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Bravo

34:47 wow dude just sped through that whole piece, they must've had a time limit or something.

you amazing

Funny how an add was timed to pop up at a classic time: "4 Stages to Heart Attack" Gay Scluffin

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Super: Superar Zurich & Superar Vienna . Bravo maestro Bruno Campo !

where's the rest of the story?! since this has been posted in 2012, i'm not very hopeful, but if there's a continuation to this... i'm currently quite into malinowski

He's singing better than ever. Just so lovely, unbelievably lovely.

glad you like it!

yes, he is one of my (very few) favourite singers of all time. thank you very very much for uploading it.

glad you like it! and no kidding, his voice is unbelievable...

i know his voice for about 15 years know and its so unbelievably awesome to discover this right now. i just watched the video of him talking about "truth and beauty in music" and this fits so perfectly.

I don't know why nobody else has commented or given you a thumbs up on this. Thanks for doing this video, I enjoyed it.

Indeed, it's this effort that makes all the difference!

Wow, such hard work! I can't praise him enough for not taking the easy route out and just having some MIDI playback as soundtrack to the animations :D

Hmm, I was talking about video in general as non-breathing, not Stephen's indeed genius animations. Part of his work process in creating them, btw, includes stretching and contracting the timeline of the animated score to a particular "breathing" interpretation of the music. But then it's fixed, and trying to play along with it is difficult because it's someone else's breath that has been "fixed". With the crank, we can all breathe together, instrumentalists and synchronator person!

It might not anticipate or breath, but it is a great thing! As I said on the initial comment, Malinowski is a genius of a man :)

Ah, one last thing :) we are in fact (sometimes) perfect performers: because taking and giving time is part of this music, it's "breathing" music. It's its strength to be moderately stretched by us performers, not its weakness. The music gets more powerful, gains more shape by speeding up and slowing down a bit. The thing that can't keep up with us doing that organically is the non-breathing, non-anticipating video, poor thing...

Yes, I knew about the crank - the original comment came about while I was wondering about it! Well I guess professional musicians are not such perfect performers as I imagined, then :) Thanks for enlightening me! By the way, kudos to you if you were involved in developing this (and master Stephen as well)!

Yes. But that's a machine. And when musicians play, they (we) can anticipate eachothers's movement and synchronize like this. But when a video is playing, it is an inflexible element in the equation: all musicians will wait for eachother if that's necessary when the group takes time but the video cannot listen and anticipate. That's why we developed this tool, check e.g. around 1:40 Stephen's slowing down the tempo of the visuals with the crank in the TEDxZurich "Music Animation Machine" clip

I'm sorry, I don't understand your point. Sheet music is fixed: you can type them into a computer and it will play all parts synchronized and correctly, right?

tukkek, you forget something: the difficult thing is the timing to something fixed and flowing - when you play with music sheets and a conductor, you "invent" the time flow together, but you don't have to follow something fixed.

This is so cool!

Did people like his fugue?

Great!

Great to see Stephen on camera! He just overflows with genius :) But I wonder how can whole orchestras (tens of individuals) play full complex compositions on the fly with just music sheets and a conductor, while these guys apparently can't follow a previously arranged, timed piece on the screen. Specially considering the similarities between Stephen's animations and actual music sheet. So... curious to know if I'm ignorant of something or if just that they are less than excellent musicians.

thanks Stephen, I changed that!