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JERRY BECK (LA)
AMID AMIDI (NY)
Sonar by Renaud Hallée
by amid
April 1, 2010 12:58 am


An elegantly layered visual representation of sound by Montreal-based Renaud Hallée. Sonar was made in Flash with keyframe animation (no scripting was involved).

(Thanks, Gene Fowler)

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Jason Deeble says:
04/1/10  5:19am

That was beautiful! A little bit like Pong gone mad but beautiful nonetheless.

 
Amber says:
04/1/10  8:06am

Oh wow, I love it!

 
Platy says:
04/1/10  5:32pm

Really awesome ! =D

…i just don’t see the reason why make it frame by frame … motion tweening would produce the same effect and would make it faster….

 
gatebuider says:
04/1/10  6:33pm

Really nice!!

 
Mike Johnson says:
04/1/10  9:52pm

Just really awesome. It’s simplicity is what makes it so elegant, and I really feel that, at least in it’s execution, it reminded me a bit of Disney’s Fantasia, especially the Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Just shapes representing the music, and both working perfectly together. Love it!

 
Gene Hole says:
04/2/10  4:26am

imagine if oscar fischinger had access to Flash!

 
tim! says:
04/4/10  8:36am

whoa! this is so beautiful! does anyone know how i can get a copy legally?
i want to see this AS LARGE AS POSSIBLE!!!

 
John says:
04/5/10  2:51am

That’s the most Autistic animation I’ve ever seen.

 
Domagoj says:
04/8/10  1:33am

Wow, that was amazing. Love to see more things like this.

@Platey I don’t think they mean no tweening, but no scripting. This is basically a sequencer, so you could have a text file with sequences and have actionscript create the animations based on the music. They’re just saying no programming.

 
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