Tuesday, March 29, 2011

HIDDEN LIVE MUSIC FEST 2011


香港玩indie,從來沒有場地沒有空間又沒有support,
所以今次誠邀本地8大indie band在手機玩LIVE SHOW,
人人隨手就睇到!

HIDDEN LIVE 2011
...THE WORLD'S FIRST LIVE MOBILE MUSIC FEST
全球第一個LIVE手機音樂節

3月31日起,連續4晚,每晚有兩隊不同indie band,
進行30分鐘LIVE現場表演,只要用手機download winkcode app,
同時用電腦download呢張hi-res jpeg,00:00 用電話scan jpeg,
即刻可以欣賞精彩演出!8大indie band,準時恭候!

或可到ZOO RECORDS索取門票,先到先得!!
(地址:太子西洋菜南街234號3/F)

DATE: 31 MAR - 3 APR 2011
TIME: 00:00 EACH NIGHT (MEANS START FROM THE TIME BETWEEN 30 & 31MAR MIDNIGHT, 4 CONSECUTIVE DAYS)
VENUE: EVERYWHERE
ADMISSION: FREE

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=199177113436292

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. DOWNLOAD THE WINKCODE APP (AVAILABLE FOR IPHONE AND ANDROID)
2. DOWNLOAD THE HI-RES VERSION OF THE TICKET (FB: CLICK DOWNLOAD BUTTION ON LOWER LEFT OF PHOTO REVIEW)
3. SCAN THE TICKET WITH YOUR MOBILE EVERY MIDNIGHT 00:00 FROM 31 MAR - 3 MAR
4. ENJOY THE LIVE BAND SHOW NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO!!

DAY1 - Downer & Twisterella
DAY2 - Luxury & KWC
DAY3 - Wilson Tsang & 31G
DAY4 - UNiXX & Sin:Ned

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Zbigniew Karkowski/Dickson Dee/Joao Vasco/Sin:Ned - Tatical Overload


A free form noise quartet featuring sonic artist Zbigniew Karkowski. Performed and recorded at Osage Soho Hong Kong on July 20th, 2010.


Tactical Overload (7:44)

http://www.re-records.com/archives/re-rec-005/

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Sound In The Park 2011 (3): In the midst of Urban Beats

22/1/2011 2:30-4:30pm
...〈迷走都會節拍〉

座落於尖沙嘴中心地帶的九龍公園,四周環繞著細密都會的節奏。我們每天都隨著這個城市的節拍疾走前行,彼此卻走出不同的步伐。〈公園好聲〉3之《迷走都會節拍》帶來的三個演出單位:Fruitpunch的後朋克節拍、iii的折衷性節拍、KZ(featuring Geniuz F aka Future & Poker aka HO)的Hip Hop節拍;尋找不一樣的都會節拍,反映都市人不一樣的生活態度。

(各場表演時間地點於最下面)

Please scroll down for English Version.

Fruitpunch

Fruitpunch為香港二人結他組合,成員為Leo(主音、結他)和Patrick(主音、低音結他),風格包括低調Post-Punk、結他噪音和民歌風格等。Fruitpunch於2005年出版首張唱片"Will It End?",其歌曲曾收錄於香港廠牌「維港唱片」及「89268」的合輯內。於2010年12月,Fruitpunch出版第二張唱片《Wind And Sea》。

iii


iii是一個充滿叛逆個性,以採樣為本,顛覆音樂體系為樂,且沒有固定成員的筆記本樂團。他們不但四出盜聲,演出時,更不時相互採聲或監守自盜。


iii熱愛廣東流行曲及所有低俗的曲子及被遺忘的流行偶像。但視乎情况而定,他們也不一定只演廣東流行曲。


http://www.re-records.com/archives/iii/

KZ (featuring Geniuz F aka Future & Poker aka HO)

KZ畸詩 (出道於1998),這名字反映他在別人眼中運用與眾不同,多角度思維 加上寫詩的手法,藉此創作中文說唱,在香港說唱界極具影響力。他的團體 - 生番(出道於2001),則多以黑色幽默的手法道出所遇到的社會問題,諷刺時弊。

多年來,曾參與的演出,包括:無線音樂節目,LMF 2010年復出的音樂會,HOT CHA新碟發佈會及簽唱會,台灣音樂節(與MC HotDog同台)等等中港台各地近百場的演出。
Geniuz.F aka Future,於2008年加入地下說唱團體字遊軍。也於2010年與Poker及香港說唱團隊「生番」之成員 - KZ & Lil' K組成新團隊Dark Side Of The Force。曾與香港身兼beatboxer及producer的VVish 及香港說唱團隊「捌伍起義」的Dough Boy一同創作,曾於Baby Ghetto Rap Battle擔任客席評判。

Poker aka HO (阿豪),於 2010年與Geniuz.F及香港說唱團隊「生番」之兩位成員Lil' K & KZ組成新團隊Dark Side Of The Force。曾與香港說唱團隊「捌伍起義」的Dough Boy一同創作,及於Baby Ghetto Rap Battle擔任客席評判,〈經歷〉為他08年的個人作品
公園好聲 Sound In The Park (策劃、文:袁智聰)
四個公園,六個地點,六場不同主題的露天音樂表演。

這是一個以融入公園空間為大前提的冬日午後音樂表演活動。所以我們沒有搭建舞台,也沒有巨型揚聲器,而是將音樂會變成公園的閒適愜意氣氛與流動風景一部分,令到音樂伴隨著多點綠色而來。於溫暖的冬日陽光與鳥語花香的環境下,讓樂迷身處一個自由開放的空間欣賞好聲現場音樂演出。

公園是供公眾消遣休憩的戶外場所,香港地少人多,我們這個城市裡商場太多、公園太少,大家要更加珍惜這個綠色的公共空間與城市資源。而「公園好聲」便是要把公園裡的公共空間化作音樂表演的平台、與眾同樂的表演場地。今次「公園好聲」的小型巡演會走遍香港公園、沙田公園、九龍公園和屯門公園;公園裡的廣場、花園、露天劇場和草坪,都會是我們舉行表演的地方。而每次皆會配合不同的表演環境,帶來特定的音樂主題。美好的現場音樂表演,看著樂手與樂迷的互動關係,每每能夠勾勒出一幅美麗而雅緻的畫面。那麼,沒有甚麼美好得過在陽光與樹蔭下於公園的露天空間帶來的音樂演出。

袁智聰

香港著名樂評人。一九八七年投身樂評工作,早年長駐《年青人周報》撰寫音樂文章,又曾在《音樂一週》任職助理編輯。1994年自資創辦音樂雜誌《音樂殖民地雙週刊》(Music Colony Bi-weekly,簡稱MCB),直至2004年10周年休刊,期間曾出版台灣及內地版本,在大中華的影響力無遠弗屆;同年12月開設MCB Online(www.mcb.com.hk)。曾任電台節目《不設劃位》主持。現定期為《東Touch》(香港)、《Yahoo! Music Hong Kong》(香港)、《南方都市報》(廣州)及《Hinoter》(台灣)撰寫音樂專欄,並為《藝綻@冬日》的《公園好聲》、《濕地製造》的《在地球表面》系列戶外音樂表演活動擔任策劃人。


Sound In The Park 2011 (3): In the midst of Urban Beats

Fruitpunch / iii / KZ

22/1/2011 2:30-4:30pm

Chinese Garden, Kowloon Park

In the midst of Urban Beats

Located in the heart of Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon Park is constantly in the flux of a variety of urban beats. Yet, different paces and rhythms are lived out even if the city has its own basic tempo. Sound in the Park 3: “In the midst of Urban Beats” proudly presents the post-punk beat of Fruitpunch, the eclectic beat of iii and the hip-hop beat of KZ (featuring Geniuz F aka Future & Poker aka HO). An afternoon of different urban beats, 3 acts of different attitudes towards life.
(Please scroll to the bottom for the schedule and venue of the "Sound in the Park")

