蓝人乐团AN ABSOLUTELY

ECSTATIC EXPERIENCE绝对狂喜体验

By Elana Tan

SGD $25.00

This book showcases the world’s most remarkable and influential band called the ‘Blue Man Group’. It discusses the impact the group has on society and culture of today.

The Blue Man Group is a product of our environment. They are a reaction to information overload and media saturation fueled by rampant consumerism –all of which numb the creative spirit.

The Blue Men see the world with childlike wonder. They see everything like they are seeing it for the first time. They have no individuality or ego. The Blue Men act as a medium between our common reality and the participatory and sublime experience. They desire to create a revitalizing, vivid and intensely felt experience in a ritual built on communal creative expression.

这本书展示了世界上最出色和影响力的乐队叫‘蓝人乐团’。它讨论了对社会和文化的影响，本集团有今天。

蓝人乐团是我们的环境的产物。它们对信息超载和媒体饱和反应加剧了猖獗的消费，所有这些麻木的创新精神。

蓝人看到带有孩子气的好奇的世界。他们看到一切都像他们所看到的第一次。他们没有个性或自我。作为我们共同的现实之间的参与性和崇高的经验中蓝色男子的行为。他们希望建立一个振兴，生动，强烈感受到了在社区建立了一个仪式的创意经验。

Publishing information

This first edition published April 2011 bySNP International Publishing Pte Ltd1 Kim Send PromenadeGreat World City East Tower, #18-01Singapore 237994Tel: (65) 68269600Fax: (65) 68203341http://www.snpcorp.comsnpinternational@snpcorp.com

© 2011 Elana Tan Pei-Ying & SNP Media Asia Pte Ltd

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or other-wise without the prior written permission of the publishers.

Printed in Singapore 2011

ISBN 981248 012 9

目录

1. 蓝人乐团 1 他们的音乐，他们的乐器

2. 教育的影响 7

蓝色学校，’兴风作浪’

3. 对时装的影响 13

“SPLASHTIVAL” 斯沃琪

4. 对音乐的影响 15

混乱打击乐

5. 对环境问题的影响 17

“地球人类”

CONTENTS 1. THE BLUE MAN GROUP 1 Their music, their instruments

2. INFLUENCE ON EDUCATION 7

Blue School, ‘Making Waves’

3. INFLUENCE ON FASHION 13

“SPLASHTIVAL” Swatch

4. INFLUENCE ON MUSIC 15

Pandemonium Percussion

5. INFLUENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE 17

“Earth to humanity”

BLUE MAN GROUP蓝人乐团

该组织的所有出场明星的表演三人称为蓝人，谁看起来有蓝色的皮肤，没有发言权，头发或耳朵。原建国蓝人仍然执行，但自那时以来，他们已在该公司采取的管理角色。由于蓝人集团，母公司叫蓝人制作的创建，这就会产生各种蓝人组在世界上显示成功。

蓝人组的表演，每一个环节都精心安排。原来的概念是，演出将生活画。对表演者的个性消失时他们把蓝色的油漆，是由一些更“深刻”取代。该集团的目标是什么构成挑战艺术，音乐，戏剧的观众的观念。

表演者认为自己是三个人打一个字符。从一开始，音乐是他们行为的重要组成部分，随着艺术品是在蓝色的油漆阶段创建的。蓝文字符不会说话或表达情感，一切都是通过艺术和声音传达。

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Blue Man Group is a creative organization founded by Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton in New York, NY, 1987. The organization produces theatrical shows and concerts featuring music, comedy and multimedia; recorded music and scores for film and television; television appearances for shows such as The Tonight Show, Las Vegas, Scrubs, FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman, and Arrested Development; and a children’s museum exhibit (“Making Waves”).

