Always driven by curiosity in researching and producing new sounds, in 2015, I started working on the project of building instruments based on electronics with basic components. The publications of Nicolas Collins helped me in this new evolution towards the "Do It Yourself.”
I used the same design process as for my previous instruments. With just a few electronic components like capacitors, resistors, diodes, integrated circuits and logic, I first decrypted circuits, redrawed connections and then tested them on the breadboards. Once the sounds satisfied me, I proceeded to the building phase. My wish was to give an aesthetic vision of the assembled electronic components in the connected set. I wanted a skilful and very ingenious unit in which these small components were placed interleaved in a complex network of copper wires. I chose to place them in boxes whose blue backgrounds could reveal both the power of these machines and their fragility. It was the birth of the "Blue Box", a new family.

Two generations of "Blue Box" were later born. In the first generation, the “Spring Box “ and the “Clock Writer Box” are two hybrid instruments equipped with Piezzo-magnetic sensors, DC motors with controlled mechanisms, and electronic components. The second generation of “Blue Box” is a set of boxes made exclusively with analog electronic components. Each box has its own function to generate oscillations, sequence patterns, multiplex, twist the sound signal with photoresistors and according to light variations.

I play by commutating switches, magnetic contact on ILS, by rotary movements of the potentiometers in order to modify the pitch and the tone levels. All the Blue Boxes are connected to the analog to digital converter. Part of the audio signal processing in real time is done with Ableton Live and Max for Live. I use Midi controllers to mix the raw sound and the processed signal.

The “Blue Box” are named BipBip Box, Electro Box, Drum Box, Line Box, Fly Box, Hard Box, Tern Box.

Many years ago Peter Vogel's work had fascinated me. I had the opportunity to present him the first "Blue Box" just before his disappearance. He will remain a master in my evolution.

My constant research and discoveries on combining electronic components lead me to the conception of new Blue Boxes; I also plan to add to my initial instruments little electronic devices to obtain new interaction possibilities between the instruments and electronics.

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