Post Description

“The Orchestrion Project” was filmed in high definition 3D at the former St Elias Church in Greenpoint, Brooklyn in November 2010. It features Pat Metheny on guitar performing with the Orchestrion, a vast collection of mechanical instruments that surround Pat Metheny in this atmospheric setting. The focus of the performance is the “Orchestrion Suite”, a work written specifically for this combination and debuted on Pat Metheny’s “Orchestrion” album released earlier in 2010. Added to this are other tracks from across Metheny’s prolific career going right back to “Unity Village” from his debut solo album “Bright Size Life” in 1976 and including other tracks from the seventies, eighties and nineties. This is a unique collaboration between a master guitarist and the pinnacle of mechanical music. 

Technical Specs
Blu-ray 3D
BD-50 Dual-Layer Disc

Video Resolution/Codec
1080p/AVC MPEG-4

Aspect Ratio(s)
1.68:1

Audio Formats
English Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (96 kHz / 8421 kbps / 16-bit)
English LPCM 2.0 (48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit)

Subtitles/Captions
None

01. Unity Village
The Orchestrion Suite:
02. Orchestrion
03. Entry Point
04. Expansion
05. Soul Search
06. Spirit of the Air 
07. Sueсo con Mexico
08. Stranger in Town

Supplements
Bonus Songs (HD; 21:22) include: Improvisation #1, 80/81 Broadway Blues, Tell Her You Saw Me and Antonia
The Interview (HD; 5:14) features Pat in October 2009 talking about the genesis of the project. Pat's lifelong love affair with his grandfather's player piano in Wisconsin is what started the master guitarist thinking about doing something like this
Making Of (HD; 15:28) gets more into the literal nuts and bolts of how Pat engineered this technology to work for this project
EPK (HD; 7:09). At last! Truth in advertising! This is a little promo piece Pat obviously put together to advertise the project
Orchestrion Studio Session (HD; 16:11) is from October 2009 and shows the piece being performed and recorded
Expansion Studio Session (HD; 9:06) does similar service for this selection, though this one is especially interesting to watch because it features so much percussion