Harmonic Voltage

Harmonic Voltage
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Available on:	Animusic 1 DVD, Animusic HD
Animation Length:	5 minutes and 52 seconds
Previous Animation:	Acoustic Curves
Next Animation:	N/A
Follow-Up:	Heavy Light or Fiber Bundles

Harmonic Voltage is the seventh and last animation on the tracklist for the Animusic 1 DVD. Probably Heavy Light or Fiber Bundles might be the follow-up of this animation.

Summary/Description

A bunch of instruments plays on a stage resembling a power plant. The stage is mostly made up of a synth laser tesla coil/synth bass tower and an electronic drum set supported by wires. The instruments on the stage appear to be powered by electricity or nuclear. It's night outside the stage.

Instruments

Instruments in the order they're presented:

Background synth strings (emitted from what is dubbed by Wayne as the "Light Curtain")
Red synth laser (beginning in purple, then changing into pink and then red according to dynamics)
Percussion instruments, with 2 electric bongos, 2 cymbals, a hi-hat, a bass drum, 4 tom-toms, and 3 electric snare drums.
Taurus Bass Pedals with bass chorus
Green Slide Circles
Green electric guitar laser
Flash Yellow pulse (referred to as Voltage Spikes in commentary)
Bass Guitar synth in the "tower"
Four sawtooth light

RangesEdit

Strings: Eb2-G4
Lead Laser: G3-F6
Bass: D1-D2
Guitar: (F2) G2-Ab6
String Pulses: D3-D5
Bass Tower: C1-F3

Composition

This song is played in the key of C Major at 114 BPM.

Notes

Trivia

The electronic drums are supported entirely by wires, which act like springs when these drums are struck.
The construction song of this animation is a broken-down version of the ending section of Harmonic Voltage.
Harmonic Voltage was written in 1995, along with Stick Figures, Future Retro, Seventh Alloy, A Slight Delay, and The Harvester.
- However, at the end of the song, when the key signature goes up, was written in either 1999 or 2000.
The static sounds at the piece's beginning are revealed in the commentary to be several combined recordings of various high-voltage generators.
Harmonic Voltage is the oldest piece on Animusic 1. It had working titles of "WCS2" and "Electric".
Wayne Lytle states that he chose this piece to be last on Animusic 1 because he views it as the most abstract, letting it leave viewers "out there".

Solo Cams:

CAM 1: Color-Changing Synth Laser, Green Electric Guitar Laser, "Yellow Voltage Spikes", and 6 of the Slide Circles.
CAM 2: Drum Kit.
CAM 3: Taurus Bass Pedals and Bass Synth Tower.

This animation and Aqua Harp are the only solo-cam animations to show all the instruments of all angles playing.

During the credits of the song, a crash cymbal is playing, and a fourth electric snare drum is heard throughout the ending. This should have been added to the percussion set instead of having only three electric snare drums in the song.

Error

When the bass synth tower starts playing, one of the drumsticks abruptly glitches upward a little. (This also happens in the Solo Cam version.)

Gallery/Video

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