Mark Applebaum, also known as the mad scientist of music is a composer that breaks the rules of music to create a more interesting sound for all along with himself to hear. Within the video Applebaum refers to the question, “Is it Music?” for the audience to ponder throughout his presentation. The major focus of the presentation as stated by Applebaum is his boredom for music and how he uses that to turn what he finds tedious into something interesting. Applebaum presents the audience with ten roles that he uses within his music. These roles are interpreter, improviser, inventor, composer, visual artist, scavenger, designer, performance artist, dramaturge, and choreographer. In the role as an inventor Applebaum showed the audience an instrument