T.V.O.D.

Turn on the t.v., watch a movie, what do you get? Inane sitcoms, "Transformers," cops chasing serial killers for the umpteenth tim...

AJNA: A Giant, Strange Mechanical-Music Contraption

From Sweden comes some fantastic new videos of AJNA, a large musical robot that looks like Dr. Who's police box tricked out with drums, ...

I Will NOT Be Appearing On Radio Misterioso...

...this Sunday nite. Two hours of radio hijinks will be postponed to a later date. But the good news is, thanks to super-swell maniac Phil...

ROBOTS PLAY EXOTICA

- You got robots in my gamelan! - You got gamelan in my robots! Two great tastes that go great together: Gamelan Galak Tika (pronounced ...

Behold! The Kaleidocosmicorgrig - The Strangest Instrument EVER?!

I don't usually pay $10 for obscure old records - that's like real money - but how could I resist this description from the back c...

A DRUM MACHINE...BUT NOT THAT KIND OF DRUM MACHINE

Jens Peterson Berger of the great Swedish band Originalljudet has built a crazy contraption that puts a new spin on the term "drum ma...

FUN WITH SUN BOXES

Fayetteville's Craig Colorusso doesn't "compose" music so much as build gizmos that allow Mother Nature to write her own ...

Pierre Bastien's Musiques Machinales

(Vote for "M4M Idol" ! You've got 'til Oct. 6.) It's a "Two-For-Tuesday"! On Wednesday! Here are two absol...

TOYS VS ROBOTS: THE MAD GENIUS OF FRANK PAHL

UPDATE 7/25/11: album back on line F rank Pahl is one of the most criminally underrated composers/mad scientists at work today. And while I ...

SCIENCE GONE TOO FAR?!?

Some recent musical mad scientists: " The Chipophone is a homemade 8-bit synthesizer, especially suited for live chiptune playing. It ...

MORE MECHANICAL MUSICS

The collection of " mechanical music " I put together last month was a surprise hit, and it just so happens that some more music p...

No Humans Allowed - A Mechanical Music Sampler

UPDATE 4/21/10: New link to zip file. My attempts to post an album a day were foiled by yet another computer virus. A $250 repair bill, and...