时间:2019-02-01 作者:英语课 分类:VOA常速英语2013年(八月)


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Audio Art Sounds Off at NYC Art Museum 音频声音在纽约市艺术博物馆的艺术


NEW YORK — Art is thought of as a visual medium, but sound is the focus of a new show at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.纽约——艺术是认为是一种视觉媒介,但声音是一个新节目的焦点在现代艺术博物馆(MoMA)在纽约市。


MoMA presents an auditory landscape with an exhibit called "Soundings, a Contemporary Score."


“The museum-goer walks into a space, and because they are in MoMA, they know they are going to see something traditional, like Picasso," said curator Barbara London. "But they are going to see something very unconventional and maybe surprising. Maybe they’re baffled.”


Many museum-goers are baffled, then amused by Richard Garet’s “Before Me” installation, which amplifies 1 the sound of a glass marble spinning on the metal casing of a phonograph turntable.  


Sound, video and memory combine in “Music While We Work,” by Hong-Kai Wang, in which Taiwanese retirees record the sounds they heard during their working life at a sugar refinery 2.  


There’s a common theme among the 16 artists represented here.   


“I think most of the artists in the show want you to listen or pause and listen," London said. "They’re saying, ‘Hey, slow down. There are various forms of poetry and beauty in the world.’”


It is the world the unaided human ear cannot hear that animates 3 Norwegian artist Jana Winderen’s sound montage, “Ultrafield.”


Winderen used echolocation devices to capture the ultrasonic 4 radar 5 made by bats, and tiny ultra-sensitive underwater microphones to record the movements of sea beetles 6 less than two millimeters long. She wants to draw attention to endangered ecosystems 7 in the earth’s hidden worlds, and give the listener a chance to experience their magic.    


“It's installed in a dark space," Winderen said. "And I am actually hoping people can slow down and enjoy also the listening experience itself, not necessarily thinking about what it is, or what kind of a message I have with it.”


Some sounds are hiding in plain sight, but we don’t have the subtlety 8 of perception to pick them out. At a distance of five meters or so, Tristan Perich’s  “Microtonal Wall,” emits “white noise.”


That is a sound containing so many sounds, or pitches, that no individual one can be distinguished 9. Leaves rustling 10 in the breeze and the ocean surf are both examples of the phenomenon.


Perich has broken four octaves of the musical scale into 1,500 of the pitches that make up those octaves and given each pitch its own small speaker. Close up, or moving slowly past those speakers, one hears their differences.


"My piece, with 1,500 speakers, each playing individual pitches, is still just a finite fraction of this infinite sound," Perich said. "It’s just a gesture towards this idea of the infiniteness of white noise, building it up.”   


Sound that is implied, rather than heard, has made some of the loudest buzz at the MoMA show. Camille Norment’s work “Triplight,” consists mostly of a stand-up steel ribbed microphone, circa 1955, used by performers like Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong. Inside the mic, she has placed a bright flickering 11 light. 


“One thing I wanted to do was to play with the idea of inability of articulation 12, the stuttering voice perhaps, this desire to express oneself and the struggle it often entails," Norment said. "And the light casts a shadow that is reminiscent of vertebrae and ribs 13, or a ribcage or a mask. So the piece, in a way, reenacts the presence of the body that is no longer present.”


?Susan Philipsz' “Study for Strings,” is the most heart-wrenching piece in the show. It’s based on a 1943 orchestral work Czech composer Pavel Haas wrote while in a German concentration camp.


Soon after performing the work for a Nazi 14 propaganda film, Haas and his orchestra members were killed. The musicians in Philipsz’ artwork play only two of the parts in the score, emphasizing the absence of the other players.


It’s just one of the pieces in the Museum of Modern Art's “Soundings” show that highlight the dance between silence and sound.




