Raymond Scott
How is it possible that I have lived all these years without ever having heard of Raymond Scott before? The man was a mad-scientist musician, equal parts Juan Garcia Esquivel and Leon Theremin, who composed whacky cartoon-style music and built giant scary machines with lots of knobs.
He even talked like a mad scientist:
It is not widely known who invented the circuitry concept for the automatic sequential performance of musical pitches – now well known as a sequencer.
I, however, do know who the inventor was – for it was I who first conceived and built the sequencer.
Cue maniacal laughter