Animusic 2 - Cathedral Pictures

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This is a computer generated video showing robots and self-operating instruments playing classical music inside a large building. There are pipe organs, clarinets, and flutes that emit light-beams as they play notes; some trumpets and tubas affixed to walls, and they stick out when they play individually; a one-stringed rock bass guitar played by robot fingers, two of which slide up and down its neck; a yellow synthesizer; and a drum set, and two large, curved instruments, the hammered dulcimer and the xylophone, played by robots that pivot and slide back and forth to hit their mark.

The music on this piece is from 3 movements of Mussorgsky's 1874 "Pictures at an Exhibition" ten-movement piano suite.
They are:
"Promenade" [from start to 1:38]
"Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba Yaga)" [from 1:38 to 3:45]
"The Great Gate of Kiev" [from 3:45 to end]

Do you notice the picture on the bass drums? It is a drawing of the Great Gate of Kiev complete with a bell tower to its right.

The music sounds like Emerson, Lake & Palmer's version of "Pictures at an Exhibition".

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  Film & Animation

[Riley Whidden]

The trumpet and oregon mix in the final part really stands out.

And the cannon finale?

Wow. Just... Wow

[Makarius Salib]

i luv animusic

[crazymax541]

2:00 it sounds like something ill hear in a Mario game

[xterra2014]

Its Hardin High School from below

[xterra2014]

Wow. Promenade was the first solo I ever played in the high school marching band. You can prob still see our school at contest and me as the trumpet soloist to this song. I loved it! Still know my part! That was 8th grade year and now I'm a senior....

[Kyle Cuaycong]

If these ideas were real

[SephTullisOfficial]

Oh, wait. You're right. Damn internet with it's never being clear on sarcasm! :T

[Patchworkdrum]

I'm going to venture out there and say he did that on purpose.

[SephTullisOfficial]

Oh, the irony.

[SephTullisOfficial]

If church music sounded like this, I'd never have any problems with church.

[IronChicken78]

I would have preferred a trumpet and Nevada mix, though.