chimescape #411 / invented instruments #243

"Pierre Bastien - Air de Style Exquis A track from the album "Eggs Air Sister Steel". Released on the In-Poly-Sons label (IPS 10-94) in France in 1996. Composed and mixed by Pierre Bastien. This piece included the use of the Mecanium. "This is one of the inventions of the composer Pierre Bastien - a sixty-pieces orchestra made of Meccano parts, electro-motors and acoustic instruments from all over the world. According to the type of instrument that is included, each automaton plays a short melody, a rhythm or some harmony repeated in a loop."