absolut machine

a canonical ensemble.

This is a repository for all Absolut Machine documents, for availability for others that may need them.

Some time lapse movies from the Absolut Quartet process:
Time Lapse 01 - Load in front view
Time Lapse 02 - Load in side view
Time Lapse 03 - Frames front
Time Lapse 04 - Load in top view
Time Lapse 05 - Front view
Time Lapse 06 - testing
Time Lapse 07
Time Lapse 08 - working in warehouse
Time Lapse 09 - Top view warehouse
Time Lapse 10 - Frame work
Time Lapse 11 - More frame work

Press possible photos of the Absolut Quartet:






A bunch of pictures from the machinists in Mexico!





Movies from Kevin Guaspari over at PTM: The making of the wine discs and disc covers.
Movie 1
Movie 2
Movie 3
Movie 4
Movie 5


Pictures from the Assembly party, woo!!


Pictures from Kevin Guaspari, from Precision Turn and Machine, who made wine covers and disks for the wine playing machine:







Pictures from Dave Wood over at New Age Prototypes, who did some plastic pushrod work for us.

Also click here for a movie of the plastic being milled.


Pictures from Joe Graas who did all the welding of the ball returns, like an old pinball machine.





Pictures from Neri, showing the process of her designing the circular cutout pattern for percussion instrumentation:





Pictures from Dieter at K+K sound systems, designing the custom microphone system for the marimba layout:
A picture of Dieter




More movies, from the assembly party and Orian on the wine glass tip:
Assembly Party
Men At Work
First Algorithmic Song And Bill on Drums
Jeff On Electronics
Large Glass Chord
More Glass Chord
Un'tapped' potential
Single Shooter Repeating Fast
It's very late.
Glass shop with Orian - full details!
More Glasses and Details
Very Close Glass Details


Some pics that are funny maybe to someone:

Our ad will be the new Absolut world.

Take note, 6 of the last 8 worldwide fabrication awards were made by us on MFG.com!


Some more movies from the French visit, etc.:
Fabric Try 1
Ball Return System
Ball Catch B Roll
Jeff Eats Balls
New PArts
Photo Crew is Here
Oobleck
A Professional Photographer
Painting a backdrop
We all can see the sign.
The way back
Hard workin
Measuring glasses and mechanics
Photographer and models
Hangin workin
Robo Interview
Interview with a Vacuum
Wine Glass Concerto with Ahhhh


2007.12.03:
New wino assembly render
2007.12.03:
Current machine layout


2007.11.27: Some new pictures
7-key prototype frame
49 key assembly
Welded frame


New print ads from TBWA planned, to be shot by Laurent Seroussi:


Files:

Videos for the Trend Movie, etc:




Some new videos:



Some pictures from the Sweden Trip:
Dan at the meeting place
Jeff Silhouette at Teenage Engineering
Photographer shooting Teenage Engineering


Updated proposal

A billion movies! Chronologically: