{"id":765,"date":"2009-02-24T08:37:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T00:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=765"},"modified":"2009-02-24T08:38:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T00:38:30","slug":"the-music-animation-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/24\/the-music-animation-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The music animation machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/What_a_queer_bird\">&#8220;what a queer bird the frog are&#8221;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videosift.com\/video\/The-Coolest-Round-I-ve-Ever-Heard-Wendy-Carlos-Style\">video<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/videosift.com\/\">videosift<\/a> this morning:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UHwwJkKp7Oo&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>and I loved the juxtaposition of the sort of instructional music that I remember from primary school with low-resolution bitmap imagery (something else I remember from when I was a child).<\/p>\n<p>I found that the video was generated by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musanim.com\/\">Music Animation Machine<\/a>. The homepage includes a basic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musanim.com\/mam\/mamhist.htm\">history<\/a> of the machine as well as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musanim.com\/watch\/\">list of available videos<\/a> online (or on DVD). It&#8217;s a beautiful thing.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately <a href=\"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/11\/gymnopediesgymnopedies\/\">Eric Satie<\/a> is only available on DVD. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this &#8220;what a queer bird the frog are&#8221; video on videosift this morning: and I loved the juxtaposition of the sort of instructional music that I remember from primary school with low-resolution bitmap imagery (something else I remember from when I was a child). I found that the video was generated by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/24\/the-music-animation-machine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The music animation machine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-cl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}