Sunday, November 14, 2010

iii – Beat Vulgaris


Cut from a 90 mins live recording, iii sampled/mixed/bent/mashed a selection of upbeat party hits and misses in their own eclectic yet peculiar style in Wikitopia Closing Party on Sep 18th, 2010 at Videotage, Hong Kong.


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Saturday, November 06, 2010

OPEN ROOF 天台與陽台

Rooftops in our city are either luxurious private territories or outlets for exhaust-pipes and ventilators - they are unnoticed, sometimes wasted. OPEN ROOF is about listening to and on rooftops and balconies. It is a call to set free a layer of urban life from the routines of looking up and looking past. It is a call to imagine the in-between. OPEN ROOF is also about caring for rooftops as unique and endangered soundscapes of Hong Kong. Imagine standing in urban enclaves hewn out by the drones of the low and the screeching winds of the high - our ears are bigger than we think.

在城中往上望,高樓千尺,有人喜歡把天台改建成私人天地,居高臨下,有人把陽台密封,增多一點室內空間,更常見的是用以擺放冷氣及通風系統,天台變成超現代不毛之地。《天台與陽台》是卡爾維諾文學著作《看不見的城市》的聆聽版,也是對城市的「拜高」「拜看」主義的回應。《天台與陽台》邀請城市人探索不高不低卻「大有聽頭」的一片空氣,聽音樂人與聲音設計師以三個原創聲音事件,把天台與陽台的聲境掏空再盛滿,共用一天寬倘。

Sunday Dec 5, 2010 | 4-5pm @ patio of Object Factory
TYPHOON SHELTER | 避風塘
Fast Forward with musicians Margie Tong (percussion), Cathy Wong (pipa), Peter Scherr (bass), Sham Kin Yu (dizi) and more
one early winter sunset…a rare mix of Chinese and Western musical instruments and ordinary objects against a sonic environment of ocean waves, north-easterly winds, and ship horns coming through the Lamma channel.
作曲家 Fast Forward 與中阮、琵琶、低音提琴及敲擊樂師面向南丫島的大陽台,奏出初冬日落。
HK$500 free for children under 12; shuttle bus included
包括往來中環及鴨脷洲穿梭巴士;十二歲及以下兒童免費

Saturday Dec 11, 2010 | 12noon-5pm @ outside Hong Kong Arts Centre
EXCHANGING AMBIENCE – a participatory sonic event | 轉換環境 — 一個或許由聽者調停的聲音事件
Anthony Yeung Ngor-wah
a microphone is open – you may come and go; what it takes from below, it brings up to two floors above ground. But where? You ask. Only distance will tell.
聲音設計師楊我華現場收集香港藝術中心門外的聲境,再與中心樓上的陽台對話,製做有距離聆聽。
FREE | 費用全免

Saturday Dec 11, 2010 , 7 – 8pm @ soundpocket
SECRETS FROM ABOVE | 天台有耳
Sin: Ned
sonic secrets to be liberated at a secret location - imagine letting loose a lantern in the dark night sky.
聲音創作人黃仲輝在秘密基地釋放聲音,就像孔明燈往星空飄移一樣。
HK$120 free for children under 12; shuttle bus included
包括往來灣仔香港藝術中心及土瓜環穿梭巴士;十二歲及以下兒童免費

Venue addresses | 場地資料
Object Factory
Unit 303, Harbour Industrial Centre, No.10 Lee Hing Street, Ap Lei Chau - shuttle bus departs at 3pm, Edinburgh Place, Central
香港鴨脷洲利興街10號港灣工貿中心3樓303室 (穿梭巴士下午三時從中環愛丁堡廣場往鴨脷洲)

Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wanchai
香港藝術中心
香港灣仔港灣道二號

soundpocket
Unit 10C, Gee Chang Industrial Building, 108 Lok Shan Road, Tokwawan, Kowloon - shuttle bus departs at 6pm, entrance of Hong Kong Art Centre (Fenwick Street Drop-off point) to soundpocket, and at 8’30pm, from soundpocket to Central.
聲音掏腰包
九龍土瓜環落山道108號志昌工業大夏10樓C
* 穿梭巴士下午六時從香港藝術中心開出到聲音掏腰包,八時半從聲音掏腰包開出到中環

Ticketing | 購票辦法
Email listen@soundpocket.org.hk the number of tickets you like for Dec 5 and Dec 11. We will contact you in due course regarding payment method. Limited seats. Please purchase your tickets now to avoid disappointment. All purchases are non-refundable.
請電郵至listen@soundpocket.org.hk 閣下購票的數量,我們將隨即與你聯絡,提供繳費及交收門票辦法。恕不設退款。

