Bow to the FM3 Buddah machine

The Buddha Machine is a small musical loop player. The name and idea derived from a popular Chinese music player similar to the FM3 that intones repeating loops of Buddhist chanting. It continuously plays one of 9 ambient sound loops (drones) that range in length from 5 to 40 seconds.
The second edition has 9 new loops and a wheel to bend the pitch.
An interesting article from 'The Far Eastern Audio Review' here icluding secular machines from Tibet and Taiwan which includes a semi-transparent image of the bodhisattva Guanyin sitting on a lotus flower. Behind her, a swirling, kaleidoscope of rainbow light beams emerges in a mesmerizing 3-D effect.
There are also videos of these machines playing against each other!

Interview with FM3’s Christiaan Viant here.
You can play the machines over the web at Zendesk here.
Finally a review of the 'Jukebox Buddah' album featuring exclusive contributions by Adrian Sherwood + Doug Wimbish, Blixa Bargeld, sunnO))), Thomas Fehlmann, Sun City Girls, Gudrun Gut, Kammerflimmer Kollektief, Jan Jelinek/Andrew Ekler/Hanno Leichtmann, Mapstation, Aki Onda, Robert Henke, Es, Alog, Minit and Wang Fan all of whom used these machines here.

Bonus:
Sunn O)))
Adrian Sherwood & Doug Wimbish
Blixa Bargeld

Tracks from 'Jukebox Buddah'