Chiayi Sound Project 嘉義聲音計畫
January 25th, 2010During all the year 2009, the inhabitants of the differents areas of the Chiayi County in Taiwan could meet two unusual motorcycle riders, carrying microphones and recorders…
Yen-Ting Hsu and Yannick Dauby collaborated for building an archive various sounds of the region. This may look impossible and/or pretentious, but the intention was to make an overview, a sampling of what could constitute an auditory memory of Chiayi County. Religion, music, nature, local industry, oral history… The idea was to find a few sounds in each of the different geographical and cultural contexts.
Yen-Ting Hsu and Yannick Dauby worked in complete autonomy from the survey to the mastering and organization of database. The Cultural Affairs of Chiayi County created this project which was held at that time by Treesmusic, folk music label who invited us. For the moment, the sounds still need a home and the public still don’t have access to the collection, but there is hope that 2010 will be the year for establishing a listening community around these sounds.
For the moment, you can find some descriptions of the recording situations in English and Chinese of the project and listen to the extracts of the sounds on the blog of the project : chiayisound.blogspot.com
Aside of the recording session Yannick and Yen-Ting proposed a serie of workshops, classes and listening sessions :
- 16.02.2009 - 22.02.2009, National Chung Cheng University, Minhsiung (workshop)
- 27.08.2009, Salt Field, Budai
- 27.09.2009, Taipei Artist Village, Migration Music Festival, Taipei
- 06.10.2009, Chiayi Performing Art Center, Minhsiung
- 08.10.2009, University of Technology, Yunlin
- 28.10.2009, University Chung Cheng in Chiayi County, Minhsiung
- 02.11.2009, Tapangu Elementary School, Alishan
- 06.11.2009, Graduate Institute of Musicology - National Taiwan University, Taipei
- 07.11.2009, Gerontology and Communication Research Group - National Chengchi University, Taipei
- 18.11.2009 - 24.11.2009, National Chung Cheng University, Minhsiung (workshop)
- 23.11.2009, Bei-Shi community center (Hu-Lan Guan), Dalin
- 09.12.2009, Hong-Ya Bookstore, Chiayi City
2009這一年，嘉義縣居民或許有時候會遇到兩名機車怪客，帶著錄音器材四處奔馳…
許雁婷和澎葉生(Yannick Dauby)在嘉義縣共同合作建置聲音資料庫。這看來不太可能，聽起來口氣也未免太大。不過我們試圖先畫出一個概略的綜述，作為構建嘉義縣聆聽記憶的一個範例，內容包括宗教、音樂、自然環境、地方產業、口述歷史、節慶活動等，設法在不同地域的地理文化脈絡裡找到些許聲音。
從田野調查、錄音、後製一直到建置聲音資料內容，許雁婷和澎葉生完全獨立作業。2009年嘉義縣文化處開始了這個計畫，大大樹音樂圖像承接此案。目前這些聲音還需要一個儲存的空間，大眾尚無法聆聽到聲音採集成果，但我們希望2010年能夠進一步建立起聆聽社群。
現在如果想聽到這些聲音，可以透過嘉義聲音計畫的部落格。這裡面有些聲音/錄音筆記（大多為中文，部份有英文）以及些許聲音片段：chiayisound.blogspot.com
除了錄音，我們同時舉辦/參與一系列的工作坊、課程演講以及聆聽會：
16.02.2009 - 22.02.2009，中正大學，民雄 （聲音工作坊）
27.08.2009，布袋鹽田場務所
27.09.2009，台北國際藝術村，流浪之歌音樂節”旅者說故事”，台北
06.10.2009，嘉義縣表演藝術中心，民雄
08.10.2009，雲林科技大學
28.10.2009，中正大學，民雄
02.11.2009，達邦國小，阿里山
06.11.2009，台灣大學音樂系，台北
07.11.2009，政治大學老人傳播研究群，台北
18.11.2009 - 24.11.2009，中正大學，民雄 （聲音工作坊）
23.11.2009，北勢三角里社區唬爛館，大林
09.12.2009，洪雅書房，嘉義市
