2007年02月24日

From now on there is light...and sound [12 May 2006]

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The first day of the sound art workshop began with a lecture given by John Heijmans, the mentor from Dutch Art Institute, on the connection between sound and science, and how our perception of music can be interpreted somehow in a mathematical way. The sound artist James Beckett, who grew up in Zimbabwe and studied in UK, gave a more in-depth look on the possibility of sound art employing the concept of ‘playback,’ which forms a cycling and re-cycling process of a particular recording. 


      Using the example of Alvin Lucier’s work in 1969, “I’m sitting in a room,” James showed the software which helps students in the workshop to re-create a device similar to Lucier’s, therefore allows them to develop ideas in connection with their space. (for example: an empty room, a building, the street…) 

   James giving a lecture on sound @@ 

      For the students to be able to interact with the environment better, Nan-Hai Gallery arranged for a historical walk-about in the neighborhood, to learn the history of Guling Street. In 1945, when the Japanese occupants were about to leave the island, they had to render their antique furniture and collections into cash, so they could have enough travel expenses back home, and this contributed to the business of second-hand antiques and books on Guling Street.

      During the visit to Sun-Lin Books, John tried to look for a book written by a Chinese author Lu-Chiao, and the shop owner managed to fish out from his pile of books a copy of his book within one minute. John had no choice but to buy the book, we were simply amazed.

   James and owner of the bookshop


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