Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2012 February 08 • Wednesday

When I participated in Lucio Menegon's Music for Driving and Film shows last December, one of the bonuses was being invited to join Richard Lainhart's Orchestra of the Future to perform a live improvised score to the short film "History of the Future", which Richard had created from "technical, medical, and instructional animations from the 30s through the 70s, all of it public-domain content from the Prelinger Archives".

We closed the evening at Exapno with it and it was a blast. It went remarkably well and I was excited to do it again someday.

It turned out to be Richard's last performance. You can read about his untimely passing here.

On Sunday, March 4, there will be a Memorial for him at Roulette and the Orchestra of the Future will again play for his "History of the Future" film. I'm honored to have been asked to be part of it. Right now I'm thinking of leaving the guitar at home and playing koto synthesizer and theremin on this gig. I've performed on theremin a couple of times but this will be my debut with koto synth.