ACO Sound-On-Site | Space Oddity #1: From Below

 

ACO Sound-On-Site | Space Oddity #1: From Below

Staircase exists on the edge of our memory, somewhere between subconscious and unconscious. Silently, it stays at the back, awaiting the forgotten. With a gesture pointing towards the underworld, it connects different spaces and floors of the building. It is the cradle of dream. Archetypal psychological analysis of space begins here…

Space Oddity is a series of space exploration session under the new ACO Sound-On-Site program. It is an alchemical lab to explore and develop a dialogue with the specific space in an unconventional manner.

Artists:
e:ch & the innermost door (Voice & electronics / MO & HK)
KWC (Electronics / HK)
Sin:Ned (Guitar / HK)

Date: Jan...-25, 2015
Time: 8:00 PM
Venue: Staircase, Art & Culture Outreach
Address: 14/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Admission: Free Donation

Presented by Art & Culture Outreach
Curated by Twenty Alpha & Re-Records

For Enquiry:
2893-4808 / www.aco.hk

About ACO Sound-On-Site
Sound-On-Site is a site specific program presented by ACO (Art & Culture Outreach) in collaboration with Twenty Alpha and Re-Records. With Sound-On-Site, we aim to develop an intimate and meaningful dialogue between the specific space, the artists and the audiences, and at the same time, create an inspiring art enjoyment experience for the audiences.

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《艺鵠場域定聲 | 空間置異之一 : 從下》

樓梯是一個處於被遺忘邊緣的空間。那是一個潛意識，甚或是無意識的地帶。在意識與想像以外，默默地，就在那裡，成為被遺棄物的收容所，以一種通向冥界的體態，貫連著大廈不同的空間與樓層。這是一個夢的育兒所。空間的原型心理分析，由這裡開始…

《空間置異》是《艺鵠場域定聲》計劃底下一系列以探索空間為主題，試煉與空間對話的項目。

藝術家：
e:ch & the innermost door（電子及人聲/澳門、香港)
KWC (電子/香港)
Sin:Ned (結他/香港)

日期：一月二十五日, 二零一五年
時間：晚上八點
地點：艺鵠梯間
地址：香港灣仔軒尼詩道365-367號富德樓14樓
門票：自由捐獻

主辦：艺鵠
策劃：Twenty Alpha & Re-Records

查詢：
2893-4808 / www.aco.hk

關於《艺鵠場域定聲》
《場域定聲》是一個由艺鵠主辦，並由Twenty Alpha及Re-Records策劃，以聲音為焦點的場域特定藝術計劃。藝術家及觀眾，會透過不同的特定場域，及富啟發性及趣味性的藝術體驗，進行親密而意味深長的對話。



NOISE to SIGNAL 0.29: METSYS*AHT*KCUF

 

 

Pure improvised noise from Ryan Jordan (UK), Exoterrism (BE), Naturalismo (IT), Gao Jiafeng (CN) and Sin:Ned (HK) for the sake of system breakdown.

Performers:
Ryan Jordan (UK)
Exoterrism (BE)
Naturalismo (IT)
Gao Jiafeng (US) + Sin:Ned (HK)

Date: Jan-17, 2015
Time: 8:30 PM
Venue: Music Room, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
135 Junction Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong (Lok Fu MTR Exit B)
Admission: Pay What You Want

Programme & Ticketing Enquiries
rerecordshk@gmail.com
Press Inquiries
+852 2139 5230 / info@twentyalpha.org

Jointly presented by Re-Records & Twenty Alpha
Venue Sponsor: HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity

www.re-records.com

www.facebook.com/rerecordsrerecords

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About the Performers

Ryan Jordan (UK)
http://ryanjordan.org/home.html
Ryan Jordans work attempts to set out a potential framework for the exploration of often hidden processes and systems functioning in technology, human perceptual mechanisms and environmental phenomena in an attempt to bring them into the forefront of our conscious reality.

Exoterrism (BE/HK)
http://www.thirdtypetapes.com/page/exoterrism
http://soundcloud.com/exoterrism
In his work,Exoterrism (Fan Yau) born in Hong Kong 1987, seeks to overcome the separation between geometrical consciousness and the coming four dimensional perception. Influenced by esoteric systems,Yau often engages computer processed algorithms, as well as errors, feedback and chaotic functions. Constantly seeking for new sounds and synthesizing techniques, he researches the links and differences in human rational, scientific thinking and our existence as a spiritual being in the universe. Through experimentations of sound and it's reaction on the human body, creating short term hallucinations or extra terrestrial experiences. When technology has already surpassed the current notion of space and time, patterns repeating through a multidimensional expanding dynamic system feed-backing through the present moment. When human soul is interpreted as binary decisions and the mind becomes only a consequence of a loop from where you are conditioned. Segmenting the different stratas between the moment you think and the moment you execute.

