Beyond the Walls is the first video co-created by Wayne and Dave. The video was originally created for VRex under the name Concerto in 3D, viewable with VRex's VR Surfer stereoscopic 3D viewer. It was later featured on the Animusic 1 DVD (Special Edition) bonus features.
Summary/Description[]
This animation starts with a musical bubble machine on the wall. It blows different sizes of purple bubbles and it shows that the biggest bubble has the lowest pitch and the smallest bubble has the highest pitch. Next, the gong rings twice and the harmonious trumpets and tuba play the fanfare with vertical clash cymbals striking four times. Then, the bass drum with a hi-hat on top of, big wheel below and two arms attached to it comes out of the door with a yellow star on it and begins to play. A two-armed snare drum with a cowbell on top and a medium wheel below comes out of its doors and joins its bass drum friend for a beat. As the walls begin to open, their one-armed friend the crash cymbal joins in as well and the percussion instruments get in their positions in front of the musical light/laser machine that first plays the bass lights with all the lasers joining in with harmony. A group of these instruments continue playing as they move towards the doors and the yellow laser, along with one of the red ones, opens the doors with all the airplane tom-toms and the helicopter clash cymbals taking off for the percussive solo pattern. The flying percussion instruments move aside as the choir lasers solve the puzzle to open the ship's doors and for the grand finale, as the white fireworks pop up, all the moving instruments fly into the starry sky far away.
Instruments[]
In order of appearance:
- Bubble Machine
- Gong (with Chinese writing)
- Two Trumpets
- Tuba
- Clash cymbal
- Three-part Drum kit with wheels and arms: first a bass drum and a hi-hat, second a snare drum and a cowbell, third a crash cymbal
- Blue bass Synthesizer
- Four red Sawtooth wave lasers
- Yellow lead laser
- Eight airplane tom-tom drums and a helicopter clash cymbal
- Synthesizer bass blue laser chorus
- Synthesizer treble green laser chorus
- Pyrotechnics
Ranges[]
- Bubble Machine: E2-F#3
- Trumpets: E4-A5
- Tuba: E2-E3
- Bass: E1-E2
- Red Lasers: E2-A6
- Yellow Laser: E2-E6
- Bass Chorus: G1-F3
- Treble Chorus: G3-D5
Composition[]
This song is played mostly in E at 150 BPM at first, but changes to 130 midway. Also has a 7/4 time signature toward the end
Trivia/Goofs/Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- This is the first animation to feature instruments with significant mobility. With the exception of instruments arriving into scenes with simple motion, this level of mobility would not appear again until Animusic 2 with Pogo Sticks.
- Across from the laser-activated door that houses the airplane drums, there is an identical door that is never opened. It is unknown what is behind it.
- Fiber Bundles could be the follow-up on this animation; it has drums, outer space and electronic objects like this short.
Goofs[]
- Shortly after the wooden walls open up and the shot focuses on the lasers, one of the pyrotechnic cannons disappears suddenly. When the shot pans back out it is shown again.
- Near the end the yellow laser plays a note too high for its range, causing the beam to briefly disappear.
- At the end of the song, both the crash cymbal and the helicopter clash cymbal noises are a few milliseconds ahead of the animation.
Gallery[]
