= Field recording workshops in Hong Kong 香港田野錄音工作坊 =
2014.11.14-15

2014.11.14@Chai Wan 柴灣工業區
The scratching sound made by two tires between the fishing boat and ferry pier followed the movement of boat by Sea wave like repetitive sound from machines. The sound itself represented intimate contacts between three parties. This inspires me to rethink the relationship of objects that created sound.

Secondly, I think field recording could create unexpected and ambiguous scene. At the beginning of the track, the sound of something hitting the iron was something that unexpected. I didn’t aware during the recording until I playback at home. Surprisingly, it so match and for me to provide an intro to the track.

漁船被一波又一波的海浪推得擺動不定，使船邊的輪胎跟碼頭上的輪胎互相磨擦，發出刮擦聲猶如機械般反複作響。這段聲音呈現了三方的密切關係，因而啟發了我反思物件與聲音的關係。

其次，我認為田野錄音能創造出一些意料之外及模糊的景象。正如那段錄音的開段裡聽到一些東西敲打金屬的聲音，這正是我無法預料的。而在我錄音的時候並沒有為意，直到回到家中播放才知道，亦正正符合我對這條聲檔的介紹。

It was a very new experience for me to have proper workshop about field recording. I did quite a lot of sound recording from the city and countryside, but I have never aware the position of microphone, distance in between target sounds and object and even didn’t make live monitoring in recording. Until before the start of workshop, I have read some of Yannick’s article about the point of view of field recording. Yes, the point of view, one of the important mentality, it’s a bit like photography, would never captured the reality but choose what you want to record in the frame. When I started to do field recording, I was so intend to record all layers that I listened and experience in real world without monitored with my headphone. Every time when I listened the sound clip I found I couldn’t do what I would like to record, such as in reality some sound are noisy and some were at very low volume but in recorded sound clip the result would be totally different. Microphone is another ear, it works differently compare to our ear. Therefore, point of view is what I try to explore during this workshop. For example, one of the obvious examples was the trip to Mai Po, the big difference of pointing the microphone at the border of between Hong Kong and China gave me totally different feeling and result. During the exploration of point of view, I became more interest in different experience and expectation between listening in reality and sound from field recording. I’m starting to drop few words of my every record and play with these differentiations to create new experience to audience.

這個有關田野錄音的工作坊對我來說是一個非常新的體驗，過往我在城市和鄉郊做過許多聲音記錄，但我從未意識到收音咪的位置，跟聲音來源與物件之間的距離，以及沒有即時監控錄音的情況。直到工作坊之前，我翻閱了澎葉生所寫有關田野錄音中觀點的文章。對，你沒有聽錯，是觀點，這是其中一個重要的思維，亦有點跟攝影一樣，我們不能捕捉真實但能選擇在一個怎樣的框架中進行記錄。當我進行田野錄音的時候，打算除下耳機，將自己所經驗的現實世界，以及所傾聽的一切收錄。而每次重聽聲檔時，卻發現自己不能錄取自己最想記錄的東西，例如現實中會夾雜不同的嘈雜聲音，也有時這些音源的音量很微弱，而經過錄音的聲檔就會變成兩回事。收音咪就如另一雙耳朵，但它的工作方式跟我們的耳朵不一樣。因此，觀點成為了我在工作坊中最想探求的東西。一個明顯的例子，有一次在米埔的行程中，我用收音咪收錄香港與中國間邊界的聲音，給予我完全不同的感覺與結果。關於觀點的探索中，我傾聽真實環境的聲音與田野錄音的聲檔時所得到不同的經驗和期盼產生興趣。我現正開始為每條錄音寫下一些關鍵句子，並透過這些區別讓觀眾帶來新的經驗。

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