The Fantastic Machine

Here are some fun links to some YouTube Music Animation videos:

Fantastic Machine

And another for a drum machine

Drum Machine

There is an urban legend that the Fantastic Machine depicted in the video was an actual machine built at the University of Iowa out of Farm Machine parts.

Of course this is not true. The instrument is computer animated and was created by Animusic.

On the Animusic site, they have clips from 7 computer animated instruments and offer the entire set on DVD.