美国国家公共电台 NPR 作曲家用绘画和写作的声音创作了一首乐曲

Composer creates a musical piece with the sounds of drawing and writing

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What does the letter "e" sound like as it's being written down? Capital "A?" The word "steak?" Experimental musician Leah Reid creates new music with the sounds of writing different letters and words.

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

What does the letter F sound like as it's being written? How about S? Experimental composer Leah Reid composed an entire musical work with the sounds of drawing and writing. It is called "Sk(etch)." Chris Hoff of "The World According To Sound" podcast has the story.

CHRIS HOFF: Leah Reid is a professor of music at the University of Virginia, and she composes pieces of musique concrete - or music made up of recorded sounds.

LEAH REID: I'm focusing on taking some of those everyday sounds - whether they're kitchen sounds, you know, writing on paper, the birds singing outside my window, cutting with scissors - and, you know, creating something new out of that.

(SOUNDBITE OF LEAH REID'S "SK(ETCH)")

REID: There are so many beautiful sounds that surround us in our everyday lives that if we take a moment to listen, we can really hear those beautiful subtleties² and timbres³, colors and intricacies.

HOFF: To compose this piece, Reid use highly sensitive microphones to capture the individual sounds of writing and drawing.

(SOUNDBITE OF WRITING)

HOFF: Here she is tearing up the drawing...

(SOUNDBITE OF PAPER TEARING)

HOFF: ...And cutting it with scissors.

(SOUNDBITE OF SCISSORS CUTTING PAPER

HOFF: She's sketching⁴ with a pencil...

(SOUNDBITE OF DRAWING)

HOFF: ...A marker.

(SOUNDBITE OF DRAWING)

HOFF: Now she's writing on wood.

(SOUNDBITE OF WRITING)

HOFF: This is the sound of her writing a capital A...

(SOUNDBITE OF WRITING)

HOFF: ...P...

(SOUNDBITE OF WRITING)

HOFF: ...L...

(SOUNDBITE OF WRITING)

HOFF: ...Crossing three T's...

(SOUNDBITE OF WRITING)

HOFF: ...And dotting a few I's.

(SOUNDBITE OF WRITING)

HOFF: Here she spells plum...

(SOUNDBITE OF WRITING)

HOFF: ...Carpet...

(SOUNDBITE OF WRITING)

HOFF: ...And steak.

(SOUNDBITE OF WRITING)

HOFF: Using these meticulously⁵ recorded sounds, Reid composed "Sk(etch)." Let's listen to the first minute.

(SOUNDBITE OF LEAH REID'S "SK(ETCH)")

HOFF: That was an excerpt⁶ of "Sk(etch)," an experimental music composition by Leah Reid. She's currently working on a new piece of music all about taking a bubble bath.

For NPR News, I'm Chris Hoff.

1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 subtleties   

细微( subtlety的名词复数 )； 精细； 巧妙； 细微的差别等

参考例句：

• I think the translator missed some of the subtleties of the original. 我认为译者漏掉了原著中一些微妙之处。
• They are uneducated in the financial subtleties of credit transfer. 他们缺乏有关信用转让在金融方面微妙作用的知识。

3 timbres   

n.音色，音品( timbre的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Different timbres and different strings play one and the same soft and sweet serenade. 不同声色，不同琴弦，同拨着一支温馨的小夜曲。 来自互联网

4 sketching   

n.草图

参考例句：

• They are sketching out proposals for a new road. 他们正在草拟修建新路的计划。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• "Imagination is busy sketching rose-tinted pictures of joy. “飞舞驰骋的想象描绘出一幅幅玫瑰色欢乐的场景。 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险

5 meticulously   

adv.过细地，异常细致地；无微不至；精心

参考例句：

• The hammer's silvery head was etched with holy runs and its haft was meticulously wrapped in blue leather. 锤子头是纯银制成的，雕刻着神圣符文，而握柄则被精心地包裹在蓝色的皮革中。 来自辞典例句
• She is always meticulously accurate in punctuation and spelling. 她的标点和拼写总是非常精确。 来自辞典例句

6 excerpt   

n.摘录，选录，节录

参考例句：

• This is an excerpt from a novel.这是一部小说的摘录。
• Can you excerpt something from the newspaper? 你能从报纸上选录些东西吗？