Moby：音乐建筑之旅
Moby：建筑诗篇
流行电子大师幻想出环游世界的音乐建筑之旅
音乐名匠Moby 联手了插画师Adam Simpson将来自世界各地的钟爱建筑与其音乐选听系列完美融合 ，铸造成一出虚幻音乐剧。这也正是和这位DJ谈论结构的最佳契机：一直在电子乐界颇有建树的他几天前刚发布新专辑《Innocents》，目前居住在洛杉矶的Fonda Theater——成立于20年代并分享着Moby建筑博客的剧院。
Simpson结合Moby所述的相应曲目，勾勒出洋溢着不同个性的建筑画幅。同时在每张作品中增加了神秘人物，为画面添上一丝引人入胜的规模感与飘渺无际的叙事之风。 “这可能是Moby，又或者可能是Moby带领我们踏上的一段旅程，”这位曾为《New Yorker》、《GQ》和《Wallpaper》等大牌杂志打造过插画的伦敦艺术家如此解释，此种方式创造出一种孤独的韵味，也正是Moby对这次跨界合作的畅想，“事后我意识到，在我想象每一个建筑物或地点之时，我都把它们想像成成无人之地。”以下便是Moby谱写出的建筑交响曲。
http://www.xiami.com/song/1026219?spm=0.0.0.0.KlKFuQ&go=table
1. 新凯旋门（巴黎）和Brian Eno的《Tal Coat》
这个结构感觉像是一个80年代中期时所构想的未来。它和那古老、美丽且庄严的巴黎同出一辙：怪异、现代以及具有挑战性的建筑。我第一次去巴黎是在1987年。我一头栽进画廊，当时正遇到Pierre Tal Coat的作品展，接着我看见Brian Eno以自己名字命名的歌曲。这首歌对周二下雨天的新凯旋门再适合不过了。
http://www.xiami.com/song/3142066?spm=0.0.0.0.xqr0p7&go=table
2. Frank Lloyd Wright的Ennis House（洛杉矶）和Derrick May 的《Strings of Life》
建筑坐落在一座小山上，几乎可以俯瞰洛杉矶全貌。它是我见过的最奇怪的房子，就像一个巨大的阿兹台克人太空飞船。站在外部，你看不见它有任何窗户，因此只会困惑怎么会有人住在那里。 它完全就是缺乏装饰的现代建筑。和我听到Derrick May的电子乐一样，这里具有同样超凡脱俗的品质，从审美层面上看来，它们让我想起了彼此。
http://www.xiami.com/song/1322851?spm=0.0.0.0.vl5ONU&go=table
3. 威尔逊山天文台（洛杉矶）和Moby的《God Moving Over the Face of the Waters》
这首歌的灵感源于我对世界初形以前的生活愿景。想像无限浩瀚与空虚还有莫名的潜力，就是那些和威尔逊天文台拥有异曲同工之妙的东西。几乎没有人去过那里，它有将景色尽收眼底的位置，那感觉就如将整个世界一览无遗一般。
http://www.xiami.com/song/1008179?spm=0.0.0.0.kolslF&go=table
4. 科隆大教堂（德国）和David Bowie 的《Station to Station》
我第一次看到大教堂的时候，其上已经有积累了500多年的污垢：一片漆黑，只有灰尘；这中间一个小得多的建筑物蔓延成为巨大笨重的大教堂。我在德国的时候曾经有过非常严重的失眠，并且在那有瘾君子出入的夜间四处游荡。不知怎么，Bowie的唱片里我最喜欢的这首《Station to Station》似乎是与之配对的完美曲目。他们最后把它清洗干净了，而这在某种程度上来说是非常遗憾的。
5. St. Louis Gateway Arch（密苏里州）和British Electronic Foundation（B.E.F）的《Decline of the West》
这是一个由Heaven 17和The Human League乐队在1980或81年时打造的天籁之音，正是这段时期的电子实验音乐让我成为了如今的音乐人。Eero Saarinen是我最喜欢的20世纪建筑师，St. Louis Gateway Arch是他设计和建造的最具标志性的建筑之一，被称为“通往西方的大门”。它十分壮阔又如此迷人。它看起来几乎像一个奇怪的外星飞船坠毁在那里，而这仅仅是它在地球上的一部分。
http://www.xiami.com/song/1771666906?spm=0.0.0.0.2Rj6M2&go=table
6. 曼哈顿大桥（纽约）和James Blake的《Retrograde》
曼哈顿大桥是在纽约我最喜欢的桥。当我想象它时，我没有去想它被汽车和游客所充满，而是隆冬时节的清晨5点钟、正值天空下雨它又空阔之时。James Blake大概是我最喜爱的当代音乐家，他的电子音乐细腻又感性。我第一次听到《Retrograde》时是在洛杉矶，那是阳光明媚的一天，但是我可以想象自己在曼哈顿大桥之下，以这首歌曲为伴。
http://www.xiami.com/song/1770656167?spm=0.0.0.0.YV9l4O&go=table
7. 格里菲斯天文台（洛杉矶）和Claude Debussy的《Clair de Lune》
Debussy的音乐有一种无法言传的美丽，而《Clair de Lune》��一首既浪漫又让人不安的歌曲。它的名字在法语中意为“月光”，这也就是为什么我将其与可以通过窗户望见的格里菲斯公园相归类。 洛杉矶世界上唯一拥有标志性建筑并且人们通过它去观看外太空的城市。它似乎奇怪地代表着洛杉矶那种天真又失调的气质。
http://www.xiami.com/song/1769683185?spm=0.0.0.0.j43qFn&go=table
8. Washington Square Arch（纽约）和Donna Summer的《I Feel Love》
现在我不喝酒，但我住在纽约的时候，绝大多数的日子里我都会整晚呆在外面。Donna Summer的《I Feel Love》是当凌晨4点你思绪混乱之时要听的歌曲。这座气势宏伟、庄严并且优雅的拱门坐落于下曼哈顿区的中间，所以当你在徘徊之时会不断遇到它。在20年代，Marcel Duchamp和一些其他的超现实主义者门发现进入拱门的一扇门并闯入期内。他们跑到顶端，喝得非常醉，接着在拂晓之际，他们很庄严地宣告曼哈顿成为自己的国家。
