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June 15, 2015 8:08 PM

Computer animator and artist Alan Warburton imagines setting J. S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier to neon lights [via]
posted by a lungful of dragon (17 comments total)

Whelp, I was hoping for something more Close Encountersesque.
posted by Confess, Fletch at 8:18 PM on June 15, 2015

Elegant in its simplicity. I enjoyed the settings (the museum, the parking garage). Too bad he didn't go on with few more. (But two many white lights, needs more color.)
posted by Seekerofsplendor at 8:40 PM on June 15, 2015

Beautiful, wonderful, but OY THE COMPRESSION NOISE. Seriously, get a real audio engineer on that.
posted by eriko at 8:51 PM on June 15, 2015 [1 favorite]

Seriously, loved the neon, loved the visual expression of the music, the performance was a good expression of the work, but the recording drove me NUTS. I should never hear that.
posted by eriko at 8:53 PM on June 15, 2015

I was sold when he started using depth of field to point out voices in the fugue.
posted by OverlappingElvis at 9:21 PM on June 15, 2015 [5 favorites]

The animation was fine for me, simple and nicely illustrative; no complaints. I *really* love the playing, Aimard's performance is the nicest I've heard in a long time.
posted by anadem at 9:36 PM on June 15, 2015

I love it so much
posted by growabrain at 9:50 PM on June 15, 2015

the interfaces on these music games keep getting weirder and weirder
posted by DoctorFedora at 10:26 PM on June 15, 2015

Yeah, this is a bit Pepsi Blue for the E3 announcement of Bach Band.
posted by rhizome at 10:32 PM on June 15, 2015 [2 favorites]

That was clever and nicely made but it infuriated* me when he flew the camera over the railing instead of going down the stairs nicely.

* vaguely irked
also neon lights don't fade out like that
posted by moonmilk at 11:36 PM on June 15, 2015 [2 favorites]

I really want to know more about the world in Z.
posted by a lungful of dragon at 12:26 AM on June 16, 2015

I thoroughly enjoyed that. And yeah - whatever the noise was, it was a bit distracting, but a small price to pay for a lovely bit of work.
posted by Thistledown at 5:25 AM on June 16, 2015

Awesome video.

I didn't notice the noise until you pointed it out. Now I can't stop noticing it. Thanks a lot.
posted by grouse at 7:05 AM on June 16, 2015 [1 favorite]

Bach's use of ambient occlusion was way ahead of its time.
posted by under_petticoat_rule at 7:54 AM on June 16, 2015

The Well-Tempered Clavier is a very precisely targeted acid trip for the intellect, music of entirely a higher order. The video is nicely done, indeed, but... well, it's like painting on the Taj Mahal.

I have vague memories of other geometric animations done to these pieces, but I can't find them. Perhaps, ahem, they were never committed to film...
posted by Devonian at 9:17 AM on June 16, 2015 [2 favorites]

There's this geometric animation from Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould: Spheres (aka Gould Meets McLaren).
posted by under_petticoat_rule at 8:39 AM on June 17, 2015

Nice.... thanks!
posted by HuronBob at 9:40 PM on June 17, 2015