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Jason Fried wrote this on Apr 11 2008 11 comments
Jason Fried wrote this on Apr 11 2008 There are 11 comments.

Chris Tingom

on 11 Apr 08

This is definitely signal!

matt

on 11 Apr 08

Isn’t that how we all visualize music?

Antoine Valot

on 11 Apr 08

meh.

Michael

on 11 Apr 08

Sadly or not, since Guitar Hero, I do visualize all music this way.

Tomahawk

on 11 Apr 08

Reminds me a lot of Chemical Brother’s “Star Guitar”, by Michel Gondry. That man is a genius. See here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x26gg0_chemical-brothers-star-guitar-miche_music, and you can find more of his work on you tube when you search for his name.

Tomahawk

on 11 Apr 08

Forgot to mention that there is a great making of video (for the Star Guitar) here: http://www.broadcaster.com/clip/6143

Will

on 11 Apr 08

It would have been neater if the written music matched up with the music in the background.

Justin

on 11 Apr 08

@will—it does. It’s just one part (violin it sounds like). The tremolos and runs are perfectly in sync with the vid for me.

Thanks for posting, very cool video. On a similar note I’m reminded of the music animation machine: http://www.musanim.com/

Pretty neat way of visualizing music in a linear scrolling graph.

Dave Aiello

on 12 Apr 08

My first thought was that Chuck Jones could have created it.

Jorn Mineur

on 12 Apr 08

Example of Music Animation Machine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o

lincoln

on 12 Apr 08

This is just a clever rip off of mario paint. Now I defy you to deny this genius.

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