Without Composing_n°6[ver.2]

Without Composing_n°6[ver.2] comprises eight installations shaped after the trajectories of cosmic rays—the paths of particles, here condensed into lines in space. At the end of each installation sit two Geiger–Müller tubes, sixteen in all, awaiting the arrival of cosmic rays and radioactive particles; a custom Max/MSP system translates the sixteen streams of detection data into sixteen synthesizer timbres, frequencies, and rhythms; sixteen studio monitors, dispersed across the exhibition space, each release a single strand of sound—like the particles themselves, arriving from all directions.

This is an experiment in the spirit of John Cage's chance operations: the composer is absent here, and every sonic event is left to the particles the tubes happen to catch—each note born of a throw of the cosmic dice.

Before the eight installations stands a separate screen work, presenting the computation in real time through Max's graphical interface: visitors witness how the data is gathered and processed, how sound takes shape and begins to move—rays that are neither visible nor audible become, here, both seen and heard.

In their midst, sixteen algorithmic sound streams strike the space, and the body, in every passing instant. As the series title has it—Without Composing: the cosmos sounds itself.

With the support of the National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan.

《Without Composing_n°6[ver.2]》由八件以宇宙射線路徑為造形的裝置構成——粒子穿行的軌跡，在此凝為空間中的線條。每件裝置末端置有兩支蓋格-穆勒計數管，共十六支，靜候宇宙射線與放射粒子的降臨；客製化的 Max/MSP 系統將十六組偵測數據轉譯為十六種合成器的音色、頻率與節奏；十六顆監聽喇叭錯落在展場，各自發出一道聲響——一如粒子，自四面八方而來。

這是一場呼應約翰・凱吉（John Cage）機遇音樂精神的實驗：作曲者在此缺席，一切聲響的發生，皆交由計數管所捕捉的粒子決定——每一個音的誕生，都是宇宙的一次擲骰。

八件裝置之前，另有一件螢幕裝置，以 Max 的圖像化介面即時呈現運算的過程：觀眾得以目睹數據如何被採集、被運算，聲音如何自其中成形、運動——原本不可見亦不可聞的射線，在此同時被看見與聽見。

置身其中，十六道演算聲響在每一個瞬間衝擊著空間，也衝擊著身體。一如系列之名：Without Composing，發聲的是宇宙自身。

本作品獲臺灣國家文化藝術基金會贊助。