Moby: Dancing About Architecture
The Electronic Pop Polymath Curates an Imaginary World Tour of Buildings and Tracks
Moby combines beloved buildings with their perfect musical accompaniment in a selection illustrated by New Yorker, GQ, and Wallpaper contributor Adam Simpson. It’s the perfect time to talk to the DJ about structures: in a week in which Moby has released new album Innocents, he is currently in the middle of a residency at LA’s 1920s Fonda Theater, a venue featured on his Los Angeles architecture blog. London-based artist Simpson has imbued today's pictures with a sense of each corresponding track, adding a mysterious figure to add scale and a narrative. “It could be Moby, or it could be us being taken on a journey by Moby,” he says. It creates a solitary feel that matches Moby’s idea for this collaboration: “I have realised in hindsight,” says the star, “that I was imagining every building or location I picked, completely devoid of people.”
1. La Grande Arche De La Défense, Paris and “Tal Coat” by Brian Eno
The structure feels like a mid-1980s version of the future. It couldn't be more different to the old, beautiful, stately Paris: weird and modern and architecturally challenging. The first time I went to the city was in 1987. I stumbled into a gallery and there was a show of Pierre Tal Coat’s work, and then I saw that Brian Eno had this song named after him. It’s a piece of music that would make perfect sense on a rainy Tuesday at La Grande Arche.
2. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House, Los Angeles and “Strings of Life” by Derrick May
It’s the weirdest house I’ve ever seen in my life, like a giant Aztec space ship. From the outside you can’t really see that it has any windows, you just wonder how anyone can live there. Modern architecture became about an absolute lack of ornamentation with Bauhaus, but this is solely against that. It has the same otherworldly quality I hear in this techno anthem from Derrick May, and on an aesthetic level they remind me of each other.
3. Mt. Wilson Observatory, Los Angeles and “God Moving Over the Face of the Waters” by Moby
This song was inspired by a vision I had about the world before there were land masses or life. Imagining the vastness and the emptiness and the strange sense of potential. There’s something about Mt. Wilson that has a similar, wonderful quality about it. Almost no one ever goes up there and it has this unobstructed view that feels like you're looking at the entire world.
