Take a kite and a hummer, replace the kite string with a piano wire or gut string and thread it into a sound body on the ground. The result is a triple instrument, which is resonated by three players: In the sky the wind plays on the kite—a natural player—on earth a human being, and in between the kite string as an active medium transmits the two signals toward each other and additionally sings along with them.
Take a kite and a hummer, replace the kite string with a piano wire or gut string and thread it into a sound body on the ground. The result is a triple instrument, which is resonated by three players: In the sky the wind plays on the kite—a natural player—on earth a human being, and in between the kite string as an active medium transmits the two signals toward each other and additionally sings along with them. This invention explicitly is not to be protected as a patent or art work, but is to be made available as an example of an artistic open source movement both for other (sound) artists and scientists (peer-to-peer flying) and for the general public (peer-to-public flying).
Direction 1 – Probe – At the heart of the project are monthly public Probe (test) flights of our sound kites to develop the technical and tonal conditions and to explore the artists and scientists possibilities of playing them, which, given the uncontrollability of the wind, go beyond and must go beyond traditional European performance formats. Central questions concern listening and playing at a distance (telematics), sound projection on site, the (lack of) controllability of the Triple Instruments, and the transition to popular culture.
Direction 2 – Resonance – Twice a year we seek intercultural exchange in Europe and overseas, while developing all three aspects—the tonal spaces of the strings, the interaction with the Triple Instruments, and the dissolution of the musical standard of composer-performer-audience—with our artistic Correspondents.
Direction 3 – Splicing – The Triple Instruments are not only musical instruments, but also scientific instruments, are a model for a two-directional approach to nature, etc. In order to literally explore the ‹metaphorical› qualities (μετα-φέρω), we invite peers from other disciplines as scientists-in-studio who advance the transferability to and applicability in their fields of research. We call this transdisciplinary method ‹splicing»›. Artistic-Scientific Festival – In the last year, all three Directions come together in an artistic-scientific
festival, where the different actors perform and present their results.
The project pursues two goals: one aim is to explore the tonal, musical, and model potentials of the Triple Instruments for music, art, and other disciplines; and another aim is to develop application and project formats for artistic research in which senior artists and young up-and-coming artists can and may operate. We want to understand research as a journey into the open, defined by the team, the vehicle, the amount of work, and the direction in which it starts. Nevertheless, it is of course already possible
to cite things that will have been achieved by the end of the project: Regular public Probe sessions will take place in Silvaplana and internationally, streamed on our radio
station called World Wide Wind and remain as podcasts together with various manuals for sound kite construction. There will be 24 radio interviews with our Residents and other peers for an oral history archive, as well as nearly 20 presentations at our final festival, which will be published asessays in a conference volume after the project. In addition, there will be artworks, compositions and (sound) releases published in the artistic and academic context.