is music.
@guyboy625 Well actually I'm already have bootcamp windows. But because Mac app store is really good, and I can assure you this kind of app will sell more on Mac app store rather that just create a website of his own or smt else.
@piggemz If you look closely at the stuff the moves between the note rhombi, you'll see that it's shaded (that is, the color varies between nothing and something); those things are made up of eight triangles.
I really wish I alive in his time that would be cool lol who agrees with me
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Both this recording, and your new midi animation style are very good, thanks for posting it! I'm excited to see a new version of MAMPlayer for the first time in six years.
Meyermagic 2 weeks ago
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Meyermagic 2 weeks ago
my 2yr old son loves this!
FernandoTabla 2 weeks ago
Beethoven was a great architect!|
LudwigvonBernstein 1 month ago
Definitely, this is one of my favourite of your animations. the MAM project is coming along very nicely I see. Keep up the good work, mr. Malin!
666BLeue 1 month ago
Beethoven V: Attack of the Rhombi
Dontrush469 1 month ago
That chord at 2:57 makes me want to get up and punch my wall. So badass.
Bromotemoc 1 month ago
@Bromotemoc same with 4:14 :P
666BLeue 1 month ago
How could anyone not like it? It's so realistic and
exsposing.
origami461 1 month ago
I would disagree with a previous comment. I absolutely love this particular animation! I can't stop watching it. Something about this one has me hooked from the beginning to end. I think that the triangles, and the way that they connect during longer notes makes the piece so fun.
hellokikihi 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
I absolutely love this new animation style. It seemed odd to me at first, but watching it go by, i became lost (in a good way) in it, and the music. I love it!
666BLeue 1 month ago
I have to say @smalin , I really do love your videos. Except in this one i don't particularly enjoy the animations. Mainly because I find it harder to watch, where as in your early videos your more simple animations are very simple to follow, I do however like the Caterpillar animations, and other one's that make watching the music more comprehensible.
MadForests 1 month ago
As pretty as this version is, I must say that it is not as easy to visualize the music... I have to admit that I preferred the other one. Slightly less loud and easier to decipher.
Kronimiciad 1 month ago
Sure, you have a lot on your plate as far as requests go, but can you tell us what you're working on? I read somewhere you said you'd try to complete the Beethoven symphonies, but any sort of list would be appreciated. I'm hooked! thanks, and keep up the good work
rds769 1 month ago
@rds769 Except for long-term projects and ambitions (such as a live-performance version of my software, Bach's Chaconne or all of Chopin's piano music), I make decisions about what to work on next without planning; at some point, it just hits me "I've got to do this piece" and I start working on it. That happened with the Mozart Requiem movement five days ago; three days later, it was complete. Right now, I don't know for sure what's next. Could be Franck or Vivaldi ... or not.
smalin 1 month ago
@smalin Do you do Tchaikovsky? If you do you should make one because his music is so amusing. !!!!!!!!!
lovecupcakes505 1 month ago
It's like a stream of never-ending argyle sweaters... in a good way.
502AM 1 month ago
This video alone has made me appreciate classical music on an entirely different level. There is something incredible about seeing the music move and weave together
hellokikihi 1 month ago
Looks super cool! Especially when all of the instruments are playing at once! It might just be me, but I think it looks a lot like Fantasia's animation with all of the pastel colors and sharp angles :)
awesomenechic0101 1 month ago
Well... I enjoy clasical music as I write code, and beethoven is my favorite. Sometimes I daresay I "understand" him through his music. But this! I can't take my eyes off this and go back to coding! And when I do so with a superhuman-feat-of-will, some part of music comes up and I wonder how it looks like on the graph so I alt-tab back! Congratulations. You are awesome. As a programmer too. I hope I hear much more of you.
windwalkerrangerdm 1 month ago
It got a whole new life indeed, but it's so messy...
btw i liked it
Leoptxr 2 months ago
I like this one WAY more than the other one you made for bowing , the up and down one.
secretopp 2 months ago
I have never grasped the unity of this piece before... It seemed fragmented... but with the visualization, I think I've "Got It"... THANKS!
