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Jukebox Buddha.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
Jukebox Buddha. Staubgold 72, 2006.
It is not necessary to know where this weird, quiet, and strangely fascinating music comes from in order to enjoy it, but the story is too irresistible not to tell. The fifteen tracks on this album all have their origins in the Buddha Machine, a small soundbox produced in China that plays a number of different Buddhist prayers, each repeated infinitely. The technology was co-opted by a duo called FM3 (expatriate American, Christiaan Virant and Chinese keyboardist, Zhang Jian), who have created and now distribute a Buddha Machine of their own that includes nine loops of their own music. Not content simply to distribute this music in its original form, they also solicited a wide variety of producers, remixers, and experimentalists to take musical material from the Buddha Machine and use it as raw material for their own creations. Some of the ...
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- Magazine article from: Los Angeles Magazine Mullen, Michael April 1, 2006 700+ words
THE BUDDHA MACHINE is seeping into L.A.'s digital consciousness. It's a device...spooky loops through a crackling speaker. Retailing for $23, the Buddha Machine is about as lo-fi as the digital age can get, but that's part...
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- Newspaper article from: Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT) May 11, 2006 700+ words
...electronic gadgetry was Zen, it's the Buddha Machine. No, it's not a doomsday device...Gordon Lightfoot songs, though, the Buddha Machine comes stocked with nine different loops...jack and a power adaptor input (the Buddha Machine also runs on two AA batteries). A...
- ZENDESK SECURES FUNDING FROM CRV, OPENS US HEADQUARTERS.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News May 7, 2009 700+ words
...bring good help desk karma to organizations large and small. Zendesk's approach ranges from the modern help desk to the Buddha Machine Wall where ambient patterns from Chinese musicians FM3 soothe away the edge of the office. Follow @zendesk on Twitter...
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- Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England) November 17, 2009 700+ words
...the Blyth-based New and Renewable Energy Centre. Sunderland Winter Gardens will have a sound installation featuring the Buddha Machine, a Chinese gadget which plays Buddhist chants. A "restful, Zen-like experience" is promised. Mima (Middlesbrough...
- The Hartford Courant, Conn., Eric R. Danton column: Take a walk on the mild...
- Newspaper article from: Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT) April 19, 2007 700+ words
...unpredictability sounds like an oxymoron, but these pieces certainly help shut out the noise of everyday life. Like last year's Buddha Machine project by experimental duo FM3, these aren't songs as such; the music is a series of steady tones and low thrumming...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 6, 2009 700+ words
...bring good help desk karma to organizations large and small. Zendesk's approach ranges from the modern help desk to the Buddha Machine Wall where ambient patterns from Chinese musicians FM3 soothe away the edge of the office. Follow @zendesk on Twitter...
