Animusic is an American company specializing in the 3D visualization of MIDI-based music. Founded by Wayne Lytle, it is incorporated in New York and has offices in Texas and California. The initial name of the company was Visual Music, changed to Animusic in 1995. The company is known for its Animusic compilations of computer-generated animations, based on MIDI events processed to simultaneously drive the music and on-screen action, leading to and corresponding to every sound. Unlike many other music visualizations, the music drives the animation. While other productions might animate figures or characters to the music, the animated models in Animusic are created first, and are then programmed to follow what the music "tells them" to. 'Solo cams' featured on the Animusic DVD shows how each instrument actually plays through a piece of music from beginning to end.
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Air Date: 2001-06-23
The robotic drummer (surrounded by a percussion set) has four arms and one bass drum mallet foot; two of the arms hol...
Air Date: 2001-06-23
This is the most famous Animusic animation. It's also seen on the cover. In this animation, "Mr. Stick" (aka "Mr. Bas...
Air Date: 2001-06-23
The room in which this animation takes place is completely enclosed. Its ceiling is painted a dark blue or black with...
Air Date: 2001-06-23
Like machines in the factory, the gears rotate automatically to play the percussion instruments. As the drum kit keep...
Air Date: 2001-06-23
This performance begins with the ball firing testing on the bass/bongo double instrument. The vibraphone fountain and...
Air Date: 2001-06-23
In the beginning of this animation, the instruments are introduced one at a time, coming from either the ceiling or t...
Air Date: 2001-06-23
This animation's lead instrument is an electronic laser conducted by a tower. Curiously, in this animation, the elect...