Comments on: giant step

giant step

onkelchrispy — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:41:43 -0800

one giant step for mankind...

By: kahboom

kahboom — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:59:28 -0800

Every now and then, something on the web simply amazes me. More rarely, that thing has Flash in it. Thank you very much for that, onkel. It was very playful and colorful, which is how I feel about Coltrane in the first place.

By: felix betachat

felix betachat — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:01:16 -0800

That was delightful!

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:17:25 -0800

Even better than I remember it. Thanks!

By: 4easypayments

4easypayments — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:22:02 -0800

More rarely, that thing has Flash in it. This animation was made using Maya. The presentation was Flash, but only for playback of the rendered movie. Regardless, this was pretty frickin good.

By: shoepal

shoepal — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:31:27 -0800

(see also) [slightly related]

By: chococat

chococat — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:41:08 -0800

This was especially amazing around 60 years ago when the NFB's Norman McLaren did it. Collaborating with jazz great Oscar Peterson, he produced Begone Dull Care (1949), using his method of painting images directly onto film to create an onscreen interpretation of Peterson's music. The film received recognition and awards from festivals and organizations worldwide. I can't, for the life of me, find any video clips online, but he was a master at interpreting music on film by painting on the film stock. And then there were the films were he actually painted the sound onto the optical track of the film. Very cool.

By: riffola

riffola — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:46:29 -0800

Very cool, and using a song I like, doubly cool.

By: Al_Truist

Al_Truist — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:44:18 -0800

that was excellent. and how great a teaching tool that would be when introducing people to jazz...

By: AloneOssifer

AloneOssifer — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:40:48 -0800

Rad..

By: Tlahtolli

Tlahtolli — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:46:14 -0800

Wow. Amazing how synchronized the animation is to all those fast notes.

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 05:18:40 -0800

Reminds me of the animation that went along with "Rhapsody in Blue" in Fantasia 2000. Which is a good thing, a very good thing.

By: phylum sinter

phylum sinter — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:51:20 -0800

Same here WolfDaddy... in fact i was sure it was the same guy until i just looked it up. Very impressive that he got all that vector information to whirl around that easily, and full screen, too. On a side note I <3 Coltrane.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 07:27:31 -0800

Cool stuff. I'd always thought this approach would be a good way to teach music theory and/or music appreciation, being able to visually see patterns that may be more obscure when you're listening to them. I created a short film like this (Beethoven, not Coltrane) in college, with the little different-colored squares and lines, but it was incredibly laborious and of course I had to wait till it was all done before I could see if it really accomplished what I wanted. I wish we'd had ~~Flash~~ Maya available to us back in those ancient times.

By: fungible

fungible — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 07:41:32 -0800

Gives new meaning to the phrase "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."

By: aberrant

aberrant — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:00:49 -0800

Apologies... I flagged the post after I checked the link and saw some generic web page with another link to a guy's portfolio. I think the link everyone's talking about is really here, no? If so, it's amazing. Thanks.

By: kenko

kenko — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:09:29 -0800

Isn't this a double? Or maybe it was linked to from Ask?

By: shoepal

shoepal — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:45:05 -0800

kenko, it showed up on del.icio.us a few weeks ago and from there on a variety of other blogs. I feel like it has been in the blue before too, but damned if I can find it.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:42:57 -0800

shoepal: It was in the thread you referred to! Also neat: see an animation someone made for this song here. posted by GeekAnimator at 8:53 AM PST on December 6