Today’s home-office ambience: six Buddha Machines (including two of the first generation and one from each of the subsequent four generations), plus a guest star in the form of the somewhat less meditative Gristleism box, which is the black square one on the right. Gristleism was a 2009 collaboration between Buddha Machine creators FM3 and the band Throbbing Gristle. Note that, in true Buddha Machine style, the battery on the green one was starting to go (following a weekend of [significant](https://disquiet.com/2020/04/18/buddha-machine-variations-no-5/) modular-synthesizer [effort](https://disquiet.com/2020/04/19/buddha-machine-variations-no-6/)), which is why the light turns on and then suddenly off at one point.