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1 | A Man Who Travels the World Not to See Things, But Hear Them | Lehilahy Mitety Izao Tontolo Izao Tsy Hijery Fa Hihaino |
2 | Jacob Kirkegaard recording in the Chernobyl exclusion zone: “It's a kind of a no place and so I thought: How can I record such a place because my presence … changes so much?” | Jacob Kirkegaard mandrakitra am-peo ny faritra miavaka ao Chernobyl: “Karazana tsy toerana tsy faleha izany araka ny eritreritro: Ahoana no ahafahako mandrakitra am-peo toerana tahaka izao satria ny fahatongavako no… manova zavatra betsaka?” |
3 | Credit: Courtesy of Jacob Kirkegaard | Sary: Jacob Kirkegaard |
4 | This article and radio report by Alina Simone for The World originally appeared on PRI.org on September 28, 2015, and is republished here as part of a content-sharing agreement. | Ity lahatsoratra sy tatitra amin'ny onjam-peo avy amin'i Alina Simone ho an'ny The World ity dia nivoaka voalohany tao amin'ny PRI.org tamin'ny 28 Septambra 2015, ary navoaka eto indray noho ny fifanarahana fifampizarana votoaty-. |
5 | I assumed I had a lot in common with Danish sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard: I use microphones, he uses microphones. | Miaiky aho fa betsaka ny itovizako amin'ny mpanakanto Danoà Jacob Kirkegaard: mampiasa fandraisam-peo aho, mampiasa fandraisam-peo izy. |
6 | I love sound, he loves sound. | Tia feo aho, tia feo izy. |
7 | Listen to this story on PRI.org » | Listen to this story on PRI.org » |
8 | Uh, no. | Tsia. |
9 | Kirkegaard uses accelerometers to record below the Earth's surface, hydrophones to capture sound underwater and even tiny microphones to tape otoacoustic vibrations created by the human ear. | Mampiasa fandrefy hafainganana i Kirkegaard mba handrakitra ny ambanin'ny tany, mampiasa hidrôfonina handraisana ny feo any ambanin'ny rano, ary mampiasa mikirôfonina bitika mihitsy aza mba handraketana feo madinika avy amin'ny sofin'olombelona. |
10 | And he definitely loves sound a lot more than I do. | Ary tena tia feo bebe kokoa noho izaho izy. |
11 | “I've never taken drugs myself, because I do think that sounds can take me high. | “Tsy mbola nandray zava-mahadomelina ny tenako manokana, satria mihevitra indrindra aho fa afaka mitondra ahy ho avo kokoa ny feo. |
12 | I just always used sound to take me to places,” Kirkegaard says. | Nampiasa feo hatrany aho hitondra ahy eny amin'ny toerana isan-karazany, “hoy i Kirkegaard. |
13 | His journey began at age 6, when his father gave him a tape recorder and he discovered he could manipulate his voice by slowing it down: “And that made me sound like a monster all of a sudden. | Nanomboka tamin'izy 6 taona ny diany raha nanome fandraisam-peo azy ny rainy ary nahita izy fa afaka mikirakira ny feony amin'ny fampiadanana izany: “Ary nahatonga ahy ho toy ny olon-doza tampoka izany. |
14 | Like a big vampire.” | Tahaka ny vampira goavambe. “ |
15 | After college, Kirkegaard spent some time as a musician. | Taorian'ny fianarana tany amin'ny kolejy, nandany ny fotoananyho mpiangaly mozika i Kirkegaard. |
16 | Then one day he spontaneously put his ear to an iron fence in Cologne, Germany, and was plunged into a strange and oddly musical universe: | Indray andro, nametraka tampoka ny sofiny tamin'ny fefy vy tany Cologne, Alemaina izy, ary tafiditra tao anatin'ny tontolon'ny mozika hafahafa sy tsy mahazatra: |
