Repertoire
In 1974–75, German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen composed Tierkreis, a set of twelve pieces on the signs of the zodiac, for twelve music boxes.
Icelandic musician Björk makes use of disc-mechanism music boxes in the 2001 album Vespertine, with specially cut discs. London-based composer Richard Barrett has written a four-minute piece, 'trace', for two diatonic music boxes.
French musician Colleen released Colleen et les Boîtes à Musique in 2006—an album composed and recorded using only music boxes.
Electronica composer Aphex Twin created a piece called Nannou by sampling a music box.
Austrian composer Karlheinz Essl wrote two pieces for punch-tape controlled music box, Listen Thing (2008) and Pandora's Secret (2009, with live-electronics).
New Zealand electronica composer Rhian Sheehan uses music boxes as major instrumental and thematic devices, such as in 'Part 3' of his album Standing In Silence. Special edition pre-orders of the album came with a reproduction of the music box that played the main melody composed for the piece.
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