sound works that exhale into the expanse of the city.

curated by Yeung Yang

artists / venues:

Felix Hess (Netherlands 荷蘭) It's in the Air (cracklers), 1995, installation. venue: Red House, Cheung Chau

Anson Mak 麥海珊 (Hong Kong 香港 ) Sonic Meditation Exercise 1, 2007, installation. venue: the atrium, 3/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre

Cedric Maridet (France, Hong Kong 法國,香港) la mouvance des flux, 2007, streamed open-microphone [in partnership with audio research group locus sonus], computer generative system. venue: Kapok, G/F, 9 Dragon Road, Tin Hau, Hong Kong

Kawai Shiu (USA, Singapore, Hong Kong 美國,星加坡,香港) [composition] / Yeung Ngor-wah, Anthony 楊我華 (香港 Hong Kong) [installation] Still Moving, 2007, installation. venue: Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

Su-Mei Tse (Luxembourg 盧森堡) L'écho, 2003, video. venue: Videotage, Cattle Depot

Yuen Cheuk-Wa 袁卓華 (香港 Hong Kong) Water Reclamation, 2007, installation. venue: Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

special programme at habitus [habitus 特別項目] Hong Kong: City in Between (1997) by Robert Iolini (Australia 澳洲) 11am-7pm, friday-sunday

la mouvance des flux. artist statement:

A constant hum, hissing, white noise... then out of this background of noises, lending an ear to it, some frequencies stand out. Birds, I suppose. Then, a plane flies across an imagined blue sky. An emergency siren fades in and out to let place to whistling birds. Everything seems in order again. Only irregular klaxons come to disturb it from time to time. This is what could be heard on one of the streams from Marseille, France, on a regular Sunday, through the apparatus set up by the French-based audio art research group Locus Sonus. Open microphones located in different regions of the world broadcast their immediate soundscape. I put Hong Kong onto the global open-microphones map. la mouvance des flux takes its root in these streamed soundscapes, and explores the idea of continuous listening, the complex relationships between flux and sound events. This work proposes to render audible the inaudible and the faraway in ways different from the radio, and to transfer the global streams within a sound field around the listener’s head. Sounds are mixed and intermingled, confusing the perception of background and fore- ground within the composed soundscape. It explores sound as a continuous dynamic stream, where sounds rub and crash against each other, and weave into each other to create new tensions. The experience of time is also a way to alter the nature of the listening activity - are these remote sounds static events, or are they changing by nature? In other words, what are we listening to? --------

artists talk 藝術家講座 7 - 9pm, 22/6, 2007 Agnes b. CINEMA Hong Kong Arts Centre 香港藝術中心 agnes b. CINEMA

enquiries 查詢 楊陽 YEUNG Yang 852-90403877 yy@culturejam.net

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