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POL, 瑞士艺术家POL从90年代初便开始从事电子音乐制作，穿梭于电子舞蹈和后工业文明时代黑暗的后台之间。不管是在DJ台或者现场表演，他的足迹将他带到了不同的听众面前：从日内瓦地下电子音乐吧到巴黎、巴塞罗那、柏林和纽约以及世界其他各地的各式俱乐部。

POL has been an electronic music producer since the early 1990s, nesting between the persistent electro dance and the dark backstage of the post-industrial civilization. At the decks or performing live, his footprints bring him to audiences either in the techno underworld of Geneva or clubs in Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, New York, and elsewhere around the world.

班磊，1990年出生于上海，手艺人。2016年，制作了专辑《7/21》，在瑞士日内瓦厂牌HU发行。2018年，他得到瑞士文化基金会支持，前往日内瓦在EoFA参加艺术家驻留项目。在驻留期间，他创造了一种由三维游戏引擎驱动的手势乐器，将第一个版本命名为《共振/Resonance》。这件作品与班磊一起参加了EYE'S WALK电子艺术节以及IN VIRTO声音艺术展。

Ban Lei (BANBANBANBAN) was born in 1990 in Shanghai, China. He was also best-known for his stage name ‘BANBANBANBAN' as a sound and game artist. In 2016, he produced and released the album 7/21 at the "HU" from Geneva, Switzerland. In 2018, he supported by the Pro Helvetia Shanghai for a three-month residency in Geneva's EoFA. During the stay, a new gesture instrument was created using a 3D game engine and a hand-capture sensor, the first version being named Resonance. This work participated in EYE'S WALK digital art festival and IN VIRTO sound art exhibition.

Mission I: China

2019年10月27日（周日 ）17:30-18:30
2019.10.27 (Sun.) 17:30－18:30

POL演奏《INATENDO Drone to the Bone》
POL plays INATENDO Drone to the Bone@ La Reliure, 2018.05.21现场照片由艺术家惠允
Courtesy of the artist


班磊演奏《共振》
Ban play Resonance@Casale, Matera, 2019.09.01
照片由艺术家惠允
Courtesy of the artist




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瑞士文化基金会致力于在国内外推广瑞士当代文化艺术。基金会于1939年由瑞士政府成立，全部资金源于公共资金。瑞士文化基金会将60%基金用于支持瑞士艺术家的国际项目，促进瑞士艺术家和其他国家艺术家之间的合作，特别是与瑞士文化基金会已设立的海外联络办公室所在国艺术家的合作。

瑞士文化基金会上海办公室于2010年成立。它旨在支持中瑞两国艺术家与机构间的合作与交流，通过开展项目促进两国在文化领域内知识与经验的分享。目前，瑞士文化基金会上海办公室开展的项目主要集中在瑞士当代艺术，其中包括视觉艺术、设计、建筑、音乐与舞蹈等众多领域。

Pro Helvetia is dedicated to the promotion of contemporary cultural works of national and international interest. It also fosters co-productions or exchanges between Swiss artists and artists from other countries, in particular from countries where Pro Helvetia has a regional office. 

Pro Helvetia Shanghai is founded in 2010 and represents the Swiss Arts Council in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau. Its aim is to encourage dialogue between Swiss and Chinese cultural practitioners and institutions by supporting projects that enhance the exchange of knowledge and experience in the cultural field.

这对搭档结识于2016年，彼时POL正在上海当代艺术馆作驻留创作，而班磊是当时“山水间”的参展艺术家。他们共演了一场声音演出，为此POL设计了一个特殊乐器，名为“农府春编钟”，灵感来自中国寺庙中的编钟，由几个水箱代替。在2018年，班磊成为了瑞士文化基金会派往日内瓦的驻留艺术家，在那儿与POL重逢，经过多次实地演出切磋，发展成了这次的巡演。

POL创作声波装置，如互动的禅意感知花园和超声花园。他的长期项目“古印度天文台”（视频/声音）和“世界之轴”（当代舞蹈）源自对天文学的研究。在当代舞领域，他与许多年轻的编导合作，创作出了灵感来源于电子游戏的当代舞《PLAY》。他的作品也曾出现在大银幕上，如导演Bruce LaBruce的僵尸电影等。他自己经营着名为Helvet Underground的数字音乐厂牌。

