List of Monumental sculpture projects 2015

  • 1 http://swannbb.blogspot.fr/2015/02/sunday-robot-play.html
  • 2 http://shuengitswannjie.blogspot.fr/2015/02/interactive-reading-room-tea-house-2015.html
  • 3 http://swannbb.blogspot.fr/2014/06/neo-ming-bed-luxembourg.html
  • 4 http://swannbb.blogspot.fr/2013/02/yuzi-paradise-tell-moon.html
  • 5 http://swannbb.blogspot.com/2011/09/12th-changchun-international-sculpture.html
  • 6 http://www.saatchionline.com/Shuen-git

Tuesday 29 September 2015

古琴曲《春风》

《春风》古琴曲谱减字谱+简谱(龚一/许国华 版)

2015-06-18 14:59 浏览154次 我要评论(0)【来源:音乐之家】
《古琴考级曲目大全》

《古琴考级曲目大全》

《古琴考级曲集》收集了古琴不同难度的考级曲目,将其划分为一级到九级..... 查看更多>>
《春风》古琴曲《春风》古琴曲谱减字谱简介
《春风》古琴曲谱减字谱+简谱(龚一 版)视频
    古琴曲《春风》是由我国著名古琴演奏家龚一先生和许国华先生创作的。         此曲作于1982年。乐曲在继承传统的基础上,在曲式结构、调性转换。演奏技巧方面都有了较大的突破,揭示了古琴这一古老乐器的发展潜力。
        作品以明快抒情的旋律,表达了人们春意盎然、奋发向上的欢快情绪。闭目静听,激越处如高山流水,浩浩荡荡,恰如李太白“为我一挥手,如听万壑松”之畅快,又恰如白乐天“银瓶乍破水浆迸铁骑突出刀枪鸣”之淋漓;舒缓处如涧底小溪,清亮优雅,确有杜子美“此曲只应天上有,人间难得几回闻”之由衷感叹!
    浅赏古琴曲《春风》
    古琴曲《春风》是由我国著名古琴演奏家龚一先生和许国华先生创作的。
    在今晚的全国少年器乐大赛上,一位年仅十二岁的小姑娘以娴熟的指法、对该曲较为深刻的理解和张驰有度的演奏,赢得了现场专家和观众的称赞,也让坐在评委席上担任评委的该曲作者龚一先生兴步上台,即兴又将此曲演奏了一番,让现场和银屏外的观众再次沉浸在民族音乐的高远、舒畅、优美的旋律中。
    此曲作于1982年。乐曲在继承传统的基础上,在曲式结构、调性转换。演奏技巧方面都有了较大的突破,揭示了古琴这一古老乐器的发展潜力。
    作品以明快抒情的旋律,表达了人们春意盎然、奋发向上的欢快情绪。闭目静听,激越处如高山流水,浩浩荡荡,恰如李太白“为我一挥手,如听万壑松”之畅快,又恰如白乐天“银瓶乍破水浆迸铁骑突出刀枪鸣”之淋漓;舒缓处如涧底小溪,清亮优雅,确有杜子美“此曲只应天上有,人间难得几回闻”之由衷感叹!
    好东西一定要与人共享!如此优美的曲子,自然得力于作者在音乐上的浓厚造诣,顺便把龚一先生的简况贴上,或许对古琴曲《春风》有一个更深入的理解。
(资料)龚一是上海民族乐团一级演奏员,著名古琴演奏家。现任“今虞”琴社社长、中国民族管弦乐学会副会长、上海市艺术教育委员会顾问、上海音协理事等职。
龚一1941年出生于江苏省南京市,他十三岁开始学习古琴演奏,一九五七年进入上海音乐学院附中,一九六六年毕业于上海音乐学院,曾先后师从古琴大师张子谦、顾梅羹、张正吟、刘景潮等十二位琴家,广泛地学习了多家琴派的演奏风格,掌握积累了不少代表曲目。经三十余年的学习研究与实践,龚一集众家之长,在演奏上形成了自己的风格特点,他所录制的多盒专辑音带、唱片均获得好评,由他配音演奏的动画片《山水情》曾两次获国际大奖及一九九一年上海文学艺术奖。 
 他誉满海内外,曾两度跨进维也纳金色大厅;他师从12位名家,艺贯5个琴派,其演奏瀟洒超脱,卓然成派。
除演奏外,龚一对古琴音乐的遗产曾作过长期的研究整理工作,发表过《中国古琴音乐(部分)研究中的发现》、《琴乐散论》、《宋曲“潇湘水云”及其作者郭楚望之研究》、《怎样欣赏古琴音乐》等三十篇论文和评介文章。他打谱的《古怨》、《酒狂》、《幽兰》、《大胡笳》等二十首古代琴曲,对于研究唐宋前后胸中国古代音乐有一定的参考价值。十多年来,龚——直担任上海音乐学院客席古琴教师,在古琴音乐的教学和教材编写方面亦积累了不少经验。
    龚一曾多次携带他的宋代名琴出访澳大利亚、新西兰、美国、加拿大、新加坡及港澳地区;曾两度赴英国伦敦举行个人独奏音乐会,并参加中因音乐的国际讨论会,为介绍中国古琴音乐作出过积极的努力;他还获得过一九八四至一九八五年“上海文学艺术奖”。

