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Li Song 李松 - Metronome #2 (slow)

from Voices from Green Pines by Aoi Tagami, Li Song, Xiang

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After Metronome #1, I began to use the metronome's pendulum to hit small objects in my flat: money box, bowl, teapot, and rice cooker pot. The sound produced by the collision and its beat mixed, both seems to become a bit unclear now. About 2 or 3 months later, I started to try other things: I put a large bowl in the kitchen sink and prepared two metronomes. I turned on the tap and let the water flow fall on the pendulum of one metronome; the other metronome was hitting the bowl. All these turn out to be very unstable. I couldn't completely control the water flow, metronomes and the collision. I like this process.
When I played back the recording on my computer afterwards, I accidentally changed the playback speed. It is playing a bit slower than the original speed, which sounds a bit strange. I tried to adjust it slower and faster again. I was thinking at that moment: how slowly does it make it sounds not like a metronome anymore?

在《节拍器1号》之后，我开始使用节拍器的摆杆来敲打家里的各种小物件：存钱罐、碗、茶缸以及电饭煲内胆……由于与物件表面碰撞产生的声音和本身的“节拍”声混合起来，两者似乎都变得不清晰了一点。又过了大概两三个月，我开始尝试其他的：我在厨房水槽里放了一个大碗，准备了两个节拍器。我打开了水龙头，让不稳定的水流落在其中一个节拍器的摆杆上；另外一个节拍器则在敲击这个碗。这一切似乎都不稳定，水流、节拍器和敲击声我都无法完全控制，我喜欢这个过程。 
结束录制之后在电脑上回放时，我不小心修改了播放速度。它比录制速度慢了一点在播放着，有点儿陌生。我又尝试着调慢调快一点，我在想：到底要多慢它听起来就不再是“节拍器”了呢？

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from Voices from Green Pines, released October 28, 2020

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