MESSAGE FROM JET - Take a look at this!!

[audrey013]

Hi Everyone,

Jet has asked me to post this on the site for him. It's a great video that a fan sent. The person who sent it says,

"This incredible machine was built as a collaborative effort between the Robert M Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick School of Engineering at the University of Iowa. Amazingly, 97% of the machines components came from John Deere Industries and Irrigation Equipment of Bancroft, Iowa. Yes, farm equipment! It took the team a combined 13,029 hours of set-up, alignment, calibration, and tuning before filming this video but, as you can see, it was well worth the effort. It is now on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the University and is already slated to be donated to the Smithsonian."

Some of the comments on youtube seem to think that it's actually computer generated. Does anyone know for certain??

Anyway, it's brilliant - no matter how it was created. So, Jet just wanted to share it with everyone.



Best wishes
Audrey

[Charlie Hall]

Hi Audrey,
I had seen this before, someone sent it to me a while back. I think it is genuine and not computer generated. It is amazing.
Regards,
Charlie

[grip]

Hi Audrey,

I have somewhere the full DVD of this, its absolutely wonderful to watch, I'd forgotten about it. I'll be digging it out now to have another view.

Thanks to Jet for passing on the Link.


Kind regards,


grip

[Len]

Audrey asked the question about whether it is real or not. I hate to be the 'Charlie Hall and Friends' skeptic but before we get too carried away with all this, please take a look at the following that I just posted on the Shadows Community site:

"... It is a digital creation and the animusic creators have nothing to do with the preamble added by the person posting the link. I'm sorry but I don't buy all of the guff that goes with the video. That has to be a hoax. The whole thing looks truly amazing but the "farm equipment" part is purely a hoax. It is quite obviously digitally produced .... The glowing bars on the xylophone really give it all away. See this:

www.hoax-slayer.com/incredible-m ... hine.shtml

As you will note, the Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick School of Engineering do not exist according to the author of the article in the link above. This is probably correct as typing "Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick School of Engineering" into Google brings you to the above URL. This is also apparently confirmed by the University of Iowa (see various other references on Google). If you go to their website (http://www.uiowa.edu/), there is no link to any of the above. I checked to be sure but could not find any link. If anyone else can, then I stand corrected. As far as I am concerned the whole thing is digitally produced even though it does look quite amazing. Thanks to Jet for suggesting it and Audrey for posting the original link however. It is definitely worth looking at as a digital creation. I have added the animusic link to my favourites ... and will probably have a look at some of their other digital creations too.

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Skeptically Yours
Len

[olemuso]

I also believe that this is computer generated, but that doesn`t make it a hoax in my book, just a different type of art.
I think it`s fascinating, amazing, and a great piece of music as well.
The programmers are to be congratulated

[Len]

This is just to clarify what I said earlier. Any hoax was on the part of the person who posted the link on YouTube and nothing to do with the animators. I agree with you Ian about it being "fascinating, amazing, and a great piece of music as well." My response was to Audrey's query:

"Some of the comments on youtube seem to think that it's actually computer generated. Does anyone know for certain??... Anyway, it's brilliant - no matter how it was created. So, Jet just wanted to share it with everyone."

My answer to that question is; 'Yes, it is computer generated.' It is only the part about the farm machinery and University Faculty sponsorship that is misleading and not to be believed, in my view. The animators have done a brilliant job in synching the visuals with the music.

Len