Sunday, April 28, 2013

On the threshold: Cocodeer

Thankful to all for your continuing business, interested interactions, and kind support. Over the years, Ciat Lonbarde has produced so many custom, hand made instruments for you. Each one has been different, and I feel warm to every one because it tells a story of the time it was made. Some used reclaimed pine from my Baltimore rowhouse, others used exotic rainforest hardwoods picked from a dumpster, and for the last few years I've been using 100% local Maryland hardwoods such as the Walnut, Cherry and Mulberry you see here:

This instrument is the last of the "clear backs" to be made at Ciat Lonbarde. It is also the last instrument to feature the signature, navy blue screen print. The name of the instrument: cocodeer. By the way, thanks to Meng Qi for synthesizing these two circuit boards first, an idea that I was waiting for to make, but he coined a simplest name for the contraption: cocodeer means a cocoquantus board plus a deerhorn board. It is a classic combo, with which I have been experimenting sonically for years. Believe me it is quite useful, because on one side you have the gestural control of the deerhorn radio antenna, and on the other side, the powerful aleatoric and algorithmic cocoquantus sampler/processor. The deerhorn feeds raw audio into the cocoquantus, but also there are the horizontal modulations to be made on the face of the board.

Again, let me emphasize that this is the final fully handmade instrument at Ciat Lonbarde. I have four of them for immediate sale. As I said, thanks for everyone's business over the years, and because of this nostalgic feeling, I cherished doing this work, to the extent that I actually signed the pieces on an inconspicuous place inside the box, using yellow pencil. I usually don't sign pieces, but that is another discussion altogether.

Don't worry, plumbutter the drum machine will return, in a more compact form, but for the moment this is the last of the cocoquantus. It has all the usual jacks: microphone input, piezo preamp, and synth input, which is paralleled with the deerhorn synthesizer output. The deerhorn as well has a set of inputs that can be modulated by your hand movement envelope. Finally, a L/R pair is the output. As I said, it features yellow mulberry wood, pink cherry that will age to dark burgundy, and the famous "purple" walnut. Treat it as a collectors item if you wish, for I put the cherishing touch into these four pieces, or treat it as an especially useful synth. Thanks, signed, Peter B.
Read about the Cocoquantus
Read about the Deerhorn within the Plumbutter documentation
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Monday, April 8, 2013

conversation with the ancients...

my son was struck by a "car" yesterday.
i saw a distant boat from the hospital window, a glint in the bay,
as the smog crept in this spring day.

we use this power source, oil, which was wished
2 b abiotic; confer with the ancient soviet theories.
it sheathes our coaches in metal, and there is a
cult of "motorcyclists" who gather at the spring bar.

the cult worships the slicer and dicer.
it is hard to leave this oil source,
and some of us wish doomsday by burning it faster.

A Doctor of Quantum Interpretations:
Due to recent probing of plasma physics in the international tokamak reactor effort, a need to understand the whirlpools of states that exist in the crucible, will enable humans to generate energy from energy, a lever that can multiply solar and wind options.  So, the aesthetic and sonic interpretations of the abstruse oscillations in the magnetic fusion reactor can enable researchers to brainstorm leverages of the quantum math.  And an unexpectedly proud byproduct of this power source: adjacent to the tokamak facility, with its rays of solar panels, a gaily painted building that contains tanks of helium and many colored balloons for little boys and girls.

How to transmit power globally?  
  • One is through the import/export of computer music chips, by which i mean any data processing that is useful in the chaos/noise gestalt.  For companies in Mauritius, the new fleet of solarsailer yachts is a viable alternative to oil powered freighters.  Sailing is important anyway, because as M.J. said, it "takes us away".
  • The other is, of course, a new look into Tesla's characterization of the macro "vibrational" states of the planet earth, towards a lever that can exploit "wireless power transmission".  Save copper for jewelry.  Understand the earth is a living synthesizer.  Like a synthesizer is a "body," there is an "electronic doctor".

60s Poem

60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 6seven, 68, 6nine,
60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 6seven, 68, 6nine,
60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 6seven, 68, 6nine,
...

 two channels, two socks

never leave food in the wok