[CC forum] Qin Siyuan: Wake up in your memory, the sound is disappearing

Mr. Qin Siyuan, an artist, curator, and the founder of "Sound Museum", said: About culture, history, about urban changes, and personal memory. These sounds are background sounds and voices in our society. Ignore it. But if we propose them alone, listening alone will find that it is actually very meaningful.

In 2005, I drank tea in Dasaira and several foreign experimental musicians. Suddenly, I heard a very magical voice. The musician raised his ears to find this strange sound source. Where did the sound come from? What sounds? I pointed to the pigeons circling in the sky, saying the sound of these pigeons.

The musician looked at me with suspicion, would Chinese pigeons scream whine? I said that this was not the pigeon's mouth, which was the whistle tied up on the tail, the sound of the whistle. This musician was particularly happy, and desperately ran to the direction of the pigeon, found the pigeon shed, and found the pigeon owner.

The owner of the pigeon showed him how the pigeon and whistle tied to the tail and how to speak, and these musicians opened their eyes.

We think of the sound of the pigeon whistle, do you think of the culture of the old Beijing and the voice of the old Beijing, what kind of relationship between the past and the present, I think the sound can tell us a lot.

Those musicians came to Beijing to participate in a project I planned, the urban voice, and the sound of sound. They want to experience Beijing's voice environment and create according to experience, and their creation must be reflected in the city.

One of the musicians called Peter Cusack. He has done a particularly interesting project. He asked the audience a simple question through a radio station in Beijing: What is your favorite Beijing voice? Some people say that my favorite is the voice of the old Beijing: for example, the pigeon whistle we listened just now, the feedback of other listeners said why we can't hear it now, what is going on?

Others said that my childhood voice was my favorite voice. At that time, we took the stick to fight the dates and jujube. The jujube on the tree fell on the roof. Follow the roof and we held the enamel basin under the roof. ,right! right! right! If you don't mention this, I have forgotten this childhood memory, which is too precious and very good.

Other people say that I like more daily voices. I pass the telegram building every day to work. The bell of that telegram building is my favorite voice. Some people also say some other special ordinary voices to propose. There are many people. Right! Why can't we think of these daily sounds? In fact, these voices are cute and precious.

Therefore, a very simple question arouses a particularly rich discussion, about culture, history, city changes, and personal memory ... Because these voices are background sounds, the sound in our society, not us through regular channel records recorded Some of the sounds, so we often ignore it very naturally, but if we propose them alone, listen alone and find that it is actually very meaningful.

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