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You go with the classic giant-rotating-hands-over-a-disk-numbered-1-to-12 approach. You help the camp with pulling the rope to lift the face up, attach the lights, and finally set the mechanism in motion. As the various components start turning, grinding, pausing, latching, and restarting, the sound of it begins to fascinate you. An idea starts forming in your head: the fundamental essence of a DJ set is rhythm, so when something happens rhythmically, with the right ears, it becomes music. What if the DJ set was just this: a complex mechanism dancing through the sounds of wind, slowly changing over time as various components run, and some gears start while their counters stop? With the help of the clock camp, you set up microphones around the contraption, and run the cable to your camp to power the installation. While the set up is unexpected, once people get into it it actually goes over really well. A little reminder about the beauty of finding the music in the flow of time around you.

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