The Awakening of Creativity

Ostara is the symbol of renewal, During the Spring Equinox.

After a long introspective winter, Nature and the Earth are waking up, Letting fertility and Creativity become driving forces.

May this Awakening be beneficial to our minds.

Delphine tells us: After long years of evolution(s), personal among others, the time has finally come to dare to proudly express my creativity! Sometimes things take time to fall into place. It seemed important to me not to neglect any step, despite the desire and impatience to see this moment arrive. It is when everything seems to stagnate that everything puts itself in its place... Ostara is the symbol of this rebirth, like nature which awakens with each new spring.

I mainly create 8+1 note handpans by developing a tuning technique favoring a progressive integration of notes on the surface of the shell. These wider, smoother edge conditions greatly influence the timbre of each note's sound and that of the instrument as a whole. It's a double-edged choice which has caused me many setbacks in my learning because it requires shaping each note manually, but which meets my expectations in terms of design and rendering.

I attach a lot of importance to the roundness of the sound and the balance of the notes between them, things which have been greatly improved in recent months by focusing more and more on the refinement of the “shoulders”. Due to the reduced number of notes, my instruments provide precision which is also suitable for people wishing to make recordings, for example. Recouplings have fewer spurious frequencies than on instruments with more notes. When it comes to aesthetics, I'm looking for homogeneity of colors, which still leaves a wide range of possibilities!