Gallery: The M Machine Builds iPad-Controlled Light Show From Scratch
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*Electronic band The M Machine built this giant, laptop-and-iPad-controlled light wall in its San Francisco warehouse.*
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*The members of the M Machine (in paper-head form) sit in the band's studio.*
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*Casey Gray, Chris Blackstock, Andy Coenen, Ben Swardlick and Eric Luttrell (from left to right) hang out in the studio space of their warehouse.*
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*Casey Gray works on a piece in one of his studio spaces.*
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*The wall of one of Casey Gray's studios.*
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*The M Machine's Andy Coenen chills out in the Garcia Room.*
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*Rows of paint cans in one of Casey Gray's studios.*
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*Chris Blackstock, Casey Gray and Gordon Brislawn chat in the M Machine's warehouse.*
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*A very tiny monkey in the M Machine's warehouse space.*
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*Andy Coenen, Ben Swardlick and Eric Luttrell (from left to right) hang out in their studio.*
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*Shades, headphones and words of wisdom.*
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*Andy Coenen works on the laptop and iPad that control the giant, M-shaped light wall he built.*
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*Members of The M Machine and the artists who share their warehouse home watch a demonstration of the band's light wall in action.*
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