Animusic

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Animusic, LLC is a dormant animation company specializing in the 3D visualization of MIDI-based music. Founded by Wayne Lytle in 1990, it is currently a registered limited liability company in New York and had offices in Texas and California during its active stages. The initial name of the company was Visual Music, but was changed to Animusic in 1995. The company is known for its Animusic compilations of computer-generated animations, based on MIDI events processed to simultaneously drive the music and on-screen action, leading to and corresponding to every sound. The animated short "Pipe Dream," showed at SIGGRAPH's Electronic Theater in 2001, details the use of this specific sequencing. Unlike many other music visualizations, Animusic uses MIDI information to drive the animation, while other 3D programs animate figures or characters to the music. Any animated models in Animusic are created first, and are then programmed to follow what the music, or MIDI information, instructs them to do. Many of the instruments appear to be robotic or play themselves using seemingly curious methods to produce and visualize the original compositions. The animations typically feature dramatically lit rooms or landscapes in rustic and/or futuristic locales. The music in Animusic is principally pop-rock based, consisting of straightforward sequences of triggered samples and digital patches.…

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1. date of foundation: 1990 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. release date: 2001 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
3. release date: 2005 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
4. release date: 2010 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
5. release date: 2015 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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