Trill Machine 颤音器 Original

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Trill Machine/颤音器
2018年

——我要给你讲个冷笑话。

颤音器是一系列可以为使用者的声音带来颤音效果的产品。

颤音器系列有1号B型，3号和4号三种款式，分别基于不同的原理，效果各有特色，有各自适用的场景。

1号B型源于人在夏天对风扇的固定联想，扇叶旋转改变空气局部密度和反射面，从而带来“颤音”效果。

3号使用踏板和压力传感器采集人的踩踏动作，经由程序在屏幕上输出波动图像，以此度量和提示颤音程度。高频踩踏动作会带来躯体的颤动，从而产生颤音。

4号则悬挂于人的颈上，胸前坠有直流电机驱动的活塞机构，活塞顶部装有硅胶球，运行时，硅胶球会反复冲击人的下颚，改变口腔形态，从而颤音。

《颤音器》系列设计精密，外表艳俗，功能滑稽，构成了一种价值：“严肃的轻浮”。

《颤音器》被包装成一种正规的功能性产品、夺人眼球的装饰品，故意呈现出复杂的结构、被拉长的互动逻辑和适度的认知难度，而其原理和目标却来源于儿戏，此种以严肃正经的方式托出一个落差巨大内容荒谬的叙事方式，我们一般称之为冷笑话。我尝试以这种“精心设计的无意义”来对比物质社会中无处不在的、武断强权的本质主义。

—— I want to tell you a cold joke.

Trill Machine is a series of products that can bring tremolo for user’s voice.

Here are Trill Machine #01B, #03 and #04, they base on different principles, have different features and they are suitable for different scenes.

#01B Originates from a fixed association of electric fans in summer, rotating fan leaf can trill your voice.

#03 distinguishes continuous tread through collects data from
the pedal with a pressure sensor, the fluctuating lines on screen will denote the degree of tread. high frequency tread will trill your body and then the voice trills.

#04 hanging on user’s neck, and there is a piston mechanism in front of user’s chest, a silica gel ball fixed at its top. when it’s running the ball will bump user’s lower jaw continuously, then the voice trills.

Trill Machine has a fine design, a garish look, and some clownish functions, they composed a kind of value: the serious nonsense.

Trill Machine is dressed up in a normal functional product, an eye-catching ornament. it presents a complex structure, elongated interactive logic and moderate difficulty to understand, they all come from trifling matters —— a ludicrous narrative mode that draw an unexpected conclusion in a serious way. Generally, we call it “A Cold joke”.

I tried discussing ubiquitous essentialism in the real society with “Carefully Designed Meaninglessness“.