Venue / McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date / 6th April – 12 April 2018
In this Spring of 2018, Hong Kong Arts Centre and Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong have co-presented the first multi-channels sound festival in Hong Kong.
The Sound Forms festival featured 5 new commissions by emerging local composers and artists, 21 international artists, 21 Hong Kong premieres and 2 world premieres in 7 Sound Form Live concerts and 6 Sound Form Lounge exhibitions in a week from 6 – 12 April.
In the cozy space of McAulay Studio in the Hong Kong Arts Centre, the 8-channel sounds brought the audiences to journeys across time and space as well as reality and imagination. From the imagined shipyards back in a century ago to the newly discovered exoplanet Kepler 62e; from the labyrinth in India to a 4-lane highway in Princeton Junction of New Jersey; from fragmented stories of dislocation from 5 European cities to fictional world of Jin Yong’s martial arts novels; these experiences challenge our sense of space.
The dark lighting that takes away audience’s abilities to sense the surroundings with eyes forces them to focus on listening. The sense of a solid space dissolves and the space is re-structured into whatever the auditory sense leads to.
Sound Forms festival will take audiences to another journey in 2019. Stay tuned and do not miss this!
在2018的這個春天，香港藝術中心及現在音樂合辦了香港首個多聲道聲音藝術節。
《聲形》聲音藝術節於4月6 – 12日期間順利舉行，在7場音樂會及6場展覽中，一共呈獻了5位本地新晉作曲家及藝術家的委約作品和21位海外藝術家的作品，當中包括21個香港首演及2個世界首演作品。
在舒適的香港藝術中心麥高利小劇場中，從八方而來的聲音引領觀眾走了一趟跨越時間與空間、現實與幻想的旅程﹕由幻想中百年以前的造船廠到最新發現的系外行星克卜勒62e；由印度的迷失國度到新澤西州普林斯頓的4線高速公路；由5個歐洲城市發生離異的破碎故事到金庸小說中的武俠世界； 這些體驗震撼了觀眾的空間感。
漆黑的燈光設計奪走了觀眾以雙眼認知及探索空門的能力，使他們集中於聽覺。實質的空間開始變得不安定，周遭的空間被重構成聽覺經驗所建築成的環境。
《聲形》將會在2019再次帶領觀眾出發。勿切留意，萬勿錯過！
Venue / McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date / 6th April – 12 April 2018
In this Spring of 2018, Hong Kong Arts Centre and Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong have co-presented the first multi-channels sound festival in Hong Kong.
The Sound Forms festival featured 5 new commissions by emerging local composers and artists, 21 international artists, 21 Hong Kong premieres and 2 world premieres in 7 Sound Form Live concerts and 6 Sound Form Lounge exhibitions in a week from 6 – 12 April.
In the cozy space of McAulay Studio in the Hong Kong Arts Centre, the 8-channel sounds brought the audiences to journeys across time and space as well as reality and imagination. From the imagined shipyards back in a century ago to the newly discovered exoplanet Kepler 62e; from the labyrinth in India to a 4-lane highway in Princeton Junction of New Jersey; from fragmented stories of dislocation from 5 European cities to fictional world of Jin Yong’s martial arts novels; these experiences challenge our sense of space.
The dark lighting that takes away audience’s abilities to sense the surroundings with eyes forces them to focus on listening. The sense of a solid space dissolves and the space is re-structured into whatever the auditory sense leads to.
Sound Forms festival will take audiences to another journey in 2019. Stay tuned and do not miss this!
在2018的這個春天，香港藝術中心及現在音樂合辦了香港首個多聲道聲音藝術節。
《聲形》聲音藝術節於4月6 – 12日期間順利舉行，在7場音樂會及6場展覽中，一共呈獻了5位本地新晉作曲家及藝術家的委約作品和21位海外藝術家的作品，當中包括21個香港首演及2個世界首演作品。
在舒適的香港藝術中心麥高利小劇場中，從八方而來的聲音引領觀眾走了一趟跨越時間與空間、現實與幻想的旅程﹕由幻想中百年以前的造船廠到最新發現的系外行星克卜勒62e；由印度的迷失國度到新澤西州普林斯頓的4線高速公路；由5個歐洲城市發生離異的破碎故事到金庸小說中的武俠世界； 這些體驗震撼了觀眾的空間感。
漆黑的燈光設計奪走了觀眾以雙眼認知及探索空門的能力，使他們集中於聽覺。實質的空間開始變得不安定，周遭的空間被重構成聽覺經驗所建築成的環境。
《聲形》將會在2019再次帶領觀眾出發。勿切留意，萬勿錯過！