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Computer/Music/Art: NYT Circuits, December 1, 2005: 'Computer-Generated Wonder' by David Pogue. About 'Animusic' a set of DVDs of computer-generated, photorealistic animation music videos. Envision a futuristic, 3D-computer generated version of the automatic piano playing in the hotel lobby by itself. Created by Wayne Lytle, who uses custom-written software, called Animusic Studio, that generates the animation automatically when fed a MIDI file of his music. Therefore, every audio note has a video correlate. Video clips on the Animusic webseite.
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Video: Mansfield Park (1999). w/ Frances O'Connor (Fanny Price), Alessandro Nivola (Henry Crawford), Jonny Lee Miller (Edmund Bertram). Directed by Patricia Rozema. After the novel by Jane Austen. Young girl is given away by her impoverished parents to live with wealthy realtives. There she grows up to be a beautiful and educated, but shy young woman (O'Connor). She refuses a proposal for marriage from a man (Nivola) she does not trust, realizing that her heart belongs to one of the sons of the family (Miller). Some great dialogues, good tempo. Humourous moments. Overall rating: 8 out of 10.
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