Fruitpunch

Fruitpunch is a two-piece guitar band playing post-punk, guitar noise and folk songs, with members Leo (vocal, guitar) and Patrick (vocal, bass guitar). Fruitpunch launched their first album “Will It End?” in 2005, some of their songs were included in compilations released by “Harbour Records” and “89268”. In December 2010, Fruitpunch launched their second album “Wind And Sea”.

iii


iii is a sample-based laptop group who works on the idea of genres bending. With no fixed members and always in flux, members of iii not only sample from their source materials, but also sample one another and re-sample themselves on stage.iii loves canto-pop and all kinds of outdated cheesy tune and popular icon. But depending on the occasion, one might also spot them playing something else.


http://www.re-records.com/archives/iii/


KZ (featuring Geniuz F aka Future & Poker aka HO)

KZ (since 1998), is the name of the irrefutable, well-known testimonial to his talent of creating music with unique, multi-perspectives and poetic touch. As a rapper who raps in Cantonese, KZ is enormously influential to the local rappers scene.

His band, sanGfan, was formed in 2001. Everything that goes wrong in the society falls prey to their sarcastic and critical lyrics. sanGfan has played on stage with MC HotDog in Taiwan, TVB's music shows, the reunion gig of LMF in 2010, the launching show of HOT CHA's new album, plus about a hundred of other shows all over the mainlands, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Geniuz.F aka Future joins the underground rap group “Rhyme Flow Army” in 2008. He started a rap group, Dark Side of the Force, in 2010, with Poker and KZ & Lil's from the local rap group sanGfan. He also joined hand in music projects with Vvish – the local beatboxer and producer – as well as Dough Boy from the local rap group 85up2. He has been guest jury to the Baby Ghetto Rap Battle.
In 2010, Poker aka HO started the rap group, The Dark Side of the Force, with Geniuz.F and KZ & Lil's from the local rap group sanGfan. He also joined hand in music projects with Dough Boy from the local rap group 85up2 and was a guest jury to the Baby Ghetto Rap Battle. “Experience” is his solo work in 2008.

Sound in the Park ( Curated by: Yuen Chi-chung)

Outdoor concerts in six different themes take place in six locations in four parks.
“Sound in The Park” is an afternoon concert series aiming to mix music into the park environment. The shows need no stage set, no giant loudspeakers. It is music that is going to be absorbed into the gentle milieu and landscape of the park, furnishing it with more notes of green. Under the winter sun and amidst the comforting environment of the park, music-lovers will have a good chance to enjoy live music in a free and open atmosphere.
A park is a very important outdoor space for people to relax. Given the ever- growing number of people and shopping malls here in Hong Kong, a park is getting even more vital as the public space and resource that city dwellers can share among themselves.
Turning this public space into a music platform and performance venue, Sound in The Park will tour around Hong Kong Park, Kowloon Park, Sha Tin Park and Tuen Mun Park. The piazzas, gardens, amphitheatre and grassland are all places in which great music will be delivered. And the concerts will be tailor-made with themes to fit different park environment.

Great music and the close encounter between music and its audience culminate in a picture that is both eye- and ear-soothing; an enjoyable afternoon filled with the warmth of the sun and the wonders of music. (Text:Yuen Chi-chung)
Yuen Chi-chung

YUEN Chi-chung is best known as the founder of legendary Hong Kong based independent music magazine “Music Colony Bi-weekly” (aka “MCB”). Established in 1994, it was among the most famous and influential music magazines in Chinese region. After a decade as a groundbreaking platform for music reportage and critique, MCB ceased publication in hard-copy format in 2004 and went online (www.mcb.com.hk).

Yuen has been active as a music critic since 1987 and has written about a wide range of artists and music genres. He was the host of weekly Hong Kong radio show “Free Seating”. In addition to his work for MCB online, Yuen writes for other publications and online media in Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China.He was also the curator of the outdoor concert series “Sound In The Park” of “Budding Winter” in 2009 and “Concert on the Earth” of “Made in Wetland”.


