Slot Machine Music for Four Drifters is a sound installation by the american sound artist Adrian Rew. Video gambling addicts, academic researchers, and industry professionals alike describe the trancelike state into which problem gamblers suspend themselves with remarkable consistency: they call it the machine zone, a kind of inner experience during which the rhythmic flow of human-machine collusion borders on mysticism. Time is abolished in the act of contemporary video gambling - simulated slot reels roll, virtual poker decks deal, and all worldly concerns are lost - leaving only the aura of total zone immersion in its wake. Sometimes characterized as the crack cocaine of gambling, the intensity of the machine zone is a symptom of casino ergonomics: oxygen-saturated pleasure air, subtly controlling walkways, mesmerizing lights, and meticulously engineered sonic environments all play a role in evoking the timeless void of the zone. Seeking to transmit this zone experience without the harsh comedown of its unfortunate reality, in 2013 Adrian Rew undertook a series of clandestine recording sessions in Midwestern American casinos, the best of which are included on his Slot Machine Music albums. Applying the Situationist tactic of the dérive to the psychogeographical contours of the casino floor, Rew diverts its flow of capital by following his ears instead of his wallet. His untreated recordings revel in cornucopias of undulating slot machine tones, which trigger aleatorically and coalesce into shimmering masses of C major. Now having returned to the scene of the crime with a crew of recordists in tow, this world premier of Slot Machine Music for Four Drifters presents four subjective and simultaneously recorded casino soundwalks as a quadraphonic installation.