Triosk

A trio of technically proficient and experimentally concentrated musicians who gather components of post-bop jazz, ambient electronica, post-rock, electro-acoustic music, free of charge improvisation, and musique concréte, the Australian group Triosk initial came to the interest of international experimental music listeners because of the somewhat unlikely situation of the collaboration using the German microhouse manufacturer Jan Jelinek. Produced in Sydney in 2001 by conservatory-trained pianist Adrian Klumpes, bassist Ben “Donny” Waples, and drummer/percussionist Laurence Pike (an associate of Pivot! and Roam the Hi there Clouds, who in addition has used Flanger, Savath + Savalas, Jack port Ladder, Qua, and by himself as Laurenz Pike), Triosk’s mentioned intent was to execute improvisation-based music with consumer electronics an “energetic and identical” component. Acquiring the familiar jazz piano trio structure as a starting place, they searched for to broaden the range and potential from the genre by incorporating the methods and textures of minimalism and electronica, which intended both layering of digital and acoustic noises and the digital manipulation of their acoustic tools, whether reside in real-time or later on in post-production. After encountering the abstracted, loop-based “jazz” of Jan Jelinek’s minimal dub masterpiece Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records (which culls its resource materials, albeit unrecognizably, from classic jazz albums) on the late-night radio broadcast, Triosk started incorporating examples of Jelinek’s function into their concert events, improvising in response towards the steady mutations of loops performed from a mini-disc. Jelinek’s November 2001 tour of Australia offered the musicians a chance to fulfill and develop the mutually involved creative romantic relationship that resulted, 2 yrs later on, in the recording 1+3+1. A assortment of collaborations carried out through the intercontinental email, and entitled to reflect the procedure of its creation, it had been comprised of items started as Triosk improvisations atop pre-recorded Jelinek materials, which the maker then further revised, edited, and perfected in Berlin. The collaborators made an appearance in concert collectively on the 2004 Australian tour, including, fittingly, an appearance in the 1st Jazz:NOW event in Sydney. Jelinek also made an appearance on two paths of Moment Results, the first genuine Triosk album, that was documented around once as 1+3+1 however, not released until 2004, and that the group shifted from Scape (Jelinek’s house base) towards the London-based Leaf label — a proper fit taking into consideration Leaf’s roster of performers melding digital and acoustic components in innovative methods: Colleen, Psapp, and Manitoba, amongst others. The greater cohesively organic though still distinctly digital Headlight Serenade implemented in July of 2006; Adrian Klumpes released a likeminded single effort, End up being Still, that November. In Dec 2007 Laurence Pike announced his decision to keep and thereby successfully dissolve the music group, citing irreconcilable musical and personal distinctions.