WoundedEgo 2 months ago
smalin, are you a god? Ha ha, I'm just joking. But, seriously, you are one of my favorite people on the internet.
TheXMJohnson 2 months ago
-even better (graphics) than the first one, thanks
toddc123 3 months ago
Dude this style is excellent.. It really shows the dynamics very clearly. Awesome.
HockeyNick79 3 months ago
Absolutely brilliant music.
TheMaineri 3 months ago
I loved the selection of the colour and the smooth gentle transition from one to the other though
enexified 3 months ago
What all do you have up on YouTube with this style of animation?
b43xoit 3 months ago
@b43xoit With this exact style, only this (I just invented it a few weeks ago, and I've been working on other things since then).
smalin 3 months ago
@smalin I wish I could just favorite your channel. Your work is beautiful.
186mjn 3 months ago
Is all the music you put up in public domain? please respond.
MrJhstuff 4 months ago
@MrJhstuff It's a different answer for each aspect of each video. The compositions are in the public domain if they were written before 1923 and almost never otherwise. Very few of the performances are in the public domain. And, of course, the graphics are not in the public domain. But the answer to the "all" question is no.
smalin 4 months ago
I must say you congratulations for the animations..is the most universal way to visualize music!
MuSixramper 4 months ago
It's like looking at the coolest argyle sweater of ALL TIME.
mysterioso2006 4 months ago in playlist More videos from smalin
Basically, I favor this over the old bar-graph notation, it's more trippy ;-)
But the goal is still to make music more understandable, right? I see to (smaller) problems here:
1. The time warp works best with rubato-heavy pieces like your Debussy Arabesque. There the notes are "drawn" to each other. Here however it creates a kind of "pseudo-rubato".
2. The rhombes for the small notes, together with the time-warp create a "squareness" of the notes. I think, there are smoother in reality ;-)
flippert0 4 months ago
@flippert0 I agree with both your criticisms. The time warp makes the "now" moment prominent, a good thing (matches perception), but it makes the true rhythm less visible. Adding the barlines helps (since they provide a reference) but it doesn't completely solve the problem. In this piece, there are tempo distortions (at the pauses), and it would be good to see those clearly. I am trying to find ways to show the smoothness of melodic motion; see my latest experiments (w/Bach cello suite).
smalin 4 months ago
@smalin hey, I need some advice for piano playing, I just got done with moonlight sonata (1 movement) a few weeks ago and now I am woking on für Elise, what song should I do next that is between those levels??? (It can be any composer)
brycedavis98 4 months ago
Is that a mistake at 4:30? I hear it in both this and the original graphical score, but it might just be the same recording.
cxeazn 4 months ago
@cxeazn What does the mistake sound like? Are you just hearing the timpani?
smalin 4 months ago
@smalin In the second last chord of the phrase (from 4:30 to 4:31), it sounds like a note is misbowed because I hear a note followed by another note that's a tone lower and then it sounds like it's stopped. Sorry my music terminology sucks...
cxeazn 4 months ago
@cxeazn The only thing I can hear is that somebody moves to the chord at 4:32 a little bit early.
smalin 4 months ago
@smalin thank you for uploading these great videos with the great music,you make my day,you are my youtube hero..keep up the good work..i see from your comments that you are an intellectual person..may God bless you
sharamandarata 4 months ago
4:14 - 4:20 best part of the song
imgointoprison 4 months ago
your videos are very cool
batista6224 4 months ago
Every time I watch one of your videos I wonder if great composers see some kind of visual representation in their minds analogous to this, or even if they see sheet music in much this way...
In any case I love your visualizations; they enrich my experience of music immensely.
sammcalpine 4 months ago
omg... this is so wonderful...!
charissamarluk 4 months ago
no one can do it like you do steve... an excellent rendition...!!
keep up your perfect work hunny...!!
charissamarluk 4 months ago
Whoa..... loved this, but right now, immediately after watching this, my vision is swimming in an odd way b/c of the movement of the animation XD
Hirukaki 4 months ago
@smalin For me, this video could pass in Disney's Fantasia. Always a pleasure to watch your videos. I've waited a bit too long to see your new video, though. What took you so long?
