This sucker punched me in the nostalgia so hard I flew back into the body of my seven-year-old self for five minutes. God damn this was refreshing. Animusic forever
This video teaches a lot about music in a very subtle way. By linking visuals to key changes in the music, you learn to train your ear to pick out the distinct parts of the music. They teach about vibrato (quick raising and lowering of pitch) by using wobbling things, portamento (gradual pitch movement) by using sliding things, and tremolo (volume variance) by using fading things. As a music maker myself, I find this to be very fascinating.
+SilverStone262 its just the one guy now working mostly full time, tough he does have occasional help. but he said he will finish animusic 3 no matter how long it takes. his family have been helping him with the crowd funding perks
This song made me cry as a little girl. Back in 2008. I'm not sure why. I remember so clearly sitting on the carpeted floor in the music room with the lights off, sitting surrounded by my classmates, and just silently crying. There's something so painfully sad and lonely about this song. But so determined to keep going, or something like that. The desire to keep on living. Music really does describe feelings that language cannot.
Their planet was nearing its end. Though they could not save themselves, there was still hope: Project Harmonic Voltage. By combining fiber optics with the ancient Heavy Light pyramid, they could send a distress signal throughout the universe: one last piece of music, from a dying planet of living instruments. The first part of the song told their history. The second part asked for help. But even if rescue never came, the third part was triumph, because this last song would play forever.
Curt Sly electronic music has a really bad reputation for being utter garbage most of the time, which is really sad because it doesn't have much to do with the actual genre but is treated as such. Animusic and Porter Robinson are proof that electronic music can be beautiful.
Curt Sly Slightly late, *cough* a whole year *cough* but seriously, most electronic music actually is SIGNIFICANTLY more emotional than other forms of music. Take My Heart by different heaven and eh!de for example. Although it might not sound extremely emotional when you listen to it first, if you look up a piano cover/synthesia tutorial on it, you can see just how much emotion is poured into every note. Just because instruments are different than the norm, doesn’t mean an entire genre is crap. ;) Also look up scary monsters and nice sprites by skrillex. Got it? Good. Now look up a piano cover. Even SKRILLEX and his dubstep has emotion poured into it, which I never realized until I actually started going deeper into electronic music and dubstep. Electronic - 1 Pop - 0 :)
SquiDragon when you said scary monsters and nice sprites, the first thing that came to mind was vinesauce and the amazing midi version of that song... and Thomas the Train’s face
Over 10 years ago I had my first car accident. I was blaring this song on the car stereo when I hit a snow drift and went off the road. This song made the experience E.P.I.C. Ps. slow down on snowy roads
when i was little i used to imagine that this was telling a story, the purple laser and the red laser were taking turns playing with the drums but since the red music always sounded better, the red one was more fun than the purple, and the purple was trying to get as good as the red, but then a green laser interrupts and enslaves the drums and makes them play cymbals, but then the purple comes in and defeats the green laser and the red one congratulates the purple with an overly dramatic and long congratulatory song
OMG and LOL!! You sound like this is ancient history. Weren't most of these made between 5 and 8 years ago? IMO I think ALL music (except maybe most of hip-hop and gangster rap) tells a story or at least a sad or happy one without violence and foul language.
stralien51 It was made in 2001, and I was born in 2000, so I find things from the early 2000s nostalgic like this. Also, a song can have foul language and still be good. It might not tell a story, but it can be funny, like any song by Ylvis.
LOL!! It's probably Tesla's work that inspired this and that's been over 100 years ago. Fascinating, but unfortunately terribly sad that one of the greatest innovators of all time became an object of ridicule.
stralien51 thankfully people are starting to know his work more, shame someone wanted to destroy his lab though, maybe we would have had hovering cars by now.
You took the words right out of my fingers. I was about to say the same thing. God bless you, Nikola Tesla. the world is a better place because of you and would have been even better if J.P. Morgan was not so greedy.
I wish tesla had been born perhaps thirty years later. we would benefit so much more from his genius mind and he would get the credit that he deserves, not only as a decent human being overcoming a gambling addiction from his college days, but also as a creative genius who almost harnessed the power to talk to space before space was a real concern of the world's.
Their planet was nearing its end. Though they could not save themselves, there was still hope: Project Harmonic Voltage. By combining fiber optics with the ancient Heavy Light pyramid, they could send a distress signal throughout the universe: one last piece of music, from a dying planet of living instruments. The first part of the song told their history. The second part asked for help. But even if rescue never came, the third part was triumph, because this last song would play forever. (reviving this great comment by Blake Raines)
Saw this on a late night PBS commercial 12 or more years ago. Remembered the melody and typed in “CGI robots playing instruments” and found it. I’m still looking for Animusic in 2020. It must be a classic.
