Jakob Trollback: Rethinking the music video

翻译人员: han congmei 校对人员: 乔 安娜

I’m working a lot with motion and animation,

我的工作涉及电影和动画。

and also I'm an old DJ and a musician.

同时我也是音乐工作者，一个经验丰富的DJ 。

So, music videos are something that I always found interesting,

因此我对音乐电视一直很感兴趣。

but they always seem to be so reactive.

但音乐电视作品通常很老套。

So I was thinking, can you remove us as creators

所以也许音乐电视想选择由音乐本身来自主创作。

and try to make the music be the voice

我尝试着给音乐话语权

and have the animation following it?

并配上动画

So with two designers, Tolga and Christina, at my office, we took a track --

我和另外两名设计师Christina以及Tolga在我的工作室里对一首歌进行了制作--

many of you probably know it. It’s about 25 years old,

你们当中也许很多人听过这首歌；这是首25年前的老歌，

and it's David Byrne and Brian Eno --

是由David Byrne 和 Brian Eno 演唱的--

and we did this little animation.

我们为它制作了动画。

And I think that it's maybe interesting, also,

另外我认为这首歌有趣的地方在于

that it deals with two problematic issues,

它谈到了两个问题--

which are rising waters and religion.

上升的海平面和宗教。

Song: Before God destroyed the people on the Earth,

（歌词：）上帝毁灭地球上的人类之前，

he warned Noah to build an Ark.

预先通知 Noah（诺亚）造一艘方舟。

And after Noah built his Ark,

Noah 造完方舟之后

I believe he told Noah to warn the people

我相信上帝让 Noah 警告人类

that they must change all their wicked ways

警告人类必须改变所有不道德的行为

before he come upon them and destroy them.

时限是在上帝降临人间来毁灭人类之前。

And when Noah had done built his Ark,

Noah 建完方舟后，

I understand that somebody began to rend a song.

我知道有一首歌在被人传唱。

And the song began to move on I understand like this.

我知到这首歌一直在被人传唱。

And when Noah had done built his Ark ...

Noah 建完方舟后...

Move on ... In fact ... Concern ...

继续行进...

So they get tired, has come dark and rain; they get weary and tired.

他们很累，天黑了还下着雨；他们感到疲倦。

And then he went and knocked an old lady house.

来到了一个老妇人的家，敲了敲门。

And old lady ran to the door and say, "Who is it?"

老妇人问：“是谁啊？”

Jack say, "Me, Mama-san, could we spend the night here?

Jackson Lee Mama 说：“我们能在这借宿一夜吗？”

Because we’re far from home, we’re very tired."

“我们的家很远，现在我们累得走不动了。”

And the old lady said, "Oh yes, come on in."

老妇人说：“可以，进来吧。”

It was come dark and rain, will make you weary and tired.

天黑了还下着雨，你会被雨淋而且很疲惫。

(Applause)

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