{"id":2031,"date":"2026-08-25T08:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/blog\/about-the-author\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T08:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:28:14","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/blog\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Christopher Gabriel Brown<\/strong> &mdash; American artist, musician, and inventor from Lawrenceville, Georgia. Son of tool-maker Ron Brown of <em>Ron Brown&#8217;s Best<\/em>, whose craftsmanship shaped a generation of woodturners.<\/p>\n<h2>The multidisciplinary source<\/h2>\n<p>Cri-One is one person, working in a single workshop in Georgia, across disciplines most people treat as separate. Electronic music produced under the name Cri-One. Original abstract expressionism in acrylic on canvas. Hand-turned Alumilite bowls finished with Australian burl caps. And behind all of it, patent-pending technology across more than nineteen platforms &mdash; the AutoPhi Collections, the Alchemy data products, the foundry handoff packages, the GDSII generator that turns each RTL design into a fab-ready layout.<\/p>\n<p>The throughline is short. The same eye that decides where to cut a curve decides where to land a power rail. The same ear that knows when a track is finished knows when a specification is finished.<\/p>\n<h2>Same instinct, different tools<\/h2>\n<p>The composition logic behind a Cri-One track is the same logic that shapes a chip architecture: subtraction first, layered structure second, the unexpected interval where it counts. Creativity and engineering are not two things &mdash; they are one instinct handed different tools.<\/p>\n<h2>What lives on this site<\/h2>\n<p>Every project on cri-one.com &mdash; the essays, the store listings, the blog articles, the mathematical depositions, the artwork, the music &mdash; comes from that single source. The engineering documentation, the sale terms, and the writing all pass through the same hand.<\/p>\n<h2>Reach out<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Christopher Gabriel Brown<\/strong><br \/>\nLawrenceville, Georgia, USA<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:crioneaka@outlook.com\">crioneaka@outlook.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Also see the fuller bio and portrait at <a href=\"\/store\/my-introduction\/about-the-author.html\">\/store\/my-introduction\/about-the-author.html<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Gabriel Brown &mdash; American artist, musician, and inventor from Lawrenceville, Georgia. Son of tool-maker Ron Brown of Ron Brown&#8217;s Best, whose craftsmanship shaped a generation of woodturners. The multidisciplinary source Cri-One is one person, working in a single workshop in Georgia, across disciplines most people treat as separate. Electronic music produced under the name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2031","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}