外星人報告1號—關渡聆聽場：殘留物、遺跡與記憶碎片 Alien Report No.1_ Guandu Listening Sites: Residues, Remnants and Debris of Memories

Slavek Kwi

捷克／愛爾蘭 Czech/Ireland

年份 | Year
2018

位置 | Location
自然中心一樓 Nature Center (First Floor)

材料 | Material
聲音裝置
Sound Installation

理念 | Statement
想像一個外星種族能「看見」聲音（類似人類所說的「聯覺」），透過人類「音樂」概念留下的聲音遺跡來溝通。想像其中一名外星人正造訪關渡自然公園，試圖融入周遭環境，尋找能與這處未知棲地共存的方式。每種聲音都具有相同的互動機會，所有聲音都是平等的參與者。這名來訪外星人正試著要在這找到一處屬於他自己的平等位置，就像在環境中尋找生態位的一種物種。

造訪期間這名外星人每天在不同時段及位置，製造為時兩小時的聲音，藉此來探索這個場域。過一陣子後，他找到最適合他的三處位置，並些微做點改造來讓自己感到安全與舒適。樹枝被彎折綑綁、樹葉重新排列、種子與果實串聯在一起像是某種密碼。就像蜘蛛結網、亭鳥收集與展示相同顏色的物件並整理出空間來跳舞，外星人這些試圖與環境和諧共存的嘗試，並不是普通意義的演出，反而更像是動物根據環境而來的簡單行為。過程中的聲音被一一記錄下來，而人類將可在自然中心及網路上聆聽被挑選出來的聲音。

外星人離去後，甚麼會被留下？外星人的聲音隨著時間漸漸流逝，這些曾有的存在大部分都不著痕跡地刻在空間裡。外星人僅在少數幾處最喜歡、最常出沒的地方留下了一些記號。曾被踏查步伐踩過的落葉、或曾被外星人重新擺放的殘留物都還徘徊著，或許已很難從原有的自然秩序中被分辨出來。停下你的腳步，放鬆地聆聽這些尚未被封存、縈繞在這些地方的聲音，就在這裡、就是現在。你可能會感到一陣愉快。「當下」會持續多久？想像一個跟外星人有關的童話。

Imagine an alien race living in a completely different paradigm, communicating via sounds reminiscent of the human concept of “music” who can “see” the sounds (similar as human concept of synesthesia). One of these aliens is visiting Guandu Nature Park trying to tune in the surrounding environment, looking for a way to co-exist within the unknown habitat. Every sound has the same potential to interact; all sounds are equal participants in an ecological organism. The visiting alien is trying to find his own equal place within, the same as any other sound. The alien suddenly becomes another animal species looking for its niche within an existing environment.

The alien is generating sounds in the site, exploring various places at different times every day for three weeks, each session for two hours duration. After some while, he settles in three locations suited best to his needs. He alters slightly the place to feel safe, to feel comfortable while he interacts with the space. Branches bend and tight together to free the way, leaves re-organized out of the path, seeds and berries strung on a rope like an encoded message: like spider weaving his web in already existing infrastructure, like bower bird collects and display seeds of the same color and clear the place for dance... The alien creates sound-events almost every day for two hours of duration uninterrupted, alone or with observers. This is not a performance in an ordinary sense - an animal is not trying to play or be interesting - it simply behaves according to its own nature. Sonic attempts to co-exist harmoniously in the environment are being recorded. Selection from recordings will be available to human evaluation via the listening post in Nature Center and online.

What stays after visiting? Sounds of an alien fade away as time goes by, the presence is printed in space unmarked. Only spots of listening are dotting the space, the favorite places the alien spend the most of time. Residues of the leaves turned around by steps, debris re-organized by the alien’s presence might still linger there, indistinguishable from the nature order perhaps. Stop for a moment, make yourself comfortable and listen to the sounds unfolding in these places - here - now. You might be happy now. How long does the present last? Imagine a fairy-tale about an alien...

（點選圖片可線上聆聽 Click to listen online）