Futurama Music

Information, please, about the theme music from Futurama?

Instruments?
Composer?
Influences?
Similar music?
Extended versions?

IMDB credits Christopher Tyng as the series’ composer.

It’s played on the tubular bells, and it was influenced by Pierre Henry and Michel Colombier’s “Psyche Rock”.

Here’s Psyche Rock on Youtube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=TKz4qVmUz84

That is so cool. i had no idea that the geekiness that pervades the show extended even to where they stole the theme tune from.

Chris Tyng expresses in the commentaries how proud he is of having resurrected commercial use of the oft disregarded boobams.