Sound Pocket

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soundpocket is a registered charitable organization in Hong Kong. (company registration number: 1223695) We receive no regular funding from any source except our own pockets. We have been awarded a one-off grant of HK$120,000 from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council to actualize AROUND, the first international sound art festival in Hong Kong in May 2009.

We have the following individuals, companies and organizations in addition to our honorary advisors to thank, for their time, energy, ideas, encouragement, and support:
Anthony Yeung Mastering Studio, Billy Larry, Codesign, Mike Cooper, Chris Lau, Wendy Lee Kwok-ying, Edwin Lo, Emergency Lab, MCCM Creations, Para/Site Art Space, Ellen Pau, SEE Network, Madeleine Slavick.
If we have missed you on this list, you know who you are. Thank you.

We need your support to better our listening environment.

Please donate to:
soundpocket limited / HSBC 004-813-272671-001
A receipt from soundpocket will be sent to all our patrons upon receipt of all donations.

*ALL DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE

do you listen to everything?
somebody listens to everything.

sounds ice-cream-cool! ben and jerry’s uses sound to chill ice-cream.

merry christmas from microwave ovens…lots of them

Pirates attacked a Singapore cruise ship with over 1,000 people on board on Nov 20, 2008. The Straits Times reported that the captain accelerated and left the pirates behind. But there was another tactic that saved everyone on board: to use a long-range acoustic device that blasts a painful wave of sound to distract the pirates. Another such use was documented, with explanations of how they work - contemporary manifestations of what French thinker Rabelais had written of seafarers’ experiences 500 hundred years ago, and of the Greek mythology of the Siren’s songs that caused shipwrecks

Kraftwerk concert in Singapore (Dec 3, 2008) was a blast!! As if worried the audience will be overly blasted, ear plugs were made available at the entrance with a sign saying, “in case the music is too loud”.

a bird that imitates the sounds of her environment! 一隻會模仿環境聲音的小鳥

the Honda Choir 車聲歌詠團

sonic postcards project 聲音明信片

listen for extra terrestrial signals 尋找外太空訊號

last update - Apr 2, 2009

We need your support!
rice, water, beat is soundpocket’s first ever fund-raiser.
Our aim is to raise HK$80,000 which will go into the production of a book that documents Around sound art festival with writings on sound art in Hong Kong, and the presentation of Listening Sensitivity workshops for the rest of 2009.
Date: May 30, 2009
Time: 2-5pm
Place: o-veg, 1/F, 9 Sing Wo Road, Happy Valley
Entry: HK$1,000 (free for children aged 12 or under)
*Limited seats - please reserve yours by emailing Wendy Lee (wendymiow@gmail.com, +852 92764110).

details here soundpocket_fundraiserMay30,2009

soundpocket is a promoter, educator, facilitator, and gatherer. We work in the fields of sound, art and culture. We find sound in diverse and dynamic relations with many different art forms (visual art, installation art, music, theatre, dance etc.), and with a variety of cultural contexts that give meanings to our lives. We would like to work with all those who share this active interest in sound.

soundpocket supports not just an art form, but ideas and possibilities that engage with aesthetically meaningful, culturally-grounded and publicly relevant sonic practices, which have a lot to teach about how we understand the world and the experiences yet to be valued.

IF YOU LISTEN, YOU CAN BE ANYWHERE
Tell us about your vision, what you think of ours, to debate and discuss. Please leave us your EMAIL.

soundpocket 扮演宣傳、教育、促進與收集的角色。我們涉足聲音、藝術與文化,發現聲音與不同的藝術形式(包括視覺藝術，裝置藝術，音樂，戲劇，舞蹈等)有著多樣化和動態的關係；在不同的文化背景下為我們的生活賦予意義。我們希望與所有對聲響有同樣興趣的人共事。

參考閱讀：《傾聽：用有孔的口袋收集聲音》（刊登於《號外》2008年六月號）

soundpocket team
(the followings are all non-salaried positions)

Founding Member & Executive Director
YEUNG YANG 楊陽
is an independent curator, writer and university lecturer. Upon graduating from Yale University
with an M.A. in anthropology, she worked as a documentary video director at Radio Television
Hong Kong. She graduated in 2004 with a PhD in Intercultural Studies at the Chinese University of
Hong Kong. Exhibitions she curated include “in midair, sound works hong kong 2007” (Jun, 2007),
“Art Responds to 14QK” (Nov 2007), “Nocturne, Alfred Ko solo photography exhibition” (Apr,
2008), “The Table” (Dec, 2008). She has more than eight years of teaching and curriculum design
experience. She is currently Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Cultural and Religious
Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong. She founded soundpocket in 2008 to promote
interdisciplinary research, curatorial practices and public education in sound, art and culture.

Chairman, Board of Directors
CHRISTOPHER JOHNS 莊繼昌
is Head of the Department of Entertainment Design and Technology of the Hong Kong Academy
for Performing Arts. An internationally acclaimed sound design and engineer, he has worked with
Sir Richard Eyre, Phylida Lloyd, Trevor Nunn, Robert Lepage and Peter Garbriel.

Directors
ERIC DELANNOY
is an art lover and art collector who has been living in Hong Kong since the 1980s. He has a
business background and is currently planning a recurrent public sculpture event in Hong Kong.

STELLA FONG   方詠甄
received her graduate curating training at the Royal College of Art, London. She has curated
numerous contemporary art exhibitions in Hong Kong and the UK, the most recent one being
Beautiful Journey, Beautiful World - The art container exhibition in West Kowloon Cultural District,
Hong Kong. In 2007, she received the Dr Joseph K.W.Li Arts Fellowship of the Asian Cultural
Council to pursue research in the US. She is currently curator at the Hong Kong Heritage
Museum.

PARRY TAM
has over 13 years experience as entrepreneur and business owner. His expertise is in business
planning, strategy, profitable negotiations, and operations. He is also well-versed in music
arranging, music composing, film scoring and producing, which led him to independent music
publishing and co-founding Asiavibe.com in 1999, Asia first e-commerce music site. It won Best
Asian Music Site in 2000 from Asiaweek/ CNN.

Advisors
JOHN DREVER
is an award-winning composer with an international research profile working in the fields of sonic
art, digital media, soundscape studies and interdisciplinary collaboration. He is also reputed for
fostering new channels of dialogues among the fields of music, sound design, new media and
other environments. He is currently Lecturer in Composition and Head of the Unit for Sound
Practice Research at the Department of Music, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

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 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.

MC YAN MC 仁
is a musician, graffiti artist, and rapper. He is founder of “Fu©KinMusic” and Chinese hardcore
streetgear label ” NingSiBuQu”.

NGOR-WAH ANTHONY YEUNG 楊我華
graduated from the School of Technical Arts at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in
Theatre Sound Design and Music Recording in 1991. He has worked with City Contemporary
Dance Company, Hong Kong Ballet, Hong Kong Art Festival, Ching Ying Theatre, Radio 4 Radio
Television Hong Kong, Chinese Music Virtuosi, Chor Fung Ming Theatre Company and so on.
In 2003, He received the ‘Best Sound Design’ award at the 12th Hong Kong Drama Awards with
the Chung Ying Theatre Company’s production, ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ and participated in the 50th
Venice Biennale with Para/Site Collective. In 2007, in collaboration with Dr. Kawai Shiu, he was
commissioned a sound installation work ‘Still Moving’ in the event ‘in midair - sound works hong
kong 2007’.

contact us at info@soundpocket.org.hk