The Church of Christ in China Ming Kei College
Sonic Scatter and Gather in Tai Kok Tsui
16, 19, 30.1.2024
29.2.2024
When we carry portable recording equipment into streets and alleys, we can uncover Tai Kok Tsui’s hidden sounds. Tai Kok Tsui is a fascinating intersection where old and new converge, where residential and industrial areas coexist, making this urban corner an intriguing zone where diverse elements interweave. In this workshop series, students will engage in field recording and sound editing through observation and imagination, reimagining the infinite possibilities of this unique district’s soundscape.
These captivating sounds will resonate not only among us but reverberate across the globe. We will collaborate with students worldwide to jointly create a “Tai Kok Tsui Sound Map” on the renowned platform “Radio Aporee”—the world’s largest sound map.
Participating Artists:
AK Kan Hei-chun (@akinkk.sound),
Peter Wong Tsz-kin (@peterwongtszkin)
Artist Introduction
AK Kan Hei-chun is a sound artist and field recordist dedicated to exploring the deep connections between sound, environment, and human perception. Unrestricted by traditional sound transmission media, his work tend to guide audiences to experience the world through focused listening, reconnecting raw imagination with unprecedented live soundscape experiences.
In 2018, he launched the nature sound project “AK IN KK – Nature Field Recording HK” (https://akinkk.com), sharing mountain streams and flowing waters with urban ears through a map and sound library of Hong Kong’s natural soundscapes. His work does not limit to pure field recording—instead drawing on his keen auditory observations in the field and experience in audio engineering, he poetically transforms soundscapes and everyday objects into dynamic sound installations and immersive experiences.
Beyond his personal artistic practice, he has actively integrated his listening philosophy into widely acclaimed field recording workshops over the years, serving as a bridge between awakening dormant ears and enriching acoustic environments. He is also Hong Kong’s representative for Quiet Parks International, actively promoting the #SaveQuiet movement.
AK graduated in 2017 from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) Degree in Theatre and Entertainment Arts, majoring in Sound System Design.
Peter Wong Tsz-kin is an audio engineer, sound artist, and field recordist rooted in Hong Kong. He graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) Degree in Theatre and Entertainment Arts, majoring in Sound Design. Peter firmly believes that sound is a powerful tool for experiencing the world, and on this foundation explores various possibilities for creating novel and moving artistic works.
In 2021, Peter founded WAVINCITY – Hong Kong Urban Soundscape Recording Project, capturing and documenting human soundscapes through field recording, allowing listeners to experience the urban landscapes produced in different scenes while making the recordings available as creative material. In 2023, he transformed two years of collected field recordings into “Echoes of Urban Memory”, a sonic installation experience designed and arranged with his team, constructing a unique journey exploring the relationships between sound, memory, and identity. Subsequently, in 2025, Peter created the soundscape installation “Reverberations and Illusions”, reinterpreting and reconstructing urban soundscapes through spatial audio systems and real-time generated imagery. The installation explores the possibility of seeking tranquillity amid the clamour and guide audiences to reconsider the meaning of sound then reflect on their own perception and experience in urban environments.
Additionally, Peter creates instrumental music with the name Same Departure, he composes and produces tracks—he released the mini-album “The Journey Begins Here” in 2019. He is also a member of local post-rock band CHAN is Swimming, which released their self-titled album “CHAN is Swimming” in 2023.
Sound · Search @ Tai Kok Tsui ~ Listening to Memory’s Echoes in the City’s Texture
16, 19, 30.1.2024
29.2.2024
When we research objects with different functions, we can often establish connections with their owners, opening dialogues and thus discovering stories behind their status and value within the community. These discovered objects may have been assigned various uses among neighbours; their textures and characteristics also become sources of sound for our interaction and listening.
In Tai Kok Tsui—a district where industry and residences coexist, undergoing urbanisation transformation—soundscapes serve as crucial clues for understanding how the community has evolved from past to present.
Participating Artists:
Thomas Chan Kei-chak (@monovibration),
Olive Leung Ching-man
Artist Introduction
Thomas Chan is a multimedia artist, audio engineer, guitarist, and ambient music improviser. He is a member of Hong Kong’s independent music group Endeavour, through whose albums “Mind Music” and “Ji-le”, Endeavour has explored multiple musical styles including electronic, ethnic, indie rock, and ambient post-rock. Outside the band, he has collaborated with artists including Wong Yiu-ming, Wong Chau-sang, Tats Lau, Otomo Yoshihide, and Dr Lung Heung-wing on album recordings and live performances.
In recent years, he has actively collaborated with artists from different fields, exploring connections between sound, dance, and text, including his participation in the “i-Dance Festival (Hong Kong)” and his role as music director in “Water_3_Modulation”, curated by local artist Makin Fung and inspired by the famous Song Dynasty painter Ma Yuan’s work “Water”.
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.