蓝人乐团是一种创造性的组织，由克里斯眨眼，马特高盛和菲尔斯坦顿成立。该组织产生戏剧表演和音乐会为特色的音乐，喜剧和多媒体;录制音乐，为电影和电视配乐，对于像TheTonightShow,LasVegas,Scrubs,FETCH显示在电视上露面！与RuffRuffman，并拘捕发展，一个儿童博物馆展出（“兴风作浪“）。

All of the organization’s appearances star a trio of performers called Blue Men, who appear to have blue skin and no voice, hair, or ears. The original founding Blue Men still perform, but they have since then taken on administrative roles in the company. Because of the success of Blue Man Group, a parent company called Blue Man Productions was created, which produces all the Blue Man Group shows in the world.

The Blue Man Group’s performances are in every aspect carefully orchestrated. The original concept is that the performances will be living paintings. The personalities of the performers disappears when they put on the blue paint and are replaced by something more “profound”. The group’s goal are to challenge their audiences’ notions of what constituted art, music, and the theater.

The performers think of themselves as three people playing one character. From the beginning, music is an important part of their act, along with artwork being created on stage in blue paint. The Blue Man character does not speak or express emotion; all is conveyed through rheir performances of art and sound.

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In 1999, the group released their first audio recording, appropriately titled Audio. Although it contained some of the music from their stage productions, it was less of a soundtrack and more a collection of full-length instrumentals that featured new unconventional instruments.

This debut album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.

In 2003, they released their second album titled The Complex. This album serves as a reminder that modern devices and glisten-ing production values can be applied to the most primal creative instincts, if utilized by the right - blue - hands.

MUSIC音乐

A variety of modern age music such as Rock/Pop, Alternative/Indie, Experimental.

一个现代化的时代，如多种音乐摇滚/流行，另类/独立，实验。

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1999年，该集团发行了首张录音，合适的名称，Audio。尽管这里有一些从他们的音乐舞台剧，它是那么的配乐，更是一个完整长度的乐器，内容是新的非常规工具的集合。

这首张专辑被提名为格莱美最佳流行器乐演奏奖。

2003年，他们发行了第二张专辑名为 The Complex。这张专辑符合现代生产设备和闪闪发光的数值可以被应用到最原始的创作本能，如果正确使用，提醒- 蓝 -手。

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蓝人组展示了其背后的振动物体的物理性能。他们的手工工具使他们能够产生独特，原始和部落的敲击声。

使用PVC管及相关配件，蓝人组都惊讶与奇怪的收集和游乐横飞的鼓乐展示了人群。自来水，一拍或一经对PVC说唱强制它在它的自然振动频率，从而产生了一系列的声音。

另一个独特的乐器是背包Tubulum，弯曲的器官像绑在蓝人的后背管的样子。作为男子背包蓝发光击败他们的节奏。

Plumbing materials aren’t the only unusual instruments the Blue Men use. Believe it or not, they can also make percussion-based music from loudly chewing Cap’n Crunch cereal. Blue Man Group’s band, which features seven musicians, also uses some pretty non-traditional instruments including a zither and a Chapman Stick, which looks like the fret of an electric guitar and is played with a tapping motion.

Through their music, the Blue Man Group create unique art by drumming on top of brightly colored paint that splashes onto a blank white paper.

水暖材料不是唯一的蓝人使用不寻常的手段。信不信由你，他们也可以从嘎吱船长大声咀嚼谷物打击乐为基础的音乐。蓝人组的乐队，其中有七个音乐家，还使用包括古筝和查普曼棒，它看起来像一个电吉他苦恼，并与一攻也打了一些漂亮的议案非传统乐器。

通过他们的音乐，蓝曼集团创建于上颜色鲜艳的油漆鼓乐独特的艺术，把一纸空白飞溅。

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Blue Man Group demonstrates the physics behind vibrating objects in their performances. Their handmade instruments enabled them to produce unique, primitive and tribal percussion sound.

Using an odd collection of PVC pipe and associated fittings, Blue Man Group both amazes and amuses the crowd with a dashing display of drumming. A tap, a clap or a rap upon the PVC forces it to vibrate at its natural frequency, thus producing a whole range of sounds.

Another unique instrument is the Backpack Tubulum, which looks like curvy organ pipes strapped to the Blue Men’s backs. The backpacks glow as the Blue Men beat rhythms on them.

