tri.phonic: viva l'été & thoughts distinguishing

Finally ... a break ... !

We'd like to twist our thoughts for a
moment .. the following thoughts can also be found here as Statement 2: tri DOT
phonic.
--->..A FEW
WORDS ON JANEK SCHAEFER: scratching the
TRI.PHONIC
TRI.PHONIC
owes its debt & gratitude to the development of the "Tri-Phonic" term by
JANEK SCHAEFER, who coined the moniker  for the world-premiere of his three-arm
turntable in 1997. The three-arm deck claimed a Guinness World Record for "most
versatile record player." Schaefer explains the concept in his paper for the
Leonardo Music Journal:

"Instead of using lots
of record players to play lots of different records I simply thought of
combining several record players in one. The Tri-Phonic was born. As records can
be easily accessed in many time frames/places simultaneously it was to be very
efficient at maximising the potential of obscure vinyl discoveries. This
invention could multiply, magnify and manipulate the essential physical surface
of sound in as many ways as was practically
possible."
To
potentialise--to maximise--to maniplate sound at its limit--"as man ways as
practically possible"--this is what we'd like to do with the basis of the term:
TRI (three) PHONOS (sound). Three sounds: three arms: MUTANT SOUND, the
three-armed beast of the turntablist-laptrician-phonographist, or
net.artist-event producer-VJ, or producer-designer-artist, even.

We are a MUTANT BREED
OF SONIC ALIENS.
We'd
like to sample Janek's "tri-phonic" and scratch the hypen, replacing it with a
DOT: "tri.phonic" -- TRI DOT PHONIC -- in this substitution we expand the term
to resonate the general aspects of a growing digital arts practice which is not
ours alone, nor which we could ever claim, but which sees its rise &
occurrence globally among genres and practices including microsound, glitch,
clicks and cuts, sound-art, sound installations, phonography, turntablism,
laptronics, microsonics, lowercase, field recordings, and sonic
net.art.
Thus the DOT is
the break from the hypen, the TRI (three) from the PHONOS (sound) that also
represents the influence of the digital tie or bond of today's media: NET DOT
ART. TRI DOT PHONIC. The digital bond where "Today, music is information" (Achim
Szepanski).
Janek begins
his essay by saying:
"It
has always been a principle of mine to not copy ideas, but to bounce from them
in order to develop new ones instead. Not to xerox, but manipulate in order to
produce something new and unique to yourself. As a result one develops one's own
ideas which then form a series of personal stories which    is much more
rewarding an
experience."
Here we
wish not to claim "tri.phonic" as our own-- rather we'd like to sample the term,
broaden it, and offer it to others. We're peforming a little bit of MUTATION
upon the term. PER.MUTATION. We'd like not to copy or xerox Janek's specific
usage but expand it, delight in it, cite it, reference it, jump from it, dive
into it, really-- to encompass our common bond: the digital link.ages forming
via net.art, phonography (microphones), turntablism, VJing and laptronics
...
Thus we re.birth the
tri.phonic .. and welcome a digital arts practice that seeks to incorporate,
cut, scratch, cross-fade, granulate & otherwise MUTATE the digital &
analogue sonic arts that remain "pure" & un-touched to & by each
other..
tobias c. van
Veen //
For more
on Janek Schaefer's Tri-Phonic turntable, please
see:
http://www.audioh.com/projects/triphonic.html