Watch A Candy and Rubber Duck Synth and Animation Visualize Music

Sometimes, the best ideas come from raw imagination.

The Knuckle Visualizer is the work of a Korean animation house. It doesn’t actually produce sound. The only functioning part of the hardware you see here is a USB cable that powers an LED lamp. But there are fascinating ideas here. And, actually, you could build this. We can often get stuck in our repetitive music world and forget what’s possible. So let’s watch the animators run wild with our sounds.

Rubber ducks and toy nesting dolls and and jelly beans make up the controls. Buchla-styled colored patch cords are actually organized according to sound.

And not only is this made-up synthesizer/sequencer itself animated, but whimsical dances of shapes and geometry add still more visual accompaniment to the sound.

Knuckle Visualizer from minimalogue on Vimeo.

This would I imagine not only inspire you to build a new candy controller, but possibly rethink how you do a music video. As the creators write:

We used a different approach on audio visualizing based on a completely different medium and art work.
The idea was initially inspired from the Analogue Synthesizers design.
During the making of ‘Knuckle Visualizer’ we thought it might be more interesting to visualize
retro sound from Analogue Synthesizer into the artwork using different styles of artwork and design.
We collaborated unilaterally with a music company called ‘musicaroma’.
This music company focuses on promoting internationally unknown foreign musicians and enabling them to get a copyright in Korea.
The music playing in the background is from the artist “Stereo Cool, Title: Let There Be Funk ”
One of the musician under ‘musicaroma’
minimalogue
Creative & Art Direction: Marco
Motion Design: Marco, STeeLO
Sound Design: Marco
Ilustration, Drawing: Shine
Installation, Film: Marco, STeeLO, Shine

There’s a making of video, though a lot of it is behind-the-scenes footage of the planning of the ideas and stop-motion photography: