The Variations are certainly much more mysterious than the joyous Gigue Machine, with its dogged ostinatos, snatches of curling melody and brilliant keyboard clockworks, which Hodges included later in his programme.
These machines seem particularly joyous in the summer sunshine because they can now tootle along an impressive new stretch of track.
Carried this far by fruitful amounts of denial and dysfunction, both men describe making Delta Machine as an unusually "joyous" experience.
The comedy of the conceit is not lost on the director, who sets up his leading machines for a long, cacophonous, and horribly joyous battle of the sexes, staged in a corporate bathroom.
Interestingly, much of this collection is presented as simulations of miniature machines inside the controller itself and reminded me of joyous times at Musée Mécanique in San Francisco.
Inspired by this, the immobile self-aware machines start singing along and the scene is filled with the joyous tones of street furniture gone totally bloody karaoke.
As co-founder, with JeromeLOL, of the wildly joyous Body High label, the crew is bringing hard, retro-ish dance vibes heavy on the Roland 808 drum machine and bounding with celebratory energy — raw, fast and loud.
Doller's poetry is like a pinball machine in Wizard Mode: All poetry's most explosive, unpredictable capacities have been activated, and the result is joyous pandemonium.
These are precision machines that, even in Auto mode, will reward the photographer, skilled or unskilled, with huge, crisp, brilliant, joyous photos.
Volunteers play copies of Mr. Kline's tape, in their own machines or in a dozen or two provided by the composer, and march through the city in joyous din.