INSTRUMENTS乐器

Unique, Creative, handmade

独特，创新，手工

THEIRINFLUENCESON SOCIETY对社会的影响

CHILDREN’S EDUCATION儿童教育

In September 2006, the founders of the Blue Man Group, Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton founded the ‘Blue School’, a private preschool and elementary school

2006年9月，蓝人组，克里斯眨眼，高盛和菲尔斯坦顿马特的创始人成立了’蓝学校’，私人幼儿园和小学。

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蓝人乐团旨在创造一个教育计划，使创造力是珍惜，鼓励和让孩子会爱上学习的快乐。

他们希望创造一个健康，温馨，安全，环境，培育社区是至关重要的，并在儿童类之间的互动是一样在上课时会发生什么重要。

蓝学校优先学生领导对探究式学习死记硬背，面对面随着时间的推移，在角落里出局解决冲突。其崇高的目标，如在学校的使命宣言所述，是“培养创新，快乐，谁使用和同情询问者勇敢和创新的思维，建立一个和谐和可持续的世界。”

此外，蓝学校带来了办学理念的实验室（经验和研究性学习，结合学术界与创造性地解决问题）进入21世纪通过其使命，价值观，与愿景。这里的要素质疑，收集，整理和反映行为结合起来，作为一部分，生活经验包裹基准。作为一种文化的地方，蓝学校是一个学习作为培养文化实验室或营地以及目的地。教师和学生建立关系后，在学习的机会，向世界证明它周围。

The Blue Man Group aimed to create an educational program where creativity is cherished and encouraged and where children will fall in love with the joy of learning.

They wanted to create a healthy, warm, safe, nurturing environment where community is paramount, and where children’s interactions between classes is just as important as what happens during classes.

The Blue School prioritizes student-led inquiry over rote learning, face-to-face conflict resolution over time-outs in the corner. Its lofty goal, as outlined in the school’s mission statement, is “to cultivate creative, joyful, and compassionate inquirers who use courageous and innovative thinking to build a harmonious and sustainable world.”

Also, Blue School brings the concept of the Lab School (experiential and research-based learning, integrating academics with creative problem-solving) into the 21st century through its Mission, Values, and Vision. Here the elements of questioning, collecting, organizing and reflecting act to integrate benchmarks as part and parcel of lived experience. As a place of culture, Blue School is a destination for learning as well as a laboratory or base camp for cultivating culture. The teachers and students build upon opportunities for learning in relationship to the world that surrounds it.

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蓝人乐团联同波士顿的儿童博物馆举办名为’兴风作浪’的展览。该展览展出的声光科学好玩，方便的方法，利用从哈曼国际公司的JBL音响与动态为指导蓝男装品牌卓越技术。

展览鼓励学习，并通过感官的参与和互动娱乐的发展。此外，本次展会增强了整个家庭的赞赏和灯光和声音质量的认识。

颜色，阴影和发光物体形成一个令人兴奋的视觉环境，而轻声音会使用说明什么样子，如果能看到它。

各个年龄段的孩子必须学会玩蓝人组的独特乐器，同时学习如何空气等介质传播的声音。

整个声音身临其境的体验，最终在一环绕声影院凡声场哈曼国际公司的最佳短，由蓝人组的工程师设计的音乐作品相结合。

The exhibition encourages learning and development through sensory engagement and interactive entertainment. Also, this exhibition enhances the whole family’s appreciation and understanding of quality light and sound.

Colors, shadows and luminescent objects form an exciting visual environment while the use of light illustrates what sound would look like if one could see it.

Children of all ages got to learn to play the unique Blue Man Group instruments, while learning how air and other mediums propagate sound.

The entire sound immersive experience culminated in a surround sound theatre where a sound field designed by Harman International’s best engineers combined with a short, musical piece by Blue Man Group.

‘MAKING WAVES’ EXHIBITION兴风作浪展览The Blue man group collaborated with Boston’s Children Museum in organising an exhibition titled ‘Making Waves’. The exhibition features a playful and accessible approach to the science of sound and light, utilizing extraordinary technology from Harman International’s JBL Audio Brand with the dynamic Blue Men as the guide.

蓝人乐团联同波士顿的儿童博物馆举办名为’兴风作浪’的展览。该展览展出的声光科学好玩，方便的方法，利用从哈曼国际公司的JBL音响与动态为指导蓝男装品牌卓越技术。

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INSTRUMENTS FOR KIDS孩子们乐器

蓝人组已授权由玩具制造任务的孩子，两个不同的乐器。这些玩具是工具，帮助孩子们开始音乐创作。

第一个手段是’蓝人组打击乐管’。这种紧凑型箱包括八个PVC管发射出一种无形的光束。通过简单地挥舞着包括棍棒，甚至高于管你的手，一个惊人的创造多种曲调。这一套还允许你播放一个完整的八度范围在鼓和其他文书。

The second instrument is called the ‘Blue Man Group keyboard experience’. This tabletop electronic keyboard with it’s new technology interfaces give it an edge on other keyboards of its kind, and therefore keeps beginners excited about music. This keyboard features savvy styling, unique playing patterns and engaging musical interactions. Similar to the percussion tubes, different sounds can be created with a wave over the tubes.

The Blue Man Group influences children’s education in many different ways. Their new approach makes learning fun and exciting. Through these, each individual’s creativity and ability is enhanced and nurtured.

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第二个仪器就叫做’蓝人组键盘体验’。这与它的电子桌面键盘上的新技术接口给它一个同类型的其它键盘的边缘，因此，保持对音乐的初学者兴奋。此键盘功能精明的造型，独特的演奏方式，引人入胜的音乐互动。类似打击乐管，不同的声音可以创建一个对管波。

蓝人组在许多不同的方式影响孩子的教育。他们的新方法，使学习的乐趣和刺激。通过这些，每个人的创造力和能力，是加强和熏陶。

The Blue man group have licensed two different musical instruments for kids, manufactured by Toy Quest. These toys are starting tools to help kids create music.

The first instrument is the ‘Blue Man Group percussion tubes’. This compact box consists of eight PVC tubes that emit an invisible beam. By simply waving the included sticks, or even your hands above the tubes, a variety of amazing tunes are created. This set also allows one to play drums and other instruments in a full octave range.

除了他们的音乐和表演艺术，蓝人组也取得了艺术耐磨。

蓝人组请来了创造新的’活’的Swatch的手表一块333万部的设计。

该集团创建的设计，不仅在表演，但表演本身。看一个巨大的空白模板举行了艺术家在他们狂热的’漆鼓套路，他们就用湿油漆覆盖鼓声的节奏。对空白的画布，彩色图案所产生的水花被用于新的手表设计。

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Swatch Blue

Ideas on a grand scale come alive with motion, colour, and gesture. Blue Man Group’s Swatch Blue (SUJK104C) is a daring, agile watch with a sense of humour and a nimble sense of scale. This intelligent piece reveals the mechanics of timekeeping through exposed watchworks visible through the dial. The bold, iconic style of the group is built into the design: the red, white & blue colour theme demands attention and draws one into a world of photographic images set in a spaceless, splatter-painted background. Plastic through and through, this colourful work captures the Blue Man Group’s quick wit and the playful abandon of their live performances.

斯沃琪蓝

规模盛大的点子活跃起来议案，颜色和姿态。蓝人组的斯沃琪蓝（SUJK104C）是一个大胆的，有幽默感和规模灵活敏捷的感觉手表。作品揭示了这种智能从暴露的手表计时的力学工程通过拨号可见。大胆的，该集团建成的标志性风格的设计：红色，白色和蓝色颜色主题需要引起注意并绘制成一个空间，则飞溅手绘背景设置摄影图像世界。塑料透，这个多彩的工作抓住了蓝人组的机智和俏皮放弃他们的现场表演。

FASHION时尚

Apart from their music and performance art, the Blue Man Group had also made art wearable.

The Blue Man Group were brought in to create the new ‘live’ design for Swatch’s 333 millionth watch piece.