《春风》古琴曲谱减字谱+简谱(龚一/许国华 版)

2015-06-18 14:59 浏览154次 我要评论(0)【来源:音乐之家】
《古琴考级曲目大全》

《古琴考级曲目大全》

《古琴考级曲集》收集了古琴不同难度的考级曲目,将其划分为一级到九级..... 查看更多>>
《春风》古琴曲《春风》古琴曲谱减字谱简介
《春风》古琴曲谱减字谱+简谱(龚一 版)视频
    古琴曲《春风》是由我国著名古琴演奏家龚一先生和许国华先生创作的。         此曲作于1982年。乐曲在继承传统的基础上,在曲式结构、调性转换。演奏技巧方面都有了较大的突破,揭示了古琴这一古老乐器的发展潜力。
        作品以明快抒情的旋律,表达了人们春意盎然、奋发向上的欢快情绪。闭目静听,激越处如高山流水,浩浩荡荡,恰如李太白“为我一挥手,如听万壑松”之畅快,又恰如白乐天“银瓶乍破水浆迸铁骑突出刀枪鸣”之淋漓;舒缓处如涧底小溪,清亮优雅,确有杜子美“此曲只应天上有,人间难得几回闻”之由衷感叹!
    浅赏古琴曲《春风》
    古琴曲《春风》是由我国著名古琴演奏家龚一先生和许国华先生创作的。
    在今晚的全国少年器乐大赛上,一位年仅十二岁的小姑娘以娴熟的指法、对该曲较为深刻的理解和张驰有度的演奏,赢得了现场专家和观众的称赞,也让坐在评委席上担任评委的该曲作者龚一先生兴步上台,即兴又将此曲演奏了一番,让现场和银屏外的观众再次沉浸在民族音乐的高远、舒畅、优美的旋律中。
    此曲作于1982年。乐曲在继承传统的基础上,在曲式结构、调性转换。演奏技巧方面都有了较大的突破,揭示了古琴这一古老乐器的发展潜力。
    作品以明快抒情的旋律,表达了人们春意盎然、奋发向上的欢快情绪。闭目静听,激越处如高山流水,浩浩荡荡,恰如李太白“为我一挥手,如听万壑松”之畅快,又恰如白乐天“银瓶乍破水浆迸铁骑突出刀枪鸣”之淋漓;舒缓处如涧底小溪,清亮优雅,确有杜子美“此曲只应天上有,人间难得几回闻”之由衷感叹!
    好东西一定要与人共享!如此优美的曲子,自然得力于作者在音乐上的浓厚造诣,顺便把龚一先生的简况贴上,或许对古琴曲《春风》有一个更深入的理解。
(资料)龚一是上海民族乐团一级演奏员,著名古琴演奏家。现任“今虞”琴社社长、中国民族管弦乐学会副会长、上海市艺术教育委员会顾问、上海音协理事等职。
龚一1941年出生于江苏省南京市,他十三岁开始学习古琴演奏,一九五七年进入上海音乐学院附中,一九六六年毕业于上海音乐学院,曾先后师从古琴大师张子谦、顾梅羹、张正吟、刘景潮等十二位琴家,广泛地学习了多家琴派的演奏风格,掌握积累了不少代表曲目。经三十余年的学习研究与实践,龚一集众家之长,在演奏上形成了自己的风格特点,他所录制的多盒专辑音带、唱片均获得好评,由他配音演奏的动画片《山水情》曾两次获国际大奖及一九九一年上海文学艺术奖。 
 他誉满海内外,曾两度跨进维也纳金色大厅;他师从12位名家,艺贯5个琴派,其演奏瀟洒超脱,卓然成派。
除演奏外,龚一对古琴音乐的遗产曾作过长期的研究整理工作,发表过《中国古琴音乐(部分)研究中的发现》、《琴乐散论》、《宋曲“潇湘水云”及其作者郭楚望之研究》、《怎样欣赏古琴音乐》等三十篇论文和评介文章。他打谱的《古怨》、《酒狂》、《幽兰》、《大胡笳》等二十首古代琴曲,对于研究唐宋前后胸中国古代音乐有一定的参考价值。十多年来,龚——直担任上海音乐学院客席古琴教师,在古琴音乐的教学和教材编写方面亦积累了不少经验。
    龚一曾多次携带他的宋代名琴出访澳大利亚、新西兰、美国、加拿大、新加坡及港澳地区;曾两度赴英国伦敦举行个人独奏音乐会,并参加中因音乐的国际讨论会,为介绍中国古琴音乐作出过积极的努力;他还获得过一九八四至一九八五年“上海文学艺术奖”。

