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1. Music Is Math (unfinished)

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This is the HD and finished version of my video 'Music Is Math'. I just let the program run till the end of the music, I felt reluctant to interfere too much by trying to sculpt an ending, and just let the code run its own natural course.
Music by Boards of Canada. Animation created with the Processing language, further info on my website butterfly.ie

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lukasz 1 year ago

that is stunning! well done.
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
twgonzalez 1 year ago

Wow! Now I just need to figure out how to get this to play on my AppleTV so I can watch it on a 52" screen.
James Lewin 1 year ago

Glenn - Very impressive video, and nicely married to the music.

FYI - I put a link to this over at Synthtopia:
synthtopia.com/content/2008/08/24/music-is-math-final-hd-version/
Mark Coleran 1 year ago

Just beautiful!
Glenn Marshall 1 year ago

Thanks for the comments and links :) Time to move forward with it now and do something new.
Gabriel Shalom 1 year ago

very beautiful! what program did you use to make this?
Mark Regan 1 year ago

Excellent.. I love it.. What program did you use?
Glenn Marshall 1 year ago

lol, I made my own 'program' to make it - glennmarshall.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/the-zeno/
using Processing - processing.org/
Nick Pettit 1 year ago

I love the Internet. There's a lot of crap, but if you look hard enough, you can find beautiful gems, like this one.
Fjamming 1 year ago

Fantastic work!
Tarynn Witten 1 year ago

I posted these to my channel and group called Art and Science. I am very interested in the interface and inspiration of the two areas smashup
Glenn Marshall 1 year ago

well art & science were my favourite subjects at school ;)
godino 1 year ago

Stunning and very bbbeautiful creation!
Anthony Meadows 1 year ago

very impressive
annaka 1 year ago

wow..magical!
visual-hybrid 1 year ago

stunning.. the end fits perfectly
just when I think I'm on to something clever, people like you make me realise creativity has no ceiling.. nice work man
David Langford 1 year ago

This is fantastic. Inspires me to work harder now :)
I'm very interested in the smoke, it looks like the main line creates it, but not right next to it. Very cool
Rodger M. Nugent 1 year ago

what kind of language did you use to build that ?
Glenn Marshall 1 year ago

I used Processing - a Java based language - processing.org
Lanvideosource 1 year ago

Excellent work!
Brandt Hughes 1 year ago

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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!
Glenn Marshall 1 year ago

Thanks, I actually agree with you, but I was in a dilemma, and opted for the 'open ending', and thought it was interesting how perception connecting the sound with the image changes as the music disintegrates at the end, yet the visuals remain doing the exact same thing.
panic embryo 1 year ago

stunning
dynovinyl 1 year ago

I actually liked the end and that it keeps going after the music is gone and presumably continuing after we fade to black. Because of it's organic feel and ivy-like look, it's kind of like you've created this living monster that's grown beyond you or your ability to stop it. Wait, did I just write the treatment to Frankenstein?
Glenn Marshall 1 year ago

It's alive!
Vitor Peres 1 year ago

It's stuff like this that makes me want to learn processing -- even though I know I wouldn't probably reach this level of refinement and beauty. Keep gracing us with your excellent work.
michael baca 1 year ago

awesome man. wow
Jaron Lopez 1 year ago

that is amazing,
what did you use to make the sound?
Really dope
Mitch 1 year ago

Wow!
Stephen Blacker 1 year ago

Fantastic - I love this track, nice to see such a sweet visual to go with it. I'm going to have to check out this "processing" you speak of... ;-)
Ashton Silva 1 year ago

That's amazing! can some one tell me how to do this?
Prakash 1 year ago

Nice
sir choc 1 year ago

this is beautiful! i can get high off of watching this...lol
Andy Stokes 1 year ago

So I downloaded Processing, brought 3 books on it and intend to start experimenting. Not sure if i'll ever make it to your level, but who knows.

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.
Glenn Marshall 1 year ago

thanks, it's a lot to do with how much effort and time you put into it all, i've been learning processing for about 6 months now, half of which has been full time learning/programming, the other half doing freelance/commercial work for my income.
massta 1 year ago

I like your newer movie, this one is cool but the camera moves too fast. Better to have a lag or drag on it's translation. Still very cool.
MeSuAx 1 year ago

AMAZING! the music is great too.
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exhocet 1 year ago

Great music and nice growing vid
Dragoljub Ćurčić 1 year ago

Very nice. Good work!
marco 1 year ago

Why dont you give credit to "Boards Of Canada"?
Glenn Marshall 1 year ago

this was the final result from the initial 'unfinished' video I uploaded were I credited BoC - so it's been a continous blog/thread, and you're just catching the end of it here. The original video is on this page if you scroll down. I've changed the description here also.
Shihan Qu 1 year ago

You've made no mention of Boards of Canada. The visualization would not be as spectacular without the epic music. "my video" should be "my video to Board of Canada"
Glenn Marshall 1 year ago

this was the final result from the initial 'unfinished' video I uploaded were I credited BoC - so it's been a continous blog/thread, and you're just catching the end of it here. The original video is on this page if you scroll down. I've changed the description here also.
Minglle 1 year ago

Thats very neat. I'm a beginner at processing, so I know how hard this was to make.

Did you code all of that, or does it do it all automatically?
Glenn Marshall 1 year ago

erm..... both!
mahmoudb 1 year ago

soothing animation , great mate
pixtur 1 year ago

very cool!
Kloz 1 year ago

okey...that's it...i am gonna download pd / vvvv / processing and go nuts !!!

thanks for the inspiration.

best of luck !!!
Vinz 1 year ago

very organic, very smooth, I like it a lot
Ryan Wallace 1 year ago

Just fabulous....quite amazing really.
Eduardo Risi 1 year ago

WOW!!! Great work!!!
stahlwerk 11 months ago

i just remixes it on an party. i told the title,
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
Jaxan 11 months ago

I think you're wrong, math is music and not visa versa.
How do the two lines stick together? (great music btw)
Jonathan Harris 10 months ago

awesome
Alec Julias 10 months ago

sperm.

lol, great job, I think ANY tween would perfect all these processing vids
Athanasios Paschalides 9 months ago

I recently embed this video on my blog,
and all of a sudden it was not playing.

What i did wrong?

Pretty damn nice work though
Glenn Marshall 9 months ago

vimeo are having some probs at the minute :(
Genevieve White 4 months ago

beautiful
Josh Eckberg 3 months ago

amazing
julien servy 2 months ago

great, bravo!
soulstress existence 2 months ago

Boards of canada ! Brilliant choice of music and grt piece of work:)