颜峻:物理模型


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yan jun: a physical model

颜峻住在北京,从事田野录音、身体性音乐、实验作曲、即兴音乐、噪音/电子音乐。
“我希望我是一份田野录音”。
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问答

罗万象(以下 L):看起来有点像科学兴趣小组的作业啊?
颜峻(以下 Y):是啊,就是一个小学生作业的样子。光的折射散射什么的。那个光透过 CD 表面的塑料,从底部折射出来,就是这样。
L:这个打口 CD 是不是也有点怀旧的意思呢?我们都知道你写过“打口的一代”,很煽情的。
Y:前阵子做了一个录音,是用打口 CD 在地上滚动,100来张吧,一张一张地滚。起因是之前整理工作室,把打口 CD 都翻出来听了一遍,有些就不想要了,直接扔又舍不得,想告别一下,做个东西。以前赋予它很多的感情,意义,现在就全砍掉,只留一个单纯物理的性质,圆的,缺口的,滚动的,塑料片。
然后这个折射散射,就是顺手做了一个模型。
L:也还是强调了上面的缺口吧?那个光是穿了过去,那两张 CD 也用缺口卡了起来。
Y:对呀打口就是这样啊。残缺的青春啊什么的这种比喻,可以换成一种简单的语言,不再有比喻,不再有象征,东西就是东西,和身体一样,切一个口子,这样。
L:那么这是一个视觉艺术作品吗?
Y:这还真把我问住了……反正不是声音艺术就对了。总是就是一个模型,一件简陋的,基本的东西。

yan jun is based in beijing. he practicing field recording, performative music, experimental composition, improvised music and noise/electronic music.
“i wish i was a piece of field recording”.
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q & a
luo wanxiang (L): it looks like a piece of science club homework by some kids?
yan jun (Y): yes indeed. a premier school home work on light refraction and scattering. that light goes through surface of the cd then refracts out. that’s all.
L: do you have anything sentimental to do with these cut-off cd? we both know you have wrote about “the cut-off generation”. that was quite sensational.
Y: i have made some recordings of hundred some cut-off cds rolling on floor. the impulse is i have listened to all my cut-off cd collection by the chance of neatening my studio. some of them i’d through away but couldn’t really do it as there is an emotional connection. i would do something to say goodby to them. so all those emotions and meanings i given to them could be cut away then. now only physical aspect left. it’s about round, cut, rolling plastic pieces.
this refraction and scattering thing is a side product of the recording.
L: but you still emphasized the gap right? light travels through the gap. those two cds were also connected by their gaps.
Y: yes that’s how cut-off is. such tropes as “broken youth” could be replaced by a kind of simple language. thus no more trope, no more symbol as a thing is a thing. thing is like body. now we have a cut on it. that’s all.
L: so is it a piece of visual art work?
Y: good question… anyway it’s not a piece of sound art work. anyway it’s a model, a draft and basic thing.