Naturalismo (IT)
http://www.monstresparexces.com/
It all starts with a microcassette recorder wandering in Rome subway, taping live cut-up bursts of saturated city life. Shifts to harsh noise that struggles to keep a buried layer of melody. Explores minimalism with irony, always loyal to cheapness and imperfection.

Gao Jiafeng (US/CN)
https://gaojiafeng.wordpress.com/
Gao Jiafeng is a performer and sound artist who currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. He draws from early electronic compositions, mountain singing and Shaman spiritual music, interweaves saxophone improvisation, throat singing, along with an array of instruments such Guqin, bamboo clapper, flutes, Suona and electronics in his performances.

Gao grew up in Changsha, a hilly inner Chinese city where the local people are largely exposed to Hunan Opera, Chinese pop and street-style funeral music. Since 2005, Gao has been noted within China’s underground and experimental music scene for his electro-acoustic works. His works have been shown and performed at Central Academy of Fine Art (Beijing), XP (Beijing), Triennale Museum (Milan), 80 WSE Gallery, Gallery MC, etc. Gao’s instrument design “Tri-O,” won the 2014 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition for global musical instrument innovations, presided over by judges including Cycling ’74 CEO David Zicarelli.

Sin:Ned (HK)
http://www.re-records.com/people/sin-ned/
Also known as Dennis Wong / Wong Chung-fai. Experimentalist and improviser. Co-founder of Re Records, and founding member of experimental outfits such as No One Pulse, After Doom, adeō and Underture.



"Music Begins" for Zbigniew Karkowski

"Music Begins"
for Zbigniew Karkowski
(1958–2014)

2014.12.14 (SUN) @ 落合SOUP
http://ochiaisoup.tumblr.com/#103432416129
OPEN/START: 18:00/18:30
DOOR CHARGE: ¥1500

With performances by: Tetsuo Furudate, Dennis Wong (Hong Kong), Lars Åkerlund (Sweden), Blackphone666, Christophe Charles + Cal Lyall, miclodiet × Yousuke Fuyama
Featuring compositions by: Zbigniew Karkowski, PAINJERK
DJ: Evil Penguin...

Tetsuo Furudate
http://www.tetsuofurudate.info/

Sin:Ned (aka Dennis Wong, from Hong Kong)
http://www.re-records.com/people/sin-ned

Lars Åkerlund (Sweden)
http://www.larsakerlund.com/

Blackphone666
http://www.geocities.jp/made_in_nakano

Christophe Charles + Cal Lyall
http://home.att.ne.jp/grape/charles
http://www.subvalent.com/cal-lyall

miclodiet × Yousuke Fuyama
http://vimeo.com/38836525

DJ: Evil Penguin

Re-Records & Twenty Alpha presents: Sin:Ned | e:ch | Phantom @ Clockenflap 2014

 

Re-Records & Twenty Alpha presents: Sin:Ned | e:ch | Phantom
4'33" Stage @ Clockenflap 2014

https://www.facebook.com/clockenflap

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 [Nov 29, 2014] 16:00 e:ch | 18:00 Sin:Ned | 20:00 Phantom

 [Nov 30, 2014] 14:00 Phantom | 16:00 Sin:Ned | 20:00 e:ch

 

 

 

CITY | SOUND | ROAD | MUSIC

[2014 Kowloon City Book Fair] CITY | SOUND | ROAD | MUSIC - Installation Art + Performance
https://www.facebook.com/events/751546591595061/

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Installation: Nov 29 - 30, 2014 at Open Studio (Ground Floor), HKICC Lee Shau Kee School Of Creativity

Artists: No One Pulse (HK) and Cao Shuying 曹疏影 (HK)

Performance: Nov 29, 2014 at Open Studio (Ground Floor), HKICC Lee Shau Kee School Of Creativity
Time: 4pm - 8pm
Performers: No One Pulse (HK), Caligine (IT) and Sherman (HK)

NOISE to SIGNAL 0.28: Ting Shuo

NOISE to SIGNAL 0.28: Ting Shuo

FM3V Quartet is a special performing outfit led by Christiaan Virant of FM3, and they will be presenting songs from FM3's new full length album “Ting Shuo”, in an all new electronic / acoustic format.

