Perhaps this is why music is so vital and forms an important part of our identity. In the right mood and setting, even the most mundane pop tune can bring a flood of memories, emotion, bliss, anger, tears. But all music is a spiritual tool of some sort. Was the original intention for it to be a spiritual tool in any capacity? We provide the music, money, and cards the audience builds its own fun based on the tools at hand. To lighten it up, and also make the CD a bit more participatory, we will ship the disc with a bespoke "party pack" featuring our freshly-minted FM3 money and a deck of playing cards detailing info about the artists. We are currently working on a remix CD featuring 15 Chinese underground artists who will compose songs based around the Buddha loops.
For Zhang and me, play is a very important part of our conceptual process and we try to imbue an element of fun into everything we do. It opens the mind to wander, create, or just simply coast. Like a Lego block, the Buddha Machine is simple and solid on its own add a few other machines and a myriad of possibilities bloom."* "The interaction between the machines creates an endless and shifting listening experience.It seems that especially when people start putting the machines together and experimenting with the interactions that a very playful kind of activity takes place, one that is also sort of inherently meditative. If a toy is a tool for discovery and enjoyment, then the machine serves this purpose. Whether or not it's a toy, Zhang and I have never discussed this and it only came up in a few reviews of the object. In the early days of the project, we explained to people that we wanted to make a pocket radio permanently tuned to one station: FM3. Together we have a band called FM3, which is the phonetic sound of the Chinese band name AiFuAiMuSan. I designed the machine in Beijing with my bandmate Zhang Jian. What follows is a discussion about the Buddha Machine with Christiaan Virant.Īs the designer of the Buddha Machine, how do you describe the object? Do you think of it as a toy at all? The simple box looks like a toy radio from the '80s, and for disciples of that era, it embodies all the characteristics of a spiritually charged toy. Now, the Buddha Machine has grown to become a cult object, bordering on iconic, complete with its own subterranean global community and all sorts of emergent fan creations. Under the band name FM3, Zhang Jian and Christiaan Virant designed the Buddha Machine in Beijing, China in what started as an idea for a new way to release an album of meditative sound loops. By the way, the website does not support small screen currently.This week, featured pieces from the videogame arts and culture magazine Kill Screen include a look at the Buddha Machine by Scott Wayne Indiana and an analysis of gender in World of Warcraft by Michael Thomsen. If you can read Chinese, welcome! We will make English version website later.
WARCRAFT 3 NIRVANA UPDATE
We will update new versions with English translated here only. Our team is still working on the Chinese version, although we will not work on the English version any more. We have already held a game called NEL with the Chinese version.
However the Chinese version puts more emphasis on balance. It is more like a combination of all new things. The English version does not consider balance. The Nirvana has both English and Chinese version. Unfortunately, it stops updating because fucckz has stopped working on that and he has left our team. That is the English version of Nirvana and the latest version is 1.0. Some of you may notice that there is an another version of Nirvana released on moddb by fucckz(we call him DumplingG). Lots of war3's models(units, structures, trees, etc) are replaced with new models and skins. Also, there are a lot of new neutral heroes can be chose. There is a new race called NAGA in this mod.
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