Ha, what's funny is that now it's gained a whole damn fanbase. Could you imagine that? Also, I bet you didn't know that Animusic was made by THREE people on the support of their loved ones. It's whacky to hear, you'd think that this would've been made by a whole team. Plus, there's a whole lot of remakes and original concepts made for Animusic. It's insanity to see how much it went up. Only a few people knew this at first, now it's spread throughout schools and is actually a CLASSIC for most people. Sad to know that some people forget about it but still have it as a glimpse of their memories, still trying to find it to this day.
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I guess I am not your typical 67 yo because I find this music to be just stunning. I love it. Love animation and love this kind of music. Wow. I'm blown away. A brilliant mind created these for sure. All of them. Thank you.
Nitro Dubz Any kind of Electronic Music is fine to me. (relates to electronic music, dubstep and indie of course but a favorite artist? I guess yes) Skrillex.
My grandpa, who is gone now, showed me Animusic when I was very young probably over 20 years ago and I’ve loved them ever since. Brings back so many cherished memories 🥰😢
Well, this song is missing the typical 135-150 and 160-180 tempo ranges (it's 114 ish i think), 2-step bass and snare pattern, the bass wobble, and doesn't even have the optional dubbing of vocal samples, and was created before Dubstep was even a thing, but this was one of my first electronic songs too, and the first step towards my listening to dubtep as well. ^_^
There was a super chill comment on this video long ago that made me cry when I read it while listening to this. Something about a dying alien civilation and this was their call for help.
Their planet was nearing its end. Though they could not save themselves, there was still hope: Project Harmonic Voltage. By combining fiber optics with the ancient Heavy Light pyramid, they could send a distress signal throughout the universe: one last piece of music, from a dying planet of living instruments. The first part of the song told their history. The second part asked for help. But even if rescue never came, the third part was triumph, because this last song would play forever. (there it is :D)
Am I the only one who cries? Might be the tune, or just intense nostalgia. I can't figure out which. Their best one, hands down. This was my first taste of electric/dubstep. I couldn't have had a better introduction.
It’s the 10 year animusi-versary! Cheers to those that made such a masterful blend of animation and music, and may there be, someday, a glorious return!
Animusic was ahead of its time. Such an epic song, I like how it changes up frequently but is still cohesive overall. It's not a lazily made song that's for sure.
@henrikpetersson3463 I think the same, retrowave and synthwave was very famous back in the 80s. About the animation tho, very ahead of its time, considering how small of a team they were
This might actually be one of the few laser based songs from animusic that is humanely possible to make, and have it look super similar to the animated version. Can't believe nobody has done a Tesla coil cover of this song yet.
I USED TO PLAY ALONG WITH THIS ON MY ELECTRIC KEYBOARD VIA THE DVD I LOANED FROM THE PUBLIC LIBRARY... ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER!🙏💖👍👌 THE ULTIMATE HEALING MUSIC, INDEED!
Their world was ending. But all they knew was song. And so they sang. They sang to the merciless heavens. They sang to those that had forgotten them. They sang to all that were, and all that would ever be. They sang the song of their past. They sang the song of their present. And they sang the song of the future they wished they could see. And as the lights turned out As their song grew quiet Even as they knew they would never sing again They sang For they had one last song left, their final… Harmonic Voltage.
Please, do it to me again. I have loved this song ever since I first received the first Animusic DVD in 2004! When the harmony laser kicks in, shivers run up my spine!
I THINK THIS IS MY FAVORITE SONG EVER GUYS THIS WAS MY ENTIRE CHILDHOOD, COMING BACK AFTER MY MUSICAL TASTE HAS GROWN AND WOAHHHHHHH ANIMUSIC IS STILL THE BEST OF ALL TIME
Since the dawn of time...there has always been the Song. We know not where it comes from. Only that it powers worlds and creates life. This Power. THIS INIFINITY SONG.
This feels like a medley of three songs from a video game: one for the main menu theme, one for general gameplay, and one that's a remix of the main menu theme for the end credits.
I'm sorry, but this song and features is just simply AMAZING!!! It gives me chills every time I see it, I watch it many times...it's just SO AMAZING!! My words can't even describe my thoughts on this. It's just PURE AMAZING!! I love it!
Animusic 2 was a prequel. Animusic 1 is a concert featuring the final 6 colonies of living instruments, with this song as the distress signal in case anyone came along to save them. Even though no one will find them due to their isolated location in the universe, they will never lose hope because this song was set to play forever and is probably still playing to this day!
When I was around 6 or 7, this music was my life. My older brother suffers from very extreme autism. He was very tricky to deal with, but all I can remember is that he loved this music. I never listened to it in school (I wish a had), my brother did. He loved it so much we brought him the DVD’s to help him. Now, I remember those good times me and my brother had with this music and came back here. My brother is now listening to this music once again. ❤️
WoW! I love your music or animusic. I was just reading comments below. I'm 64 and I think they must be very young. They remind me of myself and my friends when we were young. So different today but yet the same also. It's all good. Young people are so smart and quick! I like that.
