[Webcast Only] HKNME | Sonic Ecology Digital Conference Three-day Digital Conference
VIEW EVENT DETAILSDecember 4th-6th, 2020
A three-day digital conference, keynote speakers and guest artists will share with international audience with paper presentations and workshops from a wide variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives, focusing on innovative sound-based projects that address environmental awareness and engagement to realize sound-based initiatives that facilitate new artistic connections with the natural world, or to address - directly or conceptually - pressing environmental issues.
Rhumb-Line: Anthropocenic Sound Mapping on the Web
Paper Presentation by Margaret Anne SCHEDEL, Brian SMITH, Rob COSGROVE, Nick HWANG
Sunday, December 6th, 2020 | 11:00am - 11:30am
With an interdisciplinary career blending classical training in cello and composition, sound/audio data research, and innovative computational arts education, Stony Brook professor Margaret Anne SCHEDEL transcends the boundaries of disparate fields to produce integrated work at the nexus of computation and the arts. She has a diverse creative output with works spanning interactive multimedia operas, virtual reality experiences, sound art, video game scores, and compositions for a wide variety of classical instruments with interactive audio and video processing.
Brian SMITH is a musician, writer, and artist interested in exploring cultural practices, social forces, and technology through the medium of sound. As a co-founder of the ensemble ScreenPlay, he pursues a deep interest in experimental musical practices and improvisation with audio-visual works that merge animated notational schemes and artistic sonification practices based on large-scale data sets. Smith’s current project, "Human+", combines his interest in technologically-mediated sonic arts with a fiendish advocacy for new works by living composers to develop a repertoire of duets for musical robotics and percussionist.
Rob COSGROVE is a percussionist, composer, and artist with a practice focused on experimental music and sound. Internationally exhibited and performed from Fridman Gallery to Carnegie Hall, his recent work focuses on novel uses of amