Pat Metheny Introduces "Orchestrion" 

when you do the whole group project yourself.

Even the best players you can think of have only a few songs that are the cream, the real blow you away " brought it all together" tunes, some have a hand full where they really "Did it" "This is a tune". But Pat Metheny...... To me every tune I'v heard from Pat is a tune anyone else would take a lifetime to get to. Every Song. Every song melts into me like I am playing it myself. Magic ! Talent ! He is just something else !!!

Wow! Pat is amazing! He is really showing his genius. I've to get this album!

Pat Metheny, the musical gift to the world that just keeps on giving and giving....love you Pat!

Hoy lo vi en vivo en Miami ,y estuvo grosisimo,muy bueno !!! imprecionante la maquinaria musical q se mando Aguante Pat !!!

Holy god.....unbelievable. Is all instruments controlled in MIDI? He don't need player except him!

Это просто класс,талантище...

please! what is that song at the start! I NEED IT IN MY LIFE!

animusic and Miniature Drums and Miniature Electro Guitar Red and Miniature Xylophone and Miniature Djembe and Miniature Accordion I love robot band and chopsticks and iPad and I love hp laptop

what is the song he's playing at the very beginning?

Wow...midi

I wish he had a soul and wasnt a mechaincal musician. He's more machine than man.

What is it with guitarists and their crazy hair? All of them...they all have wacked out hair. haha

5 suckers dont like this

pat now has way tooo much time on his hands.Kinda cool, but lets be honest its kinda creepy as well. sorry ima fan too.

im not impressed

This guy has created the world's biggest, most expensive and best sounding VST plugin!

I saw Orchestrion on stage in Nantes (France) in 2010. I was with a friend, and we were staring like a rabbit in front of car lights when the big curtain that were covering the instruments in wood boxes fell down. All the audience just wowed. Then, he began to play. It's kinda impossible to describe. He's played three or four pieces with this installation and then took the microphone to explain how it worked... a little. At the end of the concert, we were allowed to get near the stage and take pictures. I will never forget this amazing and unique display, as the whole concert of course. (Stéphane from France).

He is a fucking genius, maybe most talented musician alive, period!

Haven't we always known how brilliant this man is?

Last time I saw this haircut on a musician was Beethoven. Coincidence?

I can relate to this since I play all of my own instruments. It’s like your imprint, style of improvisation, touch is unique and the same at the same time. It’s like you as 1 person have an identity for each instrument and the style is distinct. Hard to explain. Pat is a musical genius and I have a lot of great memories tied to his music.

If there was a Nobel music prize, this... this is it.

WOW ! I Don't belive it ! Pat lives in the futur... that's my explenation.

The way jazz makes me feel takes me back to my childhood. It makes me think of Christmas time...(when I get to spend it with my family). Pat is just so amazing.

I am a visual artist - but As the timate music consumer-Pat Matheney's sound is practically magical! It is poetic and memorable.Thanks -Tsvetana

Pat RULES! Still pushing the envelope after all these years! Beautiful!

this guy is space age... this is magical,beautiful!

For the interested, you can see many Orchestrians at the House On The Rock in Wisconsin. They truly are amazing. Makes me wonder if Pat has visited it.

This legendary musician is a one-man band!

Just saw Pat perform last night in Denver....awesome...amazing....

He might have the best guitar repair man in the world but he also has the worst barber.

4:56 Wooow! Those frets have seen some better days. I mean, I know he doesn't like re-fretting his guitars, but this is ridiculous.

This is amazing.

Pat's maturity and growth as an artist never ceases to amaze: Thanks PM for sharing your gift.

we are blessed to have pat in our descenie

This still blows me away 😮

I totally get this. A few years ago I got to experience one of those vintage Orchestral wagons that a technician had painstakingly restored and was touring it around at little fairs. Metheny has taken that concept, expanded it to his liking and needs. What a rush to be able to play for hours and not be interrupted with anyone too tired, or needing to use the bathroom and whatever. He can be absorbed into his own tapestry of musical creation and not be disturbed by anyone. Simply awesome and most obviously genius. Loved it !!

Genius!

If Mr. Metheny were an engineer or a scientist, he would be Dr Metheny and become Nicolas Tesla coming back to life in 21th century. His hairstyle is very Dr Brownish. And his studio looks like a laboratory.

So, if I just walk into a music store disguised as PM and plug a guitar into an amp I can make all the other instruments in the store respond right! 😂

Maybe Pat should think on a change of look...new clothes,a haircut...as he ages he looks like more and more as Tom Cruise in Pat Metheny's disguise

Damn! He now needs nobody......I wonder what Prince could have done? Amazing!

Finally, I saw him in person, last Saturday in Berkeley, CA. It was wonderful, but definitely, I would have loved to hear him play my favorite of his, "Are You Going My Way?"

Its sad, He's a brilliant musician in fanciful isolation.

i love this mo fo since th first time i heard the first song by him have u heard and them through with jaco til seret story to all th albums but this is AMAZIN!!!!!!!!!AND M A GIRL I WISH TO C HIM LIVE ONCE IN MY LIFE!! GOD BLESS U AND YR T SHIRT WITH STRIPES!!!!

Beautiful work !

Really amazing...like the old steam fair music attractions we had in UK, takes me back to childhood. A visual treat as well as aural. Now, here's an idea how would this concept sit with Buckethead ??? Pat / Buckethead / Roborchestra .. the mind boggles... Peace x

Wow how awesome

He's on a whole other level most guys, even the other greats will never reach. Saw him in person on the Austin City Limits taping and it was like he was from another world.

Pat Metheny forever!!!

Pat Metheny is a musical genius! No one else out there with his ingenuity.... The man is amazing.... I have seen him only once, but would love to see him again.... Love u Pat 🥰👏👏👏🥰

@availablelight1 What are you talking about? Pat has an intense imagination and creative vision... He does tell a story, wtf are you talking about...

I always enjoy seeing the union of the STEM and art worlds like this. :)

@eysikal Pat Metheny - I love what he's done with his music, he's evolving it. He could have stayed content as so many musicians do, with what had already become a successful career, but instead he's moved on. He's a brave musician, most likely a genius.

He uses this on his 2021 tour to great effect.

I want one

Great! Great! Great!!

Complete Musician by a mile

C’est tout nouveau pour moi?

there is a wizard right there. tell you what

ça lui va bien tou ça avec sa coiffure de savant fou

Wow Revolution... I Liket!!!

Does he pick with the side of his pick?

6:27, that guitar needs a refret!!!!

the Mad Scientist of Music .. more power, mate! Lost track of Pat's work after the mid-90s .. after We Live Here & his gr8 live albums @ the time .. been curious about this project 4 a few yrs .. glad 4 the encounter .. just the push i need 2 refocus on my studies

celui que je considère comme le dernier génie musical remet le couvert avec une nouvelle trouvaille technologique (une de plus), j'ai vu le calendrier de sa tournée, rien en France à part une virée à Coutances en janvier dernier passée inaperçue, une date a Gand, cinq en Italie (je ne parle même pas de la Corée et du Japon)... il nous boude ou bien ? spirit of the air est mon préféré de l'album, un peu dans l'esprit de first circle.

Really beautiful

it's animusic for composition, improvisation, and live performance 😍 dream rig

To paraphrase Metheny's words, "Apart from Bach (and Pat!) we all suck!!!" Always magical and a true genius.

@InVINCEab13 wow, tell me, who do you listen to? this is by far the most impressive thing pat metheny has ever done. and metheny has accomplished a lot in music.

@sry110 The Orchestrion is is genius, but it seems a waste of its potential to makr it sound like a smooth Jazz band. No doubt Metheny is a good guitar player, but it would be cool to hear the Orchestrion manned by somebody with a more intense imagination and creative vision.... something more cinematic and dynamic that tells a story and takes you on a sonic journey.

@availablelight1 .....are you kidding? Pat is pioneering something. Who else has gone to this extreme and could even pull something like this off?

