Can anyone identify this piece?

[psygnisfive]

A few years ago there was this TV show Big Thinkers, and in many of its episodes it used a piano piece that I've been trying to identify since I first heard it (8 or so years at this point )

It's a quick almost mechanical sounding piece, a bit remeniscent of Raymond Scott's Powerhouse in mood, and Philip Glass in structure, but it's not melancholy like Glass is. I've had people tell me to look at Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, etc. but I've yet to find anything like it. You can here it in the background of the show here: https://wellnowwhat.net/transfers/btpiano.mp3

Any help would be awesome. Thanks guys.

(Also, first post. heh.)

[retrouvailles]

This just sounds like something that one of the in-house composers just whipped out for the purposes of underscoring a television show, which they very well could have. It really isn't anything special, and it wasn't meant to be. Even (the majority of) Glass's music has a greater sense of purpose to it. Heck, you could even notate the whole thing by ear if you wanted to, for it isn't that complicated.

[psygnisfive]

Oh, I'm sure it's nothing special, and it probably was in-house, except that the production company for this show didn't actually make any music for the show, they just reused pre-existing music from archival films and stuff. I'm just hoping that its some random known work by someone or other that I could find. I like the style, it's got an early 20th century optimism "Factories! Industry! Progress! Ever forward, never backward!" feel to it, and I want to find more like that but I have no idea who to look for. :\

[Bob]

Yes, sounds a little like Glass.  And Al Gore.