While resolving an earlier dispute with a local record store yesterday, I noticed a strange looking object in the box set display case, labeled "FM3, extremely rare," with no price mentioned. The ...

The Buddha Machine is like a Brian Eno sound installation piece that you can fit in your pocket. Designed by the Chinese experimental art duo FM3, Buddha Machines are small, battery-operated boxes ...

It's not a digital audio player (at least not in the traditional sense), it's barely even much of a device at all. The FM3 Buddha Machine is just an audio out jack, an on off switch, and an integrated ...

This past weekend, I went to a wedding wherein our parting gifts were the fabulous FM3 Buddha Machines. (Somehow, I managed to leave with three.) The devices, created in 2005 by Beijing-based ...

Last year, Virant released a solo album, Fistful of Buddha, which was among the top 40 records of 2012 for music critic Sasha Frere-Jones, an admirer of FM3's work who often listens to a Buddha ...

There are several “serenity” apps on the AppStore, though none may have the cache of Buddha Machine, an iPhone/iPod Touch version of the cultural icon brainchild of Beijing-based musicians Christiaan ...

Christiaan Virant's life has been taken over by a small plastic box. Fortunately, he's happy about it. Virant, an American, is half of Beijing-based experimental electronic music pioneers FM3, along ...

Synthesist Robert Henke celebrates the FM3 Buddha Machine on this richly ambient production that parlays the instrumentation-based sounds/loops into a sort of omnipresent reckoning. Henke cites the ...

When Stereogum got our Buddha Machine a few months ago, we didn't quite know what to make of it. The iPod-looking device, brainchild of electronica artists FM3, has got a volume control, headphone ...

Minimum machine: The lack of multiple options makes the Buddha Machine even more appealing Sometimes a product comes along that is so poorly made, so awkwardly packaged, so undermarketed, so bereft of ...

The innovative, enigmatic, and vaguely creepy portable loop-playing device known as __ the Buddha Machine __ will return this week in a new incarnation. __ Buddha Machine 2.0 __ comes in three new ...