I'm holding out for the thunder machine.
The thunder machine is used in the moment of the destruction of Klingsor's castle.
This hugely problematic score, which lasts more than four hours, employs the heaviest Straussian orchestration, including an army of tubas and trombones, wind and thunder machines, bass drum, sleigh bells and glass harmonica.
It is scored for an enormous orchestra, complete with an organ, a wind machine, a thunder sheet and batteries of brass playing offstage.
Eye, as he calls himself, began the roughly two-hour performance with an electro-kinetic display: clutching a glowing orb in each hand, he used some dramatic semaphore to produce effects both visual and aural, like a thunder-and-lightning machine.
"You see us creating this sound world, using quite a range of objects: wind machines, twigs, leaves, a thunder sheet.
The Arkestra has become a celestial biofeedback machine, a thundering angel band, and Sun Ra, crowned, robed and serene on keyboard, is at its center, as majestic as an aging Rembrandt.
Jacob Adler, this was a thunder, a rotten voice is not a thunder!
These rockets cause a thunder storm.
Bunkers may suffice for a while, but even a thunder lizard can't survive long on magic alone.
