Wayne Lytle

Wayne Lytle was a long time musician pianist and a drummer He performed in and composed most of the music for progressive rock bands throughout high school and later studied classical piano He first envisioned his idea of animated music in 1982 while an undergraduate student in music and computer science In 1988 he joined the Cornell Theory Center where he could experiment with his idea as a scientific visualization producer He specialized in composing and later created all the music for Animusic He started experimenting with music visualization in 1990 when he created More Bells and Whistles at Cornell University One year later Lytle received an award from IBM for his work in computer animated music Lytle founded Animusic originally under the name Visual Music in 1995 with his associate David Crognale That same year Animusic created Beyond the Walls A few years later they released Animusic 1 originally in 2001 and rereleased in 2004 and Animusic 2 in 2005 Animusic is making another musical film called Animusic 3 and hoped to release it in October 2013 but the release date has been postponed and is currently uncertain The future of Animusic 3 is uncertain Crognale left the company and Lytle has RSI repetitive strain injury However Wayne works with his family to finish the third installment He now lives in New York State with his wife Patricia and he has two children named Andrew and Elizabeth Lytle