噪音与沉默之间,意义与无意义之间:当代意大利声景中的环境音乐(英文)

Between Noise and Silence,Between Meaning and Non-Meaning：Ambient Music in the Contemporary Italian Soundscape

本文以意大利主流报纸上关于噪音与沉默的文章为基础,旨在说明音乐在意大利的城市声景中所起到的作用。由于再生产技术的大规模传播,音乐得以在不同的地方流传,人们也认为音乐是无处不在、绵延不绝的。由是,环境音乐成为城市噪音的一个典型例子,一个可以用来解释声景中的噪音的模式：城市中的噪音和衬托性的背景音乐往往都是不清楚的、无差别的,造成了感觉的丧失。因此,音乐家和作曲家们展开了抗议活动。声音漫步和声音设计等活动,就是想要找回失去的意义：从不和谐的声音中创造出连续、和谐的整体的各种变体,通过对完全的连续性和不连续性的否定,涵义得以产生。当音乐自身产生区别并且从背景中突显出来时,就获得了意义,而这样的音乐和沉默产生了互动。

Based on articles about noise and silence found in major Italian newspapers,this paper clarifies the role of music in the urban Italian soundscape.Due to massive diffusion by reproduction technology,music can be found in many places,and people perceive music as pervasive and continuous.In the scattered situation,ambient music becomes a paradigmatic example of urban noise and a model itself to explain the noise in the soundscape：both urban noise and ＂muzak＂ are inclined to be in-distinct and un-differentiated,bringing about a loss of meaning.Against this phenomenon,musicians and composers created a protest movement.Current activities such as sound walks and sound design are an effort to bring back meaning where it was lost：making melodic variations of a continuous sound and harmonious whole from disharmonious sounds,signification occurs by the negation of mere continuity and mere discontinuity.So music gains in meaning when it is differentiated in itself and distinct from environmental background,the kind of music that interacts with silence.