POL这次将献上新作《INATENDO》，用四台手持式任天堂DS电子游戏机，进行电子实验环境噪声乐的现场即兴表演。该表演兼具诡异的复古情调，以及奇幻的未来主义的视觉效果，音效的力度令人惊叹。视觉元素的灵感来自80年代的反乌托邦电影，用放大镜与屏幕模拟器营造出氛围。压倒性的声效和时而卡壳的人机互动节奏，为这次体验增添了怪异的效果。

“共振”是一种三维游戏引擎驱动的手势乐器，该引擎使用手势传感器获取游戏中每个关节的矢量。通过编写一些特定的手势,控制频率、音量和任何可以实时更改的参数。同时还可以在不同的模式之间切换。“共振”使用游戏引擎作为设计软件，设计的逻辑很丰富。它可以以击打、判定因素、随机等方式开始新事件的先决条件。这也是激励班磊创造这个的原因之一。其次，它给了班磊一种运动的思维。在“共振”中有一种模式，一种具有可控螺距的球体用右手发射。当球体启动时，声音会随着球体从玩家手部的移动而改变，从大到弱，从左到右，从有到无。当它撞到游戏空间的墙上并反弹回来时，声音变得更加清晰和明亮。当多个球体被发射到这个游戏空间时，就会形成一个自然运动的声场，每个音符之间的关系都会因为运动而改变。

在过去的一年里,“共振”与班磊一起经历了近30场演出。与它一起表演能让班磊对所在的世界有更多更丰富的认识，并逐渐令班磊发现，从玩具到乐器的转变，其实不是关于玩具，而是关于班磊以合乎逻辑的方式，创造了不合逻辑的事物，这是“共振”的诞生。




Their collaboration was born in 2016, as POL was completing his fall residency at the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai (MoCA). The duo presented "Nongfu Spring" in a live sound performance, inspired by iron bells instruments found in every temple of China but with 4 liters water tanks instead of bells. Then in 2018, Ban Lei became Pro Helvetia Shanghai residency artist in Geneva where he continued his creative dialogue with POL, till it blossomed into new collaboration this October.

He creates sonic installations like the interactive zen garden TACTILE, THE SONIC GARDEN. His last work is called JAN-TAR MANTAR (video&sound), inspired by antics astronomical observatories in India. For contemporary dance, he worked with young choreographer like Marthe Krummenacher or Ioannis Mandafounis and created PLAY, a dance piece inspired by video-games. In 2016 he creates AXIS MUNDI with Louis-Clément da Costa. On the screens, his productions have insinuated themselves in the arty zombies movie of cult director Bruce LaBruce. On record, his productions are hosted by Helvet Underground, a digital label that he runs him- self.

POL plays INATENDO as a live sonic improvisation show of electronic experimental ambient noise performed on 4 handheld obsolete Nintendo DS video-game consoles. The performance has an eery retro-futuristic strange visual aspect and is sonically astonishingly powerful. The visual content is inspired by dystopian anticipation movies from the 80's with a magnifying glass and a TV simulator. The discrepancy between the overwhelming sonic presence and the apparently disconnected human interaction on stage adds to the weirdness of the experience.

Resonance uses the game engine as the design software. The Logic of design is very interesting. They are the preconditions for starting new events with hitting, conditional, random and so on. This is a reason that stimulates Ban Lei to create this. Secondly, it gives Ban Lei a concept of motion. In Resonance, there is a mode in which a sphere with a controllable pitch is emitted with the right hand. When the sphere is launched, the sound changes as the sphere moves away from the player, from loud to weak, left to right. When it hits the wall in the game space and bounces back, the sound becomes clearer and brighter. When multiple spheres are launched into this game space, a natural motion sound field is formed, and the relationship between notes changes every time because of motion.

Resonance has experienced nearly 30 performances with Ban Lei over the past year. Performing with it can bring Ban Lei more insight into everything. The transformation from toy to musical instrument is not about toy, but about Ban Lei creating illogical things in a logical way is the birth of Resonance.