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Universal Serial Bus 通​用​串​行​总​线

by Xuan Ye 叶轩

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1.
USB015 06:45
2.
USB004 13:11
3.
USB012 05:32
4.
USB001 32:20
5.
USB006 02:03
6.
USB014 05:42
7.
USB003 23:41 video
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USB007 02:04
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USB010 05:18
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USB002 10:09
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USB009 02:07
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USB013 33:56
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USB011 03:50
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USB008 18:06
15.
USB005 13:44

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Reviews:

"Xuan Ye's Universal Serial Bus (squint 00U) is perhaps toughest to define of Squint's first three 2020 releases. A sprawling multiple-hour-long release, it's available via download or on a limited clay-USB stick sculpture. It feels as though Ye has made environmental recordings in public spaces and hand-colourized them, warming their hues with delicate electronic tones. Squint's website relates these engrossing panels of retouched audio-vérité to her concept of 'useless music, a counterproductive twist to Muzak's total design of background music."

-- Nick Storring, Musicworks #137 ("Squint Press: Twenty Years of Wayward Aesthetics"

squint00u - Universal Serial Bus
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The Universal Serial Bus is an easy-listening trip to be heard but not listened to. The hours-long ambient sounds in the release are field recordings that are processed through X’s learnt listening patterns. Perceiving the surrounding spectrum in harmonics, X tunes the body as an interface to the recorded fields. At the nexus of noise and music, the USB is an extension to X’s long term project in the sonic banality of “useless music”, a counterproductive twist to muzak’s total design of background music.

“I would describe it as listening to great music in a room surrounded by very little music. When you feel it, USB sounded the best. From warped machine sounds, to the triumphant electromagnetic-samples, to the mysterious windy signal jam, USB gives me the sense of an ordinary person going about his life.”

“...a similar sound fingerprint for ‘households’, ‘streets and ‘birds’ had already been found, but offered no further details as to the sound sources. IKEA also included various USBs for their showrooms, including its kitchens, living rooms and other interior spaces. Some of the combinations of these natural-sounding sounds could be an alternative to listening to it in the room itself, especially in quiet environments”

“In this sense, it is something passive; its accompaniment by sound is intended to be a marginal piece of sound, a discreet vehicle that might be better understood as an editorial device than as a potential repository of music.”

《通用串行总线》是一场听而不闻的轻松之旅。这张专辑中长达数小时的环境声音，是通过X的习得聆听模式处理的田野录音。通过对感知周围频谱为谐波，X将身体作为一个接口，与所记录的音场进行调音。在噪音与音乐的交汇处，USB是X长期以来在 "无用音乐 "的声学平庸性上的延伸，是对muzak的背景音乐整体设计的反转。

“我会形容为在一个被极少的音乐包围的房间里听很棒的音乐。当你感受到的时候，USB的声音是最棒的。从扭曲的机器声，到凯旋的电磁采样器，再到神秘的风声信号卡纸，USB给我的感觉就是一个普通人在进行着自己的生活。”

“...........已经发现了类似'住户'、'街道'和'鸟儿'的声音指纹，但没有提供更多的声音来源细节。宜家还在其展厅内的厨房、客厅和其他室内空间等处加入了各种USB。这些自然声音的一些组合可能是在房间里听，尤其是在安静的环境下，这些自然声音的一些组合可能是在房间里听的另一种选择。”

“从这个意义上说，它是一种被动的东西；它以声音为伴奏的目的是作为一种边缘性的声音，是一种谨慎的载体，与其说它是一种潜在的音乐储存库，不如说它是一种编辑手段。”

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released May 1, 2020

Recorded & Mixed by Xuan Ye
v0.1.0 mastered by Landr 2020
v0.1.1 unmastered 2021

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object sounds, sound improvises, body transmutes, space resonates, indeterminate, stuttered, overflown, at the mountains of madness, experiences morph, situations bent, ideas dying aborning.

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