[Sound\Bridges] Resonance of the Unconventional - Concert and Lecture
13.12.2025 | SAT | 8:00PM | $200 | Quarryside (Function Rooms 1-3)
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See also [Sound\Bridges] Resonance of the Unconventional - Lecture Demonstration.
Educational Concert Series: Sound\Bridges
Sound\Bridges redefines the concert experience as a thought-provoking journey, deepening appreciation for contemporary music within our community. By fostering curiosity and encouraging exploration, this series invites audiences to experience the full spectrum of contemporary sound, bridging cultural gaps and enhancing musical literacy. Join us as we embark on this enlightening adventure through the innovative world of modern music.
Resonance of the Unconventional
Resonance of the Unconventional invites audiences to traverse the boundary between musical instruments and everyday objects, transforming the mundane into extraordinary soundscapes. This concert showcases contemporary works that explore the untapped musical potential of found objects, promoting environmental mindfulness through artistic reinvention.
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Programme:
John Cage: Child of Tree for solo percussion
David Lang: Unchained Melody for solo percussion
Thierry De Mey: Table Music for percussion trio
nnscya: Blinds
Francesco Filidei: Love Story for 7 toilet paper rolls
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Speaker / Performers:
Samuel Chan, percussion
Karen Yu, percussion
Vicky Shin, percussion
William Lane, performer
Pun Chak Yin, performer
Leung Tak-wing, performer
Vanessa Chan, performer
Shelley Ng, performer
Daniel Lo, curator & speaker
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7̶O̶∆̶R̶ (ZOAR) Metamaps at Lugo MIHL Spain
Through the central concept of apophenia—the human tendency to identify patterns and connections in random or chaotic information, even when no real relationships exist—7O∆R explores the relationships between noise, signal, perception, language, and artificial intelligence. It investigates how these systems intertwine in the creation of meaning and the emergence of apophenic frictions as a form of knowledge.
𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲 & 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲
Sat, 6 Dec, 2025
18:30-19:30; 20:30-21:30
𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲
@mihl_museo
Free of charge. Link in bio 🔗
𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆
MBow @mbow.hk in participation with Fronte Vacuo @frontevacuo
𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Roberto Alonso Trillo @trillo.roberto
Peter A C Nelson @peteracnelson
𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴
Taurin Barrera @taurindb (audiovisual artist, stage direction)
Joseph Chan (kinetic artist)
Marco Donnarumma @body_sound_machine - Fronte Vacuo (performer, choreography, dramaturgy)
Xoán-Xil López @xoanxil (sound artist)
Samuel Swope @swope.samuel (aerial sculptor)
Margherita Pevere - Fronte Vacuo (performer, choreography, costume design)
Trécola - Carlos Castro @calocatro , Xavier Bértolo @xavibertolo , Saúl Puga Amoedo @saulpuga82 (performers)
Davor Vincze @db.vincze (musical composition)
Karen Yu @karenerak (performer)
𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Jiafan Weng @soundsjade
𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗺𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁
Brianna Lau Wing Yi @__dorothoii
𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻
NovaGarda @novagarda
𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Verve Creative @vervecreativegroup
𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Escóitame
𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀
Vertixe Sonora @vertixesonora
Concello de Lugo @concellolugo
Museo Interactivo da Historia de Lugo @mihl_museo
𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆
Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme, HKSAR Government
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The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Dreamlike Dream by Gaybird (Performance)
Machine & Art NOW Presents
Site-specific Installation X Panoramic Visuals X Sound and Music Performance X Generative Art X Sensory Interactive Experience
"Map out your life to control the future" – isn't that just a myth?
In a world that shifts by the day, what is it that we are truly chasing?
Be not too awake, awakening confuses.
Cling not too tightly, clinging is too heavy.
Inspired by Zhuangzi's renowned parable of the butterfly dream, Dreamlike Dream is a playful, interactive sensory experience combining large-scale, site-specific installation, real-time generative art, and live music and sound performance.
Let us fly into the dream— awake yet unbound— on a limitless current of thought.
"Dreamlike Dream" is the Finale Showcase of "Knowless". Curated by interdisciplinary artists GayBird and Vanissa Law, "Knowless" bridges contemporary art with Zhuangzi's philosophy through the collaboration of various art forms. This project allows audiences to understand the process of creation across three phases, witnessing how different art forms respond to philosophical concepts. It explores the dialogue and possibilities between media arts and technology.
𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢
🗓️ 14 Nov – 14 Dec 2025 (Every Thursday - Sunday)
📍 HKADC SHOWCASE
🗺️ UG/F, 39 Yip Kan Street, Wong Chuk Hang
👉🏼 Exhibition
🗓️&⏰Thursdays - Fridays: 12:00-21:00 ; Saturdays: 12:00-21:00; Sundays: 12:00-18:00; (Close on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday）
🎫 Free of charge
👉🏼 Live Performance
🗓️&⏰Thursdays - Fridays: 16:30 / 19:30; Saturdays: 11:30 / 14:30 / 16:30 / 19:30; Sundays: 11:30 / 14:30 / 16:30 (Closeon Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday）
🎫$80
Get Tickets Now: https://www.art-mate.net/doc/89422
Only through repetition, through only repetition - sound installation at The Darkest Hour at 3am
Only through repetition, through only repetition
A swinging baby mobile doesn’t put baby to sleep–it keeps them awake, stimulated, their mind quietly engaged. The mobile soothes not by inducing sleep by itself, but by becoming part of a routine that signals rest. This is where we first learn that sleeping is part of our routine in life, and it requires a routine to be repeated and practiced. It is a learned discipline rather than a natural surrender. Only through repetition do we develop self-discipline–the quiet, lifelong rehearsal of becoming functional and productive.
Later in life, the same logic of repetition appears in another form for me: the snare drum. Precision comes only through repetition: time and touch measured against a metronome of discipline. The body remembers; the sound becomes muscle, timing becomes instinct. Through only repetition, in this perfection of control, flawless consistency and accuracy–success is defined, legacy is inherited.
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They say not to lie in bed awake—it only fuels the anxiety of not sleeping. But the origin of insomnia is not within you; it’s the influence of our always-on, techno-capitalist world. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝟯𝗮𝗺 is an immersive exhibition that recreates this psychological landscape. It’s a journey from the chaos of sleeplessness to the potential of restorative sleep, questioning if we can reclaim our rest. Find your lullaby here.
𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 by Alberta Leung @albertaleung
𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀:
Tobias Bradford @tobias_bradford
Ben Grosser @ben.grosser
Yoojin Lee @nijooyl
Cleo Miao @10_r3n
Kate Mitchell @kate____mitchell
Elisa Giardina Papa @elisagiardinapapa
James Raphael Tabbush @jrtabbush
TCOY
Karen Yu @karenerak
𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 by Angela Pang @hohoangela
𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 by Zac Choy @zacchoydesign
𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲: Current Plans @currentplans
𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱: 01 November - 20 December 2025
𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀: every Thursday to Saturday, 12-6pm
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝟯𝗮𝗺 is supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
Ground on Ground
Step into a shimmering eclipse, where sun and moon engage in a mysterious duet, and sound, light and music invite us to transcend our world of flesh. Ground On Ground holds in tension the inexorable march of the spheres with our tenuous realities: digital, social, simulated, where our bodies fall away and the real is questionable.
This performance, developed through a series of collaborative workshops between artists in Australia and Hong Kong, based around the notion of mapping the meta discourses between diverse artistic practices: sculpture, new media, sound, installation; Ground On Ground rages in continual sound and light, and contemplates the ever present condition of our falling bodies in space.
Featuring Liveworks 2024 favourites Emily Parsons-Lord, Shan Turner-Carroll and Evelyn Ida Morris, with Hong Kong-based Taurin Barrera, Lazarus Chan Long Fung, Vvzela Kook, Davor Vincze, Karen Yu, and current.cam (Provides Ng, Eli Joteva, Yanzi and Artem Konevskikh).
Please note this show is 18+ only. Patrons may be asked for ID.
Performance times
Fri 24 Oct, 8-9pm
Sat 25 Oct, 8-9pm
View full Liveworks Program here
Content warnings
This work features periods of high-volume sound, and a short period of dense fog and laser lighting that some audiences may find disorienting.
Creative team
Artistic Directors , MBow (Peter A C Nelson and Roberto Alonso Trillo)
Producer, Jiafan Weng.
