octophonic audio, with MLuM · 2008
八声道音频，与 MLuM 合作 · 2008
A Chinese whisper among three sound artists, spread over eight speakers: every listener hears a different bias.
三位声音艺术家之间的“传话游戏”，散布于八个扬声器：每位听者听到的都是不同的偏见。
| Forces 编制 | four stereo tracks played simultaneously into eight speakers; live diffusion on the mixer optional 四条立体声音轨同时送入八个扬声器；可选择在调音台上现场扩散 |
|---|---|
| With 合作 | MLuM MLuM |
| Listen 聆听 | ▶ stereo impression of the octophonic work ▶ 八声道作品的立体声版本 |
The source material includes rare found audio, all that remains of a film entitled Sieg des Willens (Berlin, c. 1944/45), based on Nun Erst Recht, the autobiography of Kammersänger Fritz Schätzler, an operatic performer of the interwar years who succeeded on stage despite physical disabilities long hidden from the public.
作品的素材包括一段罕见的现成录音——一部名为《Sieg des Willens》（柏林，约1944/45年）的影片仅存的声音。该片改编自宫廷歌唱家 Fritz Schätzler 的自传《Nun Erst Recht》；这位两次大战之间的歌剧演员，身有残疾却长期不为公众所知，仍在舞台上获得成功。
A guide (‘mother’) video, inspired by and appropriating violent images by Goya, was made and then destroyed once a seed (‘child’) sound file had been generated from it. The file was passed in turn among three sound artists. Like a Chinese whisper, each worked alone and unhearing, distorting the file according to his own biases. The result was then dislocated once more through spatialisation — swastika traceries, automatic calligraphic patterns, arabesques, spastic gestures, violent jabbing — into an eight-channel environment.
先以戈雅的暴力图像为灵感并加以挪用，制作一段“母”影像；由它生成一个“子”声音文件之后，影像便被销毁。这个文件依次传给三位声音艺术家。如同“传话游戏”，每人各自独立、彼此不闻，按自己的偏见扭曲它。最后再通过各种空间化手法——卐字纹路、自动书法轨迹、阿拉伯花纹、痉挛般的手势、猛烈的戳刺——把结果进一步“错置”到八声道环境之中。
There is no preferred ‘sweet spot’: listeners receive different biased experiences depending on where they are.
作品没有所谓的“最佳听位”：听者因所处位置不同，而获得各不相同的“偏见”体验。
Deafnesses as partial understandings;
Deafnesses as biased dis-locations;
Deafnesses as disguised depths;
Deafnesses as camouflaged identities;
Deafnesses as aesthetic deaths reborn;
Deafnesses as powerless information redacted.
MLuM’s original note, as written for the work:
MLuM 为作品撰写的原始说明（英文）：
Deaf, the victinnitus grey between white sound and black silence and sound and silence, draped in the grey coma-flage of a deaf clef where there are no choices but only the victintinnabulations of realities thought better left unsaid as histories, told and read in black-and-white, say their piece in the ‘technicolor’ that is the black and white of only black or white.
14 March 2008 — Zeppelin 2008 Sound Art Festival, Barcelona, Spain.
2008年3月14日——Zeppelin 2008 声音艺术节，西班牙巴塞罗那。
27 October 2008 — Musicacoustica 2008, Beijing, China; also included in Databasethetics, the Future of Asian Electronic Music database, CEMC/EMSAN, Beijing.
2008年10月27日——Musicacoustica 2008，中国北京；并收入北京 CEMC/EMSAN“亚洲电子音乐未来”数据库 Databasethetics。
6–12 April 2018 — Sonic Anchor Special Series: Sound Forms 2018 – A Festival of Multichannel Sound, McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre.
2018年4月6日至12日——Sonic Anchor 特别系列《Sound Forms 2018 多声道声音节》，香港艺术中心麦高利小剧场。
27 July 2018 — PostFest 2018, Experimental Music #1, Teater Kecil, Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta, Indonesia.
2018年7月27日——PostFest 2018 实验音乐 #1，印尼雅加达 Taman Ismail Marzuki 小剧场。
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. See also Cargaku.
MLuM 是以美国加州长滩为基地、由多国艺术家组成的概念性“仿流行”与行为艺术团体，曾在全美国家公共电台节目中亮相。另见 《Cargaku》。
For scores, performance materials and other enquiries:
chungshih@chungshih.info
乐谱、演出资料及其他查询：
chungshih@chungshih.info