5 Visionaries.
4) Raymond Scott Raymond Scott - "B.C. 1675" (The "Gillette" Conga Drum Jingle)
Raymond lived in the future and didn’t understand the present, so while he dreamed of machines that played by themselves, rhythm generators, instruments capable of sounds never heard before, orchestras confined in a box, typewriters that wrote music and then played it, others became rich and famous with his ideas and gave names to those dreams and that strange music.
Carl Stalling, Robert Moog, Kraftwerk, Esquivel, Brian Eno, Stereolab, the Residents, and many, many others...
He dreamed and created, the right lobe and the left lobe worked in harmony. Pianist and engineer, he envisioned gentle electronics serving harmless and pleasant music: jingles, cartoon music, background music, scores for films, radio soundtracks.
He collected inventions, marriages, and heart attacks.
And he kept dreaming: music traveling on brain waves, sounds to be launched into space, beams of light flashing in the dark, the bastions of Orion...