4. Kölner Dom, Cologne and “Station to Station” by David Bowie
The first time I saw the Dom, it had about 500 years of accumulated dirt on it. Just the grimiest thing; this enormous hulking cathedral in the middle of a sprawl of much smaller buildings. When I was in Germany I had really bad insomnia, and wandered around it at night, when the junkies hung out. Somehow “Station to Station,” from my favorite Bowie album of the same name, seemed like the perfect song to pair it with.
5. St. Louis Gateway Arch and “Decline of the West” by British Electronic Foundation
Eero Saarinen is my favorite architect of the 20th century, and one of the most iconic things he designed and built was the St. Louis Gateway Arch, known as ‘The Gateway to the West.’ It almost looks like a strange alien craft that crashed there, and this is just a part of it sticking out of the earth. And this is a beautifully evocative piece of music from 1980 or 81, a period of electronic experimentation that made me the musician that I became.
6. The Manhattan Bridge, New York City and “Retrograde” by James Blake
I don’t think of the Manhattan Bridge filled with cars and tourists, but in the middle of winter when it’s raining and empty. James Blake makes electronic music that is delicate and emotional. I first heard “Retrograde” in LA in bright sunshine, but I could imagine being by myself underneath the Manhattan Bridge with the song as the perfect accompaniment.
7. Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles and “Clair de Lune” by Claude Debussy
There is an unconventional beauty to Debussy and “Clair de Lune” is romantic and disconcerting at the same time. The title means “moonlight” in French; it is why I paired it with Griffith Park, which I can see out of my window. LA is the only major city in the world where its iconic building is an observatory where people go to look at outer space. It somehow seems strangely representative of the sort of naïve, dysfunctional ethos of Los Angeles.
8. Washington Square Arch, New York City and “I Feel Love” by Donna Summer
I don’t drink now, but when I lived in New York I spent most of my time staying out all night. Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” is one of the most perfect songs to listen to at 4am when you’re out of your head, and Washington Square Park is a place I always used to encounter in those days. In the 1920s, Marcel Duchamp and some of the other surrealists found a door into the arch and broke in. They went to the top, got really drunk and then at dawn, very solemnly proclaimed Manhattan to be its own country.
流行电子大师幻想出环游世界的音乐建筑之旅
音乐名匠Moby 联手了插画师Adam Simpson将来自世界各地的钟爱建筑与其音乐选听系列完美融合 ，铸造成一出虚幻音乐剧。这也正是和这位DJ谈论结构的最佳契机：一直在电子乐界颇有建树的他几天前刚发布新专辑《Innocents》，目前居住在洛杉矶的Fonda Theater——成立于20年代并分享着Moby建筑博客的剧院。
Simpson结合Moby所述的相应曲目，勾勒出洋溢着不同个性的建筑画幅。同时在每张作品中增加了神秘人物，为画面添上一丝引人入胜的规模感与飘渺无际的叙事之风。 “这可能是Moby，又或者可能是Moby带领我们踏上的一段旅程，”这位曾为《New Yorker》、《GQ》和《Wallpaper》等大牌杂志打造过插画的伦敦艺术家如此解释，此种方式创造出一种孤独的韵味，也正是Moby对这次跨界合作的畅想，“事后我意识到，在我想象每一个建筑物或地点之时，我都把它们想像成成无人之地。”以下便是Moby谱写出的建筑交响曲。
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http://www.xiami.com/song/1026219?spm=0.0.0.0.KlKFuQ&go=table
