3. Walt Disney’s Fantasia: The Cosmos and the Mind in Two Hours by William L. Benzon
P. 1 … the cumulated techniques of 3000 years of art history, Western and Eastern, and a large swath of the cosmos and of life on Earth.
P. 3 The fact that Fantasia is not even a narrative – it tells no connected story from the beginning to end — is a more serious matter.
P. 13 A light in sound, a sound-like power in light, Rhythm in all thought, and joyance every where – S. T. Coleridge, The Aeolian Harp
…— oh, it’s just things and stuff that come to mind as your mind wanders while listing to the music, just things and stuff, not to worry.
4. Music-Driven Animation Generation of Expressive Musical Gestures by Alsysha Bogaers, Zerrin Yumak and Anja Volk
p. 1 gestures animation, neutral networks, music driven animation
…to model these personal choices such that a performance of a musical piece can be generated in a certain performer’s style of a musical piece can be generated in a certain performer’s style. The movement made by the performance are also used to express emotion in music.
However, human perception is vital in perceiving these expressed emotions, which makes the simulation of emotion-based expressive gestures very difficult.
Data-driven approaches are promising to produce more natural results than procedural animation.
Look up these references:
- Anders Friberg. 2004. A fuzzy analyzer of emotional expression in music performance and body motion.
- Danielle Sauer and Yee-Hong Yang. 2009. Music-driven character animation.
- Herwin Van Wellbergen, Ben JH Van Basten, Arjan Egges, Zs M Rutttkay, and Mark H Overmars. 2010. Real time animation of virtual humans: a trade-off between naturalness and control.