Participating Artists, Emily Parsons-Lord, Shan Turner-Carroll, Evelyn Ida Morris, Taurin Barrera, Lazarus Chan Long Fung, Vvzela Kook, Davor Vincze, Karen Yu, and current.cam (Provides Ng, Eli Joteva, Yanzi and Artem Konevskikh)
Timeless Dialogues
4 October 2025 | SAT | 8:00PM | $200
Join us for an enchanting evening with the renowned Duo AR from Japan, featuring Tosiya Suzuki on recorder and Tadashi Tajima on shakuhachi. This exceptional concert will highlight Duo AR’s mastery of traditional repertoire alongside a collaboration with HKNME, showcasing newly commissioned works created specifically for them. Esteemed Asian composers will contribute to this exciting partnership, blending traditional influences with contemporary innovation.
Works by Berio, Hosokawa, Charles Kwong, Ken Ueno and Suguru Wagatsuma.
This project has been made possible through the generous support of the James Chen and Yuen-Han Chan Professorship Fund in Music at HKU.
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Artistic team
Performed by | Hong Kong New Music Ensemble
Recorder | Tosiya Suzuki
Shakuhachi | Tadashi Tajima
Composer | Charles Kwong
Composer | Ken Ueno
Composer | Suguru Wagatsuma
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Programme
1 Japanese traditional 鶴の巣籠 Tsuru no Sugomori
2 Luciano Berio - Gesti (1966) for treble recorder
3 Toshio Hosokawa - Mana (2022) for shakuhachi and recorder
4 Charles Kwong - Uchronia (2025) for shakuhachi and string quartet*
*This new work is commissioned by Hong Kong New Music Limited in 2025 with sponsorship from CASH Music Fund.
5 Ken Ueno - Transcription is An Act of Empathy (2024)
6 Suguru Wagatsuma - The Words from Time (2025)
Black Box Music with HKNME
HKNME is thrilled to present Simon Steen-Andersen’s Black Box Music as a cornerstone of our GAME\PLAY initiative. This innovative work typifies Steen-Andersen’s interdisciplinary approach, blending various artistic expressions and defying conventional genre boundaries. Conducted by a percussionist via a live video feed, Black Box Music critiques and reimagines the act of conducting as a form of puppet theatre, humorously deconstructing traditional hierarchical dynamics between conductor and musicians.
This performance marks a significant premiere, bringing Steen-Andersen’s vision to Hong Kong and fostering a dialogue between Western avant-garde practices and the region’s rich cultural backdrop. Accompanying this, curator Daniel Lo will present a newly commissioned piece that resonates with Steen-Andersen’s themes, further exploring the relationship between the music produced and the musicians’ performing gestures, as well as the connection between the audience’s sonic and visual experiences.
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Artistic team
Performed by | Hong Kong New Music Ensemble
Black Box/Performer | Roberto Maqueda
Visual Artist | Yu Wing-yan
Curator/Composer | Daniel Lo
Composer | Simon Steen-Andersen
Worlds Connect: Hong Kong New Music Ensemble + Vertixe Sonora + Vid Veljak
“Tuck yourself in bed. Remember to take your shoes off! You can sleep for real.”
from the score of done for the day, composed by Pilar Miralles
Two international orchestras and a Croatian cellist will meet for the first time in Zagreb: prompted by broken ones, they forge new connections.
Vertixe Sonora Ensemble is a chamber ensemble connecting musicians from Galicia and Portugal. Together they create an open space for exchange, reflection and conversation about contemporary music. The members of the ensemble – sound and visual artists, jazz and classical musicians – are united by the desire to investigate new ideas through creative collaborations in a broader artistic context.
Hong Kong New Music Ensemble (HKNME) is one of the leading contemporary music ensembles in Asia, known for dynamic performances and innovative projects. Apart from concert halls, it also participates in educational programs, interdisciplinary collaborations, and research projects in cooperation with artists across the globe.
