The punchcard music box of the 18th and 19th centuries may be the oldest example of physically stored digital media and the transubstantiation of mass-produced media into an intangible and artistic form – music. In Schizoporotica, Troika uniquely reinvent the music box over a century after its conception. Users are invited to tear their tickets and, by feeding them into the machine, create their own "shredded melody".

Analysis of the resulting pattern then pitches the melody with endless possibilities, the torn pattern becomes a physical metaphor of the new musical range according to which the melody is then played. Only the notes are affected, the rhythm and the rest of the composition, remaining untouched, as if a pianist would play on a previously de-tuned piano.

Originally inspired by an image of the broken comb of a music box, but touching base at automated vendors, ticket barriers and cash ATMs along the way, Troika evoke our day-to-day encounters with digital information in a satisfying tangible way. The playfulness of deliberate tearing flies in the face of the automatic way in which we deal with tickets and passes and creates a way for us, the user, to dictate the sonic outcome through a simple creative process.