For human memory, things that are reminiscent are usually seen by the eyes, and the sounds at that time are usually forgotten. The John cage's (4"33') works depict silent music, the so-called silence, which is actually the atmosphere of the event. The work = the music + atmosphere. Usually these sounds will reveal some information to us. Weather, location, and even some conditions. It is precisely because the background music appears in a specific place, the background music of some elements is emotional, such as the sound of closing the door and the sound of breaking the plate. I think the sound is emotional, the atmosphere shows the audience what happened and the emotional atmosphere at the time, so my work shows the sound of people quarreling when they disagree. The story is like this. When No. 1 is working, No. 2 enters the office and takes out a document to show him. On the 1st, he is angry, starts to break the cup, pen, and then stormed out of the house and never came back. This piece of material was not taken at once, but a lot of pieces of material were recorded. I only used the important ambience in the story. Each piece of material contains important information, such as the spurt of high heels, the contrast between closing the door, and the emotion of thinking when turning the file. Because the work = the background sound of music + atmosphere, the background sound when things go through is also part of the thing, but when we think about things, all we can think of is "music" and not "atmosphere." When the "ambience" is the main theme, the "work" will be reproduced through memory. That is the association of memory makes the background sound easier to feel the atmosphere of the environment than the storyline at that time.
In John cage‘s research of icing, he analyses the information of Richard Wilhelm writes in the book” The eight trigrams are symbols standing for changing transitional states ; they are images that are constantly undergoing change .Attention centers not on things in their state of being-as is chiefly the case in the Occident- but upon their movements in change” In cage compositional process, he use of the changing hexagram is simply to substitute a new sound for the one that previously existed at that point in the chart. In the works I created, the intersection of the two sound materials will be connected, and the unrelated sounds are used as a small branch. By analyzing Cage's understanding of icing, the elements I create do not represent the length of the sound, but represent the sound. Items. And there is only sound where the two elements intersect.
The chaos that Yi Jingli said is actually organized. Just like the sixty-four trigram. Just like my work, It is confusion work but every item that appears in music has its own timeline, and each item is directed against each element on the graph. When the timelines of the two elements intersect, a sound is produced. The new element of the two gossip elements is like the sound of the intersection of two timelines.
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3.Lackner, Michael. "Richard Wilhelm, a 'Sinicized' German Translator." (Archive) In: Alleton, Vivianne and Michael Lackner (editors). De l'un au multiple: traductions du chinois vers les langues européennes Translations from Chinese into European Languages. Éditions de la maison des sciences de l'homme (Les Editions de la MSH, FR), 1999, Paris. p. 86-97. ISBN 273510768X, 9782735107681.
4.Pritchett, James. 1994a. "John Cage: Freeman Etudes’’, CD liner notes to: John Cage, Freeman Etudes (Books 1 and 2) (Irvine Arditti, violin), Mode 32. (Accessed August 14, 2008)
