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Thursday, September 25th, 2008

2009 December 12
Talk and artist’s sharing with Lin Chi-wei (Taiwan) and Xu Ya-zhu (Taiwan)

Artist Lin Chi-wei works and lives in Beijing, he shared with us about his video and audio works. Participants experienced the performance - Social Measurement through Sound in the beginning of the sharing. Xu Ya-zhu participated and organized various sound-related projects in Taipei, she defined her career as “culture activator”. Xu Ya-zhu talked about the curatorial practice in Taiwan and Beijing.

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2009 November 28 to December 9
If sound can speak… - exhibition and performance
Three emerging Hong Kong artists Joego Chan Yeuk-ming, Attor Cheung Tin-yau and Jantzen Tse Chun-sing to present sound installations and performances in an aging building to listen to.
(an event of DETOUR, Business of Design Week)
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2009 October 18
Meeting Yao DaJuin - artist sharing
Yao Dajuin shared his knowledge and experience in his art practice and previous projects at soundpocket in an Sunday afternoon.
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2009 October 16
Chinese sound art: 2,500 Years of Listening - public talk by Yao DaJuin (Tawin/PRC)
Founder of China Sound Unit and educator, Yao Dajuin gives a talk addressing the history of Chinese ways of listening and how it compares and conflicts with those of the West.
(an event of October Contemporary 2009 - Now, or Never)
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2009 September 24
Presentation of soundpocket on Pecha Kucha Night #6
http://www.pecha-kucha.org/night/hong-kong/6

2009 July
Listen to soundpocket on BBC World Service - Save the Sounds
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003lqz3

2009 May 30
rice, water, beat - soundpocket fundraising

Our sincere thanks to Nelson Hiu, John Lee and Kung Chi Shing, who performed in rice, water, beat at o-veggie to raise funds for soundpocket. Special thanks to Wendy Li for devoting her time and energy to the event.
Amount raised: HK$8,500
We will make prudent use of the donation for soundpocket’s projects in 2009-2010.
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2009 April 28
Around sound art festival 2009
Jerome Joy gave a talk on projects by locus sonus to students at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
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2009 April 29
Around sound art festival 2009
Jerome Joy performed on the rooftop of Fu Tak Building, Wanchai
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2009 May 1
Around sound art festival 2009
Akio Suzuki performed in Tung O, Lamma Island
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2009 March 14, 2009
listeningspecial_march14

2009 Jan - Feb
mike cooper at soundpocket Feb 12, 2009
the art of listening series II /《聽者言系列二》
presented by soundpocket / 聲音掏腰包主辦
in conjunction with Hong Kong Sound Station, Para/Site Art Space

Class 1
Date Feb 12, 2009 (Thursday)
Time 6’30 – 9’00pm
Place soundpocket, Unit C, 10/F, Gee Chang Industrial Building, Tokwawan, Kowloon
Title Sound of Music – listening to cultures

Speaker Mike Cooper
For the past 40 years Mike Cooper has been an international musical explorer, performing and recording, solo and in a number of inspired groupings and a variety of genres. Initially a folk-blues guitarist and singer songwriter his work has diversified to include improvised and electronic music, live music for silent films, radio art and sound installations. He is also a music journalist, writing features for magazines, particularly on Pacific music and musicians, a visual artist, film and video maker, collector of Hawaiian shirts and appears on more than 60 records to date. Ambient Electronic Exotica is the genre and subtitle of recent solo performances, often accompanied with film or video, and three c.d. releases, ‘Kiribati’, ‘Globe Notes’ and ‘Rayon Hula’. Ambient field recordings collected in the Pacific, South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, sampled, looped, treated electronically, and combined with acoustic or electric lap steel guitar improvisations to create Virtual Soundscapes. Cooper credits the writing and recorded works of ethnomusicologist Steve Feld as a major influence on this latest phase of his music, in particular Feld’s work with the Kaluli people in Papua New Guinea and the concept of what they call ‘Lift Up Over Sounding’ - ‘Unison or discretely bounded sounds do not appear in nature; all sounds are dense, multilayered, overlapping, alternating, and interlocking. A constantly changing figure and ground…a spatio-acoustic mosaic of ambient and human sounds…a texture without gaps, pauses or breaks…part relations that are simultaneously in synch while out of phase.’ ( from Sound and Sentiment-Steve Feld).

