If on a stormy night, an amnesiac sound inventor wandered into his underground lab; something fearsome, bizarre and surprising is about to get born!

風雨交作的晚上，失眠同時失憶的發明家走入地底實驗室，
又一駭人奇情悲喜糾結的傑作注定在這夜誕生

The sound of a summer storm's distant thunder and the rain on the roof – the memory of the late night sound of his mother's typewriter down the hall – these compel the sound collector and sonic inventor Laslo Klangfarben to attempt the creation of the Schick Machine, a wondrous mechanical device that consumes his every waking and dreaming moment. A giant motorized hurdy gurdy, a deconstructed pipe organ and an array of spinning and thrashing metal machines that seen almost to be alive – these devices and more fill the basement workshop of our possibly mad and possibly genius inventor as he nears the completion of his giant instrument that he believes can reconcile the past and the future. He thinks: "Theoretically it's sound. It's sound, theoretically, it's sound."

就在一個悶熱夏日風暴將至的晚上，一位失憶發明家忽然被驚醒，
遠處的雷聲與天台的雨滴聲莫名合奏，乍現是夜半從空洞大廳傳來母親的打字機聲，
滴滴答答，忽發奇想，走入地底實驗室，想要建造一台「未來記憶留聲機」，
追溯、重構叮叮點點的聲音記憶，彷彿就能連繫過去與未來……

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Steven Schick
For the past thirty years, Schick has championed contemporary percussion music as a performer and teacher. He has been commissioned and premiered more than one hundred new works for percussion and has performed theses pieces on major concert series and festivals internationally. Schick was the percussionist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars of New York City from 1992 to 2002. From 2000 to 2004, he served as artistic director of the Centre International de Percussions de Geneve in Switzerland. In 2007 he became the music director and conductor of the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus.

過去三十年，希克以演出者及教師身份，致力推廣現代敲擊樂。他曾獲委約及首演逾百首敲擊樂新作，於主要音樂會系列及國際音樂節演出。1992至2002年間，他在現代音樂團體樂侃群星樂團(Bang on a Can All-Stars) 擔任敲擊樂手。2000至2004年任瑞士日內瓦國際敲擊樂中心藝術總監。2007年出任拉霍亞交響樂及合唱團音樂總監兼指揮。

The Paul Dresher Ensemble Production of Schick Machine
Collaboratively created by: 

Composer, Instrument Inventor and Builder, Artistic Director
作曲、樂器研發及製作、藝術總監
Paul Dresher

Performer/Percussionist 演出及敲擊
Steven Schick

Director/Writer 導演及文本
Rinde Eckert

Mechanical Sound Artist 手動聲響設計
Matt Heckert

Instrument Inventor & Builder 樂器研發及製作
Daniel Schmidt

Lighting & Production Design 燈光及製作設計
Tom Ontiveros

Sound Design & Engineering 聲響設計及工程
Gregory Kuhn

Presented by 主辦
Leisure and Cultural Services Department 康樂及文化事務署