Bio

Peter Blasser was introduced to the maestro in a fourth grade assembly. This kind conductor of the micro-kid band introduced the wind instruments available and Peter chose the tuba because it was the least practical. His parents put up with its bellows until high school when he diversified to banjo. Unallowed to purchase an Ud (Arab lute), Peter built one in the basement, thus beginning his career of making musical instruments. In college he was introduced to electron machinery; the infinite randomities seduced him into pure abstraction. After schooling (2002, Oberlin College, degrees in Chinese and Electronic Music) Peter has been building electro-acoustic sound instruments to support the development of metaphysical thought-patterns. On the practical side, he is constantly renovating his West Baltimore rowhome which contains his woodshop. West Baltimore contains many treasures for the meditative walker: cemeteries, Gwynn's Falls trail, as well as new paths which reveal themselves to the properly emptied mind. On finding a well-worn path in the woods, I snap into a tune, a remembrance of my grandma's botany, a rusted traditionalism as sunshine on moss.