Video: Furby Gurdy makes "music," trips you out

The Nervous Squirrel's Furby Gurdy (version 2) isn't the first music maker we've seen that's better understood when viewed during an out-of-body experience, but it's certainly one of the strangest. The circuit bent Furby sequencer, which is linked to a Korg SQ-10 in the demonstration vid after the break, combines centuries-old musical methods with some of the strangest characters to ever grace planet Earth. We could talk for hours on end and still not do this thing justice, so just click through and mash play to see what we're referring to. We're warning you, though -- we haven't seen anything this weird since Smash Mouth's lead singer showed up at an Intel press event.

[Via Hack-A-Day]

[Artie Lange @ Aug 25th 2008 4:14AM]

'Tis then when the Furby Gurdy Man comes singing songs of unintelligible gibberish.

[Senor_Tom @ Aug 25th 2008 4:20AM]

I hate furbys so much it pains me to see this.

[bstear @ Aug 25th 2008 10:25AM]

If you hate them so much wouldn't this make you happy? It makes me happy.

[Yay. @ Aug 25th 2008 4:22AM]

wee tee kah wah tee!!

[Joe P @ Aug 25th 2008 4:46AM]

That's the stuff of nightmares that is

[Mr. S. @ Aug 25th 2008 5:05AM]

Thanks... I'm not sleeping tonight now.

[ChrisTheFeral @ Aug 25th 2008 5:39AM]

How the hell can that be called music?!?!

[Pumping_Iron @ Aug 25th 2008 5:39AM]

Bookmarked for when high !

[giuliop @ Aug 25th 2008 6:20AM]

Marvellous.

[Kenny @ Aug 25th 2008 7:56AM]

This is something that Raymond Scott would do.

[Robot Kitten Face @ Aug 25th 2008 8:41AM]

Sounds like Matmos

[Darkroom @ Aug 25th 2008 9:22AM]

bjork?

loved it!

[John @ Aug 25th 2008 9:27AM]

I've waited my whole life to see this.

[kal326 @ Aug 25th 2008 9:48AM]

I say keep this and a very large emp bomb around incase of a robot uprising. Nothing like a set of robo-harpies to lure the robots to their doom.

[Balam Herrera @ Aug 25th 2008 9:58AM]

talk about the uncanny valley

[Chalky @ Aug 25th 2008 10:22AM]

What.

[bstear @ Aug 25th 2008 10:23AM]

[insert witty welcoming-furby-related-robotic-overlord-play-Doom-play-Crysis-will-it-blend? line here]

It's nice to see some of those infernal Furbys skinned alive and imprisoned in a vivisection enclosure and tortured to entertain humans. I'd bet that hand crank activates shock plates under the Furbys to make them squeal. Bonus points if the crank jabs sharp pins under them as well for musical emphasis

I'm waiting for v2.0 that uses waterboarding on the Furbys.

Has PETRA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Robotic Animals) made a public statement or raid on his lab yet?

If it's centuries-old tech, is this a Furby barbershop quartet?

[bob @ Aug 25th 2008 10:32PM]

barbershop quartet? it aint a quartet if there are only for of them. looks like someone needs to retake remedial math.

[idiot @ Aug 26th 2008 6:12PM]

I know someone who needs to take remedial life

[AbsoluteZero @ Aug 25th 2008 6:33PM]

How is this music?

[Scott @ Aug 25th 2008 11:55PM]

Sounds a little like a Kraftwerk song.

[johnnyH @ Aug 25th 2008 11:35PM]

Bob - you did _not_ just say "it aint a quartet if there are only for of them". Not only does a quartet consist of four members, but you spelled 'four' as 'for' - making it a triplet of errors...

[siko @ Aug 26th 2008 2:36AM]

wow, I love this, this might can make my dead dog laugh out, hahahahaha, who the hell invented this,u r my idol, please come to lead my siko army on ( lovewealthy.com), c'mon buddy.