"Decode" can be understood as an act to deconstruct—an attitude of opening up, breaking apart, and rethinking how things come to be. Sound is both an everyday and ancient medium, and its production is never a purely natural occurrence; it is shaped and engineered through interfaces. Each interface encodes its own logic of sound-making: how the contacts are made, how forces are applied, how signals are transformed.

For traditional wind instruments, finger pressure, breath intensity, airflow direction, and the sealing of the embouchure together generate a “formula” that produces specific sounds. Sound is therefore not merely an outcome, but an operational and behavioural system articulated by humans and activated through their bodies.

For this edition of the artist-in-residency programme, "Decode 3.0" presents works by four artists — Adonian Chan, Andio Lai, Chaklam Ng and Sky Kung — each exploring, through various research approaches, how sound can be triggered, constructed, re-constructed and perceived. Through custom interfaces, perceptual logics, and behavioural systems, the four artists propose the distinct modes of generating and perceiving sounds.