The Buddha Machine: Fighting The Noise With Noise

This past weekend, I went to a wedding wherein our parting gifts were the fabulous FM3 Buddha Machines . (Somehow, I managed to leave with three.) The devices, created in 2005 by Beijing-based electronic musicians Christiaan Virant and Zhang Jian , resemble a cross between transistor radios and so-bright-they-could-be-edible decorative soaps. The Buddha Machine consists of audio loops of various lengths that play ad infinitum. There is a schematic on the FM3 Web site that I've yet t

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