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Interview with Composer Yoko Kanno
By Toshihiko Nagano
下妻物语访谈采访者：Toshihiko Nagano 翻译：Cherrypony
“Each film has its own music. It's just bringing it out from there.”
—Yoko Kanno“每部电影都有属于它自己的音乐。所要做的不过就是将它发掘出来而已。”
——菅野洋子Q: What about this film made you decide to participate as a composer?
Basically, I make it my own policy to compose for the big project like feature films only once a year. I know some composers working on several TV series a year, but if I do that, it's too painful to leave a lot of things that I wanted to do just half done. It is not healthy for me to compromise due to shortness of the time or budget. So I once turned down the offer of this film because of my schedule conflict. However, I finally took a look at the footage after the persistent offer, and I just thought, "Who else but me can compose for this movie?" Although it was against my policy, I gave it a try to compose just one track, then it became 3 tracks, 5 tracks, then 10 tracks and more after all…I couldn't help it. (laugh) When I first saw this film, what occurred to me was that there are not so many composers who can squeeze all the essence of this film into something that's stupid, pretty, nonsense and the director's sarcasm into 2 hours. I realized why they asked me, and I accepted it. Q: 是什么让你决定为这部电影担当作曲的呢？基本上，我的原则是，每年只为一部像现代派电影这样的大项目作曲。我知道一些作曲家一年里为好几部电视剧配乐，但如果我这样做的话，许多我想做的东西就只能是半成品，这对我来说太痛苦了。因为时间或预算紧张而妥协让我感觉不适。所以，因时间表的冲突，我曾谢绝过这部电影的邀请。然而，由于他们持续的邀请，我最后看了下脚本，我想：“除了我还有谁能为这部电影配乐呢？”虽然这违反了我的原则，我还是尝试着先做了一首曲子，接着就变成了3首，5首，然后10首，更多…我停不下来。（笑）起初我看这部电影的时候，我想到的是，很少有作曲家能够萃取这部电影的精华，并将之化为愚蠢，优美，荒谬与导演的讽刺为一体的2小时盛宴。我意识到了他们为什么邀请我，于是我就接受了。Q: Did the director give you any request regarding the specific image of sound tracks?
Well…not really. (laugh) He doesn't really go into such details like “Compose piano music” or whatever. The only thing that he asked me was to make it sound like a sort of “Yakuza Movie” in terms of the effect of the music. From the start, he wanted to make this soundtrack something similar to that of favorite collected tunes from all the records on the floor. Q: 在原声配乐的特定意象方面，导演对你有什么要求吗？没什么要求。（笑）他并没有涉及如“创作钢琴音乐”之类的细节。他对我唯一的要求是使音乐在音效方面听上去像”黑帮电影*(1)”。从一开始，他想让这部原声与所有堆在地板上的他最喜欢的收藏曲目相类似。Q: So what image was in your mind while you were composing?
Well…it was just like for 3 days while I was actually composing, so…Q: 当你作曲时脑中浮现的是什么意象？那个…我真正作曲大概只花了三天，所以…Q: Only for 3 days?!
Yeah, (laugh) it always goes fast after I become ready. But until then, it takes me a month to struggle and reach the break point. Whatever I work on, it's not like that I get inspired immediately as soon as I see the footage. I spend about a month thinking and thinking about how to match it up or make it look cool and all that. At the end, I try to forget everything to go back in the beginning.
As for this film, I was wondering for a while what part of this film I should be connected emotionally to. One day I decided to stop thinking and try making something to match up with the image of the film. After that, everything went so smooth. It is very tough for me as a professional soundtrack composer to forget everything, like the pride to make the best, or the goal to bring out the touching moment toward the ending by the variations of theme. It‘s a composer's ego to take time for choosing the best scene to put the most awesome track into. But I know these egoistic efforts will end up with nothing much. So I came back and listen to the film itself at the end. Each film has its own music. It's just bringing it out from there. It goes so smooth once I reach to this point. Q: 只用了3天？！是的，(笑) 做好前期准备以后进度就快多了。 但那已经让我挣扎了一个月而且几近放弃，不管我做什么，我并不是看了脚本就能立刻获得灵感。我大概用一个月来构思并考虑如何配合画面或让音乐听上去更酷，诸如此类的。最后，我尽量忘记一切，回头开始着手创作。
至于这部电影，它的哪些部分我应该融入感情，这个问题我想了挺久。有一天我决定不再空想，并尝试配合电影意境创作些曲子。自那以后，事情就变得很顺利了。作为一个职业的原声作曲家，忘却一切是很困难的，比如，由做出最好音乐而生的自豪感或通过主题变奏来表现动人一刻的目的。作曲家的想法无非是挑选最好的场景配上最动人的音乐。但我知道这些个人主义的努力不会带来什么好结果。于是最终我回到了电影本身，倾听它自己的声音。每部电影都有属于它自己的音乐。所要做的不过就是将它发掘出来而已。当我通达此道时，事情就变得很顺利了。Q: I felt that the theme track for Momoko was touchingly varied along with the story. Is it all in the mind?
