Cycles in Cycles Run in Cycle

Sound installation, 2019
聲音裝置, 2019

「破繭——香港新藝術家系列」－ 嘰哩咕嚕, JCCAC和元創方合辦
“Metamorph – Hong Kong New Artist Series” – “purr murmur”,
co-presented by JCCAC and PMQ

This kinetic sound installation explores the delicate intersection of mechanical predictability and sonic chaos. At its center, a motorized axis drives two free-floating metal brushes across a textured landscape of contact microphones. Unbound by rigid programming, the brushes are left to the whims of physics—guided only by friction, centrifugal force, and gravity.

As they sweep, skip, and stutter across the surface, they translate raw kinetic friction into an unpredictable acoustic dialogue. The resulting noise is a live, ever-evolving composition that rejects digital perfection. By letting mechanical imperfections dictate the rhythm, the work surfaces a hidden, tactile voice from the machine, transforming random friction into a meditation on impermanence and automated chance.

這件動力聲音裝置探討了機械可預測性與聲音混沌之間微妙的交界。在作品的中心，一個受馬達驅動的軸心帶動著兩支自由浮動的金屬刷，在佈滿接觸式麥克風的質地表面上盤旋。擺脫了嚴格的數位程式控制，金屬刷的運動被完全交付給物理定律——僅由摩擦力、離心力和重力來導引。

當它們在表面上掃過、跳躍與斷續地摩擦時，將原始的動能摩擦轉化為一場不可預測的聲學對話。由此產生的噪音是一段即時、不斷演變的噪音文本，拒絕了數位世界對完美的追求。透過讓機械的「不完美」來主導節奏，本作品挖掘出機器背後那種隱蔽而具觸覺感的微小聲音，將隨機的摩擦轉化為一場關於無常與自動化偶然性的聆聽冥想。