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Each Music Machine explores a single idea. Some are simple, some more complex. All are generated by the computer within established
parameters, all run continuously until stopped by the listener and all are different each time they are played.

Some involve interaction by the listener either to make choices from a number of parameters (for example Music Machines 6 and 9)
or to press a button to “play’ along with a backing track (Music Machine 3), most require only to be listened to.

Music Machines share many similarities with the work of the English Experimental composers of the 1960s and 1970s.
There is a connection with the American minimalists through the use of a steady pulse, repetition and tonality. Music Machine 2 for
example could be entitled In C and Music Machine 4 will invariably involve glimpses of phasing.
These Music Machines use a variety of sound sources, some use the quicktime player that is built into the Mac operating
system, some use midi files and others use prerecorded audio files such as the sounds of coins dropping (Music Machine 5)
and Neil Armstrong's speech as he stepped onto the surface of the moon (Music Machine 8). Music Machine 15 is based on
both Satie's Vexations and Cage's Cheap Imitation.

At the moment most Music Machines will only work on a Mac running OS X although some are now available for Windows.