Vid Veljak started playing the cello at the age of 3, enrolled in the Academy of Music at 14, and at 23 became the leading cellist of the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra. He is a co-founder of the NAE Collective and a member of the Synchronos Ensemble. He launched the project Resonance(s), devoted to recording works by Croatian composers for solo cello (and electronics), with the aim of promoting the music of the 20th and 21st centuries and encouraging new compositions. The project received a Porin, the Croatian music award, in 2022. He currently teaches at the Arts Academy in Split.
manτεία ( manteia )
manτεία (meaning prophecy or divination) is a new performance written and produced by MBow (Roberto Alonso Trillo and Peter Nelson) that examines how ancient practices of geomancy and divination relate to our desire to find meaning in AI. Apophenia is the human tendency to look for meaningful patterns in random patterns, from the shapes of clouds to the scratches in oracle bones, to the outputs of AI generators. As our cultures grapple with the rapid evolution of AI, manτεία returns us to the ancient quest to communicate with the transcendent, by looking for messages in clouds and melodies in noise. Premiering at Freespace West Kowloon on the 22nd of December 2024, manτεία uses a unique approach to artistic collaboration, where artists produce sculptures, compositions and virtual worlds that send signals to one another, linking them together into a chain of creation via a technical process known as "multimodal mapping". A giant mechanical sculpture will create an irregular heartbeat that drives a sculpture made of smoke. A costume provides a digital portal into another world, and an AI trained on classical texts of Chinese and European mythology tries to find meaning in these heartfelt gestures from young contemporary artists.
Special concert: Tan Dun at Guimet Museum
The famous Chinese composer and conductor Tan Dun, author of the remarkable music of the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, showcases his tremendous talent at the musée Guimet for a world premiere inspired by the Tang dynasty.
Transported by his exploration of the Mogao Caves in Jiuquan and by his research on the musical heritage of ancient China, the Chinese maestro creates an all-encompassing experience in which the stage installation and the pictures projected onto the screen behind the orchestra immerse the audience in the magical embrace of a mystical cave.
Programme:
In the first part, the orchestra will play instrumental and choreographic pieces found in the Mogao Caves and deciphered by Tan Dun.
Then, two one-act operas will be plated in Chinese and Sanskrit. The first one, The Deer of Nine Colours, is inspired by a Buddhist popular tale set in stone in the Mogao frescoes: A magical deer with a nine-color coat seal its fate by saving a drowning man. The second one, The Heart Sutra, tells the imaginary love story between two strangers who meets in the desert during their journey on the Silk Road.
Hand Rolled Cigarettes Live Music Score Performance
Film is an art form that combines visual and audio elements. As we endeavor to explore the diversity of cinematic experiences, our mission is also to highlight the talents of industry creators. Inspired by several young composers who recently brought new voices to the scene, HKAFF is organising its first ever cine-concert at the Festival. In collaboration with iii Iris Liu and Hanz Au, as well as local sound artist Karen Yu and trumpeter Atlas Iu, this live music show featuring an original composition for Hand Rolled Cigarette (17th HKAFF Opening Film) will certainly be a feast for all senses. Do not miss this chance to experience a refreshing cinema experience! Complimentary drinks and food will be provided.
Musicians
Iris Liu (iii)
Local independent musician and film composer, Iris’s music style outstands the crowd as an infusion of classical, pop and jazz. In 2021, she released her debut album “EYE EYE EYE” and co-founded Crash Music Production with Hanz Au, thereby composing for Hand Rolled Cigarette, A Guilty Conscience and Left on Read. In 2024, Iris was a co-nominee for Best Original Film Score for Time Still Turns the Pages at the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards alongside Hanz Au and Jolyon Cheung.
Hanz Au
A percussionist, sound artist and curator from Hong Kong, Karen is currently the Artistic Director of Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong, the co-founder of chamber percussion group, The Up:Strike Project, and an Associate Musician of Hong Kong New Music Ensemble. A keen collaborator of different formats and worldwide music festivals, she develops her practice around improvisation with sound objects and bodily movements.
Karen Yu
Local independent musician and film composer, co-founder of Crash Music Production, with Hand Rolled Cigarette as the studio’s debut project. Other composing projects include A Guilty Conscience and Left on Read. In 2024, Hanz was a co-nominee for Best Original Film Score for Time Still Turns the Pages at the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards alongside Iris Liu and Jolyon Cheung.