Performer:
FM3V Quartet
(audio/visual live set + artist talk & introduction)

Supporting Guests:
Jasper Fung (HK)
Oliver Coates (UK) + Aming Liang (CN) + Sin:Ned (HK)

Date: Dec-6, 2014
Time: 8:30 PM
Venue: VIP Room, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
135 Junction Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong (Lok Fu MTR Exit B)
Admission: Pay What You Want

Jointly presented by Re-Records & Twenty Alpha
Venue Sponsor: HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity

ACO Sound-On-Site: Slow Burn

 

 

ACO Sound-On-Site: Slow Burn

Slow Burn is a series of mini live session for explorative sound and music performance in an intimate format under the new ACO Sound-On-Site program. Every time we will invite different innovative artists and musicians to collaborate on creating some challenging but interesting music.

Performers:
Callum MacKenize (Saxophone / US)
Wilmer Chan (Bass / HK)
Sin:Ned (Electronics / HK)

Date: Nov-8, 2014
Time: 8:00 PM
Venue: Art & Culture Outreach
Address: 14/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Admission: Free Donation

Enquiry: 2893 4808
Web Site: http://aco.hk/

Presented by Art & Culture Outreach
Curated by Twenty Alpha & Re-Records

About ACO Sound-On-Site
Sound-On-Site is a site specific program presented by ACO (Art & Culture Outreach) in collaboration with Twenty Alpha and Re-Records. With Sound-On-Site, we aim to develop an intimate and meaningful dialogue between the specific space, the artists and the audiences, and at the same time, create an inspiring art enjoyment experience for the audiences.

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《艺鵠場域定聲 : 緩燃》

《緩燃》是《艺鵠場域定聲》計劃底下的一系列迷你演出聚會。每次演出聚會，我們都會邀請不同的創意音樂人合作，為大家在一個開放而親密的環境底下，試煉先鋒創意音樂的闊度、彈性及感性體溫。

演出藝術家：
Callum MacKenize (色士風 / 美國)
Wilmer Chan (低音結他 / 香港)
Sin:Ned (電子樂器 / 香港)

日期：十一月八日, 二零一四年
時間：晚上八點
地點：艺鵠
地址：香港灣仔軒尼詩道365-367號富德樓14樓
門票：自由捐獻

查詢電話：2893 4808
網址： http://aco.hk/

主辦：艺鵠
策劃：Twenty Alpha & Re-Records

關於《艺鵠場域定聲》
《場域定聲》是一個由艺鵠主辦，並由Twenty Alpha及Re-Records策劃，以聲音為焦點的場域特定藝術計劃。藝術家及觀眾，會透過不同的特定場域，及富啟發性及趣味性的藝術體驗，進行親密而意味深長的對話。

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About the Performers

Callum MacKenzie
Callum MacKenzie is a saxophone and flute player from New York. He attended Berklee College of Music where he studied Jazz Composition. Since then he has been a member of a number of different bands and duos in the jazz and avant garde spheres, notably Hong Kong's Composer's Union of New Tunes, Toronto's Lottery Tickets and Boston's Jazz Tellers. He also writes the comic book Eyesight, which you can read at http://www.eyesightcomix.com/

Wilmer Chan
Wilmer Chan (born 1985) studied at Lawrence University of Wisconsin and graduated in 2012 with a bachelor in music composition. Wilmer is deeply interested with the expressions and spontaneity of improvisation across all music genres. Musical highlight in the recent years includes collaborations with improvisor Sabu Toyozumi, Alfred Harth, Composer Martijn Tellinga and the Deep Listening Band.

Sin:Ned
An experimentalist, improviser and noise addict. Founding memeber of local experimental outfit No One Pulse, After Doom, adeo and underture. Co-founder of Re-records.



NOISE to SIGNAL 0.27: Modulation

NOISE to SIGNAL 0.27 : Modulation

Dream of wires and think in patches !! Gear up for modular synthesizers overloaded with electronic madness !! Full analogue electronic music of retro-futurism !! Featuring modular synth wizzard Robert Piotrowicz (Poland), Olaf Hochherz (Germany), Phantom (Hong Kong) and Alain Chiu (Hong Kong).