17 | That's when Kirkegaard realized that instead of making sounds, he'd rather find sounds “that mystify me somehow, that I don't quite understand. | Izany no nahafantaran'i Kirkegaard fa raha tokony hamoaka feo dia aleony mahita feo “izay somary mahatafiditra ahy amin'ny misitery, izay tsy takatro loatra. |
18 | It can be politically loaded places that I would like to listen to, without wanting to state an opinion.” | Mety hoe toerana mavesatra ara-politika tiako hohenoina izany, fa tsy mikasa haneho ny hevitro aho. |
19 | He spent a week in a small boat in the Ilulissat Icefjord in Greenland, recording glaciers calving. | “ Nandany ny herinandrony tao anaty sambo kely tao amin'ny Ilulissat Icefjord ao Giroenilandy izy, mandrakitra am-peo ny vongan-dranomandry. |
20 | Here's: the soundtrack of global warming: | Ity ny feonkiran'ny fiakaran'ny maripanan'ny tany ankapobeny : |
21 | Kirkegaard advises: “Use headphones or good speakers.” | Manoro hevitra i Kirkegaard: “Ampiasao ny toho-pihainoana (écouteur) na ny fandobo-peo tsara.” |
22 | He's right: Even in a crowded café, I was transported to a place both forbidding and wild. | Marina ny azy: Na dia ao anatin'ny trano fisotroana kafe feno olona aza, nentina tany amin'ny toerana sady voaràra no tsy misy lamina aho. |
23 | “Sometimes I think that it's not enough just to read about it or just to see a picture of a lot of ice on a glacier that has disappeared over some years. | “Indraindray aho mihevitra fa tsy ampy ny mamaky fotsiny na mahita sary fotsiny ireo ranomandry be dia be amin'ny vongan-dranomandry izay nanjavona mandritra ny taona maromaro. |
24 | But if you hear it, you will start to feel that it's happening right now,” Kirkegaard says. | Fa raha mahare ianao, manomboka mahatsapa ianao fa mitranga amin'izao fotoana izao izany, “hoy i Kierkegaard. |
25 | His work is also about what's not happening now - in mostly forgotten places; for example, the town of Pripyat, in the heart of Chernobyl's radioactive “exclusion zone.” | Mikasika izay tsy mitranga ankehitriny ihany koa ny asany - indrindra ao amin'ireo toerana adino; ohatra, ny tanànan'i Pripyat, ao afovoan'ny “faritra tsy azo idirana” fa tratran'ny fanelatra (radioactive) ao Chernobyl .” |
26 | Kirkegaard recorded there in 2005. | Nandrakitra am-peo tao i Kirkegaard tamin'ny taona 2005. |
27 | “People are really gone, and yet there are so many traces of life. | “Tena lasa avokoa ny olona, ary mbola misy ireo sori-piainana maro dia maro. |
28 | It's kind of a no place and so I thought: How can I record such a place, because my presence is so - it changes so much?” | Karazana toerana tsy faleha izany ary nieritreritra aho : Ahoana no ahafahako handrakitra ny toerana tahaka izany, satria ny fahatongavako - nanova zavatra betsaka?” |
29 | So he put his microphone down - and left. | Ka nametraka ny fanamafisam-peony izy - ary lasa. |
30 | After each take, he would record again, only this time playing the first recording back into the room at a low volume, turning silence into an orchestral drone. | Isaky ny mandray feo izy, dia mbola te handrakitra hatrany, tamin'ity indray mitoraka ity ihany no ambany haavom-peo noraiketina, namadika ny fahanginana ho samonimonin-tantelilahy. |
31 | But some sites are too stubborn to give up their secrets, as Kirkegaard found when he tried to record the concrete barrier that separates Israel from the West Bank. | Saingy miziriziry tanteraka ny toerana sasany hanome ny tsiambaratelon'izy ireo, hitan'i Kirkegaard izany raha niezaka nandrakitra ny sakana mivaingana izay manasaraka an'i Isiraely amin'ny Morondrano Andrefana izy. |
