Two Slogans for Ciat-Lonbarde

"If it's objects you seek, then I am your man."

"If you want to play the same thing at every gig, follow them. If you want to play a different thing every time, come hither."

Brain-Thoughts

When you are young, you have lots of brain cells.

When you are old, you have strong thought patterns.

A fore xample is in architecture. If you look at the Pyramids, you are stricken at how many slaves had to die to move all those stones into such a simple geometrical pattern. So simple, its almost baby like, to make a pyramid and not a tetrahedron. The platonic solid is more of an adolescent idea, strong in dogma. Now you get to 2012, when we are "old". Take this city building, rectangular, and easily built of glass and steel and other modern materials. In fact I would wager that no slaves had to die in its construction! You see, in Ancient Egypt, slaves were like the many wonderful cells who had to die to understand geometry. But this skyscraper is a nice, strongly designed pattern, which can even withstand earthquakes. Our slaves may not be many in 2012, but we have good design!

Buildings in the city amplify natural some natural sounds, like the songs of bird. You see, in the countryside, a bird is a single event, expanding spherically into the horizon of trees, eventually getting lost in the folds of the land. But in the city, these glass walls create a digital delay for birds, a bird-wave-guide, a trisleogism.

Peter Blasser Biography

Peter Blasser, tubist since 4th grade. In high school, unallowed to purchase ethnic instruments, he began making them in the basement out of wood. Later, in college, he discovered electronic circuits, and their possibilities for infinite tunings, infinite timbres. He made a career out of electronic modulations, and making these intangibles touchable through nodes, case flexure, and radio fields. His company: ciat-lonbarde.net, sells these devices to musician around the world. He teaches the design of electronic instruments to his interns, as well as in workshops for larger groups. Some paper circuits can be downloaded from his website, printed out, and assembled to yield sound objects. The cybernetic interface uses the subtleties of touch, through discrete components, often "woven" together geometrically, to simulate intuitive patterns and chaotic sophistication. His designs are spurred into existence to explore platonic or philosophical concepts, which then acquire a narrative as they are refined into essential analog synthesizers.