Thursday 24 September 2015

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 57 : - Collages - Psychedelic Architecture

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 57  :  Psychedelic Architecture - visual collage; collages

A collage and graphic play with photos of structurally normal, real life architecture.





Mind-Boggling Psychedelic Architecture
Designer Michael Jantzen's series, entitled Deconstructing the Houses, likes to combine different art forms, architecture and photography. "My work has always evolved through extreme innovation as I strive to expose new thinking, primarily through the re-invention of the built environment," says Jantzen. Simply by taking fragments of the whole image, rotating, and re-piecing them together like a collage, the multi-faceted artist manages to create a new universe.
source: my modern met


Other collages:

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 56 : Dancing and Contortion Act

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 56  :  Dancing and Contortion Act 

Dancing and ballet and all the talent shows today, cirque de soleil... yoga, kung fu, body performances; music and body movements.



Janine Janik & Christian Arnaut, Snake Dance Contortion-Schlangentanz-Kontorsion-Some Dance with "a snake", Colgate Comedy Hour, 1954
Source / Quelle / source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a8lCC-nZag
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Blog article by John Towsen from http://physicalcomedy.blogspot.de/…/best-contortion-act-eve…

The typical contortion act — you know, with the platform and the mouthpiece and the 13-year-old girl doing a Marinelli bend — puts me to sleep. And then there's the snake dance of French performers Janik & Arnaut — Janine Janik (1931 - 1985) & Christian Arnaut (1912 - 2003). This isn't exactly physical comedy since they're not going for the laughs, but the partnering work is amazing: not just the unique positions, but the sinuous flow of the snake around the charmer's body. In most partner acrobatics, the base is muscling a lot of the moves; here, much of it is accomplished with little or no use of Arnaut's hands, much less his biceps; he guides more than he lifts.