公園好聲

時間表 Time Table

22/1/2011 2:30-4:30pm 九龍公園 中國花園

Chinese Garden, Kowloon Park

29/1/2011 2:30-4:30pm 屯門公園 香花園

Scented Garden, Tuen Mun Park

12/2/2011 2-4:30pm 沙田公園 露天劇場

Amphitheatre, Sha Tin Park

26/2/2011 2:30-4:30pm 沙田公園 北園草地

North Garden Lawn, Sha Tin Park


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Thursday, January 13, 2011

If you think u r wrong, u r almost right!!

Saturday - Sunday Jan 22- 23, 2011 @葵青劇院 Kwai Tsing Theatre

如果你以為自己錯,那就差不多對了!﹣反轉傳統聲音再創造
黃仲輝

If you think u r wrong, u r almost right!! ─ Unorthodox Remaking of Sound
led by Sin:Ned (Wong Chung-fai)


創意對我們極重要!就連商界也投資越來越多在創意培訓上,鼓勵員工“跳出框框”。但在日常生活中、工作中,缺乏創意仍是惱人的問題。是甚麽阻礙我們“跳出框框”?

透過研究反傳統聲音製造的歷史和實驗,你會發現限制著創意的框框來自單一的理性文化,以及害怕錯誤、混亂、隨機、無序的心態。當你嘗試以反傳統的方法來製造聲音,你將會發現錯誤和無序的美,然後,突破絕對理性的狹隘視野,跳出框框來看問題。

Creativity is of ultimate importance to our existence. Even the commercial world is investing more and more on training their employees to think “out of the box”. However, we are still facing a creativity crisis — in our everyday life and in our work. What is hindering our ability to think out of the box?

Through examining the history and practice of unorthodox sound making, you will see that the lack of creativity is closely related to the one-sided development of our rational culture, and our learned mentality of seeing errors, chaos, randomness and disorder as undesirable results. With hands-on experiment on unorthodox sound making, you will develop an appreciative eye for the beauty of errors and randomness, which in turn, will free us from our tunnel vision of pure rationality, and enable us to see beyond the box.

黃仲輝 (aka Sin:Ned)
聲音創作人、樂評人(香港)
黃仲輝習慣將可以拿上手的都敲敲弄弄﹣﹣他對音樂興趣廣泛,涉獵範圍包括即興演奏、聲音藝術、實驗音樂、噪音藝術、在地錄音等。個人作品包括2006由Lona Records發表的《Uroborus: A Study On No-input Device》和《60 Seconds: A Schizophrenic Manual for Eternity》。曾參與香港視野音樂節(2003),大聲展(2007),香港─深圳城市/建築雙年展(2007、 2009),北歐音樂節廣州站 (2009)等,也曾是香港另類音樂雜誌《音樂殖民地》的主要撰稿人。他是概念電聲學二人組No One Pulse 的成員及實驗音樂廠牌Re-Records的創辦人之一,以及soundpocket的顧問。

Wong Chung-fai (aka Sin:Ned)
Sonic artist and writer (HK)
Wong Chung-fai is an idiosyncratic sonic artist who hacks and twists anything he can put his hands on. His interest ranges widely from improvisation, sound art, experimental music, and noise art to field recordings. His first two solo works, “Uroborus: A Study On No-input Device” and “60 Seconds: A Schizophrenic Manual for Eternity”, were released by Lona Records in 2006.He took part in the HK Sound and Vision Festival (2003), Get It Louder (2007), Hong Kong & Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (2007, 2009), Notch Festival Guangzhou Station (2009), and was a major contributor to the legendary Hong Kong alternative music magazine MCB (Music Colony B-Weekly). He is a member of the electro-acoustic concept duo No One Pulse and co-founder of the experimental imprint Re-Records and soundpocket’s advisor.