JeOfFShAdOwSeEkEr07 4 months ago
@JeOfFShAdOwSeEkEr07 For several months, I was side-tracked by working on Björk's Biophilia project.
smalin 4 months ago
@JeOfFShAdOwSeEkEr07 I was thinking the same thing! Watching these things always makes me thing of the original Fantasia movie.
choirfreak26 4 months ago
do you have this program available for download for Mac? Or is there only a Windows download?
ConfuciousCarter 4 months ago
@ConfuciousCarter Only the Windows version (which doesn't do anything like what's in this video).
smalin 4 months ago
please revert to your old style, it's a heck of a lot more manageable and legible.
this new style is non-linear and hard to "read".
Euphonium1996 4 months ago
I like the idea of visualizing music, but I think you're giving a very linear view of how it is. As the audience, we shouldn't been seeing the notes up ahead, that's more of the musician's role. Is there any way you could program a version where it's as if we are riding the notes? I mean, where the x axis here is instead coming out of the screen instead of horizontally? That way, we'd be watching the notes currently playing, possibly their dynamics influenced by the size..?
asdfuogh 4 months ago
@asdfuogh Sounds like you're interested in a very different thing than I am. I am a musician, and as a musician, I like seeing what's coming. I like following music with a score. My animations are my attempt to share that experience with people who can't read music. I don't think it's as interesting when you can't see what's coming. You can cover up the right side of the animation if you want to see what that would be like. (This animation shows dynamics with size, btw.)
smalin 4 months ago
At 00:51 the timpani or something else in the low register repeats the di di di dah theme. Before seeing this animation, I probably never heard that component. I am in my late 50's, have not studied music, loved this piece from childhood, but probably up to now never learned to listen carefully enough to get some of the subtle contributions of the notes to the sense of the overall work. Your animation helps cure me of that cultural poverty. This is your best result to date; thank you.
b43xoit 4 months ago
I do like this best of the animation techniques you have shown so far. The dynamics are a big part of the music and I think it's cool that you can show them in the animation. So in all you show volume, pitch, duration, and a hint about the distinct timbres; an impressive 3 1/2 dimensions presented visually.
b43xoit 4 months ago in playlist Smalin
@b43xoit Sounds like you've been reading Tufte.
smalin 4 months ago
@smalin , no, [consults Wikipedia] but no doubt Tufte's influences have filtered in my general direction. Have you seen the famous chart of the attrition of Napoleon's army?
b43xoit 4 months ago
@b43xoit Yes.
smalin 4 months ago
Having the note's envelope in place of the diamond would be interesting, where the height would reflect the volume as it evolves over time.
Other idea: make the big notes a little more transparent so the short notes will always show up well.
b43xoit 4 months ago
@b43xoit In my most recent video (of a Bach violoncello suite movement), I show the instantaneous dynamics. In this one, all the notes become more transparent with time, so that you eventually see what's under them. Also, notes that just started come to the fore, so a note that is sounding is not obscured.
smalin 4 months ago
@smalin In your reply to me, are you talking about /watch?v=Dsf8kV63ivg? It looks as though you believe, as a matter of the psychology of listening to music, that the listener's thought travels up or down the scale linearly over time from a given note to the following note in the line of musical narrative that note belongs to. This view shows in the present animation, the one you use for the 'cello piece, and your bubble-and-line diagrams. I want to see the diminishing note at its pitch.
b43xoit 4 months ago
@smalin , I take back my implication that the present animation participates fully in the pattern of showing a line from a given note to its following note. You do here show the association between such notes, but you do it sufficiently subtly that it does not take away from the visual confirmation that the note is being held at its original pitch rather than being bent.
I see the fading you refer to, but I would make it faint from the start, based on the overall size of the envelope.
b43xoit 4 months ago
@smalin Why not use some good licensed stuff? CC-by, or even share-alike should be ok as you only add image to audio and keep the audio as is. They may not be as mainstream, but there certainly are modern-ish musicians out there providing liberative licensed music.
