Drawing Plants vs. Zombies With a Piano (Live MIDI Art)

A PvZ Peashooter and Zombie, drawn live in the piano roll with a MIDI keyboard. Plants vs. Zombies has always been one of my favorite game series (especially the original game and Heroes) and I've been wanting to create this ever since I starting making live MIDI art. This was definitely one of the more challenging pieces I've composed so far, hope you like the results!

MIDI and audio files available on Patreon:

Playlist of all my live MIDI art:

Technical details:
The sound I'm playing is the grand piano from Spectrasonics' Keyscape VST. I'm using the Sequential Prophet XL as a MIDI controller and recording into my DAW (Cubase 11).
I later added a simple backing track consisting of upright bass (Spectrasonics Trillian), guitar (Steinberg Halion), Clarinet (Audio Modeling SWAM Clarinets), theremin-style synth (Retrologue), and Celeste (also from Keyscape). This could've worked without any backing track as well, but I wanted to make it sound as "PvZ-ish" as possible.

Composed and performed by Gil Assayas (GLASYS).

#pvz #plantsvszombies #shorts

[GLASYS]

I need your ideas for future MIDI art videos! Let me know what you'd like to see :)

[randaranatunga]

I knew it was gonna sound good, but then the bass line kicked in and I was like

[GumballMachinery]

The fact that you make the drawing so recognizable AND make the music sound good is incredible!! Seriously love your videos!

[captain_commenter]

This takes “Music is art” to a whole new level

[absence]

I could imagine finding proper note transitions and chords for a picture to make it sound nice, but letting it even match the tune of the subject is truly great.

[felipjah]

Wow never knew it could be swinging this hard!🎹🎷 SHEESSHHH GOOD STUFF!!

[AJPastorProductions]

This should really be their new theme song!

[neonreen]

You’re so amazing holy crap!!!!

This is always so cool to watch :)

[afrikanergamerboi]

Dude the zombie part actually sounds more whimsical than the plant part. And that's saying something. Bravo 🔥

[JutoRotu]

God damn this sounds awesome especially that last part

[tt-vraymk]

This really sounds like a cartoon intro song. I really love it. Can you also do CoCa Cola midi art. That's my favorite drink.

[thesummitingfalcon]

Once again, awesome work! The fact that it also sounds like real music rather than a load of random notes is absolutely incredible. Great job man!

[DiegoMSM]

I thought it was gonna be shrek at first but then it turned out to be one of my other favorite things. I honestly find it so impressive how they always sound so appropriate. This sounds like it could geniunely be from the plants vs zombies ost

[AlexBaz]

This is so incredible it doesn’t even seem real. The way the music fits with whatever you’re drawing.

[magmarxiogaming]

It's always so weird when this guy manages to fit the style of the games in these, I could 100% see this as a sort of black and white noir theme for pvz 2

[DES.REVER.DESIGNS]

Might be the best sounding one yet, keep up the good work

[titifarci]

Cette chaîne est vraiment exceptionnelle ! Je n’imagine même pas le travail que ça demande !!!

[DanonMsc]

Even though I already know you make sick stuff I keep getting impressed on how good it is, both drawing and music are so cool. One of the most original music related things I've seen in a while

[mitchellbarton]

The fact it sounds like something they'd play makes it so much better.

[Persac]

This dude draws better than me with music than i can draw