The Animation That Ate My Life

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Ok, so a little bit about the animation--
I started working on this last fall.  My awesome musically gifted friend Nick and I had talked about collaborating on an animation for which he would write a soundtrack, so I pitched this idea to him and we discussed it and dissected it A LOT in order to get to this story and mood.  He is truly a wonderful person to work with and I think he did an outstanding job with the music.  I should also thank my tutors who helped me along with this and terrorized me into finishing it!



The concept for the animation comes from an essay ("Die 'süsste Melodie des Lebens': Historische Beziehungen von Herzschlag, Puls und Musik" by Werner F. Kümmel) I read about the historical relationship between the human heartbeat, the pulse and music.  Up into the 18th century Medical Doctors explored using musical notation in order to record their patient's pulses.  More well-known of course is composers using a heartbeat rhythm in music (especially waltzes ;D).  This animation is kinda about those two worlds meeting.  

The setting is based on Greencastle, Pennsylvania which is my grandma's hometown.  

Hope you enjoy!

ETA: Uh-oh there's a clip missing--thus the weird black part in the middle.  It will be a little while before I can fix that, but I'll reupload it at that point.