32 | “It's so heavy, that it doesn't have much sound. | “Tena mavesatra tokoa, satria tsy misy feo loatra. |
33 | But then I have to ask myself: What is it that I'm expecting anyway?” he says. | Saingy avy eo tsy maintsy manontany tena aho: Inona tokoa moa no antenaiko? “Hoy izy. |
34 | “You know, the nature of that wall is exactly not to resonate with its surroundings. | “Hitanao, ny tsy hiray feo amin'ny manodidina indrindra no toetran'ity rindrindra ity. |
35 | It is to stop any resonance. | Ny hanajanona izay mety ho ako. |
36 | And that is something that when I start to understand this … what it is that I'm recording.” | Ary midika zavatra rehefa manomboka ho takatro izany … izay no raketiko. “ |
37 | He ended up placing his microphones around the wall instead, capturing the sound of life-in-progress - a call to prayer, a car idling - sounds a wall can't stop. | Farany napetrany manerana ny rindrina ihany ny mikirôfonina, mandrakitra ny feon'ny fiainana eo am-pivoarana - antso hivavaka, fiara mandeha mora - feo tsy tafajanon'ny rindrina. |
38 | Not all of Kirkegaard's work is a political commentary, and it's not all done in solitude. | Tsy fanehoan-kevitra ara-politika avokoa ny asan'i Kirkegaard, ary tsy irery koa izy tamin'izany. |
39 | He once invited 16 different guests to the Hotel Marienbad in Berlin and then recorded them sleeping. | Efa nanasa vahiny 16 samihafa tao amin'ny Hotel Marienbad ao Berlin izy indray andro ary nandrakitra am-peo azy ireo teo ampatoriana. |
40 | There's not much to hear - just an occasional groan, and some whispered sleep talk. | Tsy dia misy zavatra betsaka re - fa olona miesona tsindraindray sy olona sasany matory mibitsibitsika. |
41 | But Kirkegaard says it's kind of like diving into a world of the unknown. | Nilaza i Kirkegaard fa karazana fitsorahana mankany amin'ny tontolon'ny tsy fantatra izany. |
42 | “They give me a secret. | “Manome ahy tsiambaratelo izy ireo. |
43 | They invite me to an intimate space of theirs that they don't even know about themselves.” | Manasa ahy amin'ny toerany manokana tsy mahafantatra ny mombamomba azy ireo akory izy ireo“. |
44 | So what if I want to up my game, I ask Kirkegaard, from radio reporter to “Sound Artist.” | Koa ahoana raha te hanao ny lalaoko aho, nanontany an'i Kirkegaard aho, mpanao gazetin'ny onjam-peo lasa “Artistan'ny Feo”. |
45 | Where I can find a good used accelerometer? | Aiza no mety ahitako fandrefy hafainganana tsara efa nampiasaina? |
46 | But he tells me it's not about the fancy gear; it's about your idea. | Saingy nilaza tamiko izy fa tsy resaka fitaovana raitra izy io; fa izay hevitrao. |
47 | “Like Agent [Dale] Cooper says in [the TV program] Twin Peaks, ‘The Owls are not what they seem.' | “Tahaka ny nolazain'ilay Mpiasa [Dale] Cooper tamin'ny [ fandaharana amin'ny fahitalavitra] Twin Peaks: ‘Tsy araka ny fahitana azy ny vorondolo.” |
48 | That's a quote that I really like in terms of sound - that the sounds are not what they seem. | Izany no tsongan-teny tena tiako eo amin'ny lafiny feo - fa tsy araka ny fiheverana azy ny feo. |
49 | Another thing Agent Cooper once said: “I have no idea where this will lead … but I have a definite feeling that it will be a place both wonderful and strange.” | Zavatra iray hafa nolazain'ny Cooper ihany koa ny hoe: “Tsy fantatro mihitsy izay itondran'izy ity [ahy] … saingy manana fahatsapana mazava aho fa ho toerana mahafinaritra sady hafahafa izany.” |