2007年02月24日
啜泣咖啡 [21 May 2006]
展覽的第二天,儘管從昨天開始就有恐怖的虎頭蜂入侵,差一點把佩和工作坊的同學們螫的滿頭包,不過靠著大家強烈的求生意志,總算是平安的度過了這兩天。美中不足的是因為蜂群的叨擾,讓我們在完成紀錄片的拍攝之後,就提早撤展了。
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奇異音樂會 [19 May 2006]
今天對於John以及工作坊所有的參與者來說,都是十分忙碌的一天。昨夜幾乎徹夜未眠,一心想將作品完成的台灣與荷蘭學生們,一大早就忙著把儀器和裝置就定位,希望在下午兩點鐘開展之前能如期做出完美的呈現。而下午在牯嶺街小劇場舉辦的記者會當中,John也與里長、區長和臺大城鄉所的教授及同學分享了荷蘭藝術學院與南海藝廊這次的工作坊成果,並鼓勵居民在往後的兩天參觀置放在臺大學人宿舍的作品。
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我們在雨中工作著 [17 May 2006]
星期三,距離星期五下午的開展眼看只剩下兩天多一點的時間,經過大約四天在工作坊的腦力激盪,包括了到福和橋下跳蚤市場的尋寶之旅之後,每一組的想法以及表現方式已經大致上成形,大家應該是要如火如荼的著手實行計畫的時候了。
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福和橋下跳蚤市場熱血之旅 [14 May 2006]
儘管是難得的星期假日,又適逢母親節,工作坊的大家夥卻並沒閒著。今天上午James將每一組在昨天錄製的音效片段放出來,請各組分享自己以聲音實驗的心得以及過程中遭遇到的困難。例如Dagmar這一組就碰到街道的噪音過大,以致於錄音很快就出現刺耳聲響,而語音品質的本身卻沒有遭到改變的狀況。在之後的試驗當中,James希望各組都能夠過調整等化器以及錄音時的音量控制,以達到理想的效果,再次提醒工作坊的成員,要記得讓作品與牯嶺街的環境發生關聯,並開始著手規劃街道家具的作品。
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Goede reizen [21 May 2006]
The second day of the exhibition (actually also the last day) went pretty smoothly, except for the intrusion of some fierce, venomous bees from outside. Though Pei and the others were very much bothered, the exhibition still managed to attract a lot of people who were interested in sound art. Good job, guys!
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Our first dinner together
an one-of-a-kind concert [19 May 2006]
Four days into the workshop, the students are now about to realise their ideas by utilising mostly recycled materials including wood, paper, speakers and sound clips, and to organise them into installations, sculptures and even music compositions.
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Singing in the rain
Four days into the workshop, the students are now about to realise their ideas by utilising mostly recycled materials including wood, paper, speakers and sound clips, and to organise them into installations, sculptures and even music compositions.
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Fleaing to the market [14 May 2006]
To start the day, James held a listening session for the workshop participants to share their experiments done yesterday, for the exchange of ideas and problems (ideologically or technically) encountered, and to serve as kind of platform where people can develop from. During the session, it turns out that they all had a good grasp of the direction, but the fine tuning with equalisers and setting up of PCs/Macs still require more experimentation and instruction. But as dear old Samuel Beckett put it: “Fail again, fail better;” I believe things have a way to sort themselves out.
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From now on there is light...and sound [12 May 2006]
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.