This video is literally so powerful it makes me feel emotions that are unable to be conveyed in human language like I literlaly STILL lose my mind every single time
God this came out in 2009 and when I was in elementary school we would have days during music classes when our teacher would give us a break and either put on the sound of music or Animusic and everyone chose animusic. Those were the days I miss. When we didn’t have projectors and we had those big TVs we could watch them on. *sigh*
This song sounds like the rise of an inter-galactic conquerer from another galaxy and his journey to absolute power, and how with that power he eventually became corrupt.
I didn't know my endorfin button could still be pushed in this way. But wow... If you have creativity, musicality and technical prowess combined in videos like this, who needs drugs? Orgasmic bliss, nothing less.
When I was a wee nine year old, my piano teacher sat me down to watch Animusic and answer questions about key changes, major/minor, that kind of thing. I was so captivated by Harmonic Voltage that I watched it through twice. It now has a treasured spot on my "best songs" playlist.
I remember being in kindergarten just amazed at this. I used to think this was real lol, I would wake up at 4 in the morning just to catch this on PBS. This is the only Animusic song I can still hum to this day.
Put this in my playlist after rediscovering it and rode the nostalgia high. Went to bed with my playlist on my headphones and sometime in the night the opening harmony stirred up my consciousness. I then experienced this song in a transformative way where I saw and felt the sounds. It was as if I was in the deep space, each note had a stream of light of different colors. As I was barely conscious, the concept of time was beyond me and each harmonic bend of the lasers felt like hours. I felt so happy and motivated but as the bars came to an end, I desperately wanted to start the song over again but alas it faded. One magnificent piece of art in a whole different reality was nothing more than a fleeting experience
At 13 years old, this video changed my life forever and drew me into the world of music and producing and my life has never been the same since! Thank you Animusic!
Holy Swiss! I just noticed that if you look, the drumsticks are casting two shadows on the drums! One pink, one blue! It's such a tiny detail, but those details are exactly what make Animusic so awesome. Both this piece in particular, and all their music in general.
+Digitalyzd EDM no they are not dead, they made a kickstarter for animusic 3 which did get funded, and there is a more recent update on there www.kickstarter.com/projects/2040578790/animusic-3-dvd/posts/1330238 if your interested... last updated news was in august this year
i still watch this... even in 2019 i still love hearing this same type of music... too bad that the team broke up. Imma make sure i go into animation and music to revive this franchise :(
I remember watching this in music class during elementary school and being totally entranced. Here I am, 3rd year of university, watching completely unwavering. This is unbelievably cool
They're awesome in their own ways. I personally like Heavy Light more because I think it makes a far more suitably epic and meaningful finale to the Animusic series. Then again, perhaps Harmonic Voltage fits the spirit and overall theme of Animusic better (there is definitely a futuristic theme going on.)
When i was young i used to think that the lasers were alive. The blue laser at the beginning was killed (not in a morbid way) by the purple laser, and the pink lasers were mutations of the purple laser. I always though the green laser was "evil" and when it came down in 3:49 it was going to kill the drums. When the video ended and an actual drum set was introduced i thought that there was an actual drum set on the scene and it was just hidden. Ah, the memories.
Blew my mind years ago when I had a music teacher show us Fiber Bundles in class, Then Starship Groove. My dad showed me this one sometime later. Magnificent and worthy of the title *Art* .
I gather from the other comments that this goes back more than 10 years. Well I saw it for the very first time this evening and the combination of animation and audio soundtrack is amazing. The colours, and some of the effects, remind me a little of the computer animation in that DaftPunk video "One more time".
This sucker punched me in the nostalgia so hard I flew back into the body of my seven-year-old self for five minutes. God damn this was refreshing. Animusic forever
Seven? Geez, how young are you?
jjaapp18 Twenty
I'm only 14 but this brings me back to the simpler times in elementary school
My school never showed me this. I found it myself.
Saaaaaame! I used to think these were real lol
This video teaches a lot about music in a very subtle way. By linking visuals to key changes in the music, you learn to train your ear to pick out the distinct parts of the music. They teach about vibrato (quick raising and lowering of pitch) by using wobbling things, portamento (gradual pitch movement) by using sliding things, and tremolo (volume variance) by using fading things. As a music maker myself, I find this to be very fascinating.
zevex747 hey I’m 12 i make songs yayy I’m not the only one
Awesome! Thank you for sharing that 😁
I'm so thankful I was exposed to these at a young age. I'm a music producer now, and I always picture synth solos as lasers lmao
@netunof great observation, I never knew about the logarithmic bit!
The lead synth's laser is also shaped like an oscilloscope readout that would match that sound
Someday... Animusic 3, someday...
hopefully soon.
I heard that they're working on it but i'm not sure.