放大,扩大( amplify的第三人称单数 ); 增强; 详述
  • Gain is the number of times the amplifier amplifies a signal. 增益就是放大器放大信号的倍数。
  • Such panicky behaviour amplifies the impact of the Russian export ban. 这样的恐慌行为放大了俄罗斯小麦出口禁令的影响效应。
n.精炼厂,提炼厂
  • They built a sugar refinery.他们建起了一座榨糖厂。
  • The purpose of oil refinery is to refine crude petroleum.炼油厂的主要工作是提炼原油。
v.使有生气( animate的第三人称单数 );驱动;使栩栩如生地动作;赋予…以生命
  • The soul animates the body. 灵魂使肉体有生命。 来自辞典例句
  • It is probable that life animates all the planets revolving round all the stars. 生命为一切围绕恒星旋转的行星注入活力。 来自辞典例句
adj.超声的;n.超声波
  • It was very necessary for people to take type-B ultrasonic inspection regularly.定期进行B超检查是十分必要的。
  • Sounds are classified into two kinds: sonic and ultrasonic.声波分为两类,即普通声波与超声波。
n.雷达,无线电探测器
  • They are following the flight of an aircraft by radar.他们正在用雷达追踪一架飞机的飞行。
  • Enemy ships were detected on the radar.敌舰的影像已显现在雷达上。
n.甲虫( beetle的名词复数 )
  • Beetles bury pellets of dung and lay their eggs within them. 甲壳虫把粪粒埋起来,然后在里面产卵。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • This kind of beetles have hard shell. 这类甲虫有坚硬的外壳。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
n.生态系统( ecosystem的名词复数 )
  • There are highly sensitive and delicately balanced ecosystems in the forest. 森林里有高度敏感、灵敏平衡的各种生态系统。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Madagascar's ecosystems range from rainforest to semi-desert. 马达加斯加生态系统类型多样,从雨林到半荒漠等不一而足。 来自辞典例句
n.微妙,敏锐,精巧;微妙之处,细微的区别
  • He has shown enormous strength,great intelligence and great subtlety.他表现出充沛的精力、极大的智慧和高度的灵活性。
  • The subtlety of his remarks was unnoticed by most of his audience.大多数听众都没有觉察到他讲话的微妙之处。
adj.卓越的,杰出的,著名的
  • Elephants are distinguished from other animals by their long noses.大象以其长长的鼻子显示出与其他动物的不同。
  • A banquet was given in honor of the distinguished guests.宴会是为了向贵宾们致敬而举行的。
adj.闪烁的,摇曳的,一闪一闪的
  • The crisp autumn wind is flickering away. 清爽的秋风正在吹拂。
  • The lights keep flickering. 灯光忽明忽暗。
n.(清楚的)发音;清晰度,咬合
  • His articulation is poor.他发音不清楚。
  • She spoke with a lazy articulation.她说话慢吞吞的。
n.肋骨( rib的名词复数 );(船或屋顶等的)肋拱;肋骨状的东西;(织物的)凸条花纹
  • He suffered cracked ribs and bruising. 他断了肋骨还有挫伤。
  • Make a small incision below the ribs. 在肋骨下方切开一个小口。
n.纳粹分子,adj.纳粹党的,纳粹的
  • They declare the Nazi regime overthrown and sue for peace.他们宣布纳粹政权已被推翻,并出面求和。
  • Nazi closes those war criminals inside their concentration camp.纳粹把那些战犯关在他们的集中营里。
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accumulational relief
action sequence diagram
announce booth
ANZUS,Anzus
arm corp.
Ascarididae
automatic pilot control unit
bave
bespawled
Bjorkelangen
blastoporal canal
boat rowlock
bomb-ketch
bound off
brent knoll
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business result
buzz-bomb
centre hole lap
chronological timescale
ciest
clout-shoe
cold mould
confarreated
conjured up
coordinate vector
Cornhill-on-Tweed
data tape program
deprisure
drag rudder
DW method
emergency signalling
equilibrates
evaporated cooling system
expend in
family house
Faux Bubba
Flatey
fluctuable
gateway discovery protocol
genus Sundacarpus
get a hold of oneself
goose neck bracket
Green Swamp
hardles
hartite
here's to
hirschhom
humorings
just perceptible noise
Kitaraka
ladytron
legena
lippmanns
liquid salt bath nitriding
LRASM
metal powder magnet
middlebreaker sweep bottom
mortgage middleman
Muhammadābād
national measurement standard
neighbouring region
norsolorinic
obligation arbitration
osteogenic action
osterbrock
ovulability
payback reciprocal method
permeablility magnetic material
Phendextro
phosphowolframic acid
pizzaboy
planetary exploration
points of resistance force
polioencephalitis
puppy dog eyes
put an opera on the stage
reaffect
rigid cylinder
ring twisting
second steel sheet
selected track
self-discoveries
South Andaman
sportivest
stat padding
steatornithidaes
studded
sugarloaf sea
sulfur ours
summonest
sure-fire current
technical approach
thyreoglandular adenoma
transposable
turn round and round
under-fringe
vertebral arteries
vilakkus
well borer
you are my sunshine
zoaria