More about Mike Cooper

Class 2
Date Feb 21, 2009
Time 2 – 5pm
Place soundpocket, Unit C, 10/F, Gee Chang Industrial Building, Tokwawan, Kowloon
Title Sound of Music|Music of Sound
The term “organized sound”, coined by Edgard Varèse (often misattributed to John Cage), has gained such popularity as a succinct modernistic definition of music for the past few decades that the term itself has almost become a cliché, or at its worst a fake badge of Know-all. Part lecture, part workshop, part listening party, part nostalgic gathering, composer Kawai Shiu will discuss the intricate relation of sound and music. Not aiming at a wiki-way of knowledge transmission, the event encourages the participants to interpret their personal relationship to the subjects.
(Optional: Bring your instruments or sound devices to be part of the event)

Speaker Kawai Shiu
As a versatile artist, Kawai Shiu has received numerous awards in recognition of his work. Composition awards include those from the Vienna Modern Masters’ Orchestral Recording Award, the Rudolf Nissim Award, Frederic Goossen Composition Prizes, ASCAP Awards, Kent Kennan Scholarships, and funding from the American Music Center. Other Commissions and performances include those for Endymion at the Purcell Room, the Cheltenham Festival, the International Clarinet Course in Spain, Dartington Festival, the World Saxophone Congress, and the Pacific Contemporary Music Festival. Kawai’s music has been recorded by CRI, Vienna Modern Masters, Ablaze Records, and Soy Sauce Records. His music is also widely broadcasted on radio worldwide and online, including a featured series at RTHK-4 and a live broadcast program by Chicago based new music ensemble CUBE. Kawai is also a prolific writer on poetry, drama, and writings on music and art criticism. He is also a credited contributor to instrumental pedagogical publications. Kawai has served as the Music Director of the British Royal National Theatre’s production of Euripides’ Bacchai, directed by Sir Peter Hall. As a researcher, Kawai was a Research Fellow at Swiss Paul Sacher Stiftung. A lecture performance co-developed by composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Kawai on Paul Klee has been presented at Hayward Gallery (London), British Royal Academy of Arts, and Lucerne Festival. Kawai has been appointed the Honorary Visiting Professor of Music at the Conservatorium of Music at the University of Tasmania and at present Assistant Professor at Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music. For his contributions to the musical field, Kawai Shiu was selected for inclusion in International Who’s Who in Music and Musicians’ Directory, among other bio-dictionaries.

More about Kawai Shiu

Class 3
Date Feb 28, 2009 (Saturday)
Time 2 – 5pm
Place soundpocket, Unit C, 10/F, Gee Chang Industrial Building, Tokwawan, Kowloon
Title sound, lake, rain
Maridet recently came back from the Mamori Art Lab, a Barcelona-based cultural organization that offers workshops to artists of various disciplines, including music and sound. He gives a presentation of his creative experimentation with local residents of Mamori, one of the many lakes surrounding the Brazilian part of the Amazon River, and the inspiration he received from a sensational environment.
Speaker Cedric Maridet
B. 1973. Works and lives in Hong Kong since 1999 and is currently a full-time PhD candidate in media art in the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on soundscape theories and on the paradigm between sound-event and sound-object. He founded Hong Kong based electronic label monème in June 2004 as the main platform to release his works [_habitus, 2006]. He has participated in performances in Hong Kong and exhibitions in Hong Kong, Macau, New York, Paris, London, Madrid, Berlin, Vienna and Cambridge. He was awarded Prize of Excellence in the Hong Kong Art Biennial 2005 for Huangpu [video collected in Hong Kong Museum of Art], and was invited to be artist in residence at the Hong Kong Visual Art Centre and in Mamori ArtLab in Brazil. He is also a contributor to the open microphones project of French-based research lab in audio art Locus Sonus (École Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence, École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Nice Villa Arson and Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseille). His works focus on field recordings and soundscape composition, audio-vision, the construction of altered sonorous spaces, and aural architecture.

