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  • SolarBeat is described as an “ambient musicbox” whose sound is programmed by the layout and rotation of our solar system.

    KN | Kitsune Noir » ‘SolarBeat’ by Whitevinyl 2010

  • I decided to post this particular track because it really showcases Nobody's production - I think its a strikingly beautiful song - the sharpness and delicacy of the musicbox/harpsichord arrangement, the loping, melodic bassline, and the huge crunching drumbeat ... it really makes my day.

    Who's There? (Music (For Robots)) 2005

  • I decided to post this particular track because it really showcases Nobody's production - I think its a strikingly beautiful song - the sharpness and delicacy of the musicbox/harpsichord arrangement, the loping, melodic bassline, and the huge crunching drumbeat ... it really makes my day.

    Music (For Robots): April 2005 Archives 2005

  • Loss of family, trying to overcome grief, finding solace in a mansion that has its own history of grief... have that history come alive from the attraction of two griefs being so near to eachother... the child's room upstairs must be included, so must the child-size wheelchair and musicbox with the uncanny resemblance to the music being composed by the newest grief-stricken resident of the old mansion.

    Filmstalker: The Changeling remake moves forward 2007

  • If John never 'felt a loss' and had this grief, he would never have left his hometown to find a retreat elsewhere from his pain, moved to the vacant mansion, composed the melody from the musicbox or come in contact with the ghost-child.

    Filmstalker: The Changeling remake moves forward 2007

  • As the smell of Gauloises and Citroen crankcase coffee wafted over the Leftish Bank, a striped-shirted minstrel fingering a mournful musette on his musicbox summoned eventide…And Rhee-Shard, applying the trade secrets of Belgian harlots, powdered and preened in preparation for his nightly exhibition of decadent culture at the Cul De Mouche cabaret, ‘Mes Mammy Jamericain’…

    Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Waiting for Wankette 2006

  • At the fairgrounds we saw them in the parking lot inhaling the effluvium of carnival, the smells of fried dough, caramel and cinnamon, the flap-flapping of tents, a carousel plinking out musicbox songs, voluptuous sounds bouncing down tent ropes and along the trampled dust of the midway.

    The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

  • At the fairgrounds we saw them in the parking lot inhaling the effluvium of carnival, the smells of fried dough, caramel and cinnamon, the flap-flapping of tents, a carousel plinking out musicbox songs, voluptuous sounds bouncing down tent ropes and along the trampled dust of the midway.

    The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

  • At the fairgrounds we saw them in the parking lot inhaling the effluvium of carnival, the smells of fried dough, caramel and cinnamon, the flap-flapping of tents, a carousel plinking out musicbox songs, voluptuous sounds bouncing down tent ropes and along the trampled dust of the midway.

    The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

  • This is actually a musicbox mechanism run by a clock spring ...

    The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

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