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PayPal tells me that a copy of "Dirty Wings" is headed in my direction. I tasted two or three tracks and liked them - so I bought a copy. If you like SF/Star-Trek try New Voyages or Star Wreck They both use the same model. If you're into some seriously cool (although the business model is somewhat more commercial) DVDs try Animusic. They aren't free, but they are self-published.
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Animusic is the only one I've seen/heard that is 100% computer-generated audio and video. Saw it on PBS a couple months ago, told my brother about it and he went and bought the 2 DVDs; I've only borrowed the 2nd DVD from him so far. Pretty cool stuff in there actually. It'd be cool to see someone actually BUILD some of those setups too. (like Resonant Chamber from the 2nd disk)

P2P is rough on the little guy. Luckily, the little guys are too below the radar to register on Bittorrent. So, just download that 50 cent album and I won't care. I have qualms about pirating small stuff like animusic.

The only movie i've ever seen multiple angles in, and actually made some nifty use of it was Animusic. It is computer animated music. http://www.animusic.com/

Animusic.com. Great animation, fun music, and the robots ARE the band!

http://www.animusic.com/ ;)
(it's actually quite impressive)

I immediatly thought of this video

But G4 bought them out. The ONLY thing they have done right (in my opinion) is keep X-Play running (new episodes and they don't seem to have changed it much if at all). TSS is terrible. As far as I can tell (and my TiVo) there are no new episodes of Invent This!, Fresh Gear, or a few other shows since G4 took over. The G4 content (the only one I've ever really watched is Filter) seems amaturish (like a high budget public access cable show) and like marketing smothered it with "love". The host is an idiot, it's full of "cool stuff" (acording to marketing) and the show is just terrible. The show would be MUCH better if they would just drop the host. I've found nothing else on G4 that I like (with the exception of the occational episode of Icons).

So for me, G4 has become the X-Play channel. Becuase they don't seem to want to make new episodes of the shows that they said they would keep (see above), that's the only thing I watch on the channel. When I first got satellite TV (DirecTV), one of the big reasons was so I could watch ZDTV. I got to watch The Screen Savers and all sorts of other interesting stuff (remember the show that would show computer animations made by people? That's how I discovered Animusic). Over the years, the channel has deciled (as TechTV although that wasn't SO bad) to being about as high on my list of "good" as SpikeTV (I used to think the constant banner on the bottom of TNN was bad, how I wish for those days).

All they have to do is mess up X-Play to lose me forever. Put someone with a BRAIN who is in touch with the AUDIENCE in charge of the channel, huh? Give it to Leo or SOMEONE. Because marketing is about to market me OUT of their audience.

RIP G4/TechTV, it's been a long, sad decline.

Cool! The first part of Animusic has come alive... Now if they can only duplicate the ball-shooting music machine, I'd be in heaven.

Brief: Animusic is a bunch of animated music clips, where the animation is controlled by a MIDI file. Some great animation, and great music, in there.

You can get the DVD and video clips from Animusic to see the ATI Animusic's Pipe Dream Demo. Also, ATI has the demo if you have an high-end ATI video card which is better because you can control the camera view IIRC!

You can get the DVD and video clips from Animusic to see the ATI Animusic's Pipe Dream Demo. Also, ATI has the demo if you have an high-end ATI video card which is better because you can control the camera view IIRC!

DVD version.

If you think that's cool, check out this: Complete Animusic DVD with *many* animated scenes....

The ANIMUSIC DVD is incredible.

AniMusic. Not much of a plot, but it will impress the hell out of your party goers.

ANIMUSIC is more than worth checking out. The current DVD and CD is arranged very nicely and the eye candy is amazing. There is going to be a 16:9 and 5.1 (hoping for DTS) release in the early first quarter of 2004.

Link: Check out the Web site. They got really cool demos.