NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Future Retro
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/23/2001
The robotic drummer (surrounded by a percussion set) has four arms and one bass drum mallet foot; two of the arms hold 2B Drum sticks while the other two hold the vibraphone mallets. The Three-Necked Electric Guitar has metallic fingers that pluck the strings of the electric bass, and a metallic arm that strums the strings of the lead and rhythm guitars in both plucked and arpeggiated styles. As a whole instrument, the body is colored green and sports various plugs and lights. There are also giant loudspeakers in the background, connected to the electronic instruments, with VU displays that light up when the instruments are played.
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
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#2 - Stick Figures
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/23/2001
This is the most famous Animusic animation. It's also seen on the cover. In this animation, "Mr. Stick" (aka "Mr. Bass Man") the instrument, the 3-stringed acoustic guitar, the double bass, and the violins all have "arms" (fingers for the guitar) which they use to play themselves.
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
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#3 - Aqua Harp
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/23/2001
The room in which this animation takes place is completely enclosed. Its ceiling is painted a dark blue or black with a crescent moon and stars that appear to glow. The room is filled with about one foot of water in which the harp sits right in the middle. Between instrumental refrains, the lighting changes between warm-toned lamps on the wall and cool-toned, blue-ish underwater lights. All of the instruments are connected to the harp. In the background, water gently ripples throughout the piece. Some lights are set on top of the wooden columns.
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
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#4 - Drum Machine
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/23/2001
Like machines in the factory, the gears rotate automatically to play the percussion instruments. As the drum kit keeps playing, two more kits descend with the control of the chains. At the end of the performance, the gears stop moving.
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
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#5 - Pipe Dream
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 6/23/2001
This performance begins with the ball firing testing on the bass/bongo double instrument. The vibraphone fountain and the tubular bells appear to be made of gold. Also, this video is the second most famous Animusic animation, partially in thanks to an email hoax stating that the set was a real machine built at the University of Iowa using farm equipment. The hoax mail also said that it took 13,000 hours to make the performance (equivalent to about a year and a half), including building, calibrating, etc.
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
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#6 - Acoustic Curves
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 6/23/2001
In the beginning of this animation, the instruments are introduced one at a time, coming from either the ceiling or the abyss floor, and disappear at the end. They seem to play automatically.
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
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#7 - Harmonic Voltage
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 6/23/2001
This animation's lead instrument is an electronic laser conducted by a tower. Curiously, in this animation, the electronic drums seem to be supported entirely by wires, which act like springs when these drums are struck.
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
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#8 - Starship Groove
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 11/19/2005
The stars of the DVD (gracing the cover and the menus), a robot band kicks out an odd-time, laser-infused techno-rock tune while riding on top of their musical starship.
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
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#9 - Pogo Sticks
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 11/19/2005
The Stick bass from Animusic 1 returns as an upgraded model: sporting wheels and double strings. He brings friends and cousins who cruise the wooden tracks playing on 3 separate stages and passing thru 3 tunnels all in the course of one tune.
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
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#10 - Resonant Chamber
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 11/19/2005
Resonant Chamber is a very mellow song from Animusic 2. It could be the follow-up of Aqua Harp. It is a purely acoustic piece performed by a complex multi-neck stringed instrument. Set in a peaceful inner chamber, high in a sky somewhere, a different moon is seen out each window.
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
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#11 - Cathedral Pictures
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/19/2005
Instruments set inside a cathedral play three movements of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" played on a light-beam pipe organ with drums, bass, many other instruments... and pyrotechnics! These sections include "Promenade" and parts of "Hut on Fowls Legs" or "Baba Yaga" and "The Great Gate of Kiev."
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
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#12 - Pipe Dream 2
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/19/2005
As Pipe Dream was by far the favorite from Animusic 1, the instruments return in Pipe Dream 2 – aged and a bit more dented. Out comes a manic tune with even more ball bearings flying everywhere. Instruments from the original play on a room completely surrounded by pipes. They are all played by ball bearings that shoot out of certain pipes.
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
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#13 - Fiber Bundles
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/19/2005
An organic set resembling the bridge of an alien spacecraft pumps out plasma-enfused prog-techno. The strobed light show (probably) has invisible aliens tapping their feet. We think. Or something. The animation is set in a room bounded by alienistic dark green pipes, with colored tubes and pads that play when light flows through them from fiber-optic cables. The light flows through the cables at a visible speed, and so the cables probably are filled with supercold matter, called a Bose-Einstein condensate, which slows light down to a visible speed. The fact that the drums actually interact with these packets of lights is most likely due to there being glowing matter instead of light coming through their cables, which solidifies on contact with air, and evaporates on impact.
