Rockbund Art Museum 上海外滩美术馆

A scene from the era of black and white TV appears: the host was giving an introduction of the musician and announced that there would be a special performance tonight. Then the musician whispered something to the host, and the host told audience the objects to be used for the performance: kettles, toy ducks, ice cubes, crusher, a bathtub, five radios, a pressure cooker and a grand piano…The performance was completed within the laughing of the audience. The musician walked among these objects, turned on the radios, filled the kettle with water, placed flowers in the bathtub, crushed the ice cubes, struck the piano, constantly pushed and pulled the piston of the pressure cooker, took the flowers out of the bathtub, and played the piano a little bit every now and then… It was a TV program of the 1960s and the performer was John Cage.

Composed in 1959, the work was entitled Water Walk. Back in the end of 1930s, John Cage raised idea of “dailiness” in musical composition, meaning to make music through objects of daily use. His earlier practice witnessed the addition of objects onto piano to change its original tone. Afterwards, a group of mischievous avant-garde musicians including John Cage opened up a broader realm for musical composition. Borrowing Beuys’ idea of “everyone is an artist”, they paraphrased it into “everyone is a musician”.

During the workshop, artist Jun-Y Ciao together with all the participants will explore the sounds of daily objects. He will instruct and inspire participants to make musical instruments with daily objects and in the end of the workshop, a contemporary music performance featuring these objects and musical instruments hereby made will be presented. Wait no more! Bring your pots and pans and come to RAM to play with music!

黑白老电视中的一幕：主持人介绍音乐家，并且告诉大家今天有一个特别的表演。然后，音乐家在主持人耳边嘀咕了几下，主持人道出了表演时用到的物件：水壶，玩具鸭子，冰块和粉碎机，浴缸，五个收音机，气压锅，大钢琴……接下来的表演在现场观众的嬉笑中完成。音乐家在这些物件中踱步，打开收音机，将水壶装满水，把花放进浴缸，粉碎冰块，敲打钢琴，抽拉气压锅活塞，把花从浴缸中拿起，不时地又弹几下钢琴……这个是1960年的一个电视节目，表演者是约翰·凯奇 (John Cage)。

这个作曲的名字是《Water Walk》，写于1959年。早在上世纪三十年代末，凯奇已经提出了音乐创作中的“日常”概念。也就是用日常生活的物件做音乐，他的早期实践就是在钢琴中添加物件，去改变钢琴原有的音色。接下来，包括凯奇在内的一些喜欢胡闹的先锋音乐家们为我们开启了创作音乐的更广阔的大门。引用博伊斯提出的“人人都是艺术家”的口号，我们可以说“人人都可以是音乐家”。

莱德：再，再”展览中，你可以看到他对日常物件的挪用和对艺术边界的探索。在这个工作坊中，艺术家、音乐人照骏园会和大家一起发掘日常物件中的声音，带领小朋友们尝试不一样的音乐表达，通过发挥想象力与感知力，将身边的日常物品变成乐器并进行音乐表演。通过这个工作坊，家长和小朋友们可以一起以全新的视角看待周围的物品，还可以在活动结束后用我们特别提供的亲子材料探索展览。

好吧，快带上你家的锅碗瓢盆来外滩美术馆做音乐吧！

*注意：活动现场提供通用材料使用，推荐自带一些日常物品以更好的探索和参与! (请勿携带尖锐、易碎物品)