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For my third project I wanted to explore the idea of digital vs. analog in a creative and expository manner. I wanted to illustrate exactly how far away from digital analog can truly be. With drum machines so commonplace these days, it's almost hard to imagine pop music before the days of drum machines. This raised an interesting question for me. How would you make an analog drum machine? If suddenly all of our digital technology failed at once, and our new alien overlords demanded that we make pop music for them or else we would meet an untimely end at the hands of their powerful disentigration ray, what would we do? I started researching and didn't find much in terms of an "analog drum machine," but I did find some interesting stuff about robot drummers. Finally, by chance, I saw a James Taylor special on PBS during their spring pledge drive. I was astonished to see him roll out his version of an analog drum machine. He called his a Gaddmatic after the drummer for his band. After more research on the Gaddmatic, I began to see exactly the idea behind Mr. Taylor's machine. I also found out that after he had built the prototype himself, he took it to a master carpenter who told him how he could make it better. That is some advice I could have used in my experiment.