Ho, Siu-kee 何 兆 基
Artworks / Writings
- About the Artist
- Aureola No.1
- Aureola No.2
- Aureola No.3
- Aureola No.4
- Aureola No.5
- Aureola No.7
- Aureola No.8
- Aureola No.9
- Aureola No.10
- Aureola No.11
- Aureola No.13
- Standing Above Water Level
- Visible Sound
- Orbiter No.1
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- The Constrained Body
- The Third Eye
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- Five Handrails
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- Counting 1-100
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- OM
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- To Melt the Frozen Lake
- Making Brick
- Article: Bodily Synthesis
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Visible Sound
Visible Sound (觀音)
Ho, Siu-kee
“Chime empties, and wakens the mind from secular perplexities.”
Perplexity I
It’s been said that people with visual disorder usually have sharp ears. It is because they are able to focus on one single sense in compensation for the lost sense. This demonstrates the fact that senses are complementary to each other as the means to understand the world. In some cases, a sense is replaceable by another.
Perplexity II
There are researches on Synaesthesia in Neuroscience. Synaesthesia is a neurologically based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second or more sensory or cognitive pathways. For example, one may be able to see a sound or listen to an image. It’s been said that most new born babies are instinctively synesthetes. As their nervous system continues to grow, however, such instinct will be gradually regressed.
Perplexity III
“Qing” is a bowl-like Buddhist percussion instrument which chimes when being struck. It is usually made of copper and the curve and thickness of the instrument are crucial to its tone of sound. “Qing” varies in size; a large “Qing” produces solid deep sound which carries strong reverberation. It’s been said that the sound strikes people’s mind and brings about their awakening from the perplexity of the secular world. If the “Qing” is being struck with water in it, the sound vibrates to become water waves, and the instrument itself also vibrates due to the reverberation. It can be looked at; it can be touched; and it can be listened to—a demonstration of synaesthesia.
觀音(Visible Sound)
何兆基
「磬 清 磬 ， 震 醒 塵 迷。」
迷一
聞說，視力有障礙的人，聽覺會特別靈敏，因為他們更能專注於一種感官，以替代失去功能的感官。這多少可以說明，不同感官作為認識世界的渠道，不單互相補足，在特殊情况下，一種感官甚至可以替代另一種感官。
迷二
當代神經科學Neuroscience有關於「聯覺」Synaesthesia的研究。聯覺是一種感官聯通的現象，聯覺者能由一種感官的刺激，不由自主地知覺到另一種(或同時有多種)不同感官的訊息，例如看到聲音或聽到圖像。聞說，大部份初生嬰兒都先天具有聯覺的本能，只是，隨着大腦神經系統的發育，聯覺的本能會逐漸消失。
迷三
「磬」是一種缽盂狀、敲擊時會發出聲音的佛門器物，多以銅料錘打成形，器形的弧度、器壁的厚薄，往往是決定音質的重要因素。磬有不同大小，敲擊大磬，其聲沉穩，餘音傳之久遠，聞說，有懾動心神、震醒塵迷的效用。若於磬中盛水，敲打時，音波在水中迴盪形成水紋，器壁亦因共鳴而微微震動，可以觀，可以觸，可以聽，亦是不同知覺官能之間的聯通共感。