Pipe Dream shows a captivating performance of balls flying out of pipes and landing on instruments, sounding notes and rhythms as the balls hit. The observer should notice such details as wear on the instruments (from repetitive hitting in the same spot) and the realistic vibration and movement when the balls strike the xylophone and marimba.

Pipe Dream appears on the DVD entitled "ANIMUSIC: A Computer Animation Video Album". This is the first commercially available work by ANIMUSIC, a computer animation studio specializing in music-driven animation. The DVD features seven videos of never-before-seen instruments playing on their own, often in incredible feats of coordination. The original score for each piece is performed on a different stage with different instruments.

The video album is truly unique and defies categorization. Here's how some people have described it:
- A cross between Toy Story and a Pink Floyd concert
- More mesmerizing than Cirque du Soleil
- Rube Goldberg's New Lounge Act
- Part laser-light show, part Fantasia

Whatever the comparison, ANIMUSIC's content is an intricate melding of music and visuals that entertains viewers of all ages. And since the music is instrumental, language is not a barrier. ANIMUSIC videos have gained popularity around the globe, with a considerable following in Southeast Asia.

The first DVD from ANIMUSIC ushers in a new genre of entertainment: perfectly synchronized musical performances by virtual instruments. While music videos have been around for years, ANIMUSIC represents a dramatic convergence of the worlds of music, visual arts, and technology.

The ANIMUSIC disk takes full advantage of the DVD platform by including multi-angle "solo-cams" allowing viewers to switch between individual instruments, an enlightening and entertaining full-length director's commentary, and over 250 production stills showing how the instruments and stages evolved. Sample video clips and still images can be seen on the Web at http://www.animusic.com.

ANIMUSIC is a content creation company and the principal focus is the production of 3D computer graphics music animation.

Both the graphics and the music are entirely digitally synthesized. Virtual instruments are invented by building computer graphics models of objects that would appear to create the sound of the corresponding music synthesizer track. Graphical instruments range from being reminiscent of existing instruments to arbitrarily abstract.

The animation of graphical instrument elements is generated using proprietary software called MIDImotion. The technique is analytical, note-based, and involves a pre-process (as opposed to being reactive, sound-based, and real-time).

Wayne Lytle (USA) studied classical piano before switching over to computer music. After completing graduate work at Cornell University in 1988 he joined the Cornell Theory Center as a scientific visalization producer. In 1989 he produced early music animation experiments. His 1990 music animation Bells and Whistles has been shown in the US and abroad. He received awards both for his animations and for his technical papers. Wayne Lytle formed Animusic in 1995, released its first DVD video album in late 2001 and has sold thousands of copies around the world.