Beethoven, String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, opus 132, 1. Assai sostenuto. Allegro. Adagio. Allegro.

[@ninja_music3986]

Absolute amazing work and music. His whole late quartets are among the peak of music.

[@JcFiscus42]

Thank you for doing this one!! I have a real soft spot for beethoven, especially the quartets and piano sonatas. Glad to see this one finished :)

[@pawncube2050]

You know its gonna be a good day when you see a smalin notification on youtube :P

[@ferrafran98]

Gracias Smalin por otra pieza del late beethoven y con tantos detalles. Me encanta la manera en que enfatizas acordes y silencios deteniendo el movimiento. Thank you Smalin, another late Beethoven piece with so many details. I love the way you emphasize some chords and silences pausing the movement

[@samueltenka1079]

O Frabjous Day! I hear/view this as a triumphant culmination of your techniques for multispeed "45°" layering (dramatically effective at 0:45), for depicting surprise (5:40 via revelation; 1:10, 4:35, 6:00, 9:25 via animation pauses), for voronoi backgrounds giving harmonic context (5:30 and throughout), for finetuned harmonic coloring (drastic modulation at 8:20 gradually returns to A minor's blue), and for a range of animation and rendering styles, including the graceful exponential of the melody at 5:00. Thank you, Smalin!

[@smalin]

It's gratifying that you understand and appreciate what I'm doing.

[@samueltenka1079]

​@@smalin i'm glad to express my appreciation! and from your subscriber count, I know I am far from alone :-) I have a question: as a non-musician computing grad student interested in your work, I'm hoping to offer a micro-course at MIT about music visualizations, and I'm wondering whether you'd have recommendations for what small set of animations best illustrate your artistic evolution with MAM. I know the musanim site has a Techniques page and a KZbin page that together survey the history of techniques you've introduced. As I see it, your original bar graph videos (harmonic coloring), Chopin's Winter Wind etude (multiple speeds at the same time), and this Beethoven movement (multiple ways of highlighting surprise). I think of those three innovations as revealing rather than supplementing a piece's musical structure; by contrast, I think of your many gorgeous renderers as supplementing rather than revealing. I'd be interested to learn if you see things differently. I'm asking you because you have a much more complete picture of your work. I'm already struggling to resist focusing on only on those videos I find myself coming back to --- your Schubert trios, your late Beethoven, and your Bach fugues. Thanks!

[@smalin]

@@samueltenka1079 Could you please email me this question? www.stephenmalinowski.com/contact.html

[@chopstick2073]

Wow, this might be my new favourite work of yours, truly amazing

[@smalin]

Good choice.

[@este_crow]

Gorgeous !!!

[@MrPiano1994]

beautiful

[@Remi-B-Goode]

Thank you

[@jesse_jam4811]

Whaou 2eme à regarder la vidéo Youpi !!!

[@Blanquette]

la médaille le cookie !

[@starry2006]

In your earlier videos you could see the different parts a lot easier. I don't think the visualisation needs to do the expression the music can take care of that

[@jodfrut771]

mechanical

[@jadawad651]

thank you