Ha! On that composition: I have no ear for Western classical music, and familiarity with neither the organ as a musical instrument nor the Bible's Book of Revel

Ha! On that composition: I have no ear for Western classical music, and familiarity with neither the organ as a musical instrument nor the Bible's Book of Revelation, but even so, I can guess this project is… unique. He calls it (https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/fant.html https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/fant.html) a "somewhat literal translation" of the book into music. So for example he goes over each verse of the book, and (almost) each time it mentions "angel" he plays an 8-note arpeggio, every time it mentions "blood" he has "coagulated" (clustered) notes, and so on, setting up "dictionary" of 100+ motifs (https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/motif-dict-utf8.html https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/motif-dict-utf8.html). He explains it in these videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JvdanSygfg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JvdanSygfg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1R9eY-8jL4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1R9eY-8jL4, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_1a6bHGQGo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_1a6bHGQGo). Looking through his list of musical allusions (https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/rev-cite https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/rev-cite) I see things like Bruce Springsteen, even a washing machine's power on/off cycle sound. He mentions a couple of pieces of rap music for verse Revelation 3:20; maybe the reason is the same joke as https://xkcd.com/133/ https://xkcd.com/133/? Overall, the project seems so crazy (is this the way anyone writes music?) that one can't help being impressed. The full performance is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjxsZa3Ylao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjxsZa3Ylao — haven't listened to it, but online I've seen both some extremely negative and some extremely positive comments. :-) I have heard that he is a skilled organ player as you said; just earlier while searching for something else I saw a blog post about Rajeev Motwani's memorial (http://blog.geomblog.org/2009/09/rajeev-motwani-memorial.html http://blog.geomblog.org/2009/09/rajeev-motwani-memorial.htm...) which mentions “Don Knuth was the organist for the entire ceremony, and played pieces you didn't think could be played on a church organ”.