Atlas Iu
A classically trained trumpeter, electronic music artist and music producer, Atlas has performed for numerous orchestras and bands, such as the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Macau Orchestra and more. Aside from classical music, he is also in demand as a pop / jazz trumpeter in the Hong Kong Pop scene. Since 2019, Atlas has started releasing electronic music under the alias “telvanni26” and as part of the DJ producer duo JVSY.
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Ticket Price $280
Discount Price $250 (including bcinephile or MOViE MOViE Members / Students / Senior Citizens / Eslite Members [Black & Gold])
Ticketing: www.cinema.com.hk
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Support Hong Kong film talents and brewers! Each ticket comes with a free can of Young Master beer, to be distributed at the screening venue before the show starts. A pack of Lay’s Crispy Fries will also be distributed after the show.
Craft beer will only be distributed to persons aged 18 or above.
Paper Presentation at UbiMus 2024
To deliver a paper presentation of Push the ENVELOPE: Sound Art Initiative at the Ubiquitous Music Conference 2024 at Saint Joseph University Macau
HICCUP (Sound Forms 2024) at Tai Kwun Contemporary
Do hiccups control you, or do you control the hiccups? Does the artist control the artwork, or does the artwork perhaps control the artist?
HICCUP—a festival of body and sound co-presented by Tai Kwun Contemporary, Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong (Sound Forms), and Per.Platform—will host an array of sonic art, live performances, and interactive installations.
Hiccups are involuntary actions taking place in the body, an uncontrolled and unexpected spasming of the diaphragm that results in sharp, rhythmic sounds. HICCUP has invited sound and performance artists from Hong Kong, Chongqing, Taipei, Bangkok, and Tokyo to present work juxtaposing both modes of artistic practice—performance art rooted in sound and sonic art rooted in performance. Will the differences and similarities in the artists’ creative thought processes be amplified? Will the audience experience any unexpected chemical reactions?
HICCUP features fourteen artists in eight performances and one workshop; sound waves bounce off found objects and materials, generating vibrations that viewers affect, changing the soundscape as they walk through the space; reflect on the body’s conscious and unconscious “behaviours” and “actions” and the physical poetry that blurs their borders, infiltrating our perception of time and space.
CMHK Curator: Karen Yu
Per.Platform Curator: Florence Lam
Tai Kwun Contemporary Education and Public Programmes Curator: Veronica Wong
Tai Kwun Contemporary Programme Coordinator: Sonia Cheng
Lychee Goklok
Ticket Price: $150 ($250 for both ticketed concerts 15/17 August)
Clarinetist Linus Fung invites you on an immersive sonic journey through the diverse environments of Lai Chi Kok. In his new composition Lychee Goklok, Fung blends live improvisation with evocative field recordings, creating a shape-shifting soundscape. Drawing inspiration from malls, the MTR, and urban atmospheres, this dynamic suite swirls between foreground and background, as the live ensemble interacts with pre-recorded samples. Listeners will be transported through familiar and unexpected sonic narratives, experiencing the hidden acoustic tapestry of Lai Chi Kok in captivating new ways. Whether you’re a fan of experimental, electroacoustic music or simply curious, Lychee Goklok promises an engrossing and sensory-immersive listening experience, showcasing the creative potential at the intersection of improvisation and field recording.
Programme
Linus Fung: Lychee Goklok for clarinet, percussion, erhu and electronics
Artists
Linus Fung, clarinet and live electronics
Karen Yu, percussion
Longman Luk, erhu
Echoes: Kaija Saariaho Tribute
Ticket Price: $150 ($250 for both ticketed concerts 15/17 August)
In memory of the late, renowned composer Kaija Saariaho, HKNME presents an electroacoustic chamber concert celebrating her extraordinary artistic legacy. This tribute features the highly anticipated Hong Kong premiere of Saariaho’s masterwork, Lichtbogen, a captivating fusion of acoustic instruments and cutting-edge technology. The evening also includes other significant electroacoustic works by Saariaho, immersing listeners in her evocative sonic language. Complementing this programme is the world premiere of a new piece by local composer Chan Kai-young, echoing Saariaho’s blend of instrumental and electroacoustic textures. This concert offers a transformative exploration of musical expression, where the boundaries between the acoustic and electronic realms become delicately intertwined.