More about Cedric Maridet

Fee – HK$140/ class [HK$390 for three classes]
Sign up for the classes by emailing soundpocket at yangy@soundpocket.org.hk
Enquiries – Yeung Yang 90403877

~ Special thanks to Hong Kong Sound Station, Para/Site Art Space, for publicity support ~

2008 Dec - 2009 Jan 11

the art of listening series I /《聽者言系列一》
especially designed for practicing or prospective artists interested in making sound works /
特別針對有興趣製作聲音作品的藝術家和藝術學生

Veteran artist Frog King once said that installation art was first made by stage set makers in the theatre. “the art of listening series I” presented by soundpocket aims at matching knowledge and know-how from the theatre to the needs of contemporary art production. It is designed for practicing and prospective artists who are interested in making sound works. It suits in particular installation artists dealing with the relation between sound and space, and artists whose work with recorded or live audio components. It enhances and sharpens skills artists may already have in making works with sound as a prominent component. It inspires artists who may be just starting to think about trying out sound works.
Participants will learn about the specifications and characteristics of a range of microphones and speakers, how to critically and creatively listen to and interpret indoor and outdoor spaces with microphones, indoor sound systems, and technical know-how that is crucial to theatre production and applicable to contemporary art production.
蛙王說過，裝置藝術源於舞台設計。聲音掏腰包推出《聽者言系列一》旨在讓舞台工作人員跟當代藝術工作者分享他們的技術、理論、知識和經驗。
本系列特別針對有興趣製作聲音作品的藝術家和藝術學生、對聲音及空間的關系有興趣的裝置藝術家和藝術學生、及任何對錄音及現場音響有興趣的藝術家和藝術學生。
本系列分三節，內容包括理論、導賞和實習。第一節主題為西方舞台音響歷史和演變，及應用與研讀舞台技術於舞台以外。第二節主題為各種不同的話筒和揚聲器的特性和用法，及室內音響系統的種類和特性。第三節主題為練習聆聽和學習如何應用各種不同的話筒詮釋室內及室外空間。
*The main language of all sessions will be Cantonese supplemented by some English and
Mandarin where necessary ／授課語言主要為廣東話，有需要的式候以英語和普通話補充。

About the tutors 導師簡歷
*All tutors have fifteen to twenty years of experience in theatre production and/or audio industry, active in art and commercial projects. / 各導師具備十五至二十年舞台、音響專業及商業項目經驗。

Anthony Yeung 楊我華 / mastering engineer and theatre sound designer
Billy Wong 黃漢基 / audio system consultant
Christopher Johns 莊繼滔 / theatre sound designer and Head of 莊繼滔 / Head of Dept of Entertainment Design and Technology, HKAPA

SERIES I : technical and practical by professionals 內容
Class 1 Dec 14, 08 (Sunday) / 2-5pm / AYM Studio, Tokwawan
Theatre Audio: histories, systems and configuration by Billy Wong and Anthony Yeung
Sound design for Looking for Antonio Mak contemporary art exhibition at Museum of Art (on show until Jan 28, 2009)

第一節主題為西方舞台音響歷史和演變，及應用與研讀舞台技術於舞台以外
Class 2 Dec 28, 08 (Sunday) / 2-5pm / AYM Studio, Tokwawan
Listening to spaces – technicalities of field recording by Anthony Yeung (for artists
interested in sound works)
認識各種不同的話筒和揚聲器之特性和用法，及室內音響系統的種類和特性
Class 3 Jan 11, 09 (Sunday) / 2-5pm / AYM Studio, Tokwawan
Listening to spaces – field recording theories and practices by Anthony Yeung
練習聆聽和學習如何應用各種不同的話筒詮釋室內及室外空間

