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cries of wind

by Xu Cheng

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I began to interest in Roland Kayn's music and his Cybernetic system on 2015. I tried to build a similar system in Analog Box - a software module synthesizer.

Then I was experimenting the system on an abandoned man-made mountain. (a hill built by garbage dump in the city, once used as a shooting ground, then occupied by many scavengers, and now semi-closed.) The synthesized sound is played by gongs and cymbals hanging from trees. (Similar to the effect of Ondes-Martenot D3 resonator) It's amazing that the subtle electronic sound mixes with the noise of the city and the sound of natural wind.

My group the Mustangs in Social Modulator (Xu Cheng/Huang Lei) held a solo exhibition in Shanghai Between Art Lab on 2016. We decided to make a better version of it.

Huang Lei and I founded four huge scraps of abandoned boilers at the garbage station near the gallery. The scrap iron is used as new resonators. Each of our sound systems use two resonators around the space.

After the opening ceremony, we decide to met and record "cries of the wind" as a sound piece. Huang Lei did not appear that day for some reason, so I recorded three takes by myself with my own system.

Walking in the space for sound searching was what I wanted to do. These three recordings were first-person auditory experiences recorded by binaural microphones in my ears. During the recording, I abandoned the non-controlling form and had a little control over the processing of sound. It can still be regarded as experiencing the changes of sound in different spatial locations.

XC 2019

风 鸣 | 徐 程

一五年我开始接触到Roland Kayn的音乐和他的Cybernetic系统。我试着在软件模块合成器Analog Box里搭建一个类似的可以自己运行的声音系统。
之后我在一座废弃的人造山上(市区内一座由垃圾堆建的小山,曾经被用作枪决场地,后被不少拾荒者占据,现已处半封闭状态。)实验这个系统。合成的声音通过悬挂在树上的风锣和鈸播放出来。(类似Ondes-Martenot D3共鸣器的效果)细微的电子声音混合着城市的噪音、自然的风声显得非常奇妙。
一六年,我的组合the Mustangs in Social Modulator(徐程/黄磊)在上海 Between Art Lab进行个展。我想做一个更好版本的“风鸣”。
我和黄磊在展场附近的垃圾回收站找到四个巨大的废弃锅炉残片。这些废铁被用来作为新的共鸣器。我们各自的声音系统各用了两个共鸣器,环绕着展场发声。
开幕之后一段时间,我们相约一起去录制一次“风鸣”。而当天黄磊因故没有出现,于是我用自己的系统独自录了三个版本。
漫步在空间中探寻声音是我想要做的。这三段录音都是由我耳朵内的入耳麦克风录制的第一人称听觉体验。录音的过程中,我放弃了无操控的展览形式,而对声音有少量的控制,但更多的仍然是体验不同空间位置和声音的变化。

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released April 11, 2019

装置:马氏社会调制器
声音/录制:徐程

cries of wind
installations by ◊ the Mustangs in Social Modulator ◊
sound produced and recorded by xucheng on may 2016

special thanks to :
Huang Lei,Zhang Jiayuan,Yan Yuting,Wang Chao,Sheng Yi,Sun Yanping


“风鸣”录制于2016年5月11日下午,上海杨浦。
特别感谢:黄磊、张嘉元、阎玉婷、王超、沈怡、孙燕平。


封面书法 孙燕平
calligraphy by Sun Yanping

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