The group created the design, not only while performing, but with the performance itself. A giant blank watch template was held over the artists during their frenetic ‘paint drumming’ routine, where they beat on drums covered with wet paint. The resulting splashes of colourful patterns on the blank canvass were used for the new watch design.

As mentioned in the instrument section of this book, Blue Man Group uses creative, unique and handmade instruments to create their electronica/pop music. This has sparked innovations on the creation of instruments. Household items and even junk are turned into music making devices.

Pandemonium, a percussion band formed in 1998 from Christchurch, New Zealand, was influenced by the Blue Man Group’s music as well as their music making inventions.

The band uses percussive instruments from all over the world and features the only performing set of West Indian Steel Pans in New Zealand. Their other instruments include log drums, five octave concert marimba, vibraphone, Latin percussion, drum kit, bass guitar, junk rig and many other instruments. They play tuned and untuned percussion and have found junk alternatives to some instruments so as to promote the message of music making, making your own instruments and recycling.

Pandemonium has 9 members including a guitarist, vocalist and bass guitarist and have been known to include a brass section when the music requires this. Their members come from a variety of musical backgrounds, including rock bands, jazz bands, orchestras, brass bands, pipe bands, show music and chamber music. This exposure to different music genres has enabled Pandemonium to develop many different types and styles of music to suit different performances.

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MUSIC音乐

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由于在本节中提到的工具书，蓝曼集团利用创意，独特的手工工具，以建立自己电子乐/流行音乐。这引发了人们对创造创新的文书。家居用品，甚至垃圾都变成音乐制作设备。

混乱，敲击乐队成立于从基督城，新西兰1998年，是由蓝人组的音乐的影响以及他们的音乐有发明创造。

乐队使用从所有世界各地的打击乐器和功能的唯一表演西印度钢铁平底锅载于新西兰。他们的其他文书，包括日志鼓，木琴五个八度演唱会，电颤琴，拉丁打击乐器，鼓，低音吉他，垃圾钻机和许多其他文书。他们发挥调整和未党打击乐和发现垃圾替代一些仪器，以促进音乐创作的消息，使你自己的工具和回收。

混乱有9个成员，包括吉他手，歌手和吉他手和贝司已经知道包括铜管乐时需要这个。其成员来自不同的音乐背景，包括摇滚乐队，爵士乐队，乐队，铜管乐队，管乐队，表演音乐和室内乐等。这种对不同音乐流派的曝光，使大混乱城开发许多不同的音乐风格，以适应不同的演出。

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蓝人乐团是国际知名和著名。他们有大量的球迷，他们到处走。随着蓝人组的环境和社会问题的帮助，很多人都将这些“容易被遗忘“的问题，因为他们知道的启发和影响，需要时间来反思。

蓝人乐团创建一个录像作品名为“地球人类。“这一次走在我们这个星球上最严重的问题，全球变暖的目标重点。

视频的内容如下=’请您注意。感谢您选择汽车作为您的行星地球你。我们希望您喜欢这个星球的许多美妙的功能，当你在宇宙猛冲。请注意，在继续无动于衷在全球变暖的座垫面对事件可以作为浮选设备使用。请花一点时间来找到这个星球上的紧急出口。正如您所看到的，有没有任何！

蓝曼集团采用直接对抗的方式来解决这一环境问题。

The Blue Man Group is famous and renowned internationally. They have a huge number of fans everywhere they go. With the help of the Blue Man Group on environmental and social issues, many people will be aware of these “easily forgotten” issues as they are inspired and influenced to take time off to reflect.

Blue Man Group created a video piece titled “Earth to Humanity.” that focuses on taking aim at one of our planet’s most serious problems, global warming.

The contents of the video are as follow- ‘Your attention please. Thank you for choosing earth as your planetary vehicle. We hope you enjoy the many wonderful features of this planet, as you hurtle through the cosmos. Please note, that in the event of continued inaction in the face of global warming- your seat cushion can be used as a floatation device. Please take a moment to locate this planet’s emergency exits. As you can see, there aren’t any!’

The Blue Man Group uses a direct and confrontational approach to address this environmental issues.

ENVIRONMENT环境

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