My friend Scott Faris convinced me that a washing machine, if prepped properly, could become a decent synthesizer and percussion instrument IF a suitable vintage iMac was placed inside. After hours of rewiring and placing light bulbs in exactly the position needed for proper electromagnetic alignment (and enlightenment), I was convinced that he was correct in his assertion. In fact, the washing machine rig sounded more fabulous than any of the now unhip computers, synthesizers, and virtual instruments I had been using up until that point, which included a Power Macintosh Dual 1 gHz, a Powerbook G4, Reason, Live, Digital Performer, a Mackie Baby HUI, a M-Audio Oxygen-8 MIDI controller, Waves plug-ins, the Arturia ARP 2600 plugin, the NI FM7 plugin, various open source plugins, a Yamaha SY 85 Workstation / ROMpler, a Proteus XL, an Akai S950, a Roland Sound Canvas, a Novation Nova, a Korg MS2000R, a Moog MicroMoog, a Korg Poly 61, an Alesis DM5, an Akai MIDI sequence arpeggiator, a MOTU Micro Express, a Yamaha DX100, a MOTU 828mkII, and a MOTU 896HD. By the way, the dryer and electric stove both sounded amazing as well.