FM3 on FM3

December 30, 2005 at 8:39 pm · Filed under China

Below is Fm3‘s Christiaan Virant‘s comment to my previous post “Fm3’s BM Chess Playing’ Video”. I’m posting it here because a). not all of you read comments; b). it’s always helpful to read the artist’s own account of his/her works – although it ain’t necessarily the definite reading.

What you see in the video is called “Buddha Boxing� or 佛打架. It is a “sound art game� we devised as a way of introducing audiences to the FM3 buddha machine. We played this “game� in Berlin, Brussels and Amsterdam in October and November of 2005. And then after a short match, we invite the audience to play the game and we just watch. Needless to say, the audience usually comes up with much more interesting ways of using the buddha machine than we could have ever imagined. And thats the beauty of the release. it is an “open source� music product that each person uses differently.

Next year, there will be two different albums release by different artists using the buddha machine in their own music. ill keep you updated as the release dates come closer…

The next “Buddha Boxing� set will be in Feb 2006 in Shanghai at the Duolun MoMA.

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