此工作坊為 MaD 2011 活動,更多資料請瀏灠http://www.mad.asia/

an event of MaD 2011, more please refer to www.MaD.asia

Monday, December 06, 2010

Sound Friction N°2 - The Zen Ensemble




Date: 17 December 2010 (Friday)
Time: 9:15 - 11 pm
Venue: Videotage
Address: Unit 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kln. HK

FREE ADMISSION (Seats are limited, RSVP at info@videotage.org.hk)
*Alongside with Videotage’s Christmas gathering

Artists:
mAtter from Tokyo, featuring Yukitomo Hamasaki + shotahirama (Electronics),
Go Koyashiki (Electronics), Toshikazu Goto (Electronics) + Fumiko Ikeda (Voice)
&
Alok (Electronic), KWC (Electronic), Sin:Ned (Silence, Live Visuals) From Hong Kong

As the second gig of the series Sound Friction, The Zen Ensemble will be the most noiseless and tranquil sound performance of this year.

Inspired by the concept of emptiness in Zen Buddhism, the dynamic Japanese multi-disciplinary group mAtter, together with selected Hong Kong sound artists, will bring us 'The Zen Ensemble' - a conceptual group that explores the composition and performance of silence.

For this special performance, a set of rules is composed to guide the artists to play ‘silence’ rather than making sound. In Zen Buddhism (an adaptation of Chinese Buddhism), it is said that our existence can only be found in the silence of the mind (or in fact, no-mind). The Zen Ensemble will be the first and only sound performance in Hong Kong that invites you to experience the absence of sound.

Together with stunning live visuals, this quiet sound revolution of The Zen Ensemble at Videotage is definitely a must-go for electronics and sound art lovers.

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mAtter is a Japanese design group and independent music label that combines talents from various disciplines, including the acclaimed designer and sound composer Yukitomo Hamasaki, in which he draws his inspirations through nature elements such as light and space. Together the group blends sound and produce projects that integrate architecture, image-making and design. The tranquil sound quality contains layered waves of irregular clicks, pops, beeps and breaks, which brings the noise listening experience and sound art to a new level. For example the high frequency sound used in the album "d+p", some listeners claimed that it has an effect to distort their perspective on surrounding environmental noise.

Jointly presented by Videotage and Re-records, the Sound Friction series take sonic art as the anchor point and develop a creative performance platform for cross-cultural, cross-media, cross-disciplinary and cross-genres collaboration between artists.

About the Artists

mAtter
mAtter is a sound & design project, with works centering around Yukitomo Hamasaki. The label takes approaches from various media such as sound design, architecture, and product design, in which the members interpret and restructures these concepts in different ways based on their own perspection, and try to achieve the goal of constructing dense space. The members of mAtter are not fixed, they collaborate depend on the projects. Its members consist of musicians, architects, video artists, and writers. Current members include:
Yukitomo Hamasaki: www.myspace.com/nothingsclear
Go Koyashiki: www.myspace.com/gokoyashiki
Junji Koyanagi: celescape.org/koyanagi
shotahirama: http://www.signaldada.com/
http://www.matter.jp/

Sin:Ned
Sin:Ned is an idiosyncratic audio experimentalist, writer and live visualist. He is also a member of No One Pulse and the co-founder of the experimental imprint Re-Records.
sin-ned.blogspot.com

KWC
While not designing, KWC spends time cutting loops and recording with his non-standard portable devices, he's 1/2 of the electro-acoustic improvisation duo No One Pulse. While not making sounds, KWC spends time designing under the alias of Sleepatwork and occasionally curating art projects as well.
www.myspace.com/anytonekwc

Alok
Sound artist, guitarist and bassist. In 2002, he set up his own record label Lona Records, and started working as a producer. From the end of 2002 to 2009, he released 5 albums and 5 cd singles. He has played and participated in more than 100 shows and experimental events / projects in Hong Kong and China.
www.myspace.com/alokhk

About the Organizers

Re-Records
[Doc: Documentary/Documents] - archiving art related projects, exhibitions, and installations.
[On: On Location] - an attempt to focus on field recordings and other site specific recordings.
http://www.re-records.com/

Videotage
Videotage is a leading non-profit organization in facilitation, promoting and presenting new media art in Hong Kong. Since 1986, Videotage has developed itself from an umbrella for media artists to a media art and culture network for cross-disciplinary cultural productions and international exchange of ideas and knowledge.
http://www.videotage.org.hk/

Jointly presented by Re-Records & Videotage

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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.


http://www.re-records.com/archives/re-rec-004/

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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