![]() And most importantly for Young, war sounds musical. It’s calm, somewhat foreboding - human, organic, often silent but with bursts of technological noise. What does war sound like? The crescendoing rat-tat-tat of a pre-revolutionary drumline creeping closer and closer, punctuated by the occasional pop of a single-shot rifle, like we hear in The Patriot ? Or the amplified bombast of Wagner booming from a helicopter, underlaid by a percussive assault of AK-47 fire, per Apocalypse Now ? Perhaps the abyssal silence of an individual psyche, upset by the nervous breathing of soldiers and civilians, à la The Hurt Locker ? Or maybe it’s not so cinematic maybe it’s just functional, machinic, full of non-musical gunfire, chopper blades, tires on dirt, and walkie-talkie banter, as heard in the hour-long YouTube video, “ War Sounds – 1 Hour! Urban Warfare Ambience! As real as it gets!“ Each of these distinct examples evinces a sound marked by regimentation - ordered, repeated elements, whether a theme from Die Walküre over Vietnam or the tense, beating nothingness of Hollywood-ized Iraq.įor Hong Kong artist Samson Young, however, war sounds less obviously martial indeed, it’s pretty random. ![]() ![]() Samson Young, ‘Pastoral Music’ (2015), installation view (all images courtesy of the artist and Team Gallery) ![]()
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