Pat Metheny: From Player Piano to Pneumatic Personal Orchestra

Pat Metheny talks about his Orchestrion Project at  World Music Central…

“Over the years I have dreamed of coming up with an environment to write that uses the ‘front end’ of modern music technology while harnessing the power of actual acoustic instruments…

“This general area of interest has felt like fertile, relatively unexplored territory. And especially now, nearly ten years into the new century, it has felt like the ideal moment to create something particularly connected to the reality of this unique period in time, using the best of the past with the potential of the future.”

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