DISTANCE
《距离》
Experimental Sound Project | 2022
《距离》
Experimental Sound Project | 2022
- Poem -
PART Ⅰ
‘I had a dream about a mysterious dimension where I longed to meet a spirit similar to mine. i said hello can you hear me? Seems like i was talking to myself and i heard no response. i couldn't see them but i could hear them. Their voices sounded so strange. There's something hold me back. i feel fear and unease, which comes from my past consciousness telling me not to try. I often questioned myself if they would be like me. But does it matter?’
PART Ⅱ
‘I said hello can you hear me and I thought I heard some familiar voices. I don't know, but I feel more excited than ever. You know there is a voice inside of you and there is a voice inside of them. Have you ever slowed down and thought about them? i am energised by the conversation encouraged by the response and inspired by them. We explore each other in the noise, dig out each other in the barriers, and find each other in the different ends of the nebula.’
PART Ⅲ
‘I said hello can you hear me, come to me, we should communicate and not hide, understand each other and not resist. Imagine there's no difference between us. We Sharing all the world. Breathing all the air. You look to the sea, you look to the sky, look to the mountains, the wilderness and now we are here. We witnessed the birth of Venus from the waves. We have survived fear, the unknown, broken all barriers and hardships. Now we are here. we can feel together, we can belong together.
I say hello, can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you so clear.’
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Presented at the IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, France | Mar 2022
该作品曾在法国蓬皮杜艺术中心展演
This is a three-part poetic narrative about two different spirit species that break through interdimensional barriers to communicate and connect.
这是一个描述跨维空间中两个不同物种的生命体如何打破障碍进行交流并最终连接的故事。它是一个由三部分组成的诗意叙事。
PART Ⅰ
The story has multiple meanings, with the audience initially hearing a dialogue in an unknown space. The protagonist repeatedly asks, "Hello, can you hear me?" trying to connect with other spirits in the space. He experiences fear and unease, with a sci-fi-style soundtrack adding to the tension. Though he cannot see them, he can hear faint voices and hopes to make contact with the spirits. The protagonist's monologue reflects his desires and inner reflections while addressing the spirits.
这个故事有多重含义，观众最初听到的是一个未知空间中的对话。主角反复问:“你好，你能听到我吗?”试图与空间中的其他灵魂联系。他经历了恐惧和不安，科幻风格的配乐增加了紧张感。虽然他看不见他们，但他能听到微弱的声音，并希望与他们的灵魂取得联系。主人公的独白反映了他对灵魂的渴望和内心的思考。
The second part begins when he hears a familiar sound, having overcome
his fears and stereotypes. His patience pays off as he receives a response and becomes excited. The soundtrack gradually changes to a less frightening tone. This symbolizes that making an effort to understand the other can reveal they are not as "scary" as previously thought.
his fears and stereotypes. His patience pays off as he receives a response and becomes excited. The soundtrack gradually changes to a less frightening tone. This symbolizes that making an effort to understand the other can reveal they are not as "scary" as previously thought.
到了第二部分他开始听到了熟悉的声音，他克服了恐惧和刻板印象。他感到自己得到了回应，变得很兴奋。在这里，背景音乐开始慢慢地转变为不那么可怕的声音。这里的意图表达如果一个人努力去理解对方，你会发现他们并不像我们想象的那样 "可怕"。
PART Ⅲ
In the third part, a different voice appears and says the same thing as him. There is a magical change in the way the spirit's voice transforms from a horror sound effect at the beginning, to synthetic sounds in the second part, and finally to a human voice. The deep meaning of this communicative connection achieved by two individuals across species is that in the real world, society symbolizes that no matter what country you come from, what language you speak, what individual you are, or what beliefs you have, if you break through the barriers of stereotypes and slowly learn to understand each other, you will find that we are all the same. When we try to understand each other, we first assume that the other person will resist or label them, like the fear sound effects we use, but this actually comes from our stereotypes of others. So, how do we break down this barrier, this wall, to make a connection with someone? That's what this work wants the audience to think about.
在第三部分，一个不同的声音出现了，说了和他一样的话。幽灵的声音从一开始的恐怖音效，到第二部分的合成声音，最后变成了人类的声音，这是一个神奇的变化。这种跨越物种的两个个体实现的交流联系的深层含义是，在现实世界中，社会象征着无论你来自哪个国家，说什么语言，是什么个体，有什么信仰，如果你突破刻板印象的障碍，慢慢学会相互理解，你会发现我们都是一样的。当我们试图理解对方时，我们首先假设对方会抵制或给自己贴上标签，就像我们使用的恐惧音效一样，但这实际上来自我们对他人的刻板印象。那么，我们如何打破这个障碍，这堵墙，与别的个体建立联系呢?这就是这个作品想让观众思考的问题。
poem（dialogue） - I wrote this poem based on this theme, if I could call it poem cuz I'm not good at writing and also I'm not a native English speaker. so I tried to design the whole conversation so that the audience could understand it. I also talked to a writer about this and later on I optimised the structure of the poem to give it a three-part progression, which is also reflected in our sound section.
- 诗（对话）-
我根据这个主题写了这首诗，如果我可以称之为诗的话，因为我不擅长写作，而且我也不是一个英语母语者。所以我试图设计整个对话，让观众能够理解它。我也和一位作家谈过这个话题，后来我优化了这首诗的结构，使其有了三部分的进展，这也反映在这个作品的声音部分。
我根据这个主题写了这首诗，如果我可以称之为诗的话，因为我不擅长写作，而且我也不是一个英语母语者。所以我试图设计整个对话，让观众能够理解它。我也和一位作家谈过这个话题，后来我优化了这首诗的结构，使其有了三部分的进展，这也反映在这个作品的声音部分。
Sounds - In the first part it uses various sound effects to simulate fear, the soundtrack here is like a sci-fi type of fear sound, like the strange and scary sounds we think of in sci-fi movies and also when we think of unknown life forms. Then in the second part the soundtrack slowly starts to change to not that scary, this is where we catch some sounds such as wind and bells from our daily life and remake them to make it sound more experimental and interesting, but also to make it more recognisable to us than the fear of the first part. In the third part, the dialogue was me and another group member, we were reading the same words in different channels. Here the matching of our voices is like the poem 'We have survived fear, the unknown, broken all barriers and hardships. Now we are here. we can feel together, we can belong together.' These sounds we try to abstract the figurative reality in an experimental form, so that the audience can feel the construction of our story and think deeply about it.
- 声音 -
在第一部分，用了各种声音效果来模拟恐惧，这里的配乐就像科幻类型的恐惧声，就像我们在科幻电影中想到的奇怪可怕的声音，也像我们想到未知生命体时的声音。 然后在第二部分，配乐开始慢慢改变，变得不那么可怕了，这是我们使用从日常生活中捕捉到一些声音，如风声和钟声，并对其进行改造，使其听起来更具实验性和趣味性，但也使其比第一部分的恐惧更容易被我们识别。在第三部分，对话是我和另一个组员，我们在不同的频道里读同样的词。在这里，我们的声音的匹配就像这首诗一样'我们已经从恐惧、未知中幸存下来，打破了所有的障碍和困难。现在我们在这里。我们可以一起感受，我们可以属于彼此。这些声音我们试图以实验的形式抽象出具象的现实，让观众感受到我们故事的构架，并对其进行深入思考。