《石牆樹》
Stonewall Trees
楊倩桐
Yeung Sin-tung Jessie
現於香港中文大學就讀文學士課程，主修音樂，副修政治與行政學及新聞及傳播。曾就讀香港演藝學院及其青少年音樂課程。現為香港青年中樂團、中大爵士樂團及崇基管樂團的低音大提琴手。
楊氏希望透過演奏和作曲，表達音樂的純粹。藝術的世界很大，還在探索，尋求音樂蘊含的意義和本質。
Yeung Sin-tung Jessie is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, majoring in Music and minoring in Government and Public Administration (GPAD) and Journalism and Communication. She previously studied at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and was a student in its Junior Music Programme. She is now the bassist for the Hong Kong Youth Chinese Orchestra, CUHK Jazz Ensemble and Chung Chi Wind Orchestra.
Yeung would like to express music’s simplicity and intrinsic qualities through performance and composition, exerting herself to explore the essence and inwardness of music in this boundless world of art.
石牆樹在港島十分常見。戰後技術改良，後建的石牆已沒有留下可供植物生長的石縫。
這樂章由2015年般咸道細葉榕斬樹事件啟發。以四位馬木巴琴的演奏者代表四棵細葉榕，金屬樂器、定音鼓及大鼓上與棒槌摩擦的聲音形容鋸樹情境，其後樂手以手拍打馬木巴琴表達樹幹被斬後重新生長的情況。
以馬木巴琴拉弦的聲音作結，猶如重現鋸樹的動作。石牆樹與石牆可反映城市面貌和發展變遷，透過創作此樂曲，理解我們如何投射了回憶和情感予石牆樹上?
The stonewall tree is quite common in the Hong Kong Island area. During World War II, these trees already existed, and the technique of constructing stone walls was mastered by craftsmen from Dongguan. After the war, the technology improved, but the later-built stone walls no longer had crevices suitable for plant growth.
This piece was inspired by the 2015 Bonham Road banyan tree felling incident. Four marimba players represent four banyan trees, while the sounds of metal instruments, scraping sounds of friction mallets on timpani, and bass drums depict the scenario of sawing trees. Subsequently, the musicians tap the marimbas, expressing the regrowth of trees after being cut down.
The bowing sound of the marimba concludes the piece as if re-enacting the action of sawing trees. Stonewall trees and stone walls can reflect the city’s appearance and transformation. Beyond music, we hope to understand the relationship between walls and people, and the way we project memories and emotions onto the stone wall trees.