No.3《劉索拉與朋友們在宋庄，劉索拉＋於捷∣聲音視覺藝術展》

仙兒……念珠……「嗨」

——寫給索拉和朋友們

方 蕾

研究劉索拉，是一個艱深而有趣的課題，你會一不留神就進入到了她的那些象建築結構一樣的迷宮般的樂譜系統，而那裡面卻藏著早已被人遺忘的財寶。

劉索拉是中國最傳奇的藝術家。每當人們提到劉索拉是個音樂家，就會說：啊，她的小說《你別無選擇》寫得實在是太棒了。

而索拉畢竟是個音樂家，她確認並且一直在實踐的「中國high」式的音樂，在中國卻更是另有一番風景，在世界實驗音樂史中也無出其右。在「《仙兒念珠》、《飛影》、《爸爸椅》、《雞趕廟會》……」里，人們也沒有忘記她畢業於中央音樂學院作曲系，和譚盾、瞿小松、郭文景、葉小綱有同門之誼。

劉索拉和朋友們曾經在劇院里表演過一場名為「嘻嘯」的演出，特殊的音樂結構和抽象圖景可以稱之為「音樂展覽」，聲音已遠遠溢出音樂的範疇，有聲音，有幻覺，有過去，有未來，也有雞飛狗跳……劉索拉說：「嘻」有特別多的意思，可以是不認真、不嚴肅的，嘻嘻哈哈的；「嘯」也有很多意思，基本上嘯是一個很大的聲音，它和嘻是一個反的意思，古代的時候有一種唱法叫「嘯歌」，就是一般詩人等知識分子會登上高山唱沒有具體歌詞的歌，自己抒發心情，他這抒發就是創作各種各樣的聲音，其實已經變成的一種形式，這種形式挪到了中東就變成蘇菲詩人，就是要喝酒、做詩、女人、音樂，這幾個東西在一起就有了這個蘇菲這種東西，蘇菲的東西傳下來了，就是蘇菲詩的這個傳承，一直到今天，世界上搞音樂的人都信奉蘇菲精神，但大家忘了蘇菲的精神之前是李白是中國的嘯歌，這個沒傳下來。而在我看來，「嘻嘯」——恰好是對索拉音樂的最完美的命名。

考察一個藝術家，我們常常會去追究他的前世今生，生活的具體線索，以及情感的風風雨雨和驚濤駭浪，這是一個關於人生的譜系研究，也是研究藝術譜系的基礎。當我們不明白劉索拉為什麼在1987年訪美之後卻重新回望中國民族音樂傳統之時，我們會找到她和黃土高坡的情感聯繫……

中國，不是世界。但是中國，有自己的世界。

索拉在她的音樂里展現了這樣的世界，用人聲。「感人的、無拘無束的人聲，帶有中國戲曲的影子，和民族小調的特色；索拉女士的聲音，可以表現出童貞或是狠毒、柔美或是兇猛…. 」 《紐約時報》這麼評論劉索拉的音樂。

我們不會妄論劉索拉的音樂，索拉的音樂是超越市俗意義關於藝術的理解，對於她所擁有的「巫氣」，更多是回溯到上古時代與上天對話的情境，她是使者。藝術也就是這些，藝術不是用來換取功名利祿的籌碼，而是飄浮在空中的文明信息，能不能抓住，得看造化。

看過《你別無選擇》的人就會明白，索拉年輕時代所接受的學院系統的經典教育，那些花兒真是朵朵鮮艷，如果沒有去往更大的世界，劉索拉可能也會是一個具有現實主義氣質的作曲家。

而現在，不同。劉索拉找到了祖先，在聲音里，她用莫名的聲音因子和祖先舞蹈、高嘯、嘻哈，她這支人聲樂器珍貴無比，索拉又象一個考古隊長，引著一個隊伍穿行在密林深處，只有她，能解讀出早已不能辨識的符碼，她和先人高談闊論，眉飛色舞。

