April – June

Around sound art festival 2009

Around is about listening. It is almost a contradiction in terms to call a group of listening activities a festival, for festival connotes the joyful sounding of crowds in celebration. Around would like to propose a different kind of celebration – one that requires retreat. Retreat is the experience of a time of non-participation. “A time when what mattered was receiving, in all simplicity and in all honesty…a time when there was no need to express oneself, to prove something, to be one’s noisy intrusive self.” (Yasmina Reza, “Thirty Seconds of Silence”)

The name of Around is an extension of soundpocket. They both emphasize comportment and bearing, what lies around and makes them possible. The Chinese title of Around is ting zai (Putonghua) and ting joi (Cantonese). It means both “listen at” or “listen in”, and “listen to be”. When used as part of a phrase, ting joi designates the place and time of listening, for instance, “ting joi Lamma” means to listen in Lamma, and “ting joi 2009” means to listen in 2009. The broader meaning of “to be” is the human horizon against which all listening activities are experienced and understood. We invite you to listen to the many meanings the name whispers to you.

…continue reading festival booklet

《聽在》聲音藝術節

〈聽在〉是關於聆聽的。以“節日”的“節”爲一系列聆聽活動命名好像有點矛盾，因爲“節”像是較熱鬧和歡天喜地的情景。〈聽在〉則想提出另一種慶祝的狀態 － 退。退，是一種非參與的狀態。「這時候, 重要的是最簡單和坦誠的接收, 這時候沒有需要表達自己, 證明甚麽, 和做那個强加於人的自我。」

〈聽在〉這名字是《聲音掏腰包》的延續, 它同樣地强調一種方位, 以及還繞它、讓它可能的種種。〈聽在〉，也可解作處於某時某地的聆聽, 例如聽在南丫, 抽像一點；也可以說聽在音樂, 有如沐浴於音樂中；或者聽在2009年.“在”字本身也有存在的意思,也是所有聆聽經驗之可能存在的領域。

我們邀請你聆聽這名字向你細語, 說出不同意義。

…閱讀全文請往小冊子

Artists & Speakers 藝術家與講者：
Akio Suzuki 鈴木昭男 (Japan), Anthony Yeung 楊我華 (HK), Beatrix Pang & Siu Fung 彭倩幗 + 小風 (HK), Black 素黑 (HK), Cédric Maridet (France/Hong Kong), Jérôme Joy (France), Jaffa Lam Laam 林嵐 (HK), Jason Lim 林榮華 (Singapore), John Lee 李耀誠 (HK), Kacey Wong 黃國才 (HK), Kawai Shiu 蕭家偉 (Singapore) & Hong Kong New Music Ensembles, Mike Cooper (Italy), Miki Yui (Germany/Japan), Patrick Shek 石達明 (HK), Yan Jun 顏峻(PRC)

*Simone Merli did not participate in the festival due to unforeseeable circumstances.
Simone Merli 因特發事故未能參與本藝術節

Curated by Yeung Yang
楊陽策展

Artistsʼ works 作品與活動：

Jérôme Joy
DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE 現場演出
LocustreamMix
rooftop of Foo Tak Building, Wanchai 灣仔富德樓天臺
April 2009

Artist presentation

In the eighteenth century, a French writer has imagined a globe directly connected to different places around the world with the help of pipes and trunks, thus one could simultaneously listen in the live sound ambiances of these remote locations. Since 2005, the Locustream project by Locus Sonus consists of a Internet network of worldwide open microphones which are accessible via streaming techniques. This soundwork is a recording mix of some of these live and continuous microphones along a short period : from the 30th of August to the 2nd of October, 2009, and from Amsterdam, Boston, Buga Valle in Colombia, Chicago, Honk Kong, Lijiang in China, Montreal, Nice, Marseilles, Solleftea in Sweden, and Paris.
Locus Sonus : http://locusonus.org/

Miki Yui
INSTALLATION 展覽
Island
six-channel sounds 六聲道裝置
abandoned houses, Motat Village, Lamma Island 南丫島模達村廢屋
May 2009

Artist statement

The island is a sound
arose from the waves

In a old village on Lamma island, time stand still.
4 Houses in line, protected by two stone god of the village.
Houses gradually collapse and return to the nature.

Inside the houses, things were left just as if people lived until recently.
Just piles of dust tell amount of time that has passed since they left.

My work was to add sounds to those remainings
of the houses, and to the surroundings.

