September-October 2011 : Workshop in Yonghe, Taipei @ Small Idea Bookshop

台北好居城市未來觀

以「好居城市」作為想像的起點,思考台北未來城市的樣貌,結合網路論壇、真實 的體驗、座談及工作坊,探究以人為本的都會生活居住價值。
台北未來城市生活的想像與實踐需要市民與管理者的共同參與,特別邀請各界人士 分別提出6個想法, 以2030年為時間標的, 為網路論壇打開「好居台北」的各個面向 ,透過各種思考激盪探索未來。
由都市酵母策劃執行(http://www.cityyeast.com), 台北都更處主辦。

所有議題網頁:

http://www.cityyeast.com/passion_list.php?newstype_id2=52

Living-Tomorrow.pdf

Atelier Hui-Kan participated to a kind of “think tank”…

“Living Tomorrow, Taipei 2011 forum” was organized by City Yeast.
We were asked to propose a few ideas for the future of Taipei.

Here are our propositions (in Chinese) : Living-Tomorrow.pdf

Here is the website of the project : http://www.cityyeast.com

“Treasure” by Shijingren 拾景人 is a book continaining a CD, published in May 2011 in Taiwan.
Texts, images and sounds are the traces of wanderings in the surrounding of Treasure Hill (寶藏巖), a formally illegal settlement in Taipei city.

This publication was realized during a stay at Treasure Hill Artist Village and is a part of our collaboration to public art project.

We want to say a huge thank you to Phil Di Palm, Matt Marble and Lisa Chen. (we should have included this thanks into the book but we forgot, sorry !)

Text (in English and Chinese), Photography, Sound, Editing by Wan-Shuen Tsai and Yannick Dauby.
Published in Taipei, Taiwan, 04.2011. Commissioned by Taipei City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Available on www.kalerne.net

Listen to the Atayal in Taoshan (聽見桃山) is not exactly an audio documentary, but it provides an interesting look at the daily lives and culture of a group of Atayal (泰雅) Aboriginal residents from Taoshan Village (桃山村), located in the mountains of Hsinchu County.

This collection of on-location recordings of traditional Atayal music, oral storytelling and nature sounds was conceived as an audio travelogue by sound artist Yannick Dauby and visual artist Tsai Wan-shuen (蔡宛璇).

Under the name Atelier Hui-Kan (回看工作室), Dauby and Tsai spent six months collaborating with students from Taoshan Elementary School (桃山國小). Along with Atayal musician and teacher Pawang Iban (錢玉章), the pair organized workshops and games that involved the students learning the Atayal language and creating their own sound art.

Though sound art as a discipline tends to be experimental or downright esoteric, Dauby and Tsai keep this project down to earth by focusing on the village’s efforts at cultural preservation.

This CD is a pleasure to hear. In some ways, it’s like listening to a radio program, but with the commentary coming only from the subjects.

Dauby blurs the lines between social documentary and sound art aesthetics, and that works very well. Rope Pulling (拔河) is a two-minute track that captures a tug-of-war contest at the school. His editing focuses on the excitement of competition, with the crack of the starting gun and the students yelling and screaming as they root for their team.

In A Weird Travel (泰雅奇幻之旅), a Taoshan Village elder tells the surreal tale of a hunter that gets kidnapped and travels to the future. Dauby subtly splices in recordings of Taoshan schoolchildren imitating the sounds of cicadas, as well as the frogs outdoors at the village, and manages to avoid making the track sound like a New Age recording.

There’s also plenty for listeners interested in world music or traditional musical instruments. The CD includes a cappella renditions of traditional songs, performances by Taoshan students singing and playing bamboo xylophones and a sampling of the wide variety of bamboo mouth harps used by the Atayal.

Though he shies away from calling these recordings ethnography, preferring to see them as artistic pieces, Dauby writes in the liner notes that “an effort must be made” to preserve Atayal musical culture. This CD is fully convincing in this regard.

For more information on this recording, visit Atelier Hui-kan’s Web site or contact Taoshan Elementary School in Wufeng Township, Hsinchu County, (新竹縣五峰鄉桃山國小) at (03) 585-6040.

— David Chen

Taipei Times - Sun, Jan 23, 2011

27 March 2011. Performance at Tadpole Point (尖蚪), Treasure Hill (寶藏巖)

和老Kohler&Campbell 一起的晚上
An evening with the old Kohler & Campbell

Wan-Shuen Tsai 蔡宛璇 - Video
Wang Yu-Jun 王榆鈞 - Piano recordings, guitar, found objects & computer
Yannick Dauby 澎葉生 - Piano recordings, analog delay, found objects & computer

27 March 2011. The Sounds of Places.

無論是在日常生活中或是異地裡, 田野錄音總在探索環境與收集不尋常的聲音, 再將這些聲音帶回工作室中, 小心地擇選和編輯, 有時以拼貼或編曲方式, 有時則試著保留住這些聲音中的主要特質。

Yannick 希望在這次的聆聽會中介紹一些以上述內容為主的聲音藝術工作者的作品, 其中多數是新作, 或是一些市場上不易尋得的出版品。這次所選播及介紹的作品, 包含在實驗室中科學儀器的聲音, 發出獨特聲響的沙塵, 迷幻植物, 水中動物以及即地 (in-site) 即興作品。

Field recordists explore their environment, gather unusual sounds from daily life or exotic locations, take those sounds back to the studio, carefully select and edit them, sometimes make a collage/composition, sometimes keep their original specificity.
Yannick Dauby will introduce some artists working with these topics through recent or hard-to-find publications. The selection includes the sounds of scientific equipment in laboratories, booming sands, hallucinogenic plants, underwater animals and some in-site improvisations.

Finally the CD made in Toashan with the Elementary School is released and available !

Order it on Kalerne Shop !

End of the project ! Map+CD are available ! Contact us if you are interested.