Performers:
Robert Piotrowicz (PL)
Olaf Hochherz (DE)
Phantom (HK)
Alain Chiu (HK)

Date: Oct-25, 2014
Time: 8:30 PM...
Venue: VIP Room, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
135 Junction Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong (Lok Fu MTR Exit B)

Admission: Pay What You Want

Jointly presented by Re-Records & Twenty Alpha
Venue Sponsor: HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity

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About the performers:

Robert Piotrowicz (PL)
robertpiotrowicz.net
Robert Piotrowicz is a sound artist, composer and improviser. He has authored radio dramas, sound installations, and music for theatre productions, and collaborates regularly with other artists on audio-visual performances. As an instrumentalist, Piotrowicz works mainly with his own live performance setup, developed around the electric guitar and analogue modular synthesiser. His music has as much in common with contemporary electro-acoustic compositions as it does with sound art. His concerts feature saturated, detailed musical forms created with analogue synthesizers and computers. He has developed his trademark sound of intense dynamics seized in dramatic and balanced structures.

PIotrowicz has released several solo albums as well as collaborations with artists such as Burkhard Stangl, Anna Zaradny, Jérôme Noetinger, C. Spencer Yeh and Kevin Drumm. Other collaborators in recent years included Valerio Tricoli, Oren Ambarchi, Martin Klapper, Zbigniew Karkowski, Łukasz Szałankiewicz, Lasse Marhaug, John Hegre, Kasper Toepltz, Xavier Charles,Tony Buck and others.

He is also co-founder of the Musica Genera Festival and the Musica Genera label.

Olaf Hochherz (DE)
http://hochherz.klingt.org/
Olaf Hochherz is born 1981 in Wuppertal/Germany. He improvises with self build electronic instruments and is interested in unstable systems. His goal is not to control a technical aperture but to create an associative field. The sounds have their own live. His playing tries to keep them alive. He is interested in the effect acoustic activity has, the relation between surrounding environment and instruments, between abstract sounds and associations, between electrical and other worlds.

Phantom (HK)
Phantom, a local modular synthesizer duo of Hong Kong established by William Cheung in 2014. Timmy Lok joined and started to improvise free form electronic music using all analogue full or semi-modular synthesizer systems.

Alain Chiu (HK)

http://alainchiu.com/
 Award-winning composer Alain Chiu’s music has been performed in concert halls and festivals throughout the world. His music was heard in the 41st & 42nd Hong Kong Arts Festival, Hong Kong Week at Taipei, Jumping Frames Italy Tour and Cannes Film Festival, and has been performed by the Ives Quartet, the Afiara Quartet, William Lane, Kung Chi Shing, Louis Siu and among many fine musicians.

Chiu’s music was recorded by the Grammy Award winning ensemble Orchestra of Our Time in 2011. He is working on a multimedia opera that deals with class issues in Hong Kong.

NOISE to SIGNAL 0.26 Electric Borderland

NOISE to SIGNAL 0.26 : Electric Borderland

A showcase of hybrid electronic music that goes beyond the standard technological format, featuring electronic experimentalist Tim Blechmann (Austria), analogue punker Soviet Pop (Beijing), and our very own drums and guitar duo The Language Lab.

Performers:
Tim Blechmann (AT)
Soviet Pop (CN)
The Language Lab (HK)

Date: Sep-30, 2014
Time: 8:30 PM
Venue: VIP Room, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
135 Junction Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong (Lok Fu MTR Exit B)
Admission: Pay What You Want

Jointly presented by Re-Records & Twenty Alpha
Venue Sponsor: HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity

About the Performers:

Tim Blechmann (AT)
http://tim.klingt.org/
Tim Blechmann is an improviser and composer, using computer and loudspeakers as main instrument. His music is focused on static noise textures that are digitally generated and spatially projected in real-time. For live performances his preferred lineup is the duo with other improvising musician. Regular collaborators include Klaus Filip, Manuel Knapp, Seijiro Murayama and Conny Zenk among others.

Soviet Pop (CN)
http://sovietpopbeijing.bandcamp.com/
A Sound-based Oscillator-Duo (Li Qing and Li Weisi), using analog synth and lo-fi equipments to make old sound in their first album The Dialogue. Now they`ve abandoned the keyboards, using only oscillators and patch cords, to play dirty oscillator punk songs. Sometimes they also play experimental compositions, pure noise or other nice shit.

