video and sound, with MLuM · 2006 · 9:53
影像与声音，与 MLuM 合作 · 2006 · 9分53秒
Car meets gagaku: MLuM improvise to video, as if Marinetti’s roaring car were listening to the Japanese court orchestra.
汽车遇上雅乐：MLuM 随影像即兴，仿佛马里内蒂那辆轰鸣的汽车正在聆听日本宫廷雅乐。
| MLuM MLuM | Hoh Chung Shih: guqin, sound, composer (Singapore) Snezana Petrovic and Vid Petrovic: video (Yugoslavia) Michael Raco-Rands: electric bass, sound (USA) Marco Schindelmann: voice, piano harp, sound (EU and USA) 何仲实：古琴、声音、作曲（新加坡） Snezana Petrovic、Vid Petrovic：影像（南斯拉夫） Michael Raco-Rands：电贝斯、声音（美国） Marco Schindelmann：人声、钢琴竖琴、声音（欧盟与美国） |
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| Published 出版 | Computer Music Journal Sound and Video Anthology, Vol. 31 (DVD), Part 1, ‘Wide and Far’ (curators Robert Gluck, Tae Hong Park and Lonce Wyse; DVD producer James Harley). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. Issued with Computer Music Journal 31, no. 4 (Winter 2007); programme notes pp. 102–112. 《Computer Music Journal》声音与影像选集第31卷（DVD），第一部分“Wide and Far”（策展：Robert Gluck、Tae Hong Park、Lonce Wyse；DVD 制作：James Harley）。美国剑桥：MIT Press，2007。随《Computer Music Journal》第31卷第4期（2007年冬季号）发行；节目说明见第102–112页。 |
| Watch 观看 | ▶ Cargaku, as published in the CMJ anthology (video) ▶ Cargaku，《CMJ》选集版本（视频） |
The title folds car into gagaku, the ancient Japanese court music: among the work’s allusions is ‘Marinetti listens to Gagaku’, the Futurist champion of the roaring motor car set beside one of the world’s oldest orchestral traditions. Roads, drones, the Silk Route, Russolo’s intonarumori (noise-intoners) and the wings of the Victory of Samothrace pass through it too.
标题把 car（汽车）折进了 gagaku（日本古代宫廷雅乐）：作品的暗示之一是“马里内蒂聆听雅乐”——歌颂轰鸣汽车的未来主义者，与世界上最古老的管弦乐传统之一并置。道路、持续音、丝绸之路、鲁索洛的“噪音发生器”，以及萨莫色雷斯胜利女神的双翼，也都穿行其中。
Cargaku is a work of extreme improvisation, in which the concept counts for more than the sound. The performers improvise to video, and what emerges is treated as unintended response rather than planned expression; analysis and meaning come afterwards. The method runs from first impulse, through impromptu performance, to conceptualisation in retrospect.
《Cargaku》是一部“极端即兴”作品，概念比声音更重要。演奏者随影像即兴，所产生的声音被视为无意的回应，而非预设的表达；分析与意义都在事后才出现。其方法从最初的冲动出发，经由即兴的演出，到事后的概念化。
MLuM’s original note, as written for the work:
MLuM 为作品撰写的原始说明（英文）：
Demonstrative of a type of extreme improvisation in which the conceptual properties of resulting materials supercede any musical or sonic aspects, the score of Cargaku embodies a subterranean aesthetic that highlights automatistic procedures, non-reliant structures and anti-formulative processes. As performers extemporize to video, sound events, suggesting subconscious and archetypal equivalents, arise from correspondential realms as unintended responses to exo-conscious prompters delineate identities, both cultural and personal. Post-generative analyses and conclusions supplant inspiration(s) in a manner parallel to that of destination’s presupposition of departure, thereby dictating a methodology of inceptive impulse, impromptu execution and retrospective conceptualization.
Thematic-conceptual allusions include:
road.drone.SilkRoute.intonarumori.Samothracianwings.MarinettilistenstoGagaku.car.music:Cargaku.transit.recit.(inalphabeticalorder)
| audio. | ||
| auto. | ||
| automotopoeia | ||
| Autopia. | ||
| carburetor. | strike. | |
| dance. | string. | |
| deplete. | strum. | |
| distance. | supple. | |
| drive. | takeout. | |
| Germany. | time. | |
| Hollywood. | trance. | |
| HWY10. | vibrato. | |
| InlandEmpire. | video. | |
| instant. | voice. | |
| Italy. | JAM | Yugoslavia. |
| joy. | strike. | |
| L.A. | string. | |
| life. | strum. | |
| LostHighway. | supple. | |
| mime. | takeout. | |
| motion. | time. | |
| motor. | trance. | |
| movement. | vibrato. | |
| PiHuang. | video. | |
| radio. | voice. | |
| reel. | Yugoslavia. | |
| repeat. | strike. | |
| ripple. | string. | |
| rodeo. | strum. | |
| run-in. | supple. | |
| sing. | takeout. | |
| Singapore. | time. | |
| still. | trance. | |
| vibrato. | ||
| video. | ||
| voice. | ||
| Yugoslavia. |
25 November 2016 — Black Electronica, electronic concert with nine composers, ACC First Anniversary Performing Arts Festival, Space 2, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea.
2016年11月25日——《Black Electronica》九位作曲家电子音乐会，亚洲文化殿堂一周年表演艺术节，韩国光州亚洲文化殿堂 Space 2。
2020 — ElectroAcoustic Music Macomb 2020, College of Fine Arts and Communication and School of Music, Western Illinois University, USA.
2020——ElectroAcoustic Music Macomb 2020，美国西伊利诺伊大学美术与传播学院及音乐学院。
MLuM was a Long Beach, California based conceptual mock-pop and performance art ensemble of artists from several countries, featured on National Public Radio programmes across the USA and presented in experimental music concerts and sound art events throughout Southern California. Its intercultural, intermedia practice — ‘Weltradau’ (world noise) — makes the ‘best’ out of the ‘worst’ (and vice versa) of musics, images, performance practices and sounds, drawing on organic and inorganic processes, gong-chime cultures, ethnoise and ‘sound mauls’ rather than mere sound bites.
MLuM 是一个以美国加州长滩为基地、由多国艺术家组成的观念性“仿流行”与行为艺术团体，曾在全美国家公共广播电台节目中亮相，并在南加州各地的实验音乐会与声音艺术活动中演出。其跨文化、跨媒介的实践被称为“Weltradau”（世界噪音）：从各种音乐、影像、演出实践与声音中，化“最坏”为“最好”（反之亦然），取材于有机与无机的过程、锣群文化、“民族噪音”，以及“声音重锤”而非单纯的声音片段。
For scores, performance materials and other enquiries:
chungshih@chungshih.info
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chungshih@chungshih.info