(Z)erpents – Black Mold and Hot Springs, Taipei - 黑黴與溫泉，台北

This is a soundtrack; close your eyes - you can see the film. While the camera strains, image wobbling, making the most of a lack of light, there are riots in the streets; armored vehicles blasting water cannons; a teenager in a bandana kicks a tear gas canister back toward the line of cops. Natural disasters; a wall of water washing cars from the street; half-finished skyscrapers collapse; cracks opening in the earth’s surface. 

這像是電影配樂，在閉上雙眼之際便能清楚看見這部電影。鏡頭過濾、晃動，將所有的光去除。街上的抗爭、武裝載具發射加壓水砲、穿戴頭巾的少年將催淚瓦斯踢回警察防線之中。天災襲來：雨牆沖刷街上的汽車，未完成的摩天大樓接續倒塌，將地表鑿出了個大洞。

Like a soundtrack, you can feel the music abruptly shifting from one scene to another, unheralded, uncued, shifting direction like a school of fish or a mob of protestors. At first it’s just the drums spattering rapidly forward, traditional snares and kicks alongside muted dull cymbals and rattling pans and trash can lids. Then a raucous, enraged saxophone, maddened beyond belief and REFUSING to shut up, suddenly appears running alongside the drums. Rhythmically, the two are locked, though they still both feel like they’re being played while falling down a long flight of stairs.

你可以感受到聲音瞬間切換至另個場景，似電影配樂般 - 無預警、毫無保留的的轉換方向，如魚群或抗爭群眾。最初只是鼓聲快速的擊濺，傳統的小鼓、大鼓伴隨銅鈸、鏗鏘作響的鍋碗及垃圾桶的蓋子。然後，喧囂盛怒的薩克斯風捉了狂，和鼓聲一同奔馳 — 極力抗拒、無法停歇。 雖在節奏上彼此緊密同步，但感覺起來卻像是他們演奏於 — 蹣跚跌落的瞬間。

When it’s just the drums and the sax, angry beyond reason, there’s still a very tangible emptiness, a space within the sound. And when (Z)erpents want to fill that space, they do – with big fudgy slices of guitar. What the guitar has in common with the drums and the sax is an element of relentlessness, although this is expressed as long cloudy drones rather than furious action. It’s a threatening undertone like a dark cloud that refuses to break into unavoidable rain.

當只有鼓和憤怒的薩克斯風時，聲音中仍有些明顯的空間和留白，一層又一層、毛烈成片的吉他和弦便將整個空間填滿。吉他與鼓、薩克斯風一樣充滿混亂強烈的元素，但並不是憤怒的方式，而是以雷雲層般厚重的遠長延音，像是為即將襲來的暴雨所下的警示：你將無法避免。

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