Title: Bells
& Whistles: Sonata in X (2003)
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
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.
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