Fantastic music hack

There's no music hack here, just a cool piece of CG that came out many years ago...

Here's a snopes article about it:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/musicmachine.asp

I first saw this stuff years ago and had completely forgotten about it - thanks for the reminder! Here's their site:

http://www.animusic.com/

Some are cooler than others but they're all worth watching. Here's an interview with the creators:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYrYqA8lO0U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TzvuPB8ttU

If you have a Radeon 9700, you can watch this rendered in real-time:

http://ati.amd.com/developer/demos/r9700.html

Here is a real life implementation of something similar:

Video of a piece: http://vodpod.com/watch/857866-absolut-music-machine

More about it: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/02/absolut_machines_am...

I saw a more detailed description of how they built it, but can't find it now.

It would be a fantastic hack if they were using some cool algorithms/machine learning to separate the sounds, analyzing their timing, then dynamically generating the animation from that. I would be genuinely interested in discussing that.

But not this, unfortunately. Seems to be a simple (albeit well-done) cg video set to some music.

I don't get it?

Someone composed a nice song. Then made a CGI video to go with it?

What am I missing?

Full version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjBDfZZQz54&feature=relat...

I'm speechless. That defies description.

it's too deterministic.