+SilverStone262 its just the one guy now working mostly full time, tough he does have occasional help. but he said he will finish animusic 3 no matter how long it takes. his family have been helping him with the crowd funding perks
Thanks
SilverStone262 np
seriously way too good, even after all these years. This was one of the first songs I ever thought was incredible, can still hum it 15 years later :)
Nostalgia hits...
Yo dude! I watch your stuff all the time. It's crazy seeing you here sharing this nostalgia. Much love!
I didn't think I would have expected to see you here 😂
No one at school believed me when I told them that this was made in 2001!
OH HI NEO!
This song made me cry as a little girl. Back in 2008. I'm not sure why. I remember so clearly sitting on the carpeted floor in the music room with the lights off, sitting surrounded by my classmates, and just silently crying. There's something so painfully sad and lonely about this song. But so determined to keep going, or something like that. The desire to keep on living. Music really does describe feelings that language cannot.
@Music Listener the song is beautiful, and that is reason enough to cry. I don’t see what their childhood has to do with it
It can have plenty to do with it.
if you wants more songs like this try the world of goo soundtrack
I have had literally the same experience:3
i am too.
Their planet was nearing its end. Though they could not save themselves, there was still hope: Project Harmonic Voltage. By combining fiber optics with the ancient Heavy Light pyramid, they could send a distress signal throughout the universe: one last piece of music, from a dying planet of living instruments. The first part of the song told their history. The second part asked for help. But even if rescue never came, the third part was triumph, because this last song would play forever.
Now that's a narration
love this
You just gave me goosebumbs everywhere!!!!!
Poetry
This comment, shall live forever.
Now this piece has even more feels to it.
ITS ALL ELECTRONIC. BUT STILL HAS A LOT OF EMOTION. AND FEELING TO IT. WELL DONE...
Curt Sly electronic music has a really bad reputation for being utter garbage most of the time, which is really sad because it doesn't have much to do with the actual genre but is treated as such. Animusic and Porter Robinson are proof that electronic music can be beautiful.
Curt Sly this brings meresi
Curt Sly
Slightly late, *cough* a whole year *cough* but seriously, most electronic music actually is SIGNIFICANTLY more emotional than other forms of music.
Take My Heart by different heaven and eh!de for example. Although it might not sound extremely emotional when you listen to it first, if you look up a piano cover/synthesia tutorial on it, you can see just how much emotion is poured into every note.
Just because instruments are different than the norm, doesn’t mean an entire genre is crap. ;)
Also look up scary monsters and nice sprites by skrillex. Got it? Good. Now look up a piano cover. Even SKRILLEX and his dubstep has emotion poured into it, which I never realized until I actually started going deeper into electronic music and dubstep.
Electronic - 1
Pop - 0 :)
SquiDragon when you said scary monsters and nice sprites, the first thing that came to mind was vinesauce and the amazing midi version of that song... and Thomas the Train’s face
Why are you yelling
Over 10 years ago I had my first car accident. I was blaring this song on the car stereo when I hit a snow drift and went off the road. This song made the experience E.P.I.C.
Ps. slow down on snowy roads
when i was little i used to imagine that this was telling a story, the purple laser and the red laser were taking turns playing with the drums but since the red music always sounded better, the red one was more fun than the purple, and the purple was trying to get as good as the red, but then a green laser interrupts and enslaves the drums and makes them play cymbals, but then the purple comes in and defeats the green laser and the red one congratulates the purple with an overly dramatic and long congratulatory song
Me too!
OMG and LOL!! You sound like this is ancient history. Weren't most of these made between 5 and 8 years ago? IMO I think ALL music (except maybe most of hip-hop and gangster rap) tells a story or at least a sad or happy one without violence and foul language.
stralien51 2001
stralien51 to me that feels like a long time ago because i was 1 at the time
stralien51 It was made in 2001, and I was born in 2000, so I find things from the early 2000s nostalgic like this.
Also, a song can have foul language and still be good. It might not tell a story, but it can be funny, like any song by Ylvis.
Tesla would love this.
LOL!! It's probably Tesla's work that inspired this and that's been over 100 years ago. Fascinating, but unfortunately terribly sad that one of the greatest innovators of all time became an object of ridicule.
That's why Tesla would love this; obviously inspired by his work.
stralien51 thankfully people are starting to know his work more, shame someone wanted to destroy his lab though, maybe we would have had hovering cars by now.
You took the words right out of my fingers. I was about to say the same thing. God bless you, Nikola Tesla. the world is a better place because of you and would have been even better if J.P. Morgan was not so greedy.
I wish tesla had been born perhaps thirty years later. we would benefit so much more from his genius mind and he would get the credit that he deserves, not only as a decent human being overcoming a gambling addiction from his college days, but also as a creative genius who almost harnessed the power to talk to space before space was a real concern of the world's.
