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“I built this machine…”

October 12th, 2008 Posted in music, technology

I love machine/music hybrids. It satisfies my mechanical, geeky, physics-PhD side while also socking it to the right-cortex. Physical parts are hot. Cogs, exposed mechanisms, gears… oh my. This guy — a street performer in Bath, the beautiful town next-door to Bristol, the city of my undergrad days — combines both with a semi-automatic guitar accompaniment to his fiddling:

I built this machine

because of unreliable guitarists

It don’t smoke!

It don’t drink!

And it’s never late.

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