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Maya Beiser: A cello with many voices
玛雅·贝瑟和她的大提琴分身合奏
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大提琴家玛雅‧贝瑟与七个她的分身合奏一首华丽的八部现代练习曲，并将之转换为冥想般的听觉和视觉体验--利用科技为乐音的变化开创无限可能性。她演奏了史帝芬·莱奇的<大提琴对位>，影片由比尔·莫里森拍摄，和大卫·朗的<明日世界>，影片出自伊瑞特·贝兹瑞。
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Thank you.
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（谢谢）
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Imagining a solo cello concert,
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如果我请你们想象一场大提琴演奏
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one would most likely think of Johann Sebastian Bach
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大多数人都会想到约翰·塞巴斯蒂安·巴赫的
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unaccompanied cello suites.
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无伴奏大提琴组曲
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As a child
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小时候
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studying these eternal masterpieces,
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我研习这些大师的永恒杰作
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Bach's music would intermingle
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巴赫的音乐总是将
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with the singing voices of Muslim prayers
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以色列集体农场北部
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from the neighboring Arab village
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阿拉伯村庄里的
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of the northern Kibbutz in Israel
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穆斯林诵祷声融汇其中
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where I grew up.
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我就是在那里长大的
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Late at night, after hours of practicing,
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深夜，每当我完成练习
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I would listen to Janis Joplin and Billie Holiday
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我会聆听詹尼斯·乔普林和比莉·哈乐黛的音乐
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as the sounds of tango music
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并伴随着从我父母
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would be creeping from my parents' stereo.
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收音机里流泻出来的探戈的乐调
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It all became music to me.
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这一切都是我的音乐。
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I didn't hear the boundaries.
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我听不出界限
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I still start every day
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我还是每天开始
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practicing playing Bach.
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练习巴赫
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His music never ceases
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他的音乐始终
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to sound fresh and surprising to me.
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让我感到新鲜和惊奇
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But as I was moving away
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但是当我开始从
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from the traditional classical repertoire
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传统的古典曲目转换为
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and trying to find new ways
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尝试用新的方法
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of musical expression,
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来表达音乐时
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I realized that with today's technological resources,
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我意识到有着今天的技术资源
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there's no reason to limit
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并没有什么能限制
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what can be produced at one time
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一种弦乐器可以
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from a single string instrument.
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在同一时间的创作
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The power and coherency
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那种力量和凝聚力
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that comes from one person hearing, perceiving and playing all the voices
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是从一个人聆听，感知和演奏所有的声音
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makes a very different experience.
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创造了一个完全不同的体验
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The excitement of a great orchestra performance
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交响乐团表演之所以令人兴奋
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comes from the attempt to have a collective of musicians
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是因为一群音乐家都尝试着
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producing one unified whole concept.
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演奏一个一致的概念
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The excitement from using multi-tracking,
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用多声道令人兴奋的地方是
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the way I did in the piece you will hear next,
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也就是等会儿我要让你们听的方法
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comes from the attempt
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来自与想要
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to build and create a whole universe
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用一个声源来创造
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with many diverse layers,
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一个多层的
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all generated from a single source.
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完整的宇宙
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My cello and my voice are layered
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我的大提琴和我的声音都分层了
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to create this large sonic canvas.
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挥洒出这幅音乐的画布
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When composers write music for me,
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所以当作曲家为我作曲时
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I ask them to forget what they know about the cello.
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我告诉他们忘记他们所了解的大提琴
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I hope to arrive at new territories
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我希望到达一个新的境界
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to discover sounds I have never heard before.
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发掘我从来没有听到过的音乐
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I want to create endless possibilities
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我和我的大提琴
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with this cello.
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创造出无限的可能
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I become the medium through which the music is being channeled,
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我成为传递音乐渠道的媒介
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and in the process, when all is right,
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在这个过程中， 当一切都顺利
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the music is transformed
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音乐转变了
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and so am I.
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我也得到了升华
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Maya Beiser - CellistMaya Beiser commissions and performs radical new work for the cello.
Why you should listen
The founding cellist of the Bang on a Can All Stars, cellist Maya Beiser is a frequent collaborator with artists across the spectrum of creativity -- visual artists such as Shirin Neshat, video artists such as Irit Batsry -- to produce groundbreaking multimedia concerts.
Composers who write for her follow her passion for melding influences -- Middle Eastern sounds, classic and modern tones. Her newest project, Elsewhere, is described as "a CELLoOpera." Elsewhere is an imaginative retelling of the Biblical legend of Lot's wife, created by the "dream team" of Maya, director Robert Woodruff, composers Missy Mazzoli and Eve Beglarian, writer Erin Cressida Wilson, and choreographer Karole Armitage
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