The Language Lab (HK)
http://www.youtube.com/theLanguageLab
"The Language Lab" is a project led by visual designer Koo Park-kin and sound engineer Tse Kam-po. They believe that music is an inborn language and try to realize this by recording sonic experiments in varied environments. They would communicate in impromptu pieces with the unconventional use of musical instruments and audio equipment. They are convinced that a concert will come naturally in the process. Results from the current experiments show that this kind of music possesses features of such genres as movie soundtracks, avant-garde, dance, ethnic, rock and noise.

About organizers:
Re-Records
Re-Records is a record label initiated by experimental / electro-acoustic duo No One Pulse from Hong Kong. With Re, we don’t solely aim to be an outlet for releasing self-initiated or other affiliated projects, but also for artists and releases we deem interesting.
http://www.re-records.com/

Twenty Alpha | 20ά
20α (Twenty Alpha) focuses on the development of experimental music and film in Hong Kong. We strive to connect musicians, filmmakers, organizations, venues from local and worldwide, and share the outcome with Hong Kong audiences, especially youth. Our goal is to provide a platform for experiment through interaction and collaboration. We believe knowledge and creativity can be enhanced by deeper level of collaboration and exchange of ideas.

Programme & Ticketing Enquiries: rerecordshk@gmail.com
Press Inquiries: +852 2139 5230 / info@twentyalpha.org

SUBLIMINAL LOUNGE #2: SURREALISME

SUBLIMINAL LOUNGE #2: SURREALISME
Music for Surrealist Movies

Live sound track performed by Swiss experimental trio DEER for silent surrealist films « La Perle » and « Monsieur Fantômas », with post-performance artist talk.

Live soundtrack:
DEER (CH)

Movie screening:
La Perle (Belgien 1929, 33 min), Henri d'Ursel
Monsieur Fantômas (Belgien 1937, 17 min), Ernst Moermann

Date: Sep-13, 2014
Time: 8:30 PM
Venue: VIP Room, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
Admission: Pay What You Want

Jointly presented by Re-Records &Twenty Alpha
Venue sponsor: HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity

About the movies:
La Perle was a surrealist film directed by Henri d'Ursel in 1929 under the pseudonym "Henri d'Arche". Henri d'Ursel was born in Brussels, Belgium. During the 1920s, he lived in Paris at the height of the surrealist and avant-garde movements. The film was based on a story by Georges Hugnet. In the film, a young man buys a pearl for his fiancée. He walks out of the jewelry store that opens onto a forest. He counts the pearls and realizes one is missing so he gets back to the store. On entering he catches sight of an alluring saleslady sitting on a showcase with her skirt lifted. On one of her stockings, close to the garter, another pearl necklace is tied. The young man takes it away from her. Outraged, the jeweler fires the assistant, who goes away with the man sitting on the handlebar of his bike. After this, the pearl is lost, found, lost again.

Monsieur Fantômas was a surrealist film made by Ernst Moerman in 1937. Shot on a shoestring budget on a beach and in an old cloister, the style of this scathing surrealist satire is immediately recognizable as that of the Feuillade serials. In top hat and tails, the Master of Crime (played by the future father of French singer Johnny Hallyday) tours the world in pursuit of the beautiful Elvire, punctuating his travels with mischief and acts to offend proper decency. The film encompasses amour fou, the meanders of dreams, fanatical anti-clericalism and a plea for subversion and adventure in "a world where nothing is impossible, where the miracle is the shortest route from our uncertainty to mystery

About the performer
DEER is a trio formed by bass clarinet players Hans Koch, Christian Müller and Silber Ingold, three prominent heads of the experimental music scene of Biel, Switzerland. Their playful interest in electroacoustic experiments is not only leading to filigree sound architecture, but also to heavy and dark soundscapes.

The trio DEER explores the miscellaneous sound colours of the bass clarinet and the different manners of playing it. Equipped with all kinds of electronic devices and effects, the three musicians take a close look at the sound and search for new depth in the interaction of the acoustic tone and the electronic way of examining it. In extension of the conceptual approach the trio also allows elements of improvisation in its play, thus connecting strictness with interacting freshness and stylistic playfulness.

About Subliminal Lounge
Subliminal Lounge is a series of movie screening and live performance event initiated by Re-Records & Twenty Alpha to interactively explore and recreate the connection between moving images and sound.