Listen 40 –矩陣先生

Txt: Wu, Ting-Hsien, Photo: CAI Xin-Yi, Records: CHANG Yung-Ta, Translate: Brenda Chan

文字:吳庭嫻, 攝影:蔡欣邑, 錄音:張永達
轉貼自http://lsf.iolab.tw/
影片連結http://lsf.iolab.tw/2010/10/listen-40-excerpt-video/There are three sections of Mr. Matrix’s performance. It creates visual effect through prompt body movement (holding a mouse), and then create sounds (there are corresponding figures for all the movement, rolling, and spinning of the images); not alike formerly using sounds as the main to control images. Using biological visual images to make those reasonably matched unique sounds dance freely with the tips our bodies.

Mr. Matrix used a dark frame as the opening. Those white points clicked by the mouse seem like stars in the universe, they are automatically sucked into the central group of stars, and produce the sounds of sisi—bobo—sisi. The performer makes the cursor keep sliding; meanwhile, there are some circular objects surrounding those gathered points, and they keep extending outward just like the planets’ changeful positions in the vast universe. The creator explains the performance itself is to figure out how to make an ordinary action interesting. They observed the creatures in the natural world, such as the movements of birds, butterflies, and ants. They used scientifically observations and algorithm, and then typed corresponding figures in the program. In the first section, the performance was inspired by observing the movement of paramecia. Paramecia have no brains, but they would leave the environment they don’t like and gather in the place they like. They knew someone was looking at them, so they danced to show their respects. Creatures gathering behavior and the uncertainty of moving once in a while are how they caught creator’s eyes.

Mr. Matrix brings the performance that inputs the concept as biology, the reason to approach biology is to make the performance active and fun.

The images got continuously changed and the square frameworks keep getting cut. There are some interlaced red, yellow, and green lines pop out of the black ground screen and they cut the square framework without limit. Just like cell division, it produces sounds like hum-hum-hum-hum-hum-tam. The creator explained that he wanted to make the performance complete, and presented it by the simplest way, but he didn’t expect that there would had problems when it worked. The figures of sound are assumed the situation of those frameworks after being cut into large and small pieces: the moving sound for the large pieces is lower, and the moving sound for the small pieces is higher.

矩陣先生的表演分成三個段落，透過即時身體性的移動(手持滑鼠)創造投影上的視覺效果，再以視覺畫面創造聲音(影像的跳動、滾動、旋轉皆有對應的聲音數據)；脫離以往以聲音為主體控制影像的模式，以生物性的視覺畫面讓被合理配對的獨立發聲物件隨著身體末梢自在的舞動。

陣先生以黯黑的畫面開場，滑鼠點擊出現的白色點點像是宇宙中的小星星，不由自主的被吸入中央的星星群中，發出西西–波波–西西–的聲音。表演者的游標不斷滑動，聚集的點點周圍出現圓圈狀的物體，不斷的往外擴散行走，像是浩瀚宇宙中行星的位置在天空中不固定一樣。而創作者說明表演本身就是在思考一個平凡的動作如何變得有趣，他們觀察自然界的生物，如飛鳥、蝴蝶、螞蟻移動的方式，以科學觀察加入演算法在程式中輸入對應的數據。第一個段落的表演靈感來自於觀察草履蟲移動的姿態，草履蟲沒有腦，可是卻能遠離不喜歡的環境，而聚集在喜歡的地方。知道有人從透鏡看著牠，微生物表演了舞步表示敬意，生物的群聚性以及偶爾又會離開的不確定性吸引了創作者的目光。

由矩先生帶來的表演同樣放入生物性的概念，接近生物性是為了讓表演活化、有趣。畫面中持續轉換視角的方形骨架不斷的被切割，黑底色的螢幕上交錯出現紅、黃、綠線將方形骨架切開並且無限分割，如同細胞分裂的狀態，發出窩–嗡-嗡-嗡-嗡-嗡-咚–的聲音。創作者說明本來想把表演做到很完整，並以最簡單化的方式呈現，但沒想到會在運作時出問題，而聲音數據是假想被切割的骨架分割成大、小塊狀後的拖曳情形：大塊移動聲音較低沉，而小塊移動聲音較高。
Lsf 40 - Mr. Matrix (矩陣先生) by iolab.tw