Johann Sebastian Bach’s The Well Tempered Clavier, with music performed by Pierre-Laurent Aimard in a film by Alan Warburton.
Before starting work on our Well-Tempered Clavier animation, director and visual artist Alan Warburton immersed himself in Bach’s music by boarding a ‘random’ bus and listening to the first prelude and fugue for over two hours. ‘By the time I’d found my way back home,’ he says, ‘I had digested how complex the music was – especially the Fugue. I realised I needed to keep the animation simple so the viewer could focus on the music.’
But if the animation itself was going to be simple, producing it would be anything but. Alan’s incredible design incorporated many thousands of separate CGI lights, every one of which had to be tailored to the precise duration of Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s note strikes…
Read more about the project at Sinfini Music.
Watch these next: Boomwhacker Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach Piano Visualizations, and Andy Fillebrown’s Audiosculptures.
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