TriOOn (DE)
TRIoon is an international AV improvisation collective consisting of producer/musicians Dr.Nojoke (Germany) and J-Lab (UK) & musician/visual artist, Servando Barreiro (Spain). They operate mainly in the Netaudio and Open Source community & are currently based in Berlin, Germany. They formed after being commissioned to create a performance for the Netaudio London/Berlin showcase at the Club Transmediale 09 festival in Berlin. After Jon set up the Berlin Wall Of Sound project for the Netaudio Berlin 09 Festival, they spent the late summer collecting audio & visual material from the route of the former Berlin Wall, which they used for their performance at the Netaudio Festival. All 3 members of TRIoon work extensively on their own music & video projects, the results of which they bring to the table when they work together. Consisting of a Brit, a Spaniard and a native Berliner, they share a common purpose born of diverse backgrounds and experiences. Technique & technology serve as the means to an end, not as the reason, and the performance is the emotional response to the brief they set themselves. Guerilla-like in operation, they operate when they have something to say, not because they have to say something.
TRIoon will present an audio visual performance made from stills, video and other visual elements as well as field recordings they made for the ‘Berlin Wall Of Sound’ sound map project. All of this material was collected from the route of the former wall. The performance is improvisational in nature and includes live instruments, home made electronics as well as the ubiquitous laptops. The aim of the project is to create an audio-visual narrative, reinterpreting and reassembling the fragments collected from the footprint of what once divided the city; from around the remaining structures and from what now overlaps this scar on the cityscape. With the festival occuring 20th year after the wall’s fall, TRIoon aim to create a piece that encompasses what the city has become in the past 20 years as seen, heard & filtered by the members of the group. The Berlin Wall still exists in many people’s minds, & the fragments of what remains & the scar are now tourist attractions, with the same old, officially sanctioned story of how it came to be & how it fell. This project takes the stuff not normally seen and the sounds of the city that are taken for granted & deconstructs them before reassembling them into something that goes beyond geographical location and timelines, and into something more emotive. It also shows what was lost and gained when the wall fell. Berliners regained a united city, and then subsequently lost the remains of it’s industrial powerhouse past. It is a journey through nature, dereliction, regeneration, gentrification, decay, joy and sorrow.
