Pisirian pebble beach, December 2025
Pebble beach of Pisirian, Taitung county, December 21, 2025
Pisirian is located near Sanxiantai and is a coastal Indigenous community in Chenggong Township, Taitung County. I visited once before the COVID-19 pandemic, and its simple, unadorned environment left a deep impression on me. When I returned several years later, I found that although the scenery remained the same, many things seemed to have changed. In order not to let my memories gradually fade and be forgotten, I decided to document the sounds of this place.
The location of the recording is a pebble beach beside the road leading from Pisirian to Sanxiantai. At the time, the sky had only just begun to brighten, and there were already a few local people on the beach. Most of them were wearing long boots, and some were holding scoop-like tools, similar to ladles used for cleaning drains. They walked back and forth along the shore, selecting stones washed up by the waves. They seemed unconcerned when they noticed someone standing by the coast holding a microphone and recording the sound of the waves, and they simply continued with their work.
This recording includes only the portions without human-made sounds. The wind was relatively strong from early morning that day, and the waves sometimes splashed as they hit the shore, so I did not dare to get too close to the water while recording. In the recording, you can hear the sound produced as the stones are stirred and rolled when the seawater recedes back into the ocean.
Location: 23.126382, 121.404587
2025年12月比西里岸礫石灘
比西里岸鄰近三仙台，是台東縣成功鎮一個濱海的原住民部落，在新冠疫情前曾來過一次，這裡純樸的環境讓人印象深刻。過了幾年再訪時發現景色依舊但很多事物似乎卻已改變了，為了不讓記憶逐漸地淡化並遺忘，我決定紀錄下這裡的聲音。
位置在比西里岸前往三仙台的道路旁邊的礫石灘，當時天才剛亮，海灘上已有些許當地人。他們大多穿著長靴，有些人手中拿著像是撈水溝的勺子，在海灘上來來回回走著，挑選被海浪打上來的石頭。他們看到有人站在海岸前手拿著麥克風錄音對著海浪似乎也不以為意，繼續著手邊的工作。
這段錄音只截錄了沒有人為聲音的部分，這天從清晨開始風比較強，海浪打上岸邊有時會激起水花，因此錄音時不敢離海浪太近。在錄音中可以聽到海水退回海裡時，石頭翻攪所產生的聲音。