An Amazing Musical Project: Pat Metheny and his Orchestrion
Friday, 25. March 2011
As a first note on that blog, I’ll speak about a project that was released last year by amazing jazz guitarist Pat Metheny.
Worldwidely known for his works and influence on musicians, Pat Metheny has been playing for 40 years, being a teacher at Berklee School of Music at the age of 19 and releasing more than 50 records with some prestigious musicians from Jaco Pastorius to Michael Brecker.
The orchestrion was born after an idea: being alone on stage with a machine as an orchestra. Well, not a robot, but a machine controlled by what is played on Pat’s guitar. On tour as well on stage, he plays his music in its entirety and manages to mix technology with a sensitive guitar play. As well as all his other Cd’s, this one is pretty amazing, and it is difficult to believe that there are no other musicians than Mr. Metheny playing.
As you can see on the video here, it is an amazing machine, and we can understand that it has been quite hard to take it on tour!
On the other hand, it helps us understand the genius of one of the best musician of the modern times, and to see another way to mix technology with intelligent music.
I believe this is an example of geniusness and beauty towards composition and live performances.
Here’s a very interesting video:
ab circle Says:
Cool blog post, I enjoy reading things like this. I am going to read more of your blog posts.
tipsydids Says:
Thanks! it seems like you’ve got some very interresting tastes in music! See ya