Programme
Kai-young Chan: Shattered Voices* for flute, viola, cello and fixed media (world premiere)
Kaija Saariaho: NoaNoa for flute and electronics
Kaija Saariaho: Vent Nocturne for viola and electronics
Kaija Saariaho: Lichtbogen for 9 instruments and electronics
Dog Star Festival Chapter 2: Hands
Sound artists Ken Ueno and Karen Yu present an evening of pieces foregrounding the stylized use of hand gestures in the generation of noise, reacting against the decoupling of physicality and sonic output. Expect humans operating on noise boxes, snare drums, contact mics, small speakers, transducers, and all other manners of bespoke constructions.
Ken Ueno and Karen Yu + Kevin Corcoran and Jacob Felix Heule
Ken Ueno and Karen Yu present a noise set for amplified snare and bespoke noise boxes. Kevin Corcoran and Jacob Felix Heule are a Bay Area percussion duo focused on activating drums with surface friction, found objects, and amplification.
In Between Lines and Dots (Visiting Artists at Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts)
PROGRAMME
John Cage - Ryoanji
Louis Andriessen - Workers Union
Compositions by HKAPA students
Curator:
Dr. Joyce Tang
Visiting artists:
William Lane, viola
Linus Fung, clarinet
Karen Yu, percussion
Vicky Shin, conductor/percussion
Composers:
Lok Tim Chan
Bethia Kong
Illuminatius Yan Ling Ng
Pak Kan Pong
Katie Hoi Ching Tang
Presenter:
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Sounding Tomorrow (Hong Kong New Music Ensemble 15th Anniversary NME15)
NME15 Program:
F.A.C.E.S is a multimedia theatre composition that delves into the tensions that arise from the interaction of actors with visuals, sounds, and a chess game. Inspired by the “Game of The Century” (1956) during the Cold War– the famous match between Donald Byrne and a young Bobby Fischer. The work unfolds in two distinct realities: the cerebral, consisting of sound and visual elements, and the physical, featuring actors engaging with chess pieces. As the tension escalates, these realities intertwine, blurring the lines between thought and action, culminating in a dramatic denouement.
Reception & Opening Performances:
8 MAR 2024 | FRI | 7-9PM
Installation:
9 MAR 2024 | SAT | 12-8PM
Performances:
9 MAR 2024 | SAT | 4-5:30PM
9 MAR 2024 | SAT | 6-7:30PM
Artists:
Esther Wu (HK)
Thanakarn Schofield (TH)
Performers:
Karen Yu
William Lane
Hyperspace
31 January 2024 | Wed | 8pm
Free with registration
Programme
This programme is part of NME15.
Hyperspace is an installative telematic performance that speculates a possibility for simultaneous acoustics. Four performers, from Oslo, Montreal, Mexico City and Hong Kong, with each of them performs a feedback turntable developed by Viola Yip. The instrument highlights the acoustics of each performing space, which will be simultaneously transmitted, juxtaposed and spatialized as a performative hyperspace in the Multimedia Theater of the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong.
Performers: Noam Bierstone (CAN), Jennifer Torrence (NO), Diego Espinosa Cruz González (MEX) and Karen Yu (Hong Kong)
Instruments, installation and electronics: Viola Yip
Technical assistants: Tim Chan and Adam Pultz
Concept: Viola Yip
Viola Yip
Originally from Hong Kong, Viola Yip is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary sound artist and performer. She has been interested in creating new self-built musical instruments and sound works in the intersection of composition, performance, improvisation and sound art, exploring various relationships between media, materiality, space and our musical bodies in experimental music.
Her instruments and performances have been presented in music festivals and venues such as Issue Project Room in New York City, The Mannes School of Music, Look and Listen Festival, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Cycling ‘74 Expo, Hong Kong Arts Center, Sonic Arts Research Center at Queen's University Belfast, University of Huddersfield, QO-2 Brussels, A L’arme! Festival Berlin, Moers Festival, Seanaps Festival Leipzig and Pinakothek der Moderne Munich.
She received an Honorary Mention from Giga-Hertz-Preis 2021 at Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Supported by SoundLab, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
NME15 is financially supported by the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Disclaimer: The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Hong Kong Arts Development Council fully supports freedom of artistic expression. The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Council.