The translation of an excerpt from Your Blog John Towsen

A typical number "rubber"-well, you know, with пъедесталом, зубником and 13-year-old Girl, rendering it боген-puts me in a dream. And all of a sudden, dance with "snake" French artists яник and arnault-janine яник (1931-1985) and Christian Arnault (1912-2003). It's not exactly "physical comedy" because they don't do nothing funny about it, but their pairwise dance amazing: The unforgettable poses, извилистое the snakes around the body заклинателя. In most of the numbers of the couple s' акробатики many movements is committed by the forces of the lower. There's many of them are made with minimal the participation of the hands of the arno, or even without them, especially without the participation of his bicep. He sends more than raises.

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 55 : Small architecture+art : Soviet Bus Shelter

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 55  :  Small architecture+art : Soviet Bus Shelter

  • Christopher Herwig has spent nearly 15 years photographing old Soviet bus stops
  • After photographing more than 1,000, Herwig's travels have resulted in a book "Soviet Bus Stops" republished by Fuel in September with a foreword by renowned critic  Jonathan Meades.

http://us.cnn.com/2015/09/17/travel/soviet-bus-shelters/


Tuesday 22 September 2015

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 54 : Open Sky Gallery, Hong Kong

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 54  :  Open Sky Gallery, Hong Kong 海濶天空

Video 2-3 minutes; title: "Hong Kong"
Open Sky Gallery, Hong Kong.

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Current ongoing projects :

A : Carbon fibre guqin + DIY silk qin strings + RanQin Instrument, Pale Ink guqin Jukebox 
http://swannbb.blogspot.fr/2015/07/kunstkammer-49-carbon-fibre-guqin-diy.html
http://swannbb.blogspot.fr/2015/09/kunstkammer-54-open-sky-gallery-hong.html

B : Experimental garden
http://swannbb.blogspot.fr/2015/09/kunstkammer-53-jardin-experimental.html

C : Walk-in Architectural sculptures


D : Virtual+Real World story telling

E : Video 2-3 minutes
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A   Prototype DIY silk string for guqin - using spun silk


 

Carbon Fiber Qins - based on 2 original models:

1// Half Hundun Qin prototype

 Half HunDun 半混沌 2006  Beijing; original design >> consultants : Tian Shuang Kun 田雙琨 and Zheng Ming Zhong  鄭泯中(PRC)
2// xyz#1 Qin prototype 

xyzQin no1  2013 >> consultant : Shan ZhiYuan 單志淵 (Taiwan) based on Shosoin Qin from Nara model but will have contemporary tattoos in gold (in 杉 fir wood)


FMTTM Jukebox with Randqin instrument sample track - 4 cycles:

FMTTM Jukebox with Pale Ink guqin sample track - 1 cycle:

Friday 18 September 2015

repaired slow cooker with natural lacquer




































last photo: all white with only black cracked lines - photo coming...
pot is completely working, no leaks, holds up v solid

Wednesday 16 September 2015

Radio 电琴 Zither : Ciat-Lonbarde

http://www.ciat-lonbarde.net/rzither/index.html



Ciat-Lonbarde

can you explain what those copper rods do?
"There are 42 nodes to touch or weave with wire. When wired, the bars go solipsistic; each one is unique now."
That means that inside the circuit board, there are six nodes associated with each of the bars.  I never really named them anything, but here goes a provisional account: 
-input glitch left (triggers oscillator rerouting)
-input glitch right (triggers oscillator rerouting)
-input fm modulation (essentially modulates the oscillator)
-output tone (the oscillator's tone essential)
-output bar down (reflects the bar's downwards movements)
-output bar up (reflects the bar's upwards movements)
There are 7 bars so there are 42 nodes.  When you weave wire over them all these little functions get programmed, so to speak, by your wire configurations.  This is programming an analog brain (nabra).

Is it possible to set every one note(frequency) of the aluminium pads like intended (per poti) or just randomly (which would mean, I could not reproduce a tuning I have found and would like to use for a live gig). and if not (which is also a fine concept, but I would welcome the possibility to tune every tone manually)
???
Each note owns a unique button controlling a unique tank, which is also known as analog storage scroll. So you can set each bar separately. When I play the instrument, I find that I am constantly rediscovering new tunings, and if I don't like a note I scroll through a few random possibilities for that note and then play in the thus mutated tuning. Thereby I feel- although I cannot reproduce a fabled tuning verbatim- I can channel the mood or essence of that raag emotionally and so manifest it orbitally on the random notes.

