Soundscape No.2: The Last Dialogue

The Last dialogue

Artist Statement


“He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” in the Bibel Rev 21:4.

What are the sounds of dying？How to present the bitter feelings and painful emotions behind the sounds？It’s really hard to image clearly. Compare with the classical works in the visual art history, using sounds to describe death is quite a complex problem. An important sound artist, Yannick Dauby, have tried to record the sounds of an insect dying before. It sounded quite peacefully, leaded the listener to think about death in an alternative way.

In this work , i did not capture the last picture of a human life journey. It recorded ordinary scenery happened in a ward with my family, estimating the blood pressure, the tender reminding etc coincidently.

Suddenly, my mother passed away the day before yesterday, and it just became the last dialogue between us. It sounds ridiculous for me because somehow I try to find the sounds describing death difficultly. Finally, the last words spoken from my mom to me is powerful and heart-breaking than any other sensational sounds. I just try to maintain the original sounds recording, using less post-production techniques in this work to memorize my mom and invite the audience actively listen the trauma behind the sounds with me.

Pipe!Pipe!Pipe! TNUA Soundmark (II)

pipes~~~

It's quite weird and interesting sounds from those "pipes". Noises are full around this area. After a few minutes, your mind will get more and more peacefully by these low frequencies sounds. Please enjoy it!

Practice makes perfect! - TNUA Soundmark (I)

Vocal-instrument rehearsal-II

This is a soundmark belonged to TNUA Soundmap Project, recorded in TNUA Music Department.

Sound diary No.6 - 20111108

Recently, my mon's physical condition is coming rapidly worse and worse. Sometimes it's really hurt to listen to her weak breathing and small volumes speaking like whispering. Beyond the weak voice, i just feel strong spirits behind. Although i know maybe we are closing the moment to face her death, these sounds of dying still make me feel so afraid. Because it's really too harsh to be true.

Sound diary No.5 - 20111102

What an interesting listening experience happened this evening between a cat and my friend. This friend of mine really likes cats. She likes to play with cats. But she use an interesting way to play with the cat: Imitation the sounds of cat. And as the cat seems cannot differ it's a kind of sound from a cat or from a human-being. So they seems like to be the same species in some alternative way: from listening experience!

Soundscape No.1: Public fears in the private spaces

Public fears in the private spaces by teddysteve


Artist Statetment

The work "Public fears in the private spaces" i made from recording the private experience in my dailylife. For taking showers and going pees in my daily life, these are quite normal but individual privacy experieces.

Nowadays, in the digital age, we have easily gotten a virtual identification in the reality world, even if we can pretend to be anyone in this virtual world, we still have to face to our isolate real world. We even do not know ourselves.

From this work idea, i just want to expose the reality behind the sounds in our daily life with nature habits -- the water noises by cleaning behaviors. I hope listening the water nooises may awake some parts of our awareness to realize: the relationship between each other in the real world is quite unique and valuable. Maybe the real fear is not in the publics, always behind in our private spaces.

Sound diary No.4 - 20111010

Today is double tenth day, the birthday of Taiwan, R.O.C.. In this kind of anniversary date, our government uses the generally way to celebrate it - the military performance show. While the helicopter is flying over our living place, the big noise from the propeller rotating from far far away. i have no glad feeling from this listening experience. Because i just connected some kind of sonic experiences using in some typical film focusing on war. So these kind of sounds make me thinking about wounds, sorrow and tragedy happening in the other side of the world now. i have to say, it would not make me feel good in these kind of holiday for "celebration". Maybe we should be keep quiet and silence for memorizing past sometimes as more as possible. It will easier to keep something cherish here and now, right?