Kissaki0 4 months ago in playlist More videos from smalin
@Kissaki0 If they come to me, I will consider them.
smalin 4 months ago
i would love you to try this animation software with some modern music, i'm not saying it is better than this but i would be interested in what it does with some dub step :D
liborhaus 4 months ago
@liborhaus I've done some modern music, but not as much as I'd like. The problem is that since I'm a YouTube partner, I need to have legal permission to use the recordings in videos I post here. If you know contemporary musicians and can get them interested (and get the things I need to make the animation: permission, audio, MIDI for the music), that'd be great.
smalin 4 months ago
I AM like WATCHING A CONCERT!!
got emotional there for a while!! thank you SMalin for this!
bra13vo 4 months ago
After watching that, the comments seem to be drifting to the right XD
I'm a little saddened about your choice of recording, though. This one doesn't bring out the horn part at 6:49, which is really important.
StewieSwan 4 months ago
@StewieSwan Let me guess: are you a horn player?
smalin 4 months ago
@smalin No.
StewieSwan 4 months ago
@StewieSwan I'm surprised, then, that you think the horn part there is critical. It seems relatively insignificant to me: just another doubling of the chord sequence the winds are playing. At 6:52, the horns enter alone (or, rather, with only the timpani); that seems more important --- though still not significant enough to be a reason to not like this recording.
smalin 4 months ago
@smalin Well I'm not the only one who feels this way. Check out the recording posted by castout888.
StewieSwan 4 months ago
the room is moving S_S
and beethoven was a genius
yakir11114 4 months ago
very interesting.Its very helpful to see the score animated like this.
geiroffenberg 4 months ago
This is like the most beautiful argyle sweater known to man.
SwimmingBird941 4 months ago
Love this animation!
myoosic 4 months ago
I must be too much a purist...This and the Caterpillar are okay, but I like the bars better...
TheLakshmiLotus 4 months ago
I want my classical back. :(
RGLegoFilms 4 months ago
Digitalized Beethoven's 5th Symphony! LOL
bubonghelo 4 months ago
WOW! This is the best format I have ever seen out of all of your other videos! The texture, colors, and animation perfectly match the piece.
weiyu99 4 months ago
Heh is Beethoven's 5th a guinea pig for all your new animations styles? I like this one...
Xenocide31337 4 months ago
@Xenocide31337 Yeah, kinda.
smalin 4 months ago
it got hypnotizing after a few mins...
SergiosTorrents 4 months ago
The string and circles one is my favorite but these make nice shapes on the loud parts, great job!
EpicUltraKingSmizzy 4 months ago
I like this far better than the "bar graph" version. Consider altering the appearance of the leading edges of the diamonds to more represent the percussion effect of sudden loud passages.
Chas
Radiola60 4 months ago
OOooOOooh Stephen, I'm loving the graphics!
Memoria777 4 months ago in playlist 00: Watch List
I personally prefer the barline style, the advantages of this style is that you can see the dynamics and volume, but the bar-like visual is still cleaner and smoother, you can see what's happening more clearly, and it's more enjoyable to watch.
Amarelaoo1 4 months ago
OH DEAR LORD PLEASE PUT THIS IS THE RELEASE OF MAMplayer SO WE UNDERLINGS MAY BASK IN THIS GLORY :3
PokemonCompositions 4 months ago
another hit!
JavieraI 4 months ago
I wonder what it would look like if different instruments had different animation styles.
bachaddict 4 months ago
@bachaddict I've done some like that, and I'll probably do more in the future.
smalin 4 months ago
@smalin Specifically shapes that suggest the sound of the instrument in question, like lines for Strings or circles for Brass. It would make it that bit more immersive.
bachaddict 4 months ago
I like how the volume controls the vertical width of the shapes :) Almost adds another dimension.
bachaddict 4 months ago
Amazing song with amazing animations!
BillyMaize1 4 months ago
Please hold as i have a seizure watching this.
olivebai 4 months ago
Definitely the best animation, love the way intensity is represented, it looks like it could almost be "touched". Awesome.
clasicoobservador 4 months ago
this is great. I personally liked the bars and circles better, but this is great. great music, and animation thingy. Kudos all around.
amonkey98 4 months ago
I've always wondered this: what does musanim and smalin mean? I'm guessing it's a name but I'm not sure...
alexisrussian 4 months ago
@alexisrussian musanim is short for Music Animation Machine, and smalin is short for Stephen Malinowski.
smalin 4 months ago
Just discovered these. This music gets me pumped up, and the visuals are amazing.