1. 新凯旋门（巴黎）和Brian Eno的《Tal Coat》
这个结构感觉像是一个80年代中期时所构想的未来。它和那古老、美丽且庄严的巴黎同出一辙：怪异、现代以及具有挑战性的建筑。我第一次去巴黎是在1987年。我一头栽进画廊，当时正遇到Pierre Tal Coat的作品展，接着我看见Brian Eno以自己名字命名的歌曲。这首歌对周二下雨天的新凯旋门再适合不过了。
 |
http://www.xiami.com/song/3142066?spm=0.0.0.0.xqr0p7&go=table
2. Frank Lloyd Wright的Ennis House（洛杉矶）和Derrick May 的《Strings of Life》
建筑坐落在一座小山上，几乎可以俯瞰洛杉矶全貌。它是我见过的最奇怪的房子，就像一个巨大的阿兹台克人太空飞船。站在外部，你看不见它有任何窗户，因此只会困惑怎么会有人住在那里。 它完全就是缺乏装饰的现代建筑。和我听到Derrick May的电子乐一样，这里具有同样超凡脱俗的品质，从审美层面上看来，它们让我想起了彼此。
 |
http://www.xiami.com/song/1322851?spm=0.0.0.0.vl5ONU&go=table
3. 威尔逊山天文台（洛杉矶）和Moby的《God Moving Over the Face of the Waters》
这首歌的灵感源于我对世界初形以前的生活愿景。想像无限浩瀚与空虚还有莫名的潜力，就是那些和威尔逊天文台拥有异曲同工之妙的东西。几乎没有人去过那里，它有将景色尽收眼底的位置，那感觉就如将整个世界一览无遗一般。
 |
http://www.xiami.com/song/1008179?spm=0.0.0.0.kolslF&go=table
4. 科隆大教堂（德国）和David Bowie 的《Station to Station》
我第一次看到大教堂的时候，其上已经有积累了500多年的污垢：一片漆黑，只有灰尘；这中间一个小得多的建筑物蔓延成为巨大笨重的大教堂。我在德国的时候曾经有过非常严重的失眠，并且在那有瘾君子出入的夜间四处游荡。不知怎么，Bowie的唱片里我最喜欢的这首《Station to Station》似乎是与之配对的完美曲目。他们最后把它清洗干净了，而这在某种程度上来说是非常遗憾的。
 |
5. St. Louis Gateway Arch（密苏里州）和British Electronic Foundation（B.E.F）的《Decline of the West》
这是一个由Heaven 17和The Human League乐队在1980或81年时打造的天籁之音，正是这段时期的电子实验音乐让我成为了如今的音乐人。Eero Saarinen是我最喜欢的20世纪建筑师，St. Louis Gateway Arch是他设计和建造的最具标志性的建筑之一，被称为“通往西方的大门”。它十分壮阔又如此迷人。它看起来几乎像一个奇怪的外星飞船坠毁在那里，而这仅仅是它在地球上的一部分。
 |
http://www.xiami.com/song/1771666906?spm=0.0.0.0.2Rj6M2&go=table
6. 曼哈顿大桥（纽约）和James Blake的《Retrograde》
曼哈顿大桥是在纽约我最喜欢的桥。当我想象它时，我没有去想它被汽车和游客所充满，而是隆冬时节的清晨5点钟、正值天空下雨它又空阔之时。James Blake大概是我最喜爱的当代音乐家，他的电子音乐细腻又感性。我第一次听到《Retrograde》时是在洛杉矶，那是阳光明媚的一天，但是我可以想象自己在曼哈顿大桥之下，以这首歌曲为伴。
 |
http://www.xiami.com/song/1770656167?spm=0.0.0.0.YV9l4O&go=table
7. 格里菲斯天文台（洛杉矶）和Claude Debussy的《Clair de Lune》
Debussy的音乐有一种无法言传的美丽，而《Clair de Lune》��一首既浪漫又让人不安的歌曲。它的名字在法语中意为“月光”，这也就是为什么我将其与可以通过窗户望见的格里菲斯公园相归类。 洛杉矶世界上唯一拥有标志性建筑并且人们通过它去观看外太空的城市。它似乎奇怪地代表着洛杉矶那种天真又失调的气质。
 |
http://www.xiami.com/song/1769683185?spm=0.0.0.0.j43qFn&go=table
8. Washington Square Arch（纽约）和Donna Summer的《I Feel Love》
现在我不喝酒，但我住在纽约的时候，绝大多数的日子里我都会整晚呆在外面。Donna Summer的《I Feel Love》是当凌晨4点你思绪混乱之时要听的歌曲。这座气势宏伟、庄严并且优雅的拱门坐落于下曼哈顿区的中间，所以当你在徘徊之时会不断遇到它。在20年代，Marcel Duchamp和一些其他的超现实主义者门发现进入拱门的一扇门并闯入期内。他们跑到顶端，喝得非常醉，接着在拂晓之际，他们很庄严地宣告曼哈顿成为自己的国家。
Moby: Dancing About Architecture
The Electronic Pop Polymath Curates an Imaginary World Tour of Buildings and Tracks
Moby combines beloved buildings with their perfect musical accompaniment in a selection illustrated by New Yorker, GQ, and Wallpaper contributor Adam Simpson. It’s the perfect time to talk to the DJ about structures: in a week in which Moby has released new album Innocents, he is currently in the middle of a residency at LA’s 1920s Fonda Theater, a venue featured on his Los Angeles architecture blog. London-based artist Simpson has imbued today's pictures with a sense of each corresponding track, adding a mysterious figure to add scale and a narrative. “It could be Moby, or it could be us being taken on a journey by Moby,” he says. It creates a solitary feel that matches Moby’s idea for this collaboration: “I have realised in hindsight,” says the star, “that I was imagining every building or location I picked, completely devoid of people.”
