
Between 2000 and 2020, a 6'38" single-take video footage has been turned into a generative series of art moments crossing artistic genres -- from videography, vocalization, sound collage, performance, sound sculpture, back to videography -- all manifesting automatism as a principle, and improvization as a main artistic method. Only the maker Linda Lai herself could elaborate on this secret history of emergence.

One Take, many iterations (2000-2020) One Take A digital video by Linda Lai Image & voice performance: Linda Lai Automatic writings generated by One Take – Polyphony 一天,突然好想逃離這個世界。 眼前的澳門文化中心斜流,六月晚晝和暖的陽光,水流淌散於橫紋石屎的肌理上再人工不過 。手不覺間在搖而沒有終止的意願,六分鐘的數碼錄像,在隨意不拘的弧線運轉之中以單鏡頭變化出蒙太奇和剪接的幻象。我盪得心也開了,破口處滲溢的,彷彿都是綿綿歲月的茵陳細碎瑣事。在快慢門和色溫光圈的不加思索變易下,涓流滑動的水精靈誘我領我尋索那已失散多年的音韻。大調元音、五度在捉迷藏。 我發聲,所以我存在。 有聲無韻。 至於我失去的是甚麼聲甚麼韻,我還在尋找。 One Take (originally in three parts) seeks to experiment the relation between image and sound by juxtaposing different soundscapes against the same set of […]
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