Which Accomplished Composer Do You Think Would Be Game To Compose Music For This Strange Instrument?

I firs saw these years ago, and bought two videos of them to show to my music classes. Other music teaching colleagues who are also fine players vouch for that fact that every single pitch, bowing, sticking, note and rhythm is perfectly accurate; I even had just the audio tracks to a few of these on my mp3 player for a while. So - you have to give credit to the composer and graphic artists of the original compositions and renderings. Why are not these guys rolling in money - and have they not found a CAD expert who can turn every single one of those amazing instruments into a money printing press?

I have to agree with one of my students (actually from a developmentally handicapped class) who said "I know this place is not real - but that does not stop me from wanting to go there and play all these cool things!"

George Antheil

George Antheil (July 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor. A self-described "Bad Boy of Music", his modernist compositions amazed and appalled listeners in Europe and the US during the 1920s with their cacophonous celebration of mechanical devices. (Wikipedia.)

... you do realize that the "music machine" in the video is all CGI, right?

Edit: Right - CGI computer generated imagery; Walt's company did a great job with imagery (as did the brothers Jack, Harry, Albert and Sam up the road) but with the whole chicken-egg problem. The music comes first.

How cute! I'd have to go for Boling as I reflect upon it. I just have to add that there is something missing with the lack of self expression in the manual display. Where's the fun when it's only 'instrumentation', notes (?), shot out of tubular pipes, etc? The genre is stylistic of Boling in the jazz content with its free mode and frivolous nature. I can't see Bach taking to it, but I thought about Joplin. I decided against it when I knew how manual he was. There's just something so wonderful about the dexterous release that is not to be found in this instrument. So where's the joy? Simply in the composition? and how is that controlled? Interesting, very interesting!

How wonderful!

You know that isn't so far away from the musical clocks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_clock) Mozart wrote several pieces for in 1790. I think he'd have been up for it.

Sadly, I was not able to find any original recordings of any of these pieces on actual musical clocks, but here's a transcription of one of them:

http://youtu.be/tCyooNaFTPI

Correct me if I'm wrong But the only prohibited instrument according to orthodox Christianity is playing your own instrument Peace

Even though the variety of percussion Instruments of his day, compared to that of the present was meager to say the least, I think J.S. Bach would have a ball composing a piece for this monstrous monstrosity.

Who would commission him? ME (if I had the money).

Alberich

I'd expect Jean Michel Jarre would create something suitable. A lot of his stuff is vaguely similar.