Their planet was nearing its end. Though they could not save themselves, there was still hope: Project Harmonic Voltage. By combining fiber optics with the ancient Heavy Light pyramid, they could send a distress signal throughout the universe: one last piece of music, from a dying planet of living instruments. The first part of the song told their history. The second part asked for help. But even if rescue never came, the third part was triumph, because this last song would play forever. (reviving this great comment by
Blake Raines)
Damn, how'd you find it?
i kept looking in the comments for 15 minutes until i found it i feel so happy now that i revived such great comment :D
OMG, I remember this comment from years ago. Well done.
ERL yeh i loik it iz amazin :3
Amazing
Saw this on a late night PBS commercial 12 or more years ago. Remembered the melody and typed in “CGI robots playing instruments” and found it. I’m still looking for Animusic in 2020. It must be a classic.
It's a 2001 CD
Ha, what's funny is that now it's gained a whole damn fanbase. Could you imagine that? Also, I bet you didn't know that Animusic was made by THREE people on the support of their loved ones. It's whacky to hear, you'd think that this would've been made by a whole team.
Plus, there's a whole lot of remakes and original concepts made for Animusic. It's insanity to see how much it went up. Only a few people knew this at first, now it's spread throughout schools and is actually a CLASSIC for most people. Sad to know that some people forget about it but still have it as a glimpse of their memories, still trying to find it to this day.
pbs was how I found animusic as well! it's one of the oldest memories I still have.
@@mezzovii Same
i got it on dvd. i bought it like a million years ago. still as epic as the first time i heard it
Electronic music is very beautiful when done right.
Tiempo Nuevo yeah, a lot of the newer stuff just isn’t as good
@@solar_sailor9995 damn right there man
Wisp 999 Not sure what the fuck you're on about, you clearly haven't tried to look much past the surface of electronic music
Yes... just remember Vangelis (R.I.P.)!
When I was a kid I thought these were for real
+Gabriel Tejada at least one of them was actually made so you weren't too far off
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Gabriel Tejada ya me to I was like I want one but then I got older and was told its a animation thing and I was like ....oh
When I was a kid, I wished I had one on my ******* back yard (even though I knew it wouldn’t fit)
Really? Well, I have to admit, I kinda did, too
i could listen to the chorus loop forever
Agreed. That is the best part.
Same, anyway I've remastered Harmonic Voltage in 4K czcams.com/video/5CobSgUp8v4/video.html Please spread the word and thanks for reading
Same!!
You can feel the soul of that electric guitar at 2:57 , that's always my favorite part
Same Bro
I guess I am not your typical 67 yo because I find this music to be just stunning. I love it. Love animation and love this kind of music. Wow. I'm blown away. A brilliant mind created these for sure. All of them. Thank you.
Age is just a number Andrea. And music is like a time machine for taking us back to any point in our past.
I'm 44 so don't feel bad. I just discovered it. 🙂❤
Wayne Lytle is the composer!
I've remastered Harmonic Voltage in 4K czcams.com/video/5CobSgUp8v4/video.html Please spread the word and thanks for reading
I basically grew up with Animusic when i was around 3 or 4 so don't worry. They will always have a special place to me when it comes to music
Animusic helped me discover Electronic music. I will always remember this. :'3
Nitro Dubz Yes, mine too :'D
Troy XTreme
Do you have a favorite DJ? Or just into made-up random indie music? :3
Nitro Dubz Any kind of Electronic Music is fine to me. (relates to electronic music, dubstep and indie of course but a favorite artist? I guess yes) Skrillex.
Troy XTreme
I like Skrillex as well. :D
Nitro Dubz Is my personal favorite :D
This will be the music my child will be conceived to.
+Travis Marx Lmao haahah i hear u
If you hear them, get a broom and hit the wall/ceiling. They need to quiet down.
Don't let him/her be conceived to rap crap
Saaaaaaame bro.
Then u will have a happy baby! 👌
My grandpa, who is gone now, showed me Animusic when I was very young probably over 20 years ago and I’ve loved them ever since. Brings back so many cherished memories 🥰😢
This is their best one in my opinion.
***** I agree!
+Borc55 Best music, I think.
Me too
I agree
Definitely their best
Imagine flying through space with this playing
That would suck, since it would feel like the shit movie Star Wars.
Aki Davison i was thinking Battlestar Galactica, but ok
Hey, star wars is a good movie!
Apart from those crap prequels...
Ｉ ＨＡＴＥ ＣＯＭＭＥＮＴＳ Exactly.
Aki Davison LEL
everyone's saying they've watched this in school... I've watched this on TV late at night as a kid. loved loved loved... so much nostalgia.
Me too. Seem like it was almost on every morning at about 1am where I live. Except weekends.
Did anyone else watch these in elementary school? I was always super happy to watch these haha
my teacher said we would finish it.
but we never did.
That's sad ;n;
these were my favorite days in music class!
Yes! They were such a treat
This is why I liked music class XD
This was my first electric/dub-step song ever. My jaw dropped, and so did tears for some reason. I've been an electric lover ever sense.