Enquiry | 查詢
Susie Law 羅小姐96021229 | listen@soundpocket.org.hk

Monday, November 01, 2010

Sound Friction 1: Live + Workshop

Sound Friction No 1: Electronic No Wave – The Bent Orchestra

Artists
::vtol:: aka Dmitry Morozov (Russia)
The Bent Orchestra - ::vtol:: + No One Pulse (Hong Kong)
Wong Chung-Fai (Hong Kong) – Live Visuals
Shelf-Index (Hong Kong) – Opening Act

Date: Nov-20
Time: 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Venue: Videotage
Admission: $120 (at door) / $100 (student/advance)

Jointly presented by Re-Records & Videotage

When digital electronic music hardware and software is presenting to us unlimited choices and options through a mass production industrial model, are we simply operators facing unlimited options? Or is there still room and possibility beyond such mass production model?

Returning to the small scale family business model and the philosophy of “small is beautiful”, a group of advanced circuit benders have been designing and producing limited run of handmade electronic instruments of their own design. They evolve directly from the “no rules” philosophy of Circuit Bending and insist on handcrafting creative chaos out of hardware limitation.

Russia electronic artist ::vtol:: (Dmitry Morozov) is one of them. In Sound Friction 1, he will be performing with his own handmade modular synthesizer system, to show us not only new possibilities in electronic sound, but also electronic visuals.

Local electroacoustic duo No One Pulse, will be presenting handmade electronic instruments from infamous instrument designers such as Folktek, BugBrand and Eric Archer, to perform a sound jam with ::vtol::’s system as the Bent Orchestra.

Moreover, ::vtol:: will be bring along a few extra units of his synthesizers to the live show, for those who are interested to purchase.

In addition to the live performance, ::vtol:: will also conduct a workshop at Videotage, in which he will explain the basics of synthesizer, and lead the participants to complete the Matreshka Generators (a sound generating object of his own design)

Matreshka Generators Workshop by ::vtol::

Facilitator: Dmitry Morozov aka ::vtol::

Date: Nov-21
Time: 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Venue: Videotage
...Fee: $350 (with advance reservation, limited to 10 participants, incl. all parts and materials for the Matreshka Generators)

Jointly presented by Re-Records & Videotage

Matreshkas are traditional Russian wood toys colored by hand in a folk art-style. But we will be working on a new generation of Matreshkas, and we can decorate them anyway that we want! During this workshop we will create a special sound producing object and piece of art at the same time.

The electronic part is a single chip synthesizer with several functions for creating a complex sound generator. With this example many DIY synthesizer basics like square wave oscillators, amplitude and frequency modulation, and signal summation will be explained.

The provided KIT will include all electronic components and wooden parts. All tools required for building it will be available on site. It's preferable if participants have knowledge of basic soldering.

You can bring any materials you want to paint and decorate MGs - markers, paint, plastic parts, hair - anything!!!

About the artists

::vtol::
::vtol:: is a project of a Moscow media-artist, musician and engineer of strange-sounding mechanisms, Dmitry Morozov.

Starting in mid-2000s, within the context of his music project, Dmitry actively began using DIY and circuit-bent instruments.

At the same time, he began making instruments for other musicians, which made him the first serial synthesizer producer in all of post-soviet territories, after USSR's collapse.

Besides making music and instruments, Dmitry creates interactive sound art-installations and advocates circuit bending and DIY in Russia by means of lectures and workshops. He has participated in many festivals in Russia, USA and Israel.

vtol.tk

No One Pulse
No One Pulse is an experimental / electro-acoustic duo from Hong Kong, formed by Wong Chung-fai (Sin:Ned) and Chau Kin-wai (KWC) in 2006. By means of non-musical instruments and devices, the two aim to explore the conceptual application of free improvisation and free-from electronics that embraces randomness, chaotic structure, and microsound methodology. The duo is also the mastermind behind the experimental imprint Re-Records.

www.myspace.com/noonepulse

Wong Chung-Fai
Also known as Sin:Ned. An idiosyncratic audio experimentalist, writer and live visualist. Member of No One Pulse and co-founder of the experimental imprint Re-Records.

Shelf-Index
Electronic musician and DJ from Hong Kong who produces cutting edge electronica with broken beats and sampled materials. Had offered live performance in event such as Sound in the Park and Rebuilding Haiti.

Enquiry & reservation:

Email: info@videotage.org.hk Tel: 2573-1869 (Ms. Kami Liu)

www.re-records.com
www.videotage.org.hk