When I clicked on the video to start it took me to the Youtube site but it did play there.
Wow! All that and it’s a commercial for a phone? Listening to the music and watching the footage of the forest and woodland creatures was very relaxing.
Sorry to be a nitpicker.. it really made me smile this… but it is not Ode to joy (by Beethoven) … it is “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” by Johann? Sebastian Bach…
wonderfull clip though….
Neat video; it’s amazing that people have the patience to put all of this together and get such a musical result. However, someone seems to have started spreading this video around with an inaccurate title; the tune is actually Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”, not Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”.
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Sometimes in my daydreams I wonder what I would wish for if there were genies.
Maybe that composers could get to experience the clever ways that people perform their songs. I think that would have made Beethoven smile.
Of course, this is Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring,” as it is known in English, rather than Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” Lovely nonetheless!
When I clicked on the video to start it took me to the Youtube site but it did play there.
Wow! All that and it’s a commercial for a phone? Listening to the music and watching the footage of the forest and woodland creatures was very relaxing.
It was a nice way to start a Friday.
FYI – this isn’t Ode to Joy; it’s Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring
I feel slightly enclined to tell you that’s not ode to joy… but I loved it all the same!
I loved this video. I can’t imagine designing a single part of this and having the notes come out perfectly. What a cool idea and I loved watching it.
Oh my. Such precision.
1) The things people come up with sometimes astound me. Imagine how much time and effort went into planning that?
2) What if there was someone somewhere in the woods who thought they were going crazy hearing all that plinking somewhere in the distance?
3) Why are our cell phone commercials not that cool?
Gorgeous, ingenious, and lots of fun to watch and listen to.
By the way, that’s not the “Ode to Joy”. That’s Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.”
Very nice! (though it’s actually Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”, not the Ode to Joy, which is the fourth movement of Beethoven’s Ninth)
That’s so cool!
I’m afraid I have a small quibble though – that’s actually “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” (Bach). The “Ode to Joy” is this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-WF0PVi2FA&feature=related, and is Beethoven.
A very, very cool video, though!
Sorry to be a nitpicker.. it really made me smile this… but it is not Ode to joy (by Beethoven) … it is “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” by Johann? Sebastian Bach…
wonderfull clip though….
What a remarkable idea and acheivement! However, the tune is “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” by J.S. Bach.
Love it! Wonderful! Thank you so much.
Actual song is ‘Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring’, not Ode to Joy.
This was the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while, though!
Really neat! It’s actually Bach’s Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring, though.
I love it! That is truly a beautiful piece of music and what an innovative way of playing it.
Very clever
That is awesome. Just one quibble – it’s actually Jesu Joy of Man’s desiring.
What a great video. ^^
However, isn’t that Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, and not Ode to Joy?
Neat video; it’s amazing that people have the patience to put all of this together and get such a musical result. However, someone seems to have started spreading this video around with an inaccurate title; the tune is actually Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”, not Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”.
Tell me, has anyone mentioned that it’s Bach, not Beethoven, yet?
A great advert. I love the precision of it all.