Dubstep? Stop.
JB. Markowicz
Electric, dubstep, whatev.
Reece Cowan Are you a traffic sign, because stop.
Well, this song is missing the typical 135-150 and 160-180 tempo ranges (it's 114 ish i think), 2-step bass and snare pattern, the bass wobble, and doesn't even have the optional dubbing of vocal samples, and was created before Dubstep was even a thing, but this was one of my first electronic songs too, and the first step towards my listening to dubtep as well. ^_^
JB. Markowicz What are you crippled? Cuz that was lame...
His Power Bill Must Be Really High.
CrispyTurtl3 Or the power all over earth goes out.
Except this.
+CrispyTurtl3 It costs twice your bill for every second
+CrispyTurtl3 Maybe it has a massive fusion generator. Power must no be an issue for these beings.
Good point.
+CrispyTurtl3 Unlike Your Grammar Skillz.
There was a super chill comment on this video long ago that made me cry when I read it while listening to this. Something about a dying alien civilation and this was their call for help.
Their planet was nearing its end. Though they could not save themselves, there was still hope: Project Harmonic Voltage. By combining fiber optics with the ancient Heavy Light pyramid, they could send a distress signal throughout the universe: one last piece of music, from a dying planet of living instruments. The first part of the song told their history. The second part asked for help. But even if rescue never came, the third part was triumph, because this last song would play forever. (there it is :D)
That's sweeeeeeeet
i was looking for it for the past 15 minutes hope i made yer day :D
cuz literally this is the most touching comment i have ever read so far
Mr. Bigshot You did indeed make my day :)
Am I the only one who cries? Might be the tune, or just intense nostalgia. I can't figure out which.
Their best one, hands down. This was my first taste of electric/dubstep. I couldn't have had a better introduction.
I just wish the jam that started right at the end would continue for a couple more minutes
Same here
+mikosoft If you watch the entire CD that jam goes on for like 3 more minutes.
Logan812 has a remake that does just that.
I have the DVD and it continues while the credits roll
@@redskeletonart238 I have it to
This was one of my favorites as a child
same!
same
same! I loved this one the most outta animusic 1.
same
I'm 12. i LOVE this stuff! :D
It’s the 10 year animusi-versary! Cheers to those that made such a masterful blend of animation and music, and may there be, someday, a glorious return!
Funny you mentioned that. They are working on animusic 3.
More like almost 18th,it originally came out in 2002
MyNamaKahl you thought i was refering to animusic as a whole?
I was just refering to the publish date of this video.
@@cyclops8238 they probably aren't since it hasn't come out yet:(
@cyclops8238 they aren't, unfortunately
Animusic was ahead of its time. Such an epic song, I like how it changes up frequently but is still cohesive overall. It's not a lazily made song that's for sure.
Nah, musically I would say that it was behind its time. This kind of music was the thing in the 80's and early 90's.
@henrikpetersson3463 I think the same, retrowave and synthwave was very famous back in the 80s. About the animation tho, very ahead of its time, considering how small of a team they were
This might actually be one of the few laser based songs from animusic that is humanely possible to make, and have it look super similar to the animated version. Can't believe nobody has done a Tesla coil cover of this song yet.
the lasers and light stuff are all fine and dandy but how do we make drumsticks float
I USED TO PLAY ALONG WITH THIS ON MY ELECTRIC KEYBOARD VIA THE DVD I LOANED FROM THE PUBLIC LIBRARY...
ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER!🙏💖👍👌 THE ULTIMATE HEALING MUSIC, INDEED!
Gah. This still gives me goose bumps, every time!
Tied for my favorite... along with Heavy Light
Ha, Me too. :)
We're on the exact same page, but I think this one slightly edges out Heavy Light for #1 IMO. The cry of that laser/guitar/thing...
Alis Lutrell SAAAAMMEE!!!!!!!
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Me too! But with Future Retro and Fiber Bundles as an addition.
Their world was ending.
But all they knew was song.
And so they sang.
They sang to the merciless heavens.
They sang to those that had forgotten them.
They sang to all that were, and all that would ever be.
They sang the song of their past.
They sang the song of their present.
And they sang the song of the future they wished they could see.
And as the lights turned out
As their song grew quiet
Even as they knew they would never sing again
They sang
For they had one last song left, their final…
Harmonic Voltage.
Petition to bring back Animusic
Please, do it to me again.
I have loved this song ever since I first received the first Animusic DVD in 2004!
When the harmony laser kicks in, shivers run up my spine!
God I agree, it's so perfect I can't describe the feeling it gives me. it's almost like it's speaking to you
Did anyone else watch these in music class on school? Or was that just my school? ;~;
Yes. I loved it!!