Donna Ong & YC Teo
INSTALLATION 展覽
Landscape Portraits 地貌寫照
Abandoned houses(Rooms I – IV) in Tung O, Lamma Island 南丫島東澳廢屋
May 2009

Phoebe Hui 許方華
INSTALLATION 展覽
ONCE UP ON A TIME
Motat Village, Lamma Island 南丫島模達村
2009

Beatrix Pang & Siu Fung 彭倩幗 + 小風
INSTALLATION 展覽
(:)
MCCM TheBookshop, Wan Chai 灣仔MCCM TheBookshop
2009

Kacey Wong 黃國才
OUTDOOR INSTALLATION 戶外展覽
Mind Stir
outside kapok, St Francis Yard, Wanchai 灣仔聖佛蘭士圍kapok門外
May – June 2009
(photo taken at soundpocket on April 2010)

Jaffa Lam 林嵐
INSTALLATION 展覽
Sound Tree 聲音之樹
Hong Kong Architecture Centre, Central 中環香港建築中心
2009 – 2010

Akio Suzuki 鈴木昭男
DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE 現場演出
untitled 無題
Motat Village, Lamma Island 南丫島模達村
May 2009

Kawai Shiu with Hong Kong New Music Ensemble
DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE 現場演出
Tung O Processional
Tung O, Lamma Island 南丫島東澳
May 2009

Mike Cooper
CONCERT 音樂會
Shek Pai Wan, Lamma Island 南丫島石排
2009

John Lee 李耀誠
CONCERT 音樂會
Tung O, Lamma Island 南丫島東澳

Photo courtesy to John Lee

Jason Lim 林榮華
LIVE ART PERFORMANCE 行為藝術表演
Motat, Lamma Island 南丫島模達
2009

Yan Jun 顏峻
HEADPHONE SOUND WALK 聲音漫步
Walk…Stay… 走走停停
Tung O & Motat, Lamma Island 南丫島東澳及模達

Hahn Chu Hon Keung 朱漢強
Friends of The Earth talk on light Pollution 香港地球之友談「噪光」
TALK 講座
Motat Village, Lamma Island 南丫島模達村

Patrick Shek 石達明
Stories of acoustics in HK concert halls 香港音樂廳的音響歷史故事
TALK 講座
HK Architecture Centre, Central 中環香港建築中心

Kawai Shiu 蕭家偉
TALK 講座
Sound and Myth 聲音與神話
MCCM TheBookshop, Wan Chai 灣仔MCCM TheBookshop

Black 素黑
TALK 講座
Sound in Writing 書寫的聲音
MCCM TheBookshop

Anthony Yeung 楊我華
LISTENING WORKSHOP 工作坊
Tung O & Motat, Lamma Island 南丫島東澳及模達

Piklikpaklakbong! sounding toys exhibition 霹靂啪喇嗙! 兒時玩具大聲展
EXHIBITION 展覽
hulahoop

Cultures of Listening 聆聽的文化與想像
BOOK EXHIBITION 書展
aco_books 藝鵠

Yeung Yang 楊陽
READING GROUP 讀書會
Guided reading on books about cultures of listening 聆聽的文化與想像- 楊陽導讀
aco_books 藝鵠

Kacey Wong & Jaffa Lam 黃國才及林嵐
TEA 茶敘
Tea with Kacey Wong & Jaffa Lam – on sculpting sound 與黃國才及林嵐茶敘
daipaidong opposite kapok kapok地鋪對開大排檔

meet and greet Around artists 與藝術家見面
SHARING 分享
Tung O & Motat, Lamma Island 南丫島東澳及模達

Around sound art festival 2009 closed on June 15, 2009.
Our warmest thank you to all participating artists and speakers:
Mike Cooper, Hahn Chu (Friends of the Earth), Phoebe Hui, Jerome Joy, Jaffa Lam, John Lee, Jason Lim, Donna Ong & YC Teo, Beatrix Pang & Siufung, Kacey Wong, Kawai Shiu & Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Patrick Shek, Su Hei, Akio Suzuki, Yan Jun, Anthony Yeung, Miki Yui.
Around sound art festival would not have been possible without the generous support of the following sponsors, co-organizers, and volunteers:
Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Le French May and the Consulate General of France, our sole beverage sponsor San Miguel, our media partner Alive Not Dead,
Hong Kong Electric, Mr Bobby Li, Rainbow Seafood Restaurant, Dawei Charitable Foundation,
Asia One for the excellent printing quality of our programme book,
Osage Gallery for supporting Donna Ong and YC Teo’s collaborative work for Around;
Hong Kong Institute of Acoustics for exchanging web links with soundpocket on the occasion of Around;
Hong Kong Electric volunteers team ;
Green Lamma Group ;
young docents of HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity ;
Para/Site Art Space for lending soundpocket headphones and CD players,
SEE Network, Hong Kong Architecture Centre, The Bookshop by MCCM, aco books, Friends of the Earth, kapok, hulahoop.
Special thanks to Lee Chun Fung and his friends, and Wendy Li, for being around.

Download 下載
Around 2009 聽在　Booklet小冊子 | Programme-at-a-glance節目一覽
出版書籍 Book published Pocket:1 Around 聽在

*Around 2010 聽在