LABORANTES stands for my sound-editing Laboratory (formerly my Laser- and Holographic Lab), my name Gregor Antes and the Latin word for working people 

 

• In my first profession as a physicist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH (specialising in Coherent Optics, Laser Technology and Holographic Applications), I later worked with my crew as a Development Manager in a special department of the big Swiss company LANDIS&GYR, inventing and industrialising new Optical Security Devices, now represented by KINEGRAM.COM (at the same place in Zug Switzerland) and used all over the world. But with strong artistic and musical roots in my family I was eager to put my technical skills also into the art of music recording and reproduction.

 

• Shortly after learning to read and write I started to develop some early technical projects . 

 

• Later, as a student, I modified tape recorders to boost their performance to the limits. Then I developed new electroacustic transducers. The first was the exotic "Ionophone". The next development was the "Electrostatic Headspeaker".

 

• While still a Development Manager in Landis&Gyr - and also after I left the company before it was repeatedly sold to other investors -, I decided to engage myself for the world of classical music reproduction to follow my family roots.

 

• Now my focus is not anymore on commercial Recording or production of CD,  DVD-A,  DVD-Video or special Multichannel-Audio or Graphical Artwork, but on non-profit documentation, although many of my products are still available.