Earthtoaster 4 months ago
I'm also another vote for the lines as opposed to the diamonds. Yes, the diamonds are pretty, but a little disturbing. The simplicity of the bar graph enhances the enjoyment of the music by allowing the listener to "hear" the subtleties in the music.
careykaren 4 months ago
Nice to see some uploads again Smalin!
GrevMivlos 4 months ago
Woah... diamonds are trippy.
A little distracting actually, lol. I always loved those simple lines.
PTNLemay 4 months ago
fabulous!
24Roxana24 4 months ago
Amazing!
CalenJones 4 months ago
LOVED IT. Every Part. Thank you!
LaurelJamieson2 4 months ago
nice work, but i really prefer the old visuals
cohrzor 4 months ago
@cohrzor me too, could you do it in the earlier styles? i'm just a fan :D
blackleejack 4 months ago
I prefer the old visuals. Granted, I used to use FL Studio a lot, so that probably has a lot to do with it.
Quade235 4 months ago
great job, really appreciate it.
cwlithium 4 months ago
This is simply awesome
NegroGer20 4 months ago
very amazing!!
thestuffz 4 months ago
I never cease to be amazed at the creative ingenuity that allows us to "see" such magnificent music through the mind and genius of Smalin.....I cannot wait until Smalin and we who appreciate his fantastic endeavors have holographic capabilities in our own homes. Can you imagine the beauty dancing around us? My oh My! The future treats that await us all!
music784151 4 months ago
Man I am really diggin' that new visualization. Wonderful!
TopperMIDI 4 months ago
You helped with Bjorks new album?!?! What did you do?
ColtonBrook 4 months ago
@ColtonBrook I didn't have anything to do with the album, but with the iPad/iPhone app: I did an animation for each song. She also uses these in her shows.
smalin 4 months ago
@smalin Ah :) I went back and looked. Congrats! Glad to support you, and glad you are doing well!
ColtonBrook 4 months ago
I love the new animation style. (I was actually skeptical about the diamonds when I saw the thumbnail, but they grew on me.) And, glad to see you're back!
DekuDemon 4 months ago
Very nice, though some "wierd" orchestration could ruin it (i.e. instead of all instruments moving a similar interval between 2 chords, say, a major second, a few actually move sixths, or something else). It would be rather chaotic.
Dreadnoughtification 4 months ago
Chopin done like this would be perfect!
thanks smalin
GreenistheColour22 4 months ago
Why couldn't Fantasia do something this awesome?
DonnieTheKing 4 months ago
@DonnieTheKing Walt Disney hired Oskar Fischinger (whose animations are an inspiration for me) to work on Fantasia, but then insisted that Fischinger simplify his animations. Fischinger quit in disgust, telling Disney that he could use the "Disnified" results in his film, but not to put his (Fischinger's) name on it. We can only imagine what the result would have been if Fischinger had been given free rein.
smalin 4 months ago
@smalin didnt know that about fantasia. good work by the way; a little red nudge or something in the middle, where the play is, might be helpful. thx for the post
sidthemyth 4 months ago
@smalin Interesting. I did not know that. Is it a similar story for Fantasia 2000, in which this piece appears?
DonnieTheKing 4 months ago
@DonnieTheKing I don't know. (But Fischinger died a long time ago.)
smalin 4 months ago
Beautiful !
freeadplanet 4 months ago
I am loving the new style. Well done!
guitarninja86 4 months ago
love the smoke effect and how it's organized by bars (That was my conclusion)
darklordfry 4 months ago
Nice to see that you haven't quit after eight months without a new video. In any case, shape-wise I would prefer bars over diamonds, but I like the way this new style looks, most specifically the transparency, the "smearing" of each note, and the measure bars. I'll be waiting for a public release!
