RC CIRCUIT BENT FM3 BUDDHA MACHINE DRONE SYNTH

YouTube via djwidow420 | January 25, 2011 |

"CIRCUIT BENT MKII BUDDHA MACHINE"

via this auction
"THIS CLASSIC DEVICE HAS NOW BEEN FITTED WITH AN EXTENDED PITCH RANGE AND IS NOW CAPABLE OF NOT JUST TRANQUAL SOUNDSCAPES, BUT DEMONIC DRONES, ATMOSPHERIC PADS AND RHYTHMIC GLITCHNESS

SPECIFICATION
SOUND SELECT PUSH BUTTON
USE TO SELECT THROUGH THE 9 SOUNDSCAPES
VOLUME CONTROL
PITCH CONTROL
MODIFIED PITCH CONTROL KNOB
PROVIDES A GREATER PITCH RANGE WITH EERIE LOWS AND GLITCHED OUT HIGHS
INTERNAL SPEAKER REMOVED TO ALLOW FOR MOD CONTROL
RED LED INDICATOR
MINI JACK OUTPUT
POWERED BY 2 X 1.5V BATTERIES
CUSTOM RESONANCE CIRCUITS MODIFICATION AND CASE DECAL"

Suitcase Music Studio

YouTube via insanic4 | January 21, 2011 |

"Here is a little experiment with my suitcase music studio. It has the following devices:

Korg Kaoss Pad Mini
Korg Kaossilator
Korg Monotron
Korg SR1 Sound on Sound
MFB Nanozwerg
FM3 Buddha Machine
Rolls MX41b
Art PowerMix III
Nintendo DSI XL with Korg DS10
Apple iPod Touch with Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer
MAM Map1

The audio was recorded with the Korg MR-2000S."

Lorne at the PNW Synth Gathering 2010

YouTube via matrixsynth | July 28, 2010

"Lorne (http://www.youtube.com/kidtronic) goes over his various noisemakers including a modified Roland Compuphonic Jupiter-4 at the Pacific Northwest Synth Gathering.

via Lorne: "The Compuphonic Jupiter 4 is custom modified with four banks of eight user memories. On top are space rockets gristleisms, fm3s, original buddha boxes, a postcard weevil and the jackson pollock-ish item is a Dearraindrop videoscope [video below] by critter & guitari for audio to video synthesis."

Other noisemakers include the Shruti-1, Casper Electronics Drone Lab, Eric Archer, 4ms, and Where's the Party At 8-bit sampler. Click here for all PNW 2010 posts. Another MATRIXSYNTH T :) I added this and John's video to the MATRIXSYNTH Ts post.

New York Times Features the FM3 Buddha Machine

"A few years ago, an experimental music duo called FM3 toured Europe, playing a 40-minute set that the duo’s founder Christiaan Virant describes as “very reductionist, very minimalist, very sparse.” He and Zhang Jian, who are based in Beijing, performed on laptops. Some of these compositions were later released on a CD by Staalplaat, a specialty label based in Amsterdam; it sold about a thousand copies. In the context of avant-garde music, that’s not bad: “If someone can sell 2,000 CDs,” Virant says with a laugh, “they’re like a superstar.” So it’s hard to find the right superlative to describe what happened when some of that same sparse music was released again — not on CD but in a little plastic box called the Buddha Machine. Two years later, sales are approaching 50,000 units and still going strong."

Title link takes you to the full article. via matthew.

FM3 Buddha box

YouTube via dosle.
"messing with the FM3, releasing audio ghosts"

Update via Matt: FM3 Buddha Machine website.
"I bought mine off Turntablelab.com a few months ago. It's a fun ambient machine to get creative juice going. It gets me doing some abstract beats playing it and noodling with the MPC ;)."

FM3 Buddha Machine

Update: Via Tom of Music Thing in the comments:
samples here:
http://www.fm3.com.cn/work.htm

Via Boing Boing. Apparently Brian Eno puchased a few of these. If anyone finds any samples, please share.



"Fm 3 is opening a new special series of Staalplaat. The Buddha Machine is a small soundbox made in China which comes with an integrated speaker, a volume control, minijack-out and and a switch to choose between 9 different loops which are stored on a small chip and can be directly plaid by this mini soundsystem. A number of other artists will continue this series soon.
Limited to 300 copies."