電子音樂 - 海底尋夢

Title: Under the Sea (stereo tape piece) 《海底尋夢》（2006 年台灣藝術教育館線上創意競賽「音樂/音效類」首獎。）

Date: finished in April 22, 2005

Duration: 6 min.

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Program Notes:

This piece is inspired by Jules Verne’s novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. In this piece, sound samples from piano, glasses, and a computer keyboard are transformed through convolution, ring modulation, time stretching techniques to represent the imagined soundscape of a submarine and waves. The piece is also intended to portray the shimmering scenes under the sea when an imagined submarine passes through, flashing the light around for illumination. Reverberation effects are used in this piece to give the impression of mystery, and the sudden surge of textural density and velocity is also used several times to create different surprises in this adventure. The piece ends with a fade-out drone to represent the continuation of the journey toward more adventures under the sea.

這首曲子是來自閱讀法國作家 Jules Verne 所著之科幻小說《海底二萬浬》所得之靈感。 此曲藉由 convolution (兩種聲音的音色參數相乘而得之新音色之聲音合成技巧)、ring modulation （一種頻率調變的聲音合成）、granular synthesis （粒子化聲音合成）、time stretching（聲音延展）、spectral filtering （頻譜濾波處理）等聲音變形與合成之技巧，將鋼琴聲、玻璃碎裂聲、電腦鍵盤的打字等聲音重新合成或變形，並依照音樂發展的需要與音色變化的需求，將聲音檔 案相互疊合或歷時排列，用以描繪幻想中乘坐潛水艇至深海中探險時，所見聞之海底聲響世界以及探照燈照耀之下海中光影的變化。 此曲並透過 reverb（殘響）的聲音處理，營造一種神秘的色彩，而樂曲中張力的驟然起落，則代表著海底歷險所帶來的各種驚奇。樂曲尾聲以持續變化的長音及其音量淡出的方式，表達後續未完的一連串更精彩的海底歷險。

電子音樂作品 - 三摩地

Title: Samadhi (2-channel Tape Music) 《三摩地》(2005 年台灣藝術教育館線上創意競賽「電腦音樂創意類」首獎）

Duration: 6 min 10 sec

Date: finished on November 5, 2003 (revised in May 2006)

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Samadhi, a terminology in Buddhism and Hinduism, is a state of deep meditation contemplation which leads to higher consciousness. Inspired by the thinking of Buddhism and with my personal experiences and preference of practicing meditation, I try, in this piece, to convey an imagery of deep meditation and concentration and to create a mysterious atmosphere of oriental religions. However, I did not draw the raw materials directly from real sounds recorded in oriental temples. Instead, only a male’s talking, noises produced by a cart, and school bells recorded from regular life are used. Through the techniques mainly including convolution, granular synthesis, time-stretch, morphing, spectral filtering and etc., the raw materials are transformed into different sounds but at the same time in some way bear the resemblance to the original to be identifiable and are rearranged musically to achieve coherence.

This newly composed piece has been programmed recently to be presented in the International Electroacoustic Music Festival “Primavera en La Habana” on March 21, 2004, held by the the Cuban Institute of Music and the National Laboratory of Electroacoustic Music.

三摩地，或稱三昧，譯為等持、正定。即遠離心之浮沉，而得平等安詳之修行境界。此曲乃由於佛教思想與個人靜坐經驗所啟發，藉由聲波編輯的技巧，包括convolution （多種聲音檔案之特質相乘而產生新音色之技術）, granular synthesis（粒子化合成）, time stretch（聲音在時間上的延展之技術）, pitch change（音高改變之技術）, morphing（既有的聲音檔案在時間軸上漸變成另一個既有的聲音檔案之技術）, 及spectral filtering（頻譜上的濾波處理），將一些擷取於日常生活中的聲音（包括說話聲、手推車的聲音、學校鐘聲等）經過上述技巧做聲音變形並按照音樂美學上的原則，重新組合混音而來，藉以呈現東方宗教的神秘色彩及禪定中的神秘境界。此曲曾獲選於2004年古巴Primavera en La Habana國際電子音樂節、第八屆Santa Fe國際電子音樂節等發表。