Computer generated, sorta.

Weird Fishes: Arpeggi from flight404 on Vimeo.

Computer generated animation doesn’t seem right in describing this work for some reason. Ben over on Thought Gadgets found a clip in the Radiohead video contest. It’s done by Rodger Hodgin, (co-founder of the Barbarian Group). He uses the application called Processing, which allows you to program images, animation, and interactions. (Basically, it takes beats and rhythms from music and outputs them as visuals imagery. You have to watch the hi-res version off his blog.) But it’s not just push a button and it’s done either. If you’ve ever done any kind of animation, you know the amount of work involved in synching audio, let alone entering each note by hand as he’s done here. He made the comment that the piece could be for any song really because it’s just mapped notes, so it wouldn’t matter what band you use. I can see where that might be true, but after watching it, seems like it fits the vibe of the song pretty nicely.

Tags: Radiohead