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
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#14 - Gyro Drums
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/2005
There are three robotic drummer players in this animation. The first one is inside a spherical cage of percussion instruments with limited movement along a straight pole. The other two "satellite" players move around the outside of the drum kit along two large circular tracks. This animation has 171 drums, cymbals, and other pieces in total. They are deployed and connected to the main kit over time in different sections.
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
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#15 - Heavy Light
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/2005
The closing Finale: Set atop an ancient mountain-top monument on a planet far from here... A massive stone grid comes alive with plasma-emitting satellite dishes, lasers, and percussion rings. We could say the music was out of this world, but it actually may just be from the 80's. Set on a peak in the mountains, the piece is performed on an Aztec-like pyramid, with a long series of small stairs leading up to it. The performance starts with the blue chorus beams appearing to trigger the transformation of the pyramid into the musical temple. At least three other planets or moons can be seen in the sky, one of which bears a strong resemblance to the planet Jupiter.
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
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#16 - Pipe Dream
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 11/27/2010
A bunch of instruments play on a room completly surrounded by pipes. This animation begins with the ball firing testing on the acoustic guitar/bongo double instrument. The stage is mostly made up of a circular vibraphone fountain, acoustic guitar/bongo/ banjo/bongo double instrument, a drum kit with a slide-bar marimba on top. They are all played by ball bearings that shoot out of certain pipes. The room's walls are ethier white or pink and the floor appears to be made out wood. The instruments are all connected to the pipes.
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
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#17 - Starship Groove
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 11/27/2010
A robot band kicks out an odd-time, laser-infused techno-rock tune while riding on top of their musical starship.
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
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#18 - Pogo Sticks
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 11/27/2010
Pogo Sticks features the return of Mr. Stick, the popular robotic bass from Stick Figures on Animusic 1. This time "he" has been reformatted to include wheels and a second string. He has the ability of bouncing and the capabilities of motion. He also brings along "friends" and "cousins" in the form of similar instruments.
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
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#19 - Resonant Chamber
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 11/27/2010
Resonant Chamber is a very mellow song from Animusic 2. It could be the follow-up of Aqua Harp. It is a purely acoustic piece performed by a complex multi-neck stringed instrument. Set in a peaceful inner chamber, high in a sky somewhere, a different moon is seen out each window.
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
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#20 - Cathedral Pictures
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/27/2010
Instruments set inside a cathedral play three movements of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" played on a light-beam pipe organ with drums, bass, many other instruments... and pyrotechnics! These sections include "Promenade" and parts of "Hut on Fowls Legs" or "Baba Yaga" and "The Great Gate of Kiev."
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
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#21 - Pipe Dream 2
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/27/2010
As Pipe Dream was by far the favorite from Animusic 1, the instruments return in Pipe Dream 2 – aged and a bit more dented. Out comes a manic tune with even more ball bearings flying everywhere. Instruments from the original play on a room completely surrounded by pipes. They are all played by ball bearings that shoot out of certain pipes.
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
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#22 - Fiber Bundles
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/27/2010
An organic set resembling the bridge of an alien spacecraft pumps out plasma-enfused prog-techno. The strobed light show (probably) has invisible aliens tapping their feet. We think. Or something. The animation is set in a room bounded by alienistic dark green pipes, with colored tubes and pads that play when light flows through them from fiber-optic cables. The light flows through the cables at a visible speed, and so the cables probably are filled with supercold matter, called a Bose-Einstein condensate, which slows light down to a visible speed. The fact that the drums actually interact with these packets of lights is most likely due to there being glowing matter instead of light coming through their cables, which solidifies on contact with air, and evaporates on impact.
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
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#23 - Gyro Drums
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/27/2010
There are three robotic drummer players in this animation. The first one is inside a spherical cage of percussion instruments with limited movement along a straight pole. The other two "satellite" players move around the outside of the drum kit along two large circular tracks. This animation has 171 drums, cymbals, and other pieces in total. They are deployed and connected to the main kit over time in different sections.
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
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#24 - Heavy Light
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/2010
The closing Finale: Set atop an ancient mountain-top monument on a planet far from here... A massive stone grid comes alive with plasma-emitting satellite dishes, lasers, and percussion rings. We could say the music was out of this world, but it actually may just be from the 80's. Set on a peak in the mountains, the piece is performed on an Aztec-like pyramid, with a long series of small stairs leading up to it. The performance starts with the blue chorus beams appearing to trigger the transformation of the pyramid into the musical temple. At least three other planets or moons can be seen in the sky, one of which bears a strong resemblance to the planet Jupiter.
Director: Wayne Lytle
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Animusic
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Future Retro" is the worst rated episode of "Animusic". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Wayne Lytle and written by N/A, it aired on 6/23/2001. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Stick Figures".