The Ship Issue #3 – Auditory Voyage – The Breeze by the Ear

**As you turn the pages of this book, the unheard sounds come alive.** A record capturing a year's worth of footsteps, hundreds of waves collected by Golden Horse Award winner Tu Du-Chih, the beloved insect chirps of internationally acclaimed director Liu Geng-Ming, the theme song that Chongqing Forest's 663 finally heard, the sounds of artists Ko-ki Tanaka and Su Yu-Hsien listening to each other's creations, and high-pitched frequencies only audible to teenagers… all these sounds are found within. **Publication Date: April 2013** **Bilingual (English/Chinese), Full Color** **96 pages, Softcover, 170x230 mm** "The Ship" is an independently published arts and culture periodical that uses the five human senses as inspiration, presenting works and creation stories from various fields around the world in the format of a paper exhibition. Each issue begins with a different sense, integrating painting, photography, installation, text, music, architecture, film, and even food, travel, and the people and things in everyday life. The founders of "The Ship" are Taiwanese artists who met in New York. Living and creating abroad together, they use the collective concept of "the ship" to invite creators from all fields aboard to share their experiences. **"The Ship" Issue #3: Auditory Voyage "The Breeze by the Ear"** **Table of Contents:** 1. Foreword—On the Breeze by the Ear / Hsiang-Ju Hung 2. Dialogue—What Sounds Do You Hear? / Ko-ki Tanaka, Su Yu-Hsien 3. Mixed Media—The Psychology of Boys in Frederik C. Kunath's Work / Wei-Chung Ma 4. Performance—Speaking in My Own Way / Christine Kinser, Yi-Hua Li 5. Film—Chungking Express. 663, Can You Hear It? / Bi-Ru Liang 6. Interview—The Sound Collector: An Interview with Tu Du-Chih / Hsiang-Ju Hung, Yi-Hua Li 7. Music—The Record Capturing Footsteps / Brian House 8. Animation—Three Insect Tales / Liu Geng-Ming 9. Text—Silicone Earplugs / Xiao-Mi Huang, Li-Pei Huang 10. Nature—Little Riverland / Hsiang-Ju Hung 11. Life—Are Things We Can't Hear Still Sounds? / Shui-Jou Wu 12. Film—The Mute Interval: Peter Forgacs' "Private Hungary: A Chronicle of a Family" / Hsin-Yi Tsai 13. Photography—What I Want to Say... (China Edition) / Adrienne Verrill 14. Concept—Did You Get It? / Yi-Hsuan Chen 15. Call for Submissions—Reading Your Voice / Yung-An Chu 16. Illustration—Listen, Listen / Daehyun Kim **Foreword:** Of the five senses, hearing is the most intangible yet the hardest to block. We might pinch our nose to avoid a bad smell, but it's difficult to achieve absolute silence by covering our ears. Contemporary life is saturated with all sorts of sounds, yet the more chaotic and noisy it becomes, the more sounds are masked. The breeze by the ear means unheard sounds. Perhaps due to distraction, or an overly noisy environment, or an overwhelming amount of information to process simultaneously, or because people often only want to hear what they wish to hear, some important sounds quietly slip away, dissipating like the wind. Some sounds that are unheard in the moment may gradually become clearer with time. Like my mother's nagging when I was young, which always went in one ear and out the other. Although I don't remember the content of her advice, that sound gradually became a stabilizing force for me. As an adult, I found myself naturally adopting the exact same tone of nagging, as if my mother had already inhabited me through her voice. However, some lost sounds, even if they possess a real and powerful presence, are still ignored, like the wind blowing past our ears. Important messages, clearly and forcefully expressed, seem to vanish into thin air as if they never happened. Examples include the bass undertones buried by the main melody in a song, unrequited love confessions, the sounds of nature forgotten by city dwellers, and the grievances of people unheard by the government and media. "The Ship" Issue #3, Auditory Voyage, invites everyone to share the unheard sounds in their lives and creative work. We hope that through the sounds collected by our widely opened ears, diverse winds will blow into our bodies, transforming into nourishment for our next expression. **Publisher: The Ship Studio** **Editors-in-Chief: Hsiang-Ju Hung + Yi-Hua Li** **Contributing Writers: Wei-Chung Ma, Hsin-Yi Tsai, Shui-Jou Wu, Bi-Ru Liang, Xiao-Mi Huang** **Translators: Chun-Hui Chan, Ya-Ling Chao**