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    Serenade of the Woods

    C-PLATFORM × Lisa Chang Lee

     

     

    Serenade of the Woods

    2018-2019

     

    https://www.c-platform.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/林之曲王贝贝现场和声版.mp3

     

    “Serenade of the Woods” is a cross-disciplinary collaboration between artist Lisa Chang Lee and musicians.

     

    “Serenade of the Woods” explores the boundaries and possibilities between contemporary technology and naturalism, and uses the objectivity, openness and receptivity of computer science to dissolve the binary opposition between technology and nature, so to restore a kind of oriental uniformity (QI WU theory, Chuangtsu). Through the analysis of computer data, the rhythm of plants in the breeze is read, and “restonated” into musical scores. In the collaboration between the two artists, responsible for the programming part and according to the core concept of the work, James Wilkie applies French composer Olivier Messiaen’s system called Modes of limited transposition, which was inspired by the oriental music and natural birds song. The video footages taken by Lee are digitalised by Wilkie then analysed by computer algorithms. Algorithms process the movement of the plants swaying in the breeze – the stronger and more frequent the movement, the more the algorithm unlocks notes of a secret melody for the plant to play. Each plant is given a musical instrument that corresponds to the synesthetic form of sound. Just like the relationship between visual forms and sounds explained by Wassily Kandinsky in “Point and Line to Plane” as scientific experiments, “Serenade of the Woods” reverses this audiovisual synesthesia to create a symphony of various instruments. The musical scripts written by nature are then played by human performers as live performance as well as audiovisual installation.

     

    Project Director: Lisa Chang Lee

    Concept, filming & video editing: Lisa Chang Lee

    Video and Audio Coding: James Wilkie

    Flutist: Rossana Ter-Berg

    Cellist: Francesca Ter-Berg

    Multi-Percussionist: Beibei Wang (live performance)

    Graphic design: Yin Chunyang

    Project Assistants: Liu Qingqing, Jules Gulon

    Year: 2018-19

    植物在风中摆动的影像被录制并输入电脑

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    视频



    2018版本-橡树与野花(作品Sample仅供网络传播)



    电脑运算分析画面

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    电脑程序运用有限移调调式编辑生成音符

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    录音现场

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    2019最终版本 - 橡树与野花(作品Sample仅供网络传播)



    The Exhibition Site

     

    Latent Spectators, UNart Centre, Shanghai, 2019 

     

    Three screen LED display, Latent Spectators, UNart Centre, Shanghai, 2019

     

    Three Screen LED Six Channels Installation, Latent Spectators,

    UNart Centre, Shanghai, 2019

     

    Solo Exhibition Symphony Zero, Live Performance by Beibei Wang,

    San Mei Gallery, London, 2021

     

    Solo Exhibition Symphony Zero, Live Performance by Beibei Wang,

    San Mei Gallery, London, 2021

     

    Solo Exhibition Symphony Zero, Live Performance by Beibei Wang,

    San Mei Gallery, London, 2021

     

    Solo Exhibition Symphony Zero, 

    San Mei Gallery, London, 2021

     

     

    Vinyl Records and Music Sheet

     

    Lisa Chang Lee was born and raised in Beijing. She obtained her bachelor degree in fine art from Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing (2006-10) majoring printmaking and a master degree from the Royal College of Art, London (2012-14), Lee is now based in both London and Beijing. She is a visiting lecturer and tutor at the Royal College of Art on MA Photography and MA Print.

     

    Lisa Chang Lee’s works span multiple dimensions, using video, performance, interactive installations and graphic media. Focusing on the overlaping relationships between time, image, experience and performance, he explores the core of orientalism in a multifaceted art practice, exploring the fluid relationship between the individual and the environment, the present and history, and thinking about cultural identity in a globalised context.

    Many thanks to Lisa Chang Lee for her support and authorisation of this article.

     

    This article is for exchanging and sharing only. The copyright of image, audio and video belongs to the original author.

    Date

    2022年1月11日

    Category

    Future Institute, Future Institute

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