Launching us into the weekend are some fabulously fun Flickr finds, forwarded by fine folks and friends:

Pheezy (aka Evan Cordes) got a look at the sirens, automated pianos and drums, and other mechanical musical wonders on display at the National Gallery’s installation of Ballet Mechanique, as seen here previously. He took some photos of the instruments up-close:

Ballet Mechanique Photo Set

It’s great to see this kind of acoustic technology married to modern digital tech. Evan says, “Antheil’s spirit was definitely present.”

See our previous story on how the whole thing was done, controlled by a Mac running