Yes, I am looking for some simple exercises to teach children the Sidrassi?
Well there's one that I can think of right off the top of my head. It is how to digest all of musical genres and scales into your own subconscious. The exercise does not allow you to say "I will play mysterious indian music" or "I will do a ragtime pattern now", in fact your children have no preconceptions about what "type" of music they will play. Plug the organ in and disconnect all modulations and put it into simple tone mode, put pitch at midrange or so. Now play a random tuning and focus on areas that you seem drawn to. Meditate on them (without other thoughts in your head) and you will begin to see the connotations, perhaps a gothic church with demented organ music, or a smoky free jazz parlor, or perhaps a zen pagoda. The irrational tunings that you are currently using will sift through the maze of your brain and trigger what is in there. This is the inductive mood, which comes from the situation of the moment rather from your head's drive for a specific "beat".

Radio 电琴 Zither


chop chop me a zither out of wood, wire it wire it till transmission is good.电琴无线
砍出泡桐
再生草苗
巴尔的磨

RadioZither is wireless technology, in marriage with a fine wooden casket carved from Baltimore City logs. Modeled after the pan-Asian tradition of plank zithers (guqin, gayageum, koto), its form reflects upon ancient heritages. Its function is to transcend traditions through radio, to inspire global thinking physically as well as ethereally.  This instrument sonifies plucks as well as movements between plucks, it is played / meta-played.

Oil is too sophisticated to burn, said the chemist Dmitrii Mendeleev on examining petroleum. Plastic is a sublimation of oil, and it is key to develop the acoustic resonance of RadioZither. The colorful nylon strings feel like silk, and sound like crystal. The translucent triangle "bridges" are resonant plastic, which prop up the strings and transmit their tone to the body of the instrument. In the words of Carson, "Plastic is a sound". 

Two radio fields envelop your left hand and your right hand. You pluck Nylon chords on a wooden plank. These two vibrations are multiplied (heterodyned) to produce an electro-acoustic vector.

The antennae are aluminum shapes at the ends of the instrument, which give a visual cue to the invisible shape of the radio field.  Each field has three controls:
-volume controls how loud the tone is
-cross modulation for exploration of Radio Chaos
-tuning sets the general pitch range

The body of the instrument contains two large (louder) piezo-transducers, embedded at strategic locations to relay the acoustics to a preamplifier circuit which also generates an envelope.  When the player does no action, the instrument will be electronically silent due to this envelope. Another way to say this is "the theremins are triggered by plucking the strings". To counter this "silence based modality" there is a "GrungeKnob" which brings the sound of the electronics up as well as microphonic sensitivity in the cavity.  You can also press anywhere on the body to shape the volume of the theremins.

Court Ensemble Recordings: An example of a traditional ensemble consisting of: Conch Shell Horn, Theremin, Chimes, Silk (Radio) Zither, Voice.  These 5 elements, thanks to Samuel Delaney's "Towers of Triton", are used in the imperial court orchestra of the future. The mixture of Conch Shell and Theremin and Chimes are representative of electro-acoustic metaphysics, and they are synthesized in various tetrachords bySuperCollider, which become the basis for the tuning of the four strings of the Silk Zither, and by extension the manual simplex theremin of the Radio Zither.  The modes are:
plein, 7 Limit Blues, Rag Lalit, French Impressionist, Falun Dafa
plein, Enharmonic Platonic, Chromatic Platonic, 7 Limit Diatonic

Because the each zither is carved from a different hunk of wood, they will all be different, thus you can purchase finished pieces below, or comission a certain style by contacting me. 12 volt transformer included in the USA.
Peter Blasser, 410 362 8364

A fly-dove is calling, mist after rain. All is dark at night, toothpicks are spilling, going insane.


Current Works in Progress: The pawlonia male (chin) and female (koto) varieties of radio zither, hacked from a hank of lightning-downed by the train tracks.  You can watch the youtube video of hacking and hewing the tree here.



