Lacking Sound Fest. 失聲祭: LSF48

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Announcing a Rite of Losing Audio Virginity: Thoughts on Lacking Sound and Listen 48

Text: Ko yu jia
Translate: Yvonne Kennedy

First, I must admit, using the written word to describe "voice", "sound", "resonance" or any audible collision or friction, is essentially absurdist behavior. As such, the following should be read with a conceptual preparedness in mind to dispel any ludicrousness or preconceived notions in order to preserve any intrinsic value in the writing.

In Lacking Sound Festival Listen 48, two teams perform works that are stylistically and conceptually divergent. HUANG, Chung-Ying presents a field survey that includes spoken interviews (recorded audio) and written records (printed booklets) to explore the concept of sound art. From this proposition, the author of sound art seems undetermined, undefined, and perhaps unsolicited (as the author points out, “Taiwan’s sound art is contextually a European or American derivative, without a domestic point of view”). Sound art is pulled back to its origins in this work, from the point of departure of defining what sound is, with the intent of reconstructing content for sound art. However, the contents of the questions and answers gradually unveil an awkward ambiguous status occupied by sound.

昭告聲音失身之祭典—淺談與Listen 48

文 / Ko yu jia

首先，我必須要承認，以文字敘述「聲」、「音」、「響」等任何可被「聽見」的碰撞與摩擦，這樣的行為，在本質上是極其荒謬的。因此，你必須帶著一個「準備破除荒謬與成見」的概念閱讀，則此文方有存在價值。

失聲祭Listen 48這場，兩組人馬以截然不同的形式與概念展演作品。黃鐘瑩帶來了一份田野調查報告，以言說訪談（錄音）與文字記錄（印刷小冊），試圖話說從頭探討「聲音藝術」的概念。以此形式看來，「聲音藝術」之於作者是未定論、未定義的，甚至是來路不明的（如同作者所謂，台灣聲音藝術是「截取歐美脈絡，而沒有在地觀點」的說法）。「聲音藝術」在此作中被拉回原點，從「什麼是聲音」這樣最初始的提問出發，意圖重新鋪陳「聲音藝術」的內涵。然而，錄音檔、文件呈現的問答內容，卻也漸漸揭露了「聲音」妾身不明的尷尬。