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Title: Check this instrument.. Post by: bubba on March 21, 2010, 10:14:29 pm Turn your sound on for this. Read this first, then watch.
This is almost unbelievable. See how all of the balls wind up in catcher cones. This incredible machine was built as a collaborative effort between the Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick School of Engineering at the University of Iowa. Amazingly, 97% of the machines components came from John Deere Industries and Irrigation Equipment of Bancroft, Iowa ...Yes, farm equipment! It took the team a combined 13,029 hours of set-up, alignment, calibration, and tuning before filming this video but, as you can see, it was WELL worth the effort. It is now on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the University and is already slated to be donated to the Smithsonian. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyi5pGl01gA Title: Re: Check this instrument.. Post by: collecture on March 21, 2010, 10:21:06 pm Pretty darn cool!
I wonder how many balls are used - they all look to be recycled during play. Title: Re: Check this instrument.. Post by: SIGNGUY on March 21, 2010, 11:08:30 pm Looked pretty cool, but sorry guys, not real, It's a CGI animation.. Snopes has it marked as false on their site as well as other google searches.. sorry to bust your bubble... still very cool...
Title: Re: Check this instrument.. Post by: mznb1u on March 21, 2010, 11:09:27 pm Signguy beat me to it! That is a very cool video; however, not real! Great computer graphics though!
:drinking: Tim :drinking: Title: Re: Check this instrument.. Post by: Pat Pixley on March 21, 2010, 11:16:41 pm It is cool, but like John said it was busted a while back and it was even on Fox new .com on how well it was made.
Title: Re: Check this instrument.. Post by: bubba on March 22, 2010, 05:26:55 am I normally do check Snopes.. I got fooled on that one.. I couldn't believe it was real, but the article was pretty convincing..
Title: Re: Check this instrument.. Post by: pinballdude on March 22, 2010, 12:49:12 pm Yeah
I saw this several years ago and got the DVD for my son. There are 2 DVDs actually. Called Animusic and Animusic2. One has 7 videos on it. Really cool. Terry Title: Re: Check this instrument.. Post by: pepsi-perk on March 22, 2010, 06:04:51 pm First time I've seen this or heard about, but noticed it was CGI right off the bat. Things that I saw that made it not look real were the colors aren't right for it to be real (especially cymbals) nor is the vibe key length. To get a different tones it must be a different length - the shadowing of the balls is off or incomplete at times too. Oh well....still pretty cool and a rocky tune. Need to figure out to transfer it to my phone for a ringtone.
Title: Re: Check this instrument.. Post by: bubba on March 22, 2010, 08:05:53 pm You can download music and other videos from their website as well.. http://www.animusic.com/downloads/index.php
Title: Re: Check this instrument.. Post by: Jim on March 23, 2010, 12:58:01 pm Yeah I actually have the DVDs as well...I saw this several years ago and got the DVD for my son. There are 2 DVDs actually. Called Animusic and Animusic2. One has 7 videos on it. Really cool. Terry |