Tag: Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny-ORCHESTRION PROJECT
by admin on May.02, 2010, under Concerts, Events, Technology
Photo Credit: Jimmy Katz
The evening of May 1st I experienced the Orchestrion Project, conceived and directed by Pat Metheny at The Centre for the Performing Arts in Vancouver. I obeyed the request not to take photos or make recordings, so I will offer the readily available ubiquitous You Tube examples and links to official sites where some images are available. Pat Metheny has provided some photos by Jimmy Katz on his site (left). The first part of this post is a comment on the memorable guitar collection and the second part on the automated Orchestrion. (continue reading…)
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