MUSICAL WORKS

XUE Wenying / 薛文颖

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Birth C: CHINA Gender: Female

Dest: Concert

Media Specification: AudioVisual

Duration: 3:30

Setup: Mianyang Normal University

Prog. notes: 约翰·凯奇的《4'33''》这个作品表现出音乐极其强大的包容性，所有声音都可以是音乐一部分，我的灵感也来源于此。
人们在生活中总会忽视掉一些经常听到的声音，那种嘈杂的声音在非常喧嚣的环境中并不会被关注。所以这个作品像是一场的实验，声音的不断变化让听到的人无法忽视自己面对声音时的感受，任何一个情绪的变化都会被无限放大，让自身无法忽视。并希望这个噪音作品在遇到图像后，观看者能够通过图像和反弹的声音有相互作用。不仅仅是单一的噪音，让日常的声音碎片和图像碎片，去重新干扰日常，给观者带来感受和思考，并触发他们的记忆和情绪。
我使用Max软件调制了高频音和白噪音这样并非是常态的音色，也有一些收音机干扰信号、电视节目录音、发报机的滴滴声、轰鸣声等等特殊音色的采样。在视频制作上，我选择以宇宙这样宏大的景观，电视故障的像素，和缓慢变化的水面等图像与声音结合。意在表现出声音是日常的环境声，而我们可以从日常重新来认识日常。
The piece 4'33” by John Cage shows the extremely powerful inclusiveness of music, where all sounds can be part of the music, and I was inspired by that. People always ignore the sounds that they often hear in life, the kind of noises that don't get noticed in a very noisy environment. So this work is like an experiment, the constant change of sound makes it impossible for people who hear it to ignore their own feelings when facing the sound, and any change of emotion will be infinitely magnified, making it impossible to ignore itself. And I hope that after this noise work meets the image, the viewer can have interaction with the bouncing sound through the image. Not just a single noise, but let the fragments of daily sound and images to re-interfere with the daily, to bring feelings and thoughts to the viewers, and to trigger their memories and emotions.
I used the Max software to modulate high frequency tones and white noise which are not the norm, but also some samples of special tones such as radio interference signals, TV show recordings, dripping and roaring sounds of transmitters, etc. For the video production, I chose to combine images and sounds such as the grand landscape of the universe, the pixels of a TV glitch, and the slowly changing water surface. The intention is to show that sound is an everyday ambient sound, and that we can reacquaint ourselves with the everyday from the everyday.