ZucchiniSky 4 months ago
@ZucchiniSky (For some of that eight months, I was working on my part of Björk's Biophilia; check it out!)
smalin 4 months ago
Your videos actually got me into liking classical
defspeed11 4 months ago
I love these, thank you so much @smalin for your work.
gothicel 4 months ago
I mean the part at 4:13 !
facetubemyassplug 4 months ago
have heard it 6 times now. I like the star wars part lol!
facetubemyassplug 4 months ago
@smalin
I like the new technique, but it seems to be a little obstructive when there are a lot of instruments playing at the same time. This would be much better suited, i think, to pieces where there are fewer voices. The bubbles seem a little better for pieces with more voices.
Cellomaster1234 4 months ago
@Cellomaster1234 I have mixed feelings about that. When there are a lot of instruments playing at the same time, the sound is more cluttered, and the graphics reflect that. For example, at a place like 1:14, where there are loud held notes at the same time as fast-moving notes, you see the fast-moving notes poking through, but the intensity of the held notes is very strong. Maybe I'll figure out a way to have both clutter and clarity.
smalin 4 months ago
Smalin is back!
potpourri360 4 months ago
i like the measure lines
Musicalme96 4 months ago
"I've recently been rewriting my music animation software"
Awesome! I'm holding my breath for the pro version :D
TheAPAnderson 4 months ago
I hope you are able make money from your talent.
marilyncrosbie 4 months ago
@marilyncrosbie I'm rewarded for what I'm doing in many ways; money is a part of that, but it's not the reason I'm doing it.
smalin 4 months ago
HE LIVES!! THE RETURN OF SMALIN!
urchin34 4 months ago
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SuperMusicAngel 4 months ago
@smalin It's good that you get some remuneration. I know what you are saying, but there are times when artists with a lot of talent are not rewarded financially and they hardly have enough to live on.
marilyncrosbie 4 months ago
me gusta
yacanman11 4 months ago
i like the circles the best
M000tube 4 months ago
Plan is a fearsome word as plans do so often escape our nets. Your work is pure delight. You have several pieces that I "play" on my iPad (PianoMan) and seeing music helps be hear it better. Thank you for adding breadth to the deep and wide.
shookfoil 4 months ago
yeahy! 720p! Please make 1080p in the future :)
BabyEater9000 4 months ago
increíble, el sueño de alguien inmortalizado para siempre...
marcos77233 4 months ago
I enjoy every one of your videos! Thank you for bringing out an appreciation of classics in me!
llamabait 4 months ago
Amazing! I didn't notice the height differences until I looked at the description though. I'm expecting more amazing stuff from you, smalin. :D
ssw166 4 months ago
Now I know who to hire to do the graphic design for my 80's Power-Wedding-And-Disco-Concert.
All kidding aside, though, that was trippy awesome.
TomQuiNEstPasLa 4 months ago
Wonderful!
TomHendricksMusea 4 months ago
Danke from Germany
carusino 4 months ago
Everytime I see master pieces as these I share them on facebook in the hope someone will click like and say: Oh man this is so nice, now this is music.
Anyway: THANK YOU SMALIN!
SoulInvader 4 months ago
I wonder how an autistic person sees these videos...
rymcmanus 4 months ago
Cool!
MyTube22T 4 months ago
I like the new style of animation.
wiseman2131 4 months ago
Wow this is really cool
piggybackshaw 4 months ago
@guyboy625 Well actually I'm already have bootcamp windows. But because Mac app store is really good, and I can assure you this kind of app will sell more on Mac app store rather that just create a website of his own or smt else.
Doraeminemon01 4 months ago
hmm i noticed the description refers to smoothly shaded triangles but i dont see them in the video
piggemz 4 months ago
@piggemz well, rhombuses are composed by two triangles, that's maybe what he meant
kunstderfugue 4 months ago
@kunstderfugue indeed
piggemz 4 months ago
@piggemz If you look closely at the stuff the moves between the note rhombi, you'll see that it's shaded (that is, the color varies between nothing and something); those things are made up of eight triangles.
smalin 4 months ago
I hope you develop this as a software on Mac. Post it on Mac app store.
????
Profit.
Doraeminemon01 4 months ago
@Doraeminemon01 he already offers it free (albeit a less actualized version) but i would like it as well if he put it for sale once it is finished
kunstderfugue 4 months ago
@Doraeminemon01 why not use wine?
guyboy625 4 months ago