不了解文化，你怎麼可以理解劉索拉？？？

這真是個問題。

於捷，從美國學成歸來的攝影家，長於用影像說話，在和音樂的對話中，他更象是個「翻譯」，他試圖用影像的方式來翻譯劉索拉，這個試驗也正在進行。他是這個隊伍里的記錄者。

索拉和朋友們在他的記錄里，被精心擱置，但仍然是日常化的表達，沒有刻意和做作的鏡頭語言，他象一個證人，記錄的是索拉和朋友們最真實的與音樂一起更迭的日日夜夜。

索拉在宋庄，她把她的朋友們也帶到了宋庄。在湖畔的排練室里，索拉和她的朋友們晨昏交錯，行吟遊藝。關於音樂，他們錙銖必較，音符、節奏、情緒、默契都在細細打磨。

他們是：

李真貴（打擊樂）、楊靖（琵琶）、劉義軍(老五，吉他）、逄勃 （鋼琴家）、哥特·莫滕森（打擊樂）、巫娜（古琴）、馬瑞（打擊樂）、程雨雨（琵琶）、陳甦超（琵琶）、劉夢（打擊樂）、劉暢（打擊樂）、張萌（古琴）、白明卉（打擊樂）、陳河霖（打擊樂）、楊季爾（鍵盤）、吳靜（歌唱）。

索拉和朋友們，是一群仙一樣的朋友，他們在時間裡，寫詩。

2016.5.8於宋庄霧塘邊

Witch』s… Beads…

「Hi!」

To Liu Sola & Friends

Fang Lei

Studying Liu Sola is a challenging task yet fascinating and rewarding. Irresistibly, it brings you into a complex labyrinth that is her music system, where you can find long forgotten treasures.

Liu Sola is one of the most legendary artists in China. Whenever Liu Sola is mentioned as a musician, people always tend to express their love and appreciation for her novella You Have No Choice.

Liu Sola is, nonetheless, a musician. She approved and has been practicing the High China music style which is showcased in Xian Er Nian Zhu(Witch』s Beads), Fei Ying(Flying Shadow), Ba Ba Yi(Papa Chair), Ji Gan Miao Hui(Chicken at the New Year Fairs), etc. Her style which is unrivaled in the history of experimental music has been a revelation to the Chinese and the international audience. It is well known that she graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music, the same school that saw the graduations of Tan Dun, Qu Xiaosong, Guo Wenjing, and Ye Xiaogang.

The Xi Xiao concert, performed by Liu Sola & Friends at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, deserves to be regarded as an exhibition of music with its uniquely special music structure and abstract imagery. The sound of the concert can no longer be simply categorized as music. Among other things, it offered the audience hallucinations and voices, a glimpse of the future and the past, tranquility and fuss.

Liu Sola commented: 「Xi carries a variety of meanings. It can mean being casual, haphazard and thoughtless. Whereas the word Xiao, even though it has a number of meanings as well, it basically means loud sounds, a near antonym of Xi. In ancient times, Xiao was one particular singing style, employed by intellectuals, e.g. poets, for the purpose of expressing their emotions with hazy and indistinct lyrics, usually on the top of mountains.

This style of expression is, in essence, a creation of a wide range of sounds. As a matter of fact, it has become a spirit, when it was introduced to the Middle East region it inspired the Sufi Poetry, which glorifies alcohol, poetry, woman, and music, it is indeed the mixture of these four elements. This is how the Sufi spirit has been perpetuated. Today, musicians in the world still put their faith in the Sufi spirit. However, the Xiao singing style adopted by poet Li Bai and essentially the antecedent of the Suji spirit was not perpetuated but forgotten. Therefore, in my opinion, Xi Xiao happens to be the perfect definition of Liu Sola』s music」

When studying an artist, we tend to sift through their entire work history, their past, every detail in their lives, tides of their emotions and what they have been through. It is a research on the pedigree of life, which is the foundation of researching the pedigree of art. Therefore, as we discover the emotional bond that she has with the Loess Plateau, we can then understand why she invested in the Chinese folk music traditions so much after her visit to America in 1987.

China is not the world. But, China has its own world.

Using her voice, Liu Sola presents such a world. 「She has a touching and free voice, and she borrows techniques from Chinese opera and folk styles; Liu sola』s voice can represent innocence or viciousness, softness or ferociousness.」 –The New York Times.

We simply do not haphazardly comment on Liu Sola』s work, her music is about the meaning and understanding of art, which goes beyond our society』s vulgarity and vanity. The 「Witch』s vibe」 that she possesses comes from one particular context, in which she acts as an ambassador to communicate with a higher power in the ancient times. This is everything art should be, not something that can be sold for fame or money. It is cultural information that flows in the air, catching it requires fate and fortune.

Anyone who has read Liu Sola』s novella You have No Choice would know that she went through the classic college education system. If she did not see the bigger world, Liu Sola would have been a composer with more realism characteristics.