(#4-A 4" x 44" x 6" Cypress) $555 SOLD
The following RadioZithers are carved out of Pawlonia Wood


SOLD (#9-B, 8" x 56" x 3" Pawlonia) $888 
Sumac bridge will convert a straight zither for qin-style playing.  This one is shown with both sumac and clear-plastic-triangle bridges for koto-style playing.

acoustic demonstration (through Fender Blues Junior)
playing strings with para-plucking (hitting, pressing, scraping)
bass and walking meta-chords
feedback system times radio sounds times space within room with loud Fender amp
listening to the new cross-modulations in the RadioPads

(#9-B, 8" x 56" x 3" Pawlonia) $888

SOLD (prototype) $666 

Tracks made with prototype 2:
Bird sings the monk's bell - Peter Christian Quincy Blasser - Peaceful peaks


Tracks made with prototype 1:
Hand手 动Motion 电影Movie - Demo 比例Track 一 1 -Demo Track 二 2







Sunday 13 September 2015

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 53 : Jardin Experimental / Experimental Garden / 實驗花園

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 53  :  
Jardin Experimental / Experimental Garden / 實驗花園

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First output:
First harvest, one cob of gem corn.  Planted 1st April, harvest 24Sept.
100 grains planted, 8 plants grew, will have around 20 cobs.





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I tried to grow some purple sweet potatoes in 2006,
this is the result after one summer - three finger size purple sweet potato plus a field of sweet potato leaves - which we ate as vegetable - it was v gd.

Even though the result was quite minimal, but we were so happy to see something! Anything!  

http://swannbb.blogspot.fr/2012/08/purple-sweet-potato.html



And then I attended an Urban Agriculture conference in Toronto in 2012.

http://swannbb.blogspot.fr/2012/08/urban-agriculture-summit-toronto-aug15.html


https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=5&v=LW2d0OVoPPo


This time, I tried to grow gem corn, and we are in 2015, almost ten years later

http://swannbb.blogspot.fr/2015/04/kunstkammer-20-avocado-bonsai-and-gem.html






















Day 1 of Gem Corn. April 1st






































4 months later. Aug.2015

Experimental garden strip with sunshine. 8 Sept 2015 
















So I seem to have more patience , combined with recycled building material, and other conditions, suddenly its coming into shape.  

This is the progress of the Experimental Garden.

It was triggered, or coincided with the changing of all the windows in our village.  

As my sculpture works has to do with building small walk-in-scultpures; small architectures; I especially appreciate pet-architecture (using left over space in a smart way, term invented by Japanese architect Atelier Bow-Wow) ; working with living structures with people infills.  Here, its hardly architecture.  

The spirit of making good use of tiny spaces has rubbed off on me from seeing how others have done so well, so here, I see this tiny tiny left over space is a space full of sunlight and a huge black wall as background. Its a perfect location, a beautiful site for something to happen.   

It is a way to make things work and have fun with living.
There are so many nice windows that I really want to recycle them.
So I had a huge source of nice old windows to build a green house with.

I designed a little house, gathered all the windows needed (for the small green house), found the a sunny strip of land next to my studio, and began getting my hands dirty.

It's hard work.
Amazing, I discovered that, I am not a farmer, I am not even a gardener.
I like green houses, designing, having them built, and looking at plants, people and things grow.
I am more like a biologist, with a microscope.
So this will be an Experimental Garden.  
The experimental garden will include vegetable, flowers, mushrooms, anything, fish, little animals, insects, butterflies.  Maybe it will be a small eco-system.

We will see what comes out of this.




Some fonts used to enhance and express some of the spirit of the Experimental Garden:








Corn type to plant, saving seeds,
http://www.kearneyhub.com/gallery-more-photos/collection_89927ebc-531e-11e5-b21d-8fb359adfbc6.html
Eagle corn - apparently this is a rare corn that needs saving, but only available to Pawnee People.
They are making an effort to save this heritage corn.