Bells and Whistles: Sonata in X. Flash animation featuring an original musical composition and a completely illustrated version of the Mac OS X Desktop, those pesky bouncing icons finally have a reason to dance! By William Levin at MACBOY.COM

Bells & Whistles
Sonata in X

PRODUCTION NOTES

Art

All artwork was created in Adobe Illustrator 10 and Macromedia Flash 5. The graphics are all vectors based, no screen shots.

Music

The song "Bells & Whistles" was written by William Levin, (originally titled "Good Night, Guru Son" for no good reason), in 1993, composed on a Korg M1 and a Mac IIci running Master Tracks Pro 4.5.3. For the movie, the song was imported into Opcode Studio Vision Pro 3.5.6 and played on some additional MIDI gear, including a Roland JD-990 and Yamaha TG500. The title "Bells & Whistles" seemed appropriate, since both the song and Mac OS X have a lot of them!

Workstation

The entire project was produced on a Power Macintosh 8600/300 with 160MB RAM, running Mac OS 9.1.

Update 8 April 2004: I found a cool animation that is like a Windows version of Sonata. Check it out here, SoundRecorder.