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February 27, 2006
Buddha Machine
A small plastic buddha sits inside a small plastic case surrounded by electronics - speakers, switches, leds, digital circuits, batteries. Turn the machine on and it plays a meditation loop. Reset it and it plays another loop. A miniature sound installation.
The Buddha Machine is built by fm3, a musical duo consisting of Christiaan Virant and Zhang Jian. It was inspired by the chanting devices often sold at Chinese temples, a digital equivalent of the more traditional prayer wheels and wind chimes.
Dispite mass production efforts, or perhaps because of them, each machine plays at a slightly different pitch and slightly different. It's a pocket sized sound performance installation machine.
Interview with Chistiaan Virant by Marc Weidenbaum, Buddha in the Machine, Disquiet (ambient /electronica) at http://www.disquiet.com/fm3buddha.html
The tracks are available for download from http://www.fm3.com.cn/in the form: http://www.fm3.com.cn/9/1.mp3, etc.
Track Listing
1 Ma
2 Zheng
3 Sheng
4 B1
5 Yang
6 Xiao
7 Zhong
8 B2
9 Wu
Via Google alert on iPod: "Forget about iPod and grab an iGod," Jeremy Watson, Scotland on Sunday
Sunday, 26 February 2006, a
Posted by sjc at February 27, 2006 7:34 AM
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