However, in reality, Liu Sola has found her ancestors. Within her voice, which is one priceless vocal instrument, she sings and dances with her ancestors. Resembling a leader of an archeology team, she guides the team through the boundless forest where she is the only one on the team that can talk and dance joyfully with the ancestors and decipher all the unfathomable codes and riddles. So, here is a question: without the necessary background cultural knowledge, how can you possibly understand or appreciate Liu Sola?

Yu Jie, an American-educated photographer, is the designated recorder in Liu Sola』s team. As an ongoing experiment, Yu Jie acts as a translator, using pictures instead of words to interpret Liu Sola.

In Yu Jie』s work, Liu Sola & Friends are exquisitely photographed and recorded in a natural way without any artificial and engineered expressions. At a close distance, Yu Jie witnesses the truest times that Liu Sola & Friends shares with music. Like a witness, Yu Jie recorded the truest times that Liu Sola & Friends shares with music.

Currently, Liu Sola is residing in SongZhuang and she has brought her friends over here as well. They take shifts practicing, singing, dancing, reciting poems and having fun in the lake-side rehearsal room. They are extremely critical when it comes to their own music. Every single note, every single beat, the emotion and the cooperation are all being perfected and polished.

They are:

Li Zhengui(Percussionist), Yang jing(Lutist), Liu Yijun A.K.A Lao Wu(Guitarist), Feng Bo(Pianist), Gert Mortensen(Percussionist), Wu Na(Guqin player), Ma Rui(Percussionist), Cheng Yuyu(Lutist), Chen Suchao(Lutist), Liu Meng(Percussionist), Liu Chang(Percussionist), Zhang Meng(Guqin player), Bai Minghui(Percussionist), Chen Helin(Percussionist), Yang Jier(Pianist), Wu Jing(Vocalist)

Liu Sola & Friends is a group of fairy-like friends writing poems of the age.

May 8, 2016, at Songzhuang lakeside

劉索拉與朋友們在宋庄

劉索拉+於捷 ∣ 聲音視覺藝術展

策展人

方蕾

藝術家

劉索拉 / 於捷

展覽時間

2016.06.11-07.10

開幕酒會

2016.6.11, 15:00

展覽地點

宋庄美術館

主辦

宋庄美術館

特別主辦

雪景觀（北京）文化藝術有限公司

協辦

北京正視文化藝術有限責任公司

北京清澈海洋文化傳媒有限公司

劉索拉與朋友們樂隊

音樂版權所有

劉索拉（北京）音樂工作室

特別鳴謝

北京服裝學院

中央美術學院城市設計學院

贊助單位（Sponsor Organization）

深圳第一藍籌科技有限公司

矩陣聽覺

合作機構（Cooperative Organization）

深圳市墅家文化與度假有限公司

北京泰和商務俱樂部

合作媒體（Cooperative Media）

鳳凰藝術

芭莎藝術ART

VISION

松果

雲端

支持媒體（Support Media）

畫刊

東方藝術·大家

人民畫報

TimeOut北京

Let"s新城記

漫旅

新浪收藏

新華收藏網

藝術匯

好戲網

藝術國際

崇真藝術網

藝術中國

行車路線

【公交】大北窯橋下乘808或809宋庄美術館下

【自駕】大北窯上通燕高速到宋庄出口往北到小堡村宋庄美術館

LIU SOLA & FRIENDS IN SONGZHUANG

LIU SOLA+YU JIE SOUND ART

Curator

Fang Lei

Artists

Liu SoLa / Yu Jie

Exhibition Time

Jun11th,2016 - Jul10th

Opening Time

Jun11th,2016 15:00

Venue

Song Zhuang Art Center

Organizer

Song Zhuang Art Center

Special Organizer

Snowscape Culture and Art (Beijing)Co., Ltd.

Co Organizer

Beijing Kingsight Culture & Art Co., Ltd.

Beijing Qingche Cultural Media Co., Ltd.

Liu Sola & Friends Ensemble

Music Copyright solacmusic/BMI

Liu Sola Studio

Support Organization:

Beijing Institute Of Fashion Technology

China Central Academy of Fine Arts City Design School

Public Transport :Bus808 809,dabeiyao-songzhuang Art Center

Traffic Route :Dabeiyao-Yan-tong Highway-Exit Songzhuang ArtCenter

宋庄美術館官方網站

http://sz-artcenter.com

宋庄美術館官方微博

http://weibo.com/songzhuangartcenter

聯繫電話

010-89579897

宋庄美術館公共郵箱

songartcenter@126.com

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