Insight
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2022
12 mins
Nowadays, there is another kind of reality: Virtual Reality. Different identities and various types of senses in technology trends that we need to think about.
“Necromancy” is one of Taiwanese religions and cultures. During the ritual of necromancy, the artist found the relationship between venerable master and blindfolded believers really interesting. Believers gradually feel reality in the description or the “scene” of consciousness. This work tries to experience the upside way of virtual reality in a virtual scene of creation. Through the simplicity of begin, this work follows the sounds to gradually create a scene and world. Sound production of this work along with artist SHENG. The artist was used to integrate ambient sounds and field recording into traditional Taiwanese music. He tries to interpret different appearance of modern and traditional instruments which based on digital music technology. In the integration of east and west world-views EDM scene, this work can attempt some limits of the audiovisual works.
虛擬世界所帶來之第二現實，人們以何種身分、感官狀態去面對這樣的科技趨向。
作品的形式由民間信仰中的「觀落陰」觀靈術的形式為發展主軸，在觀落陰的儀式過程中，創作團隊覺得法師與矇眼民眾間的連結非常有趣，這個存於意識之中的描述，也是逐漸構築「景」的過程，讓民眾如同身處現場。作品試圖導入這樣的形式，從無的場景開始，在聲響引導下，漸漸以物件去建構出場景、世界，試圖在虛擬場景建構的過程中，實驗虛擬現實反向浸入的過程。 作品與聲音藝術家晟合作，晟過往的作品時常使用臺灣傳統樂器及環境音和田野錄音的聲響，揉合數位音樂的技術，詮釋出有別於一般傳統樂器的樣貌，融合東／西方世界觀的電子音樂場景，讓聲音與影像產生更多的突破與嘗試。
About Artist
XTRUX x SHENG
XTRUX x 晟
XTRUX
XTRUX is founded in October 2020 with a number of creators whose works focus on new media art, and has recently developed in artistic creation with elements such as artificial intelligence, Metaverse, Video Game, Motion Capture, Sound Art (Klangkunst), Light, Installation, Rave, Audio-visual, etc. Their creative practice mainly focuses on the interaction of "virtual world, digital identity, and Taiwanese folk beliefs" with the attempt to reshape the relationship between virtual and immersive media.
成立於2020年末，由多位關注於新媒體藝術的創作者組成，近期以人工智慧、元宇宙、遊戲、動態捕捉、聲光、裝置、銳舞、音像等元素在藝術創作中發展，創作主要關注「虛擬世界、數位身分、民間信仰」之交互關係，試圖在虛擬及沉浸式媒體的形式中重塑三者之間的關係。
SHENG 晟
YANG Sheng-Wen is a sound artist and music producer whose works wander the sonic space of acoustic, explorative reality and glitch, psychedelic distortions, falling somewhere between theatre, film, and sound experimentation. SHENG's current project combines a variety of elements and techniques, such as Foley, ambient sound, field recording, test tones, and traditional instruments. In an attempt to create an electronic sound that belongs to the future worlds.
本名顏晟文。作品跨足實驗聲響／電影／劇場之間，風格遊走在探究真實與虛幻失真的聲音面向中。現著重於聲音的顆粒合成，融合擬音，環境音和田野錄音、傳統樂器。
