“Soundscape Loudmouth” – the sound-based community art project. Through listening and observing, two teams of artists have collected sound and objects in the community of Tai Kok Tsui. From the hidden corner where the invisible connections maintaining the growth of energy among the individuals and communities, artists had revealed the ambient sound and stories in the dense district. Sound as an art form resonates beyond expected borders to the unnoticed sonic relationship with the surrounding. Artists focus on the connections between sound and the theme of “magnifying the aural imagination” in the context of communities. The installation set in the Lab will showcase the found materials that pave a narrative form for visitor to experience the aural flow and process of interaction.
Participant School: CCC Ming Kei College
EXHIBITION
4-19.5.2024
12:00–19:00 (Sat & Sun)
opening
3.5.2024
JOCKEY CLUB FUTURE LABORATORY OF ARTS TECH
3/F, South Tower, PolyU West Kowloon Campus
9 Hoi Ting Road, Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon
SOUND ART SEMINAR:
ROUTED WHEELS & ILLUSTRATED ECHOES
11.5.2024
Speakers:
Mr AK Kan Hei-chun, Mr Peter Wong Tsz-kin
SOUND ART SEMINAR:
RECALL TO REPLAY
18.5.2024
Speakers:
Mr Thomas Chan Kei-chak, Ms Olive Leung Ching-man
Sound-Track: Routed Wheels
4.5.2024
11.5.2024
15.5.2024
“Sound-Track: Routed Wheels” is an experience that subverts the conventional perspective on listening through a sound walk. Recording equipment is installed on the omnipresent trolley of Tai Kok Tsui, exciting auditory awareness through the progress of transportation. As the wheels roll, tracing their path, they collect a variety of sounds—from the hustle and bustle of the city to the whispers of the crowd. Participants are invited to become the loadings on the trolley, uncovering the loud and subtle aspects of life beneath the tracks.
Artworks
Sound-Path: Illustrated Echoes
Artist: AK Kan Hei-chun, Mr. Peter Wong Tsz-kin
Media: Field Recordings, Trolley, Bronze Coils, Magnets, Loudspeaker, Spatial Audio, Moving Image, LED Wall
Technical Support: Hui Hong Nin
Year: 2024
Artists: Thomas Chan Kei Chak and Olive Leung Ching Man
15mins performance
Technical Support: Lazarus Chan
Year: 2024
The mini 15 minutes performance transcends traditional boundaries to merge audio-visual elements and offers an immersive experience for the audience. The sound clips are transformed from the very fabric of community ambient soundscape to audio-tech of signals that trigger the video images in LED video wall. The integration of sound and video in the screen showcase the hybrid forms of LED display technology and artistic expression.
Utilising audio-visual signals captured in the community, artists will showcase how their materiality, made audible through listening in response to atmospheric variations and tech aspects, can metamorphose into the very stage of performance that becomes the prelude of “Soundscape of Loudmouth”.
Artists
Thomas Chan is a multimedia artist, audio engineer, guitarist, and ambient soundscape improviser. As a member of the Hong Kong indie music group Endeavour, he has contributed to their groundbreaking work in the indie music scene since the 90s. Endeavour’s albums “Mind Music” and “Ji-le” have explored various musical styles, including electronic, ethnic, indie rock, and ambient post-rock. He has collaborated with artists such as Wong Yiu Ming, Wong Chau Sang, Tats Lau, Ōtomo Yoshihide, and Dr. Lung Huen Wing in recordings and live performances.
During his time at Avid Technology, Inc. in the late 90s, Thomas was responsible for promoting the ProTools application in Asia. This was a transformative period in the music production industry, as Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) entered the market and revolutionised the way music was produced and recorded.
Over time, Thomas has actively engaged in collaborations with artists from diverse disciplines, exploring the intersections of sound, movement, and technology. His artistic pursuits have led him to work alongside dancers, poets, and interactive artists. Notable projects include his contributions to the “i-Dance Festival (HK)” and his role as the music director of “Water_3_Modulation.” This unique venture, curated by local artist Makin Fung, was inspired by the captivating paintings of Ma Yuen, a highly esteemed painter from the Song Dynasty.
Ms Olive Leung is a media artist focusing on documentary film. Her interests always involve art and community. The dramatic changes affected the life of people in the renewal living environment that triggered Olive to develop the film works and curate exhibitions to respond to the inevitable substitution.
Olive designed a book entitled Suite D (2012), which was a collaborative research project with social workers from a local NGO to investigate private lives in the form of compressed living in subdivided flats. She has exhibited in Open Cities- HKG >< ORD at Betty Rymer Gallery in Chicago (2001), A Half-Second Affairs at Slowear Gallery in Fringe Club Hong Kong (2008 and 2009), and Emotional Metropolis at Hong Kong Arts Centre (2009). Olive currently teaches in PolyU CPCE. Her personal work focuses on themes such as family, assimilation, and melodrama.
AK is a Hong Kong sound artist and field recordist. Graduated in 2017 from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) Degree in Theatre and Entertainment Arts, majoring in Sound System Design, he actively involves in theatre and creative arts activities.
He started his curatorial project – AK IN KK – Nature Field Recording HK in 2018, a sound recording project featuring a sound map and sound library of Hong Kong’s nature, in bringing mountains and streams to the urban ears; He utilises the sound of nature and shapes listening experience as his core creative tool. He is also the Hong Kong regional representative of Quiet Parks International promoting #SaveQuiet in our environment.
His recent key creative projects include No Discipline Limited – Playground as Metaphor (2023), West Kowloon District – Future of Performance series “Bright Day” (2022), AAiSS – Future Record Project “The Quiet Phone Booth” (2022), and PMQ Mountain Festival at PMQ (2022).
Peter is an Audio Engineer, Sound Artist, and Field Recordist from Hong Kong, graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) Degree in Theatre and Entertainment Arts from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in Sound Design. Peter is an innovative artist who is passionate about exploring the relationship between sound and different performing arts and disciplines.
In 2021, Peter founded WAVINCITY – Hong Kong Urban Soundscape Recording Project, providing listeners with a new medium to experience the soundscape created by the overlapping of time and place. In 2023, Peter collaborated with a creative team to design and arrange a sonic installation experience called “Echoes of Urban Memory”, utilising the field recordings collected over two years. These sounds have been artfully arranged to form a one-of-a-kind journey that probes the intricate relationship between sound, memory, and identity.
Peter is committed to utilising sound as a means of exploring the world around him and discovering how it can be used to create new and exciting works of art. He brings a unique perspective to his work and is always pushing the boundaries of what is possible in his craft.
