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Tocante Bistab is my latest instrument acquisition from Ciat-Lonbarde.  Order at SynthMall<\/a>.  Tocante is yet another masterful creation by Peter Blasser.  It is one of his more pure designs: a wholly self-contained electronic instrument, powered by solar-charged batteries, having a miniature speaker, and which can be played only by touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Tocante line of musical instruments is “about” and “touching” the materials of electronics. Each touchpad represents a pitch according to industry “preferred numbers,” chosen by old wartime engineers for non-musical purposes. Here they form a unique and haunting musical scale, not unlike that of a gamelan or the neutral intervals of Persian music. Beyond these base pitches, three golden sandrodes<\/i> flank each touchpad; touching these androgynous nodes yields intermodulation, pitch and timbral shifts, and emergent chaotic masses. The instruments come in three flavors: thyris the triangle, bistab the square, and phashi the circle. The oscillators sound like a bowed string, a most powerful clarinet, and a howling serene whistle, respectively. Each responds to touch differently. Solar panels charge the onboard batteries, that power the oscillators and a speaker. They are the perfect self-contained instrument for nightly music at the campground.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Tocante has 24 independent oscillators, each heard by means of a touchpad.  On Bistab, which uses square wave oscillators, the touchpads are square.  On Thyris they are triangular, and on Phashi round.  Touching a pad with a finger creates an electrical continuity through the resistance of the skin, primarily impacting amplitude.  The pads are etched on one side of a printed circuit board, with surface-mount electronic components on the reverse. Moisture increases conductivity. The 24 pitches are fixed, but due to component tolerances are slightly different for each individual instrument, yielding a unique tuning. Pitch bending and crazy cross modulations are done with the ‘sandrodes’, the bars across the middle of the Tocante, each ending in a small pad that’s close enough to bend a finger onto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tocante is heard through its own little speaker, and has a mono output jack for processing and amplification.  It also has a power inlet for charging the battery when natural light is scarce.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I set up a delay processing patch, using both a Blacet Time Machine and the BugBrand PT Delay, to make the following test recordings.  The first is an attempt at playing a rhythm in 3\/4 time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is made only by breathing on Tocante. It’s a little horrifying in places, so I called it Horror Breath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tocante Bistab is my latest instrument acquisition from Ciat-Lonbarde.  Order at SynthMall.  Tocante is yet another masterful creation by Peter Blasser.  It is one of his more pure designs: a … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[127],"tags":[122,98,146],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ciat-lonbarde-instruments","tag-ciat-lonbarde","tag-drone","tag-tocante"],"yoast_head":"\nCiat-Lonbard Tocante - Richard Brewster's Electronic Sounds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pugix.com\/synth\/ciat-lonbard-tocante\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ciat-Lonbard Tocante - Richard Brewster's Electronic Sounds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tocante Bistab is my latest instrument acquisition from Ciat-Lonbarde.  Order at SynthMall.  Tocante is yet another masterful creation by Peter Blasser.  It is one of his more pure designs: a ... 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