第2966期:The Singing Golden Gate Bridge

I watched the video and I was like, what a crazy sound. And then after it ended, I like heard the sound in the background.我看了视频，心想这声音也太不可思议了。 视频结束之后，我好像听到了背景里的声音。It's quite loud actually. Since then, I've been hearing it almost every afternoon or evening.其实声音很大。从那以后，我几乎每天下午或者晚上都能听到。The Golden Gate Bridge has started to sing. The new musical tones that are coming from the Golden Gate Bridge are a known and inevitable phenomenon that stem from our wind retrofit project.金门大桥又开始唱歌了。从金门大桥传来的新乐声是我们防风改造工程导致的一种已知且不可避免的现象。It happens during very high winds. We've been replacing handrail on the west sidewalk with new railing that has thin vertical slats that are designed to run more air to flow through them.一般发生在风力较强的时候。我们一直在更换西侧人行道的扶手，新安装的栏杆采用细长垂直板条设计，这种结构能让更多气流穿过。One effect of that is that the bridge now at very high winds and with specific angles sings or hums.这样改进的一个结果是，这座桥现在在强风和特定角度下会发出鸣响或嗡嗡声。We knew going into the replacement that the bridge would sing during high wind events, but what we didn't know was just how loud that might be.我们事先就知道更换后的桥梁在大风天气中会发出声响，但没想到声音会这么大。Some people love it and find it soothing and meditative. Others have found it somewhat unpleasant.有些人喜欢这种声音，觉得它能让人放松且有冥想的效果。也有人觉得它有点让人不舒服。I moved to America like five or six years ago to pursue my music career, which is basically DJ-ing and writing electronic music and playing it at clubs and stuff like that.我大约五六年前搬到美国追求音乐事业，主要是做DJ、创作电子音乐，然后在俱乐部之类的地方演奏。So, I rode my bike like right into the middle of the bridge and then I just took a field recorder with me and recorded it and then turned it into music.我骑着自行车径直来到桥中央，随身带了一台便携录音机，录下周围的声音，接着将其制作成了音乐。I was just working on a few tracks at the time and that one just happened to be slightly closer to being in the key of the bridge.当时我正在写几首曲子，其中有一首跟大桥声音的主音调特别接近。I'm not sure, I might use the sample like here and there and a few other tracks maybe.我可能会用一些大桥声音样本，或许还会用其他一些音轨。The thing that I found the most interesting about it was that they were doing all this construction and didn't realize until the very end that it was gonna make this huge resonance.我认为最有趣的是，他们进行了所有这些施工，却直到最后才意识到这将引发巨大的共振效应。And now it's just like this hum that just emanates through the immediate vicinity of the city around us.现在就好像有一种嗡嗡声，从我们周围城市的近邻区域散发出来。