Vocalising the unsung matters
An art installation and percussive performance encapsulated by a sonic envelope of Hong Kong street sounds invites you to value tenacious unsung matters of everyday life.
Unit 8, Cattle Depot Artist Village
Installation:
11 JAN 2024 | THU | 4-9PM
12 JAN 2024 | FRI | 10AM-9PM
13 JAN 2024 | SAT | 10AM-1PM
14 JAN 2024 | SUN | 10AM-9PM
Music Performance(s)
13 JAN 2024 | SAT | 2-3PM
13 JAN 2024 | SAT | 4-5PM
13 JAN 2024 | SAT | 7-8PM
Eric So, composer
Kate Siu, artist
Performers:
Karen Yu, percussion
Samuel Chan, percussion (guest)
Eugene Kwong, percussion (guest)
The Up:Strike Project: PASIC New Music / Research
Presenting A-lógica 3 by Facundo Negri at PASIC 2023 (New Music / Research day)
shadow mudras with Ken Ueno
On October 15, Freesound and Arraymusic Co-present an exciting evening of music by Karen Yu and Ken Ueno.
Featuring music by Karen and Ken, performed by the composers, and joined by Jason Doell, this is an exciting opportunity to hear amazing sounds from some of the most exciting composers working today.
With the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, the Toronto Arts Council, the SOCAN Foundation, Arraymusic, the Canadian Music Centre, and Society Clubhouse.
Both Noise Box Cantos and Shadow Mudras were developed collaboratively by Ken Ueno and Karen Yu recently as reaction to their experience being pitted in improvisative situations against a collective of modular synthesizer players. After a critical mass of a few modular synth players is reached, it is hard to discern the individual contributions of each performer. Outnumbered in such a context, Ueno and Yu, felt alienated and determined that such performance contexts were at odds with the core values of their respective performance practices as a vocalist and percussionist.
Program
Wavelengths by Ken Ueno
for vibraphone and electronics
Performer, Karen Yu
Noise Box Cantos
Performers, Ken Ueno and Karen Yu
the wind is unseen,
Performer, Karen Yu
The Aleph
Solo for Extended Voice
Performer, Ken Ueno
Shadow Mudras
Performers, Ken Ueno and Karen Yu
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Stress & Flow: Chamber Percussion Concert by The Up:Strike project
The Up:Strike Project presents 《Stress and Flow: Chamber Percussion Concert》as the annual concert of the year. After a brief hiatus, The Up:Strike Project returns to the stage with a new program of three commissioned works. The concert opens with an intriguing quartet by Alexis Lamb Matters/Mind, followed by the world premiere of a vibraphone quartet by Ken Ueno and a duo of found objects by Esther Wu. Joined by Dr. Rebecca Iloyd-Jones from Griffith University, The Up:Strike Project will present the Asian Premiere of Alejandro Viñao’s new percussion quartet––Stress and Flow. The organicity and virtuosity of humans performing complex polyrhythms on percussion instruments has always been Viñao’s compositional interest. As part of the international commissioning consortium and having the privilege in this geography, The Up:Strike Project is excited to deliver this exquisite work to the Asian audience.
Alexis C. Lamb (b.1993) 亞歷克西斯・蘭姆
Matters/Mind (2021)
for percussion quartet 敲擊四重奏
Performers: Samuel Chan, Rebecca Lloyd-Jones, Eugene Kwong, Bevis Ng
Ken Ueno (b.1970) 上野 健
Phase Patterns of Likeness Slightly Off (2023)
for four vibraphones for The Up:Strike Project
寫給The Up:Strike Project的顫音琴四重奏
Performers: Samuel Chan, Rebecca Lloyd-Jones, Matthew Lau, Bevis Ng
-Intermission-
Esther Wu (b.1996) 胡旨澄
Clockwork Menu (2023)
for found objects duet 現成物二重奏
Performers: Matthew Lau, Karen Yu
Alejandro Viñao (b. 1951) 亞歷杭德羅・維諾
Stress and Flow (2018)
for percussion quartet & electronics 電子與敲擊樂四重奏
Bright and Dark
The Sound Behind
Luz y Sombra en Lindaraja
Performers: Samuel Chan, Rebecca Lloyd-Jones, Eugene Kwong, Bevis Ng