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It is now 2023 and I have been back in Portland, Oregon, USA for a few weeks! If you didn't know I had been living in France for about a year and a half now, joining my partner while she works on a degree and trying to run Schlappi Engineering from a distance (the office has remained in Vancouver, WA, across the river from Portland OR). I will be in Portland until May, when we travel to Superbooth in Berlin and then stay in France again until September, after which we will be in Portland again for some undefined amount...

Hey All, I just wanted to drop some thoughts about the year and where we are right now. 2022 was a wild one, we FINALLY released the Three Body after years of development. The 240 we were able to make (we had some difficulties with manufacturing that reduced the intended run size) went out the door immediately and we've heard nothing but great things from the people who picked one up. We shipped about a thousand modules overall in 2022, which for a company of three people making niche items in the middle of a parts shortage is pretty cool....

Bries released a lengthy video on the Boundary which is well worth a watch:

If you are interested in some of the music made during the development of the Three Body (primarily made with prototypes) check out my latest release Peeling Deck Plates on Bandcamp. Peeling Deck Plates by Eric Schlappi There is also a music video for the track This Is Not My Grave posted up on YouTube earlier this year which I made with an analog video synthesizer composed of LZX and Syntonie modules as well as video feedback.  

At the end of September, when I was in Portland for the Three Body release we stopped by Tim's house and did an impromptu Three Body demo and general hangout and interview. This is a little different from any other interview I've done since I had a couple glasses of wine and Jay was there to either balance me out, or goad me on, depending on how you look at it. Then a week or so later, after I had returned to France, Tim held a roundtable discussion with some Eurorack designers at the Waveform PDX synth meet and Jay...