Draft:Whistlegraph

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Whistlegraph eng. ˈ(h)wis(ə)lgraf) dut. Fluitegrafiek (FLAUTAGHAFEEK) is a Dutch American multimedia performance trio.

The Whistlegraph trio

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File:Triograph.png The Whistlegraph trio. Portrait of the Whistlegraph trio. Left to right: Alex, Camille, Jeffrey.

They are renowned for their concept of blending illustration with music, an art form, which they call the whistlegraph. "Whistlegraph" is also, the name that the trio goes by. They are best known for their grotesque, campy comedy horror videos on the social media platform TikTok, and have amassed a following of 2.7 million. They have also performed at major art galleries in the USA, such as the performance titled "The Longest Whistlegraph Ever (so far)" at the New Museum in New York City. They have also toured other countries, notably their performances in the Netherlands and Denmark. The group is comprised of 3 artists, Alex Freundlich, Camille Klein, and Jeffrey Alan Scudder.

The trio formed in in 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, when Alex, Camille, and Jeffrey, came to live together in a cabin in Ashland, Oregon, They began posting videos on TikTok during that time, which slowly built up a following on their platform. On October 24th, 2022, their account was banned for violating TikTok community guidelines, after posting a presumed Halloween special video of Alex and Camille performing a whistlegraph with blood on their hands and workspace, and following videos implying that Jeffrey was being held hostage by the group, or was in danger. The account had other community guidelines violations due to other videos of this nature, which were removed. On October 26, shortly after the ban, the account was restored after a Change.org petition was created by a fan, receiving 21 signatures.

Notable works

• On March 14, 2021, the Whistlegraph trio released their first single, titled "What's inside your heart?", a song based off of a whistlegraph that they had wrote within the early days of their career. The song gained large scale media attention, but was later redacted from all platforms by the trio.

• About a year later, on May 13, 2022, Whistlegraph premiered their performance art piece "The Longest Whistlegraph Ever (so far)" which was commissioned to them by the Rhizome Magazine in 2021, to a small group of fans and museum directors at the New Museum in New York. A day later, on May 14, They debuted the piece to the public at the same museum. The piece consisted of the largest "whistlegraph" they were able to create in intricacy and length, which lasted approximately 20 minutes and used the space of a 4'x6' chalkboard.

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The Whistlegraph zine, published in 2022

• A month later in April of 2022, the trio had released a Merchandise shop, which quickly grabbed the attention of fans. Alex and Camille have been pictured modeling hoodies with the "butterfly cosplayer" whistlegraph printed on them. (Pictured below)

• On December 22, 2022, Whistlegraph released a studio album which was produced by a group friend, Charlie Kamin-Allen, which was titled "Music 2 Whistlegraph 2". The group briefly sold CDs, but the trio pulled the album from all platforms around a year later.

• On June 6, 2023, Whistlegraph created a 60-page zine in collaboration with editor Asher Penn of the art magazine publication company Sex Magazine, which contained in depth interviews from Jeffrey, Alex, and Camille, along with detailed entries from two fans. (Pictured right)

Whistlegraph (Concept)

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Alex (left) and Camille (right) modelling their merchandise

The self-titled art concept created by the Whistlegraph trio, is a concept of combining drawing, singing, and poetry, within a single art piece. a whistlegraph consists of a minimal line drawn image, which is drawn while singing. Each line in the image is drawn while singing a line of the song that corresponds to it. Each whistlegraph contains the same song and image, which are drawn and sung in the same manner each time. The trio has also created graphic scores for others to show the exact process of each whistlegraph within a single image.

Disbandment

Sometime in November of 2023, The group separated due to a conflict in future goals as a whole. Around December of 2023, Jeffrey took access to all of the group's social media platforms and has since used them to post his own content. Their platform on Instagram was moved into an archive state, with their profile biography set as "2022-2023 archive of the whistlegraph trio period" (See image below) and contains only their works from after 2022. and the trio has not been active since. The trio does not plan on making content anytime in the future, as stated by Jeffrey in an Instagram direct message.

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The bio of the archive of Whistlegraph