"Pipe Dream" - Animusic.com
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN people bring it up whenever music-playing machines or robot bands come up, as the classic CG precursor.
What it is
'Pipe Dream' is the best-known piece from the first Animusic DVD, a computer-animated music video in which fantastical machines play music. The animation is driven by MIDI data.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2019 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends shagie · 2024-03 · on “Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) [video]”
Have you watched the Animusic series ( [LINK] ) ... especially Pipe Dream - [this video] Be sure to watch the "Creating the Animusic DVDs" pair of videos. [LINK]
Cites bitwize · 2019-04 · on “Moritz Simon Geist’s robots make technical techno”
See also: The Floppotron: Music played on old floppy drives, hard drives, and scanners. [LINK] Animusic: CG animations of fantastic machines playing music. The animation is parameterized to the MIDI input. Attempts to build real-world working models of these machines or machines like them have been made, with varying levels of success: [this video] Compressorhead: An all-robot heavy metal band. Famous for Stickboy, the band's four-armed, headbanging drummer, or at least Stickboy is what I remember most about the band. [LINK]
Cites retzkek · 2021-07 · on “The Alexander: Why did you build such a long piano?”
Inspired, I presume, by those awesome ray-traced animations from the early oughts? I had started sketching ideas on how to make that a reality (pneumatics and magnets mainly) but never got beyond concept. Specifically this one: [this video]
Cites jonathankoren · 2023-01 · on “Engineer has built and programmed a terrifying all-robot band”
Reminds me of a real world Animusic video [this video] Also, at first I thought was going to be the person (or persons) that have their own restored Rock-Afire-Explosion bands and then reprogram them to play contemporary songs.