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Posted by: Chowy Fernandez Mar 1 2010, 07:17 PM

amazing!!!

In this seven-minute film, Pat Metheny walks viewers through the Orchestrion experience, explaining its origins and performing music from the adventurous solo recording that pairs the composer-guitarist with a phalanx of remarkable, custom-made instruments, played via solenoid switches and pneumatics.

Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Mar 1 2010, 07:20 PM

Wou Chowy! I hadn't seen this before! This is so awesome. It seems that he is a bit tired of his sesionist musicians... Thanks a lot for sharing!

Posted by: Staffy Mar 1 2010, 07:41 PM

It's awesome!! Btw. I posted it here several months ago, but well worth seeing again! The album is recently released btw.

//Staffay

Posted by: Ramiro Delforte Mar 1 2010, 08:51 PM

Incredible!

Oh, I missed your post Staffy

Thank you both for sharing this video, I love Metheny

Posted by: Daniel Realpe Mar 11 2010, 06:59 PM

I imagine he does this with MIDI?

Posted by: Muris Varajic Mar 12 2010, 01:10 AM

Metheny is no longer a player, he doesn't want to pay other players.

Posted by: Vasilije Vukmirovic Mar 12 2010, 01:38 AM

Yeah, he is becoming self-sufficient!
Amazing!

Posted by: Emir Hot Mar 12 2010, 04:51 AM

very impressive. This guy is a wizard.

Posted by: Stephane Lucarelli Mar 12 2010, 01:04 PM

It's a fantastic project and music is always beautiful.

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Mar 12 2010, 09:49 PM

I don't know how he managed to make this, but it is impressive, and looks like magic. He's a genius no doubt

Posted by: Staffy Mar 12 2010, 10:28 PM

Nah, he turned into a composer - which means that the players must pay HIM instead, in order to get allowed to play his music....
Maybe he's gonna turn into a record company next time???

//Staffay

EDIT: I read somewhere that the developers of Synclavier (or if it was another monster synth) was involved in the project building this room full of pneumatic-driven stuff. And I don't think its midi either, since it triggers extremely fast, it must be som tone recognition system, since most of the instruments in the project doesnt need to respond to other than clean notes. (all seems to be mallet-like stuff)

Posted by: Crazy_Diamond Mar 12 2010, 10:43 PM

This is incredible .... I don't know how he can manage all this but it is astonishing

Posted by: tonymiro Mar 21 2010, 04:39 PM

There's a nice article on the development and production of Orchestrion in the April 2010 issue of Sound on Sound. Some of which confirms Staffay's points about whether its midi or not and who was involved (Synclavier and Lemur amongst others.)


OT - Metheny's been involved with Synclavier from New England Digital for as long as I remember. As Staffay says the Synclavier is/was truly one of the big monster synths and was used a lot many big hit records in the 80s and 90s. It used to cost more than a house to buy - about 250,000USD back in the early 80s.