2008 November 29

soundpocket recorded live the Touching Sound concert by John Lee at Nam Chung

Dec 2008
soundpocket participates in Another Space - Hotel Space Concept Art Exhibition / 另·空间 - 酒店空间概念创作展

soundpocket’s piece -
Title of work: The Window / 窗口
Mock set-up: on a window, install a sound bug speaker connected to any audio player with headphone-jack out / 模疑装置: 把具有吸盘的sound bug 扬声器紧贴窗口, 配上任何声音播放系统
Concept:
Windows in modern hotel rooms are designed to stay closed. They are transparent barriers that separate the inside from the outside. They present the perception of safety for the traveler in a foreign land. They frame the foreign into a distant view. They keep it under control. They purify.
Closed windows are also part of the wider global phenomenon of indoor living, the result of intense urbanization. How much time do we spend indoors every day?
In face of barriers, one tends to break. The Window takes a different approach. It brings the windows back to life by making them physical. It makes them speak. It asks, Whose imperative is it to tame the foreign? How has the modern hotel participated in making taming part of the traveler’s package?
Slowly and gently, place your palms on the window. Slowly and gently, press your ear against The Window.
Lean. Listen. Imagine.

现代社会的酒店, 窗口往往是关着的。它是个透明界线, 把内外分隔。它给异地的旅者安全的印象; 它把异地纳入框架。它操控; 它净化。
关着的窗口也是极度城市化的现象 – 我们每天有多少时间活在室内一个关闭着的保安空间?
遇上界线, 我们要冲破。窗口选择了另外一个进路。窗口要寻回窗口的物质性; 要窗口说话。它要问, 谁要驯服异者?酒店如何参与把驯服异者变成承包旅游的一部分?
轻轻地, 把你的手放在窗口上。轻轻地, 把你的耳朵贴近窗口。
亲近, 聆听, 想象。

Another Space in Shenzhen / 另·空间深圳站
Time / 时间：Dec 7 - 14, 2008 / 2008年12月7日-14日
Place / 地点：F14, F518 Idea Land, Bao’an Area, Shenzhen, China / 深圳市宝安中心区F518时尚创意园14栋

(Will be tour in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu, the specific time will re-released / 将于2009年在北京，上海，广州，成都巡展，具体时间再公布）

参展名单 Exhibitors List

柏志威 Bai Zhiwei
曹丹 Cao Dan
CLOOZ组合：程君 Jun + 卢俊 Bibi + 陈洪伟 Victor
邓瑜 Deng Yu
冯志峰 Fanci
黑一烊 Hei Yiyang
黄帅 Huang.S
黄薇 Mee Wong
黄雪冬 Huang Xuedong
黄周妥 Huang Zhoutuo
李伟斌 Ben
李昱昱 Yuyu
刘世贵 Jason
MEI：Carp + Miss Mei
Paul Coquerel
Philip Tinari
苏焊光 Alex So
糖果猫猫 Popil
杨阡 Yang Qian
杨阳+声音掏腰包 Yueng Yang + SoundPocket
张淼 Zhang Miao
朱德才 Eric Zhu
字态 Zitype

Host / 主办：
F518 Idea Land / F518时尚创意园
Avant-garde Art Hotel / 前岸艺术酒店

Organizer / 承办：zitype workshop / 字态工作室
Co-operative / 协办：Shen Zhen Zhang Miao Architects Co., Ltd / 张淼建筑设计事务所
Curator / 策展人：Imagine Wong / 黄立光

2008 November - December

soundpocket presents sound installation work “WATER RECLAMATION” by YUEN Cheuk Wa, at Broadway Cinematheque, Yaumatei. Thanks to Kubrick’s Amanda and MCCM Creations’ Mary for their encouragement and support.