Around sound.

On 26 Jan, our class went to the Around sound art festival at Kwun Tong Ferry Pier.

 Actually I think it is my first time to go Kwun Tong Ferry Pier. The venue is a good choice for the performance, although it is desolate that not many people access, the space is sample ad close to nature, so that audience would pay more attention to all the sound and not be distracted.

Matt Cook's works are very interesting , that he makes use of the daily objects, combined them to installations and create special sound, like the little experiments done by kids . His artworks are still in progress, but I think this  concept is already completed and it inspire us to observe more in our daily lives, and think about how the ordinary material can be use in other different ways. 

Other then that, there was performances "Stream" , done by Akio Suzuki (鈐木昭男) and the other female dancers. Akio Suzuki  kept  hammering nails on the wood, to form the sound and the pattern of varying lengths arranged.

Look at the body movements of the dancers, the relationship nail. do not understand. then he used plastic chopsticks to "travel" on them,  produce a special kind of sound in different rhythms and speeds music. The female dancer followed the rhythm of the sound body and made body movements, sometimes dance as a bird,  sometimes dance as the stream...

To be frank, I don't understand what they want to show, but, the performance produce the sound of void, and together withe the echo in the pier, I have a new experience in sound. Nails and woods maybe two kinds of "vulgar" materials, however when we feel them via a new aspect -the sound, I find them mysterious. And it provoke me to start thinking about the possibility of sound.

Another piece of performance of the work related to water and glass bottles. Green glass bottle filled with water on the floor row straight line. The dancers picked up the glass bottles, turning the body, the water laid on the ground and became a piece of "water painting" on the floor. 

I think The whole picture is very elegant and the beam of sunlight  pass thought the water and the bottle made an peaceful and comfortable atmosphere. when Akio Suzuki blowing the mouth of the bottle, I suddenly felt a sense of friendliness: that's what I used to play when I was a kid.

The overall experience reminds me the childhood games I play: making small installation with home materials, taping bowls with chopsticks, blowing the mouth of a bottle like blowing a whistle... those little stuff in life was once my favorite element of sounds. However as we keep growing, world become dull and harsh...in fact I think we somehow are quite skin-deep. When seeing a daily matters, we lose the creativity and just rely on our pair of eyes. Although I don't  know what the original messages were, I think I have found such a sample happiness again, just like a piece of music to my ears.

After that day, when I hear the annoying escalator music in the Festival walk, I miss those sound i heard in the pier, simple but sincere.