CUHK's Ensemble-in-Residence 2023-24: Final Concert

In Between Lines and Dots

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.

In a foreign land, where light waves and electrons intersect, where sound frequencies collide with micro-dust, amidst continuous coupling, spinning, and chaos, are we merely following predetermined paths? Are we forging a new landscape? Or...?

身處異域,

光波與電子交疊,聲頻與微塵碰撞,

延綿不斷的耦合、迥旋、混沌,

只能按既定軌跡行走?另闢風景?

還是......

The work invites the audience to embark on an exercise into listening: listening in the present, but to the past and the future, and listening across time. Through audio, video and text, it gradually guides the listener and the viewer to traces of history that may or may not be evident in sound: acoustic resonance caused by material remnants from World War II in Hong Kong; the ringing of the three metal strings of the sanxian morphing into the three nylon strings of its slightly smaller cousin: the sanshin from Okinawa, Japan; echoes of sounds from instruments which are no longer in Hong Kong. A neural network attempts to sift through and make sense of these dislocations in time and space.

該作品邀請觀眾進行傾聽的練習：傾聽當下，同時思考過去和未來，跨越時間地傾聽。 通過音頻、視頻和文字，聽眾和觀眾發現聲音中可能明顯或不明顯的歷史痕跡：二戰時期被遺留在香港的物件所引起的聲學共振； 三弦金屬弦的聲音變成了其稍小的表親：已在香港絕跡的日本沖繩三線尼龍弦。 作品試圖篩選並理解這些時間和空間的錯位。

Presented by the Chinese Women Composers' Association, NME musicians will perform works by 9 Chinese women composers in 'Our Dream 2023', including works by Lam Shun and Julie Kuok from Hong Kong.

This is a show designed for VR/AR performer, ensemble, live-electronics, spatial audio and multiple projections. The show explores new ways of artmaking by connecting virtual and real spaces: how can we bring virtual worlds on stage? How are music notation and embodied interactions affected? What new aesthetic dimensions can we embrace?

這是一場為 VR/AR 表演者、弦樂、現場電子音樂、空間音頻和多重投影而設計的表演。通過連接虛擬和現實空間, 該表演志在探索新的藝術創作方式：我們如何將虛擬世界搬上舞台？ 音樂符號和具身互動(embodied interactions)如何受到影響？ 我們可以接受哪些新的審美維度？

Artist Samson Young curates a series of new duets for teachers and their young students. Incorporating graphic scores, game pieces, and traditionally notated works, shapes songs brings together musicians of all levels through a unique journey into contemporary music and art. Join us for an afternoon of inspiring music fresh off the press!

Used for moving, decluttering and packing, paper boxes are nothing foreign to Hong Kongers. What does this accessible and versatile material have to do with music? You are invited to experience how the composer Rita Yung, artist Hoi9 and HKNME musicians paint the soundscape of a warehouse and what’s left from our storage.

From blurred sonic landscapes to soaring melodies, virtuoso hornist Alfred Lee curates an exciting programme for brass trio featuring two world premieres. Exploring the spectrum of colours, time, and space on these malleable instruments, lost dreams may emerge from the distant past

Leading Hong Kong musicians join together to perform an electrifying programme of music inspired by classical, Sufi and folk music traditions from Türkiye. Featuring renowned Turkish composers such as Fazil Say and Grammy Award winner Erberk Eryılmaz, we invite you to immerse yourself in an evening of dynamic music.

Beyond | Schism is a concert co-curated by HKNME flautist Angus Lee and clarinettist Linus Fung exploring static and volatile states of being: from the contemplative yet unsettling, the stoic yet evocative, the lyrical yet perturbed, to works that push the boundaries of both instruments to their physical limits. The Listening Room 11 is organised in partnership with Osage Sigma.

Artist Samson Young curates a series of new duets for teachers and their young students. Incorporating graphic scores, game pieces, and traditionally notated works, shapes songs brings together musicians of all levels through a unique journey into contemporary music and art. Join us for an afternoon of inspiring music fresh off the press!

Listen to the Sphinx

THE LISTENING ROOM 10

Osage Gallery

This event is free of charge. Registration in advance is required.

Digital Performance

(Due to travelling restrictions related to the pandemic, HKNME could only participate by contributing remotely.)

Busan Cinema Centre Library (Korea)

Music composition workshop in collaboration with CUHK