前奏曲：聆聽之 – concert version (2023)
Sanxian/sanshin, Chinese percussion,
Ambisonics field recording, video, text, computer
The work invites the audience to embark on an exercise into listening: listening in the present, but to the past and the future, and listening across time. Through audio, video and text, it gradually guides the listener and the viewer to traces of history that may or may not be evident in sound: acoustic resonance caused by material remnants from World War II in Hong Kong; the ringing of the three metal strings of the sanxian morphing into the three nylon strings of its slightly smaller cousin: the sanshin from Okinawa, Japan; echoes of sounds from instruments which are no longer in Hong Kong. A neural network attempts to sift through and make sense of these dislocations in time and space.
這是一個聆聽練習：聆聽當下，過去與未來，跨越時間地聆聽。聲音、影像和文字逐漸引導觀眾的視覺和聽覺，尋找聲音中若隱若現的歷史痕跡：二戰的遺址裡迴盪著三弦之音，金屬的彈挑幻化成尼龍裊裊，那是遠去的日本沖繩三線。作品嘗試運用人工神經網路篩選並理解這些時間和空間的錯位。
Performers
Stella Chan, sanxian, sanshin
Ho Yi On, Chinese percussion
Thanks to:
Green Mok, video
Longman Luk, audio
Farah Yang, software programming
Gui Ren, translation
The Concert Version was presented by the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble at Freespace, Hong Kong, as part of NME15