He started the last tune with a riff that was doubled by the bass. He said 'something's not right', fiddled and tried again. Someone yelled 'turn it off and back on again,' but same result. So he played Phase Dance acapella. Then he started Sueno on the acoustic, creating a loop to play over, but this also cut out, so he did the tune just on the Ibanez.Pat remained gracious throughout but was clearly crestfallen. It later emerged (see Yahoo grp) it was his fault - user error.

he controls other instruments thru a midi pickup? seems like hes brought a guitar synth to life. i dont hear any wind or brass instruments. I'll bet hes gonna find a way to get a sax in there somehow.

Ah - now I know what the last tune was supposed to be. In London we didn't get to hear it because the orchestrion gave out. We got unaccompanied Phase Dance instead. And Sueno went wrong as well. Poor Pat.

@Elin48 Yes, I agree. I was merely poking a little fun at your mistake in the title of your favorite song of his. "Are You Going with Me" is the correct title.

@jessfancher LOL Pat Metheny hasn't changed his hair in the last 30 years! He looks exactly the same, just a bit older, as he did when I saw him in concert back in 1980 in my student days.

Pat is my favorite jazz player hands down today but it would be nice if he left the orchestrion at home. There is no way and I repeat NO WAY that a machine will replicate the deftness and subtlety of the human actually playing the instrument. We are talking milliseconds here folks in the difference of interpretation and volume nuances as well.

One of my virtuous guitarrist that I prefer! What an virtuos work! I imagine the work that whole process must be taken!

@tehvirisken Did he play any of his older songs with the new equipment? Please tell me !!! Im going to see him in May, i can't wait - thank you

I'm a huge fan of Larry Carlton and Robben Ford and related bluesy players, but Pat Metheny just keeps blowing me away. He is truly a musical genius who just happens to be playing the guitar.

Ive seen him yesterday in Valladolid (Spain) and he was excellent, i couldn't ever imagine something like that, its impossible to describe it, you jsuthave to see it.

Pat Metheny is without a doubt the musician with the highest level of knowledge and talent of our time. He is the greatest of this era. If the great master Yoda where a human and played the guitar, he would have an afro kind-of hair style :D

@eysikal ...lol, I see, I must have been very tired when I wrote it. That happens sometimes. I guess I was confusing Pat Metheny with Frank Sinatra.

I saw him recently live in concert Tivoli, Copenhagen, performing the entire new album which was great. He also talked about the project in a humorous way. Among other tunes performed were "Make Piece", "The Sound of Water" (piccasso guitar) (love the sound he get's on that guitar (as well as the synth guitar), "Antonia", ended with "Stranger In Town" and "Sueno con Mexico", in all a great great concert from a great man/musician.

La verdad es que fue increíble lo de anoche en Riojaforum de Logroño , no podia creer que controlace todos los instrumentos con su guitarra , una coordinación y maestría nunca vista. fueron poco más de 2 horas de deleite musical..si llegase a volver me apunto enceguida.

my question is how all the rythmic patterns were created? is it the same simultaneous response as with the piano?? amazing!!!!

Ayer disfruté la ocasión de asistir al concierto con el que Pat nos deleito en Logroño, nunca lo olvidaré fué simplemente "Genial" nadie se imaginaba lo que iba a ver allí. Tremendamente recomendable en directo.

I went to this concert at UNC last week. UNREAL! PHENOMENOL!!!! I've been a fan of Pat's for over 20 yrs....but to see him live, for the first time, and on this particular tour will be unforgettable. I really hope a Blu Ray DVD of this tour is released.

I am a great PM fan but I am not sure he convinced me. I would have tosee this stuff live.

@InVINCEab13 HOLY SHIT, InCINVEab13 ISN'T IMPRESSED. SOMEONE CALL THE POLICE

@AgentZeroForTheWin cool that you know who lenny and tal are, but try being a bit more open minded

Saw Pat at this year's Monterey Jazz Festival. Had the orchestrion which was "interesting" but far preferred his set with Christian McBride and Jack DeJohnette.

The fact that this is a top rated comment on a video on Pat Metheny made me lose some more faith in humanity.

Que le pasa a este negro... cada vez es más raro jaja... groso!!!

PAT you are not human and this will give you immortality!! Thank you for all your work.

This is kind of creepy, but Pat deserves it.

@BeatBay Yes can someone explain technically why does he use the pickup in that way ?

@LyleMays;Let cool yourself down!! cool down!!!