1. La Grande Arche De La Défense, Paris and “Tal Coat” by Brian Eno
The structure feels like a mid-1980s version of the future. It couldn't be more different to the old, beautiful, stately Paris: weird and modern and architecturally challenging. The first time I went to the city was in 1987. I stumbled into a gallery and there was a show of Pierre Tal Coat’s work, and then I saw that Brian Eno had this song named after him. It’s a piece of music that would make perfect sense on a rainy Tuesday at La Grande Arche.
2. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House, Los Angeles and “Strings of Life” by Derrick May
It’s the weirdest house I’ve ever seen in my life, like a giant Aztec space ship. From the outside you can’t really see that it has any windows, you just wonder how anyone can live there. Modern architecture became about an absolute lack of ornamentation with Bauhaus, but this is solely against that. It has the same otherworldly quality I hear in this techno anthem from Derrick May, and on an aesthetic level they remind me of each other.
3. Mt. Wilson Observatory, Los Angeles and “God Moving Over the Face of the Waters” by Moby
This song was inspired by a vision I had about the world before there were land masses or life. Imagining the vastness and the emptiness and the strange sense of potential. There’s something about Mt. Wilson that has a similar, wonderful quality about it. Almost no one ever goes up there and it has this unobstructed view that feels like you're looking at the entire world.
4. Kölner Dom, Cologne and “Station to Station” by David Bowie
The first time I saw the Dom, it had about 500 years of accumulated dirt on it. Just the grimiest thing; this enormous hulking cathedral in the middle of a sprawl of much smaller buildings. When I was in Germany I had really bad insomnia, and wandered around it at night, when the junkies hung out. Somehow “Station to Station,” from my favorite Bowie album of the same name, seemed like the perfect song to pair it with.
5. St. Louis Gateway Arch and “Decline of the West” by British Electronic Foundation
Eero Saarinen is my favorite architect of the 20th century, and one of the most iconic things he designed and built was the St. Louis Gateway Arch, known as ‘The Gateway to the West.’ It almost looks like a strange alien craft that crashed there, and this is just a part of it sticking out of the earth. And this is a beautifully evocative piece of music from 1980 or 81, a period of electronic experimentation that made me the musician that I became.
6. The Manhattan Bridge, New York City and “Retrograde” by James Blake
I don’t think of the Manhattan Bridge filled with cars and tourists, but in the middle of winter when it’s raining and empty. James Blake makes electronic music that is delicate and emotional. I first heard “Retrograde” in LA in bright sunshine, but I could imagine being by myself underneath the Manhattan Bridge with the song as the perfect accompaniment.
7. Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles and “Clair de Lune” by Claude Debussy
There is an unconventional beauty to Debussy and “Clair de Lune” is romantic and disconcerting at the same time. The title means “moonlight” in French; it is why I paired it with Griffith Park, which I can see out of my window. LA is the only major city in the world where its iconic building is an observatory where people go to look at outer space. It somehow seems strangely representative of the sort of naïve, dysfunctional ethos of Los Angeles.
8. Washington Square Arch, New York City and “I Feel Love” by Donna Summer
I don’t drink now, but when I lived in New York I spent most of my time staying out all night. Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” is one of the most perfect songs to listen to at 4am when you’re out of your head, and Washington Square Park is a place I always used to encounter in those days. In the 1920s, Marcel Duchamp and some of the other surrealists found a door into the arch and broke in. They went to the top, got really drunk and then at dawn, very solemnly proclaimed Manhattan to be its own country.
