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	2007-06-26 Peter Chistopherson playing the Persephone "Just to let you know that I have been playing my Persephone live, with my band Throbbing Gristle, to great acclaim! We played in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern Gallery in London (The largest space in the most important of Britain's National Art Galleries) to a sold out audience of about 1000 and received a 10 minute standing ovation! (The first any artist has received there!) And also just played for 3 days at London's Institute of Contemporary Art on the Mall, where I used the Persephone to record tracks for a forthcoming version of Nico's Desertshore album. The Persephone is a truly fantastic instrument to play live. The range of frequencies extraordinary - the low end was literally shaking the building and apparently could be heard on the bridge outside! It is the most intuitive and enjoyable live instrument I have ever had the privilege to play." peter christopherson throbbing gristle coil threshold houseboys choir www.thresholdhouse.com www.myspace.com/thresholdhouse
	2007-03-28 The Persephone at the Frankfort Music Messe, halll 5.1, booth D-95 We'll present the Persephone at the Frankfort Musik Messe, hall 5.1, booth D-95. eowave will also present the second version of eobody, a new sensors to usb-midi interface. www.eowave.com
	2007-03-09 Persephone demo in Nancy during the music workshop session The Persephone will be the guest of the music workshops organized in Nancy, France, March 9th and 10th. Background of the instrument, demonstration, his inventors will reveal everything you want to know... For more info : www.music-workshop.fr www.music-workshop.fr
2007-01-19 Expression pedal for Persephone now available! Expression pedal for Persephone now available!
2006-11-12 The Persephone in the Bay Area at AHCali 2006 Analog Heaven - California announces its 2006 annual synth gathering to be held Sunday November 12 , 2006 at the Student Services Center of the College of Marin in Kentfield, CA. Among others, the Persephone will be there! Read a review by Gino Robair from EMusician: http://blog.emusician.com/the_bus/ http://www.fdiskc.com/syn/ahba/2006/persephone.html
	2006-09-09 Try the Persephone in Paris! Salon de la musique et du son Porte de Versailles, hall 3
2006-06-11 Resonances, ircam The Persephone replays Forbidden Planet! "L'Atelier des Feuillantines, dedicated to experimental educational techniques for both musical and artistic creation, has been working with high school and conservatory students on a project centered around the cult film Forbidden Planet (1956). The students' role is similar to that of the pianist in silent films. Muted images taken from the film were projected and the students were asked to create accompanying musical material using sensors and concepts they learned in their classes during the school year. The result was then sent to visual arts classes, without the images, where it was up to these students to then produce the visual imagery corresponding to the music."
	2006-03-29 Frankfort Musik Messe Press Release Press release : The Persephone is shipped ------------------------------------------------------------ MARCH 2006 NEWS!!! The Persephone is finally released! ------------------------------------------------------------- The Persephone is a fingerboard analogue synthesizer with CV and MIDI in and out. At the first sight, the Persephone reminds of the first electronic fingerboard instruments developed in the 1920s. But beyond this vintage look, the Persephone allies sensors technology and digital controls to a pure analogue generation of sound. The Persephone musicality will be determined by the way it is played. The Persephone respects the traditional play of the first non-keyboard electronic instruments with the right hand controlling the pitch and the left hand controlling the velocity. The ribbon zone can allow all kinds of play. When scaled, the Persephone can be played like a regular keyboard. Though there are no fixed preset notes with the ribbon, keyboard players will easily find their way. Guitars and bass players will certainly play it like a chord instrument and get sounds that are closed to cello or violin, especially when using vibratos. Jazz players will enjoy slapping the Persephone’s ribbon to get wonderful sonorities. Movie music writers and fans of sci-fi effects will enjoy its bi-dimensional structure, which allows creating eerie sounds very easily. A new fingerboard synthesizer Just like any synthesizer, the Persephone offers a classical synthesis architecture with an oscillator section, a filter section, a modulation section and a LFO section. With its 100% analogue oscillator, the Persephone can generate notes with a range of 10 octaves. Its lower frequencies go from a deep and resonant cello tone to a nearly human voice. On the highest pitches, it can reach very high frequencies. The oscillator waveform can be set between triangle and sawtooth for a more or less brilliant sound. The filter is a 12dB low-pass filter. Its ribbon control surface is pressure and position sensitive. While it requires the most advanced sensor technology and allows all kind of glissando a Theremin or les Ondes Martenot would allow. A scaling potentiometer allows scaling the Persephone’s ribbon from 1, 2, 5 to 10 octaves. The expression key, controlled by an optic sensor, can transmit the slightest vibrations on the key with an accuracy the mechanical systems never had. All the controls are digital. The four play modes - A, B, C and D - offer different hierarchy of control between the pitch, the velocity, a filter modulation and a LFO. Connections are located on the rear side of the front panel and are protected from dust and other source of deterioration by the Persephone suitcase top when not used. The Persephone like a CV/MIDI controller The Persephone has a CV out and a MIDI in/out. With its CV out, it can control any other analogue synthesizers and modular systems. With its MIDI in/out, it can also be used as a MIDI controller, what turns it into a powerful new kind of instrument.
	2006-01-15 NAMM Winter Show The Persephone last prototype is demonstrated on Analogue Haven's booth. For the story, we had to fix the ribbon which had been damaged at the French customs. They didn't want to believe the Persephone was a synthesizer as it has no keyboard and opened it... Doing so, they broke the ribbon... Anyway, here on the picture, this is Eric Barbour from Metasonix controlling his latest invention, the Matrixsynth, with a Persephone...