Music Is Math
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3. Music Is Math
3 years ago
This was my first animation made with the Processing language (processing.org). It's a generative art piece created entirely by the computer out of mathematics and code. (Music - Boards of Canada).
My ultimate aim was to have the computer generate spontaneous, random animation, which looked as natural and interesting as any other form of human created art. glennmarshall.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/the-zeno/
The 'Music is Math' code next became the basis of my music video for Peter Gabriel 'The Nest That Sailed The Sky' which won an Award of Distinction at Ars Electronica - vimeo.com/3245120
I then adapted the same code into a range of iPhone and iPad applications Zio, Supernova and Eyegasm - a collection of 'interactive ambient paintings' - looking at the software app as art (and reaching no.1 in iTunes charts in Australia,NZ & Europe)- glennmarshall.wordpress.com/zio/
My most popular animation on the web 'Metamorphosis' is also based on the same code, with over 350,000 plays on vimeo alone - vimeo.com/1747316
Further info on me and my artwork on butterfly.ie
My ultimate aim was to have the computer generate spontaneous, random animation, which looked as natural and interesting as any other form of human created art. glennmarshall.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/the-zeno/
The 'Music is Math' code next became the basis of my music video for Peter Gabriel 'The Nest That Sailed The Sky' which won an Award of Distinction at Ars Electronica - vimeo.com/3245120
I then adapted the same code into a range of iPhone and iPad applications Zio, Supernova and Eyegasm - a collection of 'interactive ambient paintings' - looking at the software app as art (and reaching no.1 in iTunes charts in Australia,NZ & Europe)- glennmarshall.wordpress.com/zio/
My most popular animation on the web 'Metamorphosis' is also based on the same code, with over 350,000 plays on vimeo alone - vimeo.com/1747316
Further info on me and my artwork on butterfly.ie
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i was just trying to work out how the visuals react to the sound, its very subtle and probably why it works so well with that track...
yeh endings are always tricky... i felt like everything should have slowed down to match the fade in the music
FYI - I put a link to this over at Synthtopia:
synthtopia.com/content/2008/08/24/music-is-math-final-hd-version/
using Processing - processing.org/
just when I think I'm on to something clever, people like you make me realise creativity has no ceiling.. nice work man
I'm very interested in the smoke, it looks like the main line creates it, but not right next to it. Very cool
Wow, that was an absolute joy.
One little tidbit of cc, I felt that the end should progressed out, an inverse of the beginning so to speak. I just thought that would have been more fitting, but really that's a very minor issue. Brilliant stuff man!
what did you use to make the sound?
Really dope
Just wondering, how long have you been using processing and what other background you have?
I really aspire to one day being able to get to the level of building something this beautiful. Excellent piece. Keep up the great work. Very inspirational.
Did you code all of that, or does it do it all automatically?
thanks for the inspiration.
best of luck !!!
so it was more like a song that i played.
but cool,
did you ever eat some vegetables what are like fractals?
like brokoli.
greets
How do the two lines stick together? (great music btw)
lol, great job, I think ANY tween would perfect all these processing vids
and all of a sudden it was not playing.
What i did wrong?
Pretty damn nice work though
how do you actually relate each element group to the music.what property of music are you communicating with visual elements?
Thanks so much~
bravo~
how did you make the movie from processing?
did you export the frames? or did you record straight from processing? is there any library for movie recording?