描述：上周日在OCAT的活动是一次令人耳目一新的经验。活动当天，经过一轮介绍之后，我们开始了声音冒险。每个小组都有一位视障者成员，教我们如何使用我们的听觉导航。在盲杖的带领下，我们沿着苏州北路走到河南路桥，然后返回。 步行过程中，我们听到了从大约一公里外的一幢高楼间锤子的敲击声。这声音在我们上方，可以感受空气因此振动得厉害，并在各个方向、每个表面上回荡。在空气中回荡着的锤击声，似乎模仿着盲杖触碰地面的声音，两者相互呼应的状况，令人惊艳。这两个无关的事件相互之间有一个有趣的节奏，在某种程度上像是即兴表演。对我而言，如此偶然的时刻太值得录下音来。为了使这两种声音的对比度更加有趣，我以立体声录制，一侧有锤击声，另一侧有盲杖敲击的声音。当我回听它时，两种声音都令当下的场景非常深刻，并创造了一种超现实的体验。 在活动中，我了解到视障者轻敲盲杖的声音，可以展开很多意涵。盲杖轻敲在地面、墙面等表面上发出的回声，可以帮助辨识距离和音量。盲杖碰触、刮擦地面的方式，可以帮助视障者探测表面材料、或是发现了障碍物。但是我意识到，最有趣的是，如此也显示出一种存在。当我的一组成员闭着眼睛走路时，我故意站着不动，看着他们向我走来，最终盲杖就撞到我的腿。这是一个简单的概念：如果你听不到，就也看不到。想像我们的世界被提炼到一种没有颜色、而且只有基本形状的状态，是一件多么有趣的事。当我们闭上眼睛，我们必须重新定义我们周围的世界、把过去看到的抛开，重新建构一个以声音为基础的新城市。这真的是一个释放创造力的大好方法。 我总是告诉人们闭上眼睛，并使用声音作为画笔来绘制周围环境。最后，如果你喜欢自己“看到”内容，那么就将他们记录下来。但是，请务必牢记，我们所录下的声音，和我们记住的声音，两者永远不会相同。录声并不像拍照，录音会随着时间的流逝而变化。每当我们听它，它都会改变，因为我们会忘记、会长大、或是会搬到别的地方。录音随着我们而变化。录音不仅仅是为了保存时间和记忆，而是为了创建新的声音。 随着春天的临近、经过休眠后、万物的声音也渐渐回归，我鼓励读者以不同的方式体验周围的环境，闭上眼睛聆听，甚至记录下你听到的声音。像我一样，你会很快意识到，你以为自己非常了解的城市，比想像的还要美丽。The activity last Sunday at the OCAT museum was an earopening activity. After a round of introductions, we were set off on an adventure of sound. Each pair accompanied by a blind person to teach us how to navigate using our sense of hearing. Led by the tap of a cane, we walked along North Suzhou Lu to Henan Lu bridge and back again. Along the walk, we heard the tapping of a hammer from a tall building about 1 kilometer away and above us filling the air with vibrations and echoing on every surface in every direction. I thought that this was a great moment that also mimicked the clockwork tapping of our blind leader. The two unrelated events had an interesting rhythm going in and out of time with each other, as if somehow they were improvising a performance together. It is these serendipitous moments that to me, deserve a sound recording. To make the contrast even more interesting, I recorded in stereo with the hammering sound on one side, and the stick on the other. As I listen back to it, both the sounds gave an enormous amount of depth to the scene and created a surreal experience. During the activity, I learned that the sound of the tap of a blindperson’s stick can unlock many meanings of the world around us. The way the tap echoes against nearby surfaces can indicate distance and volume. The way it scrapes the ground reveals surface material and finds obstacles. But the most intriguing thing I realized is that it is an indication of presence. When one of my group members was walking with their eyes closed, I stood still and watched as they came forward and eventually bumped my leg with the stick. It is a simple concept: if you don’t hear it, you don’t see it. What an interesting way to imagine our world distilled into colorless, basic shapes. When we close our eyes we have to redefine our vocabulary of the world around us. To unlearn what we have seen and to rebuild a new city based on sound. What an amazing way to unleash creativity I always tell people to close their eyes and paint a picture of their surroundings using sound as their paintbrush. In the end, if you like what you ‘see’, then you record it. You must keep in mind however, that the recording we make will never be the same as what we remember it. Recording sound is not like taking a photo, it evolves over time. It changes every time we listen to it because we forget, or we grow up, or we move away. It evolves with us. A sound recording is not made to preserve time and memory, it is made to create new ones. As springtime quickly nears and the sounds of the seasonal wildlife return, I encourage readers to experience your surroundings in a different way and close your eyes and listen, maybe even record what you hear. Like me, you will quickly realize that the city you thought you knew so well is more beautiful than you could have ever imagined.