動物行動學 Descriptive Ethology by Tzu Ni

A new Anthropocene era drags itself slowly into being, with sound, color, texture, and script.
But where are we going? How do we speak as we follow the river?

The sun rises, and in the sky, the face of an old woman smiles. Music plays—"An-ten-na Gran-ny!"
From behind the hills, four grannies with long antennas on their heads and fuzzy outfits emerge. Each of them is generated using SuperCollider...

i. Cretaceous
The strata formed during this period are called the "Cretaceous system"—soft enough to crumble by hand.
Among vertebrates, reptiles declined from their peak, with notable representatives including Tyrannosaurus (T. rex), Pteranodon, and Shandongosaurus. Hard-scaled fish from before the Jurassic were replaced by teleost fish.

ii. Corydalidae
The larvae of lacewings, known as "aphid lions," undergo complete metamorphosis.Lacewing larvae are voracious predators, feeding on aphids, whiteflies, psocids, scale insects, spider eggs, and other small arthropods. With sharp hunting skills, an enormous appetite, and quick movements, they are highly effective hunters.

Lacewing eggs are attached to thin silk stalks, raised high above branches and leaves. These delicate, swaying stalks resemble musical notes in a score—elegant and rhythmic.
Aphid lion eggs are rarely clustered together. In some cases, they are tied with silk into a single hanging strand, suspended from tree trunks or artificial structures, forming shapes reminiscent of flowers.

太陽升起，一顆老奶奶的臉微笑著出現在天空，音樂響起——「天～線～姥～姥！」
四位頭頂長天線、穿著毛茸茸衣服的姥姥從山丘後面探出頭，她們分別是用super Coliider做的...

新的人類世緩緩拖曳而來，有聲色、有質地、有腳本，但我們要去哪？順著河怎麼講話？


i.白堊紀 Cretaceous

這一時期形成的地層叫"白堊系"，用手可以搓碎。

脊椎動物中爬行類從極盛走向衰落，主要代表有暴龍(霸王龍)、古魔翼龍、青島龍等。侏羅紀以前的硬鱗魚被真骨魚所代替。


ii.蚜獅 Corydalidae

蚜獅是草蛉科的幼蟲，草蛉行完全變態，卵具絲柄，高高舉起在枝葉上，絲柄柔軟細長，隨風搖擺像樂譜上的符號十分優美。草蛉的卵極少數會聚成一團，絲線綑綁呈一條線，垂掛在樹幹或人工建物，型態像花朵。

草蛉的幼蟲又稱蚜獅，以蚜蟲、粉蝨、木蝨、介殼蟲、蜘蛛等多種小昆蟲及卵為食，捕食能力強，食量大，行動敏捷。

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"This tape takes two directions: one imagines what kind of species comes to mind after an improvised session with the synthesizer; the other side contains some of my daily practices with SuperCollider.
A perceptual approach grounded in observation and subtle description, emphasizing a meticulous attention to the behaviors and sounds of nonhuman life forms."

"這張錄音帶有兩個方向、一個是合成器的假設即興結束後自己聯想到什麼物種；另一面則是日常使用 SuperCollider 的練習。
以一種觀察與細微描述為主的感知方法，對非人類生命行為和聲音的探索。"

-- Tzu Ni

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Tzu Ni is a Taiwanese sound artist based in the Netherlands. Through multichannel installations and field recordings, her work explores the entangled relationship between sound, gender, and space. She views the intersection of technology and non-technology as a sweet spot, a site of flexibility, intimacy, and resistance where sound becomes relational knowledge.

Tzu Ni 是一位旅居荷蘭的台灣聲音藝術家，透過多聲道裝置與田野錄音探索聲音、性別與空間之關係。她將科技與非科技的交會視為一個甜蜜點，一個充滿彈性、親密與抵抗的場域，聲音在此成為關係性知識媒介。

Label based in China, releases experimental/weird/beautiful/unknown music from China and beyond.