secret music one
for changing ensembles · 2017–2023 · open duration
为不断变换的合奏组合而作 · 2017–2023 · 时长开放
不可說, the unsayable: each group holds a part, no one sees the whole.
不可说：每组乐手各执一部分，无人得见全貌。
| Versions 版本 | SETTS, SETTS #4, Esplanade Recital Studio, Singapore (9 April 2017) TACETi Ensemble: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (2020); Thailand Creative Design Center (2021) Weird Aftertaste, Aliwal Arts Centre, Singapore (2023) SETTS，SETTS #4，新加坡滨海艺术中心（2017年4月9日） TACETi Ensemble：曼谷艺术文化中心（2020）；泰国创意设计中心（2021） Weird Aftertaste，新加坡 Aliwal Arts Centre（2023） |
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| Listen 聆听 | ▶ SETTS, 2017 (video) ▶ TACETi Ensemble, 2021 (video) ▶ SETTS，2017（视频） ▶ TACETi Ensemble，2021（视频） |
“大乐谱”的一页：白色幻灯片代表稳定的脉搏，黑色代表变化的脉搏。
Programme note 节目介绍
“不可說，不可說” — ‘unsayable, unsayable’ — is often found in the Buddhist sutras where and when rationality falls apart and something becomes inconceivable; the idea of infinity or boundlessness is one example.
“不可说，不可说”常见于佛经之中——当理性瓦解、某种事物变得不可思议之时；无限或无边的概念，便是其中一例。
The work comes in several independent musical parts for three groups. A pulsing group moves among the audience, setting the pulse with only the mouthpieces of their instruments. A melody group plays in front of a large screen showing the Big Score, which is advanced remotely, while each player reads ‘secret instructions’ on a small screen of their own. An anti-group of piano and pitched percussion plays chords that set up anti-pulses, constantly disrupting and taunting the pulsing group.
作品由三组乐手各自独立的音乐声部组成。脉冲组在观众之间移动，只用乐器的吹口设定脉搏。旋律组在大屏幕前演奏，屏幕上显示由他人远程翻页的“大乐谱”，而每位乐手另有一个小屏幕，显示只给自己看的“秘密指示”。由钢琴与有音高打击乐组成的反组演奏和弦，不断制造反脉搏，干扰、挑逗脉冲组。
In this game-like design, no single group is in full control of the music’s trajectory, even though the work unfolds in linear time. It explores the interdependency of the elements at work in music-making.
在这种游戏般的设计中，没有任何一组能完全掌控音乐的走向，尽管作品在线性的时间中展开。它探索音乐创作中各种元素之间的相互依存。
How it is played 演奏方式
TACETi 版本的布局：旋律组位于大屏幕前，反组在钢琴与打击乐旁，脉冲组则在观众之间。
The Big Score gives source motifs in slides: white slides call for a stable pulse, black slides for accelerating and slowing. The secret instructions tell each melody player how to transform them — slide to a higher note, grow rougher or clearer in timbre, crescendo, change register. The audience sees only the big screen, so they imagine a different music from the one the players are reading. The cellist turns on a swivel chair, and players may walk to the piano to play into its resonance, where more pages of the Big Score are pasted inside the lid.
“大乐谱”以幻灯片呈现原始动机：白色幻灯片要求稳定的脉搏，黑色幻灯片则要求加速与减速。“秘密指示”告诉每位旋律组乐手如何变化这些动机——滑向更高的音、使音色更粗糙或更清澈、渐强、改变音区。观众只看得见大屏幕，因此会想象出与乐手所读完全不同的音乐。大提琴手坐在旋转椅上转动，乐手们也可以走到钢琴旁，向琴身的共鸣中演奏——琴盖内侧还贴着更多页的“大乐谱”。
The ‘secret’ is structural as well as theatrical: no participant possesses a master score, and performers and audience gradually discover what the other parts are doing as the work unfolds — like a Chinese handscroll, whose landscape is disclosed through unrolling rather than surveyed from a single viewpoint.
这个“秘密”既是戏剧性的，也是结构性的：没有任何参与者拥有总谱，演奏者与观众都在作品展开的过程中，逐渐发现其他声部在做什么——就像中国的手卷，其山水是在展开中逐步呈现，而不是从单一视点一览无遗。
Words from collaborators 合作者的话
“Three groups of players perform three different sets of music presented in three different notational styles: each group of musicians operates with its own set of objectives, these ranging from the commensal to the antagonistic… none of the musicians being in full control of the trajectory of the music. Rather, the work is the friction between the different groups of performers activated and brought to the fore.”
“三组演奏者演奏三套不同的音乐，以三种不同的记谱方式呈现：每组乐手各有其目标，从共生到对抗不等……没有一位乐手能完全掌控音乐的走向。作品本身，正是被激活并推到前台的、不同演奏群体之间的摩擦。”
— Bertram Wee, composer and pianist; founding member, weird aftertaste
——Bertram Wee，作曲家、钢琴家，weird aftertaste 创始成员
引文译自英文。
Versions 版本
SETTS (2017) — the first version, at SETTS #4, Esplanade Recital Studio, Singapore, 9 April 2017. ▶ Watch
SETTS（2017）——首个版本，SETTS #4，新加坡滨海艺术中心，2017年4月9日。▶ 观看
TACETi Ensemble (2020) — for flute, clarinet, saxophone, trombone, cello, piano and percussion. Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (2020) and Thailand Creative Design Center (2021). ▶ Watch
TACETi Ensemble（2020）——为长笛、单簧管、萨克斯管、长号、大提琴、钢琴与打击乐而作。曼谷艺术文化中心（2020）与泰国创意设计中心（2021）。▶ 观看
Weird Aftertaste (2023) — for 5 instrumentalists: Bertram Wee, handheld instruments; Lynette Yeo, keyboards; Michellina Chan, saxophones; Christoven Tan, viola and violin; Chee Jun Sian, cello. Aliwal Arts Centre, Singapore.
Weird Aftertaste（2023）——为五位乐手而作：Bertram Wee（手持乐器）；Lynette Yeo（键盘）；Michellina Chan（萨克斯管）；Christoven Tan（中提琴与小提琴）；Chee Jun Sian（大提琴）。新加坡 Aliwal Arts Centre。
For scores, performance materials and other enquiries:
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乐谱、演出资料及其他查询：
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