Yes it is, (Laugh) but that was the only track that I composed as a 'soundtrack', I mean as the theme track specifically made for the character of Momoko. You are right. Other than that, each track followed the call of each scene, like typical “Fake-French” music, typical “Enka”(Traditional Japanese Ballad) or typical “Rock&Roll.” Q: 我觉得Momoko*(2)的主题随着故事的发展起伏有着动人的变奏。那是本来就想好的吗？是的。（笑）但那是我做的唯一一曲“原声”，我是说，特别为Momoko这角色所作的主题音乐。你说的没错。除那以外，每首曲子都是根据不同场景的要求而创作的，像典型的“Fake-French*(3)”音乐，典型的“演歌*(4)”（传统日本民谣）或典型的“摇滚乐*(5)”。Q: How did you feel when you saw the final cut of the film?
It was more interesting than I expected. Q: 看到电影最后剪辑的时候你作何感想？它比我想象的还有趣。Q: “than you expected”…?
Usually, whenever I see the final cut, I cannot catch up with the movie emotionally or I end up feeling regret like “I should have done that more…” . Now this time I could enjoy the movie a lot. So this is the biggest compliment. (Laugh)Q: 比你想象的还有趣？通常，每次看最后剪辑的时候，我总是无法在感情上跟随电影情节的发展，要么我就后悔“我应该再加强些什么…”之类的。不过这次我可以好好地欣赏电影本身了。所以这就是最高的评价了。（笑）(Interviewer/ Toshihiko Nagano, Writer) (采访者/Toshihiko Nagano*，作家) 翻译最初发布于YKfan bbs: http://ykfan.cn/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=1692原英文网页地址在这： http://www.kamikazegirls.net/kanno.html欲了解下妻物语电影的更多信息，请看这里： http://www.shimotsuma-movie.jp/index_main.html
*译者注：
作者Toshihiko Nagano 从日文音译上来看，可能是長野利彦。
此访谈为《下妻物语》英文版在美国上映时特别制作的，Kamikaze字面意思为神风^^b
(1) Yakuza意为黑帮，下妻物语中的主角Ichiko（日文意为草莓）是暴走组，因而导演中岛哲也要求菅野洋子做“黑帮电影”音乐^^b 话说回来，久石让就一直为北野武的黑帮电影做配乐，不过单独听的话一点也没觉得黑呢，呵呵…
这里有关于Yakuza这个词的详细解释：
http://www.tianyablog.com/blogger/post_show.asp?idWriter=0&Key=0&BlogID=57252&PostID=3363313
(2) 下妻物语中的两位女主角之一Momoko，日文意为桃子，主演是深田恭子。另一位主角Ichiko(草莓)由土屋安娜扮演。Momoko, the moon shines bright就是Momoko的主题，在下妻物语原声中共有四个版本。顺便说一句，Momoko, the moon shines bright也是日本一家服装店的名字（真有其店哦），菅野配的还是很符合这家店的风格的。
(3) Fake French是2004年底成立一个组合，有关它的更多信息请看：
http://www.fakefrench.net/about.htm
http://www.myspace.com/fakefrench
第二个链接中有歌曲试听。
(4) Enka：日语意为演歌。
关于演歌的详细解释在这里：
http://www.wikilib.com/wiki/演歌
另注：在菅野洋子所作《地球少女》原声2“女人的港口”中的第二首就名为 Enka(エンカ)，貌似是挺新式的演歌^^b
(5) Rock&Roll (摇滚) 参看这里：
http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/1209907.html
PS: 下妻物语的原声音乐试听(做一下广告^^b)： http://www.ykfan.cn/?q=discography/shimo
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