+Analeigh Rose me too
+Allan Pearl me, about 10 years ago it feels like. :)
Us too ;(
yes i did but i saw pipe dream
I THINK THIS IS MY FAVORITE SONG EVER GUYS THIS WAS MY ENTIRE CHILDHOOD, COMING BACK AFTER MY MUSICAL TASTE HAS GROWN AND WOAHHHHHHH
ANIMUSIC IS STILL THE BEST OF ALL TIME
YESSS ME TOO I JUST REMEMBERED THESE
Since the dawn of time...there has always been the Song. We know not where it comes from. Only that it powers worlds and creates life. This Power. THIS INIFINITY SONG.
This is how the Avengers undo what Thanos did.
This feels like a medley of three songs from a video game: one for the main menu theme, one for general gameplay, and one that's a remix of the main menu theme for the end credits.
It feels like the sonic genesis games. Has around the same soundfont too
This was the masterpiece that introduced me to AniMusic.
Harmonic Voltage is the song that made me fall in love with Animusic! Keep your chin up Wayne and never give up on Animusic 3, the world needs it!!
I'm sorry, but this song and features is just simply AMAZING!!! It gives me chills every time I see it, I watch it many times...it's just SO AMAZING!! My words can't even describe my thoughts on this. It's just PURE AMAZING!! I love it!
They need to make albums for iTunes and not just podcasts.
Definitely.
*high fives*
I would buy that album so fast!
PikachuJackskeling94 I agree!
The Sound of Twelve is on iTunes, though.
Animusic 2 was a prequel. Animusic 1 is a concert featuring the final 6 colonies of living instruments, with this song as the distress signal in case anyone came along to save them. Even though no one will find them due to their isolated location in the universe, they will never lose hope because this song was set to play forever and is probably still playing to this day!
When I was around 6 or 7, this music was my life. My older brother suffers from very extreme autism. He was very tricky to deal with, but all I can remember is that he loved this music. I never listened to it in school (I wish a had), my brother did. He loved it so much we brought him the DVD’s to help him. Now, I remember those good times me and my brother had with this music and came back here. My brother is now listening to this music once again. ❤️
The chorus gets me every time
Danny Dolan Me too...
c':
+Danny Dolan its been stuck in my head for the past 10 years
I used to get scared when I was little at 3:48 but now this is one of my absolute favorites, with stick figures and heavy light
Even putting aside whole visual stuff - i truly love this song, ,such a nice synth wibe
God, I miss my elementary choir days where we would watch these. I pity those who never knew the beauty of Harmonic Voltage.
anyone else remember that people thought this was the future of music back then?
This made me an electronic music fan and producer. Thank you.
WoW! I love your music or animusic. I was just reading comments below. I'm 64 and I think they must be very young. They remind me of myself and my friends when we were young. So different today but yet the same also. It's all good. Young people are so smart and quick! I like that.
This video is literally so powerful it makes me feel emotions that are unable to be conveyed in human language like I literlaly STILL lose my mind every single time
still goes crazy
God this came out in 2009 and when I was in elementary school we would have days during music classes when our teacher would give us a break and either put on the sound of music or Animusic and everyone chose animusic. Those were the days I miss. When we didn’t have projectors and we had those big TVs we could watch them on. *sigh*
The soundtrack for this animation was made in 1995 it was constantly remade and remixed but this animation along with dvd came out in 2001
This song sounds like the rise of an inter-galactic conquerer from another galaxy and his journey to absolute power, and how with that power he eventually became corrupt.
somehow i think you are right..
yea lol I immediately thought of Starcraft after hearing this
2:58 sounds like some sort of prison or punishment chamber with the dark guitar solo lol
I didn't know my endorfin button could still be pushed in this way. But wow... If you have creativity, musicality and technical prowess combined in videos like this, who needs drugs? Orgasmic bliss, nothing less.
When I was a wee nine year old, my piano teacher sat me down to watch Animusic and answer questions about key changes, major/minor, that kind of thing. I was so captivated by Harmonic Voltage that I watched it through twice. It now has a treasured spot on my "best songs" playlist.
This is how I heard synth sci-fi music in the 70's-80's. Good. Powerful. Unique, and it gives you an atmosphere that words cannot explain.
The fact that these on disk 1 were made in 2001 and still hold up 2021. I will know how to play Aclustic Curves on piano!
this is amazing who ever disliked it has no soul
All these years later, and it still brings me to wonderful glorious tears of joy. Thank you. So much.
I remember being in kindergarten just amazed at this. I used to think this was real lol, I would wake up at 4 in the morning just to catch this on PBS. This is the only Animusic song I can still hum to this day.
me too
Listening to this 6 years after, i started crying because of all the nostalgia
Dude... *Hits blunt* what if the manifestation of energy in light could vibrate to create sound..? Duuuuuude
Musically speaking one of their best pieces. I wish I could get the single.
Watched this over 10 years ago. 2020 still awesome as ever!
I watched this 5 years ago
I have forgotten everything from my elemtary school days. But this I will remember forever. Damn its so good!
This brings back memories of a better time. Wish I could go back ☹️☹️
Animusic has been my music before I doscvovered oldies at 12... I still love this music... so much memories!
I remember singing this song back before I played in band, and this is what taught me breath control before even realizing what that was.
reminds me of pink floyd
Looks in fact like some of Jean Michel Jarre's stage sets.
Maybe JMJ inspired this, I mean it certainly sounds similar to his works.
That green bit reminds me SO much of Gilmour's work
My childhood right here. This is nostalgia in a single video.
Put this in my playlist after rediscovering it and rode the nostalgia high. Went to bed with my playlist on my headphones and sometime in the night the opening harmony stirred up my consciousness. I then experienced this song in a transformative way where I saw and felt the sounds. It was as if I was in the deep space, each note had a stream of light of different colors. As I was barely conscious, the concept of time was beyond me and each harmonic bend of the lasers felt like hours. I felt so happy and motivated but as the bars came to an end, I desperately wanted to start the song over again but alas it faded. One magnificent piece of art in a whole different reality was nothing more than a fleeting experience
this is my favorite one out of all of them. I just wish it was longer
Its 2020...im still listening to this...wonderful
Same almost 2021!
This is my favorite animusic video of all time. It makes me cry every single time, no matter what. It's utterly perfect.
I still listen to this! It makes me feel so good and calm
This is one of my childhood relics.... much nostalgic feelings and memories come pouring out more as I write this comment.
Watching these again gives me such a sense of nostalgia. I absolutely love it.
At 13 years old, this video changed my life forever and drew me into the world of music and producing and my life has never been the same since! Thank you Animusic!
Holy Swiss! I just noticed that if you look, the drumsticks are casting two shadows on the drums! One pink, one blue! It's such a tiny detail, but those details are exactly what make Animusic so awesome. Both this piece in particular, and all their music in general.
Poor middle and high hexagon drums, they only get played once ;-; like if you cri everytiem
+Bladezz I don't succeed to see when they play
George Riffle 4:38
+Digitalyzd EDM no they are not dead, they made a kickstarter for animusic 3 which did get funded, and there is a more recent update on there www.kickstarter.com/projects/2040578790/animusic-3-dvd/posts/1330238 if your interested... last updated news was in august this year
+leetghostdriver DID EVERYONE DIE THAT WAS IN 2009 ITS 2015 PEOPLE WOOOOOOOOO
+EPIC CREAKY And on top of that, the songs still take multiple years to write.
i still watch this... even in 2019 i still love hearing this same type of music... too bad that the team broke up. Imma make sure i go into animation and music to revive this franchise :(
I remember watching this in music class during elementary school and being totally entranced. Here I am, 3rd year of university, watching completely unwavering. This is unbelievably cool
This brought back so much nostalgia I felt like I was 6 years old again lol
It's so beautiful, it's like living through my 7 year old self all over again, in the dark music room, my head on the floor staring at the projector.
I'm going on a big nostalgia trip right now
A contender for the best song in all of Animusic, if not a shoo-in... and then came Heavy Light XD
It's #1 in my top 3!
tallstech0711 So it's just #1.
Dreigonix This is WAY better than Heavy Light, any day!
They're awesome in their own ways. I personally like Heavy Light more because I think it makes a far more suitably epic and meaningful finale to the Animusic series. Then again, perhaps Harmonic Voltage fits the spirit and overall theme of Animusic better (there is definitely a futuristic theme going on.)
Dreigonix But this is BETTER than Heavy Light.
I love how I can see with my own eyes each sound being made it's so soothing to listen to and watch at the same time one of my favorites
It was 4th grade I was sitting on the floor in the dark immersed by this imagining myself saving the planet in this song playing in the background.
I smell you pressing "Newest Comments first" 👀👀
When i was young i used to think that the lasers were alive. The blue laser at the beginning was killed (not in a morbid way) by the purple laser, and the pink lasers were mutations of the purple laser. I always though the green laser was "evil" and when it came down in 3:49 it was going to kill the drums. When the video ended and an actual drum set was introduced i thought that there was an actual drum set on the scene and it was just hidden. Ah, the memories.
Blew my mind years ago when I had a music teacher show us Fiber Bundles in class, Then Starship Groove. My dad showed me this one sometime later. Magnificent and worthy of the title *Art* .
Jeez, I was not even alive when this came out and when my parents showed me this I was 2. This brings me back
Isn't it just wonderful I love animusic I really thank those who made it it just kicks butt I love it.
it totally gives me the chills
I knew the Risk of Rain 1/2 soundtracks reminded me of something and it was this.
I gather from the other comments that this goes back more than 10 years. Well I saw it for the very first time this evening and the combination of animation and audio soundtrack is amazing. The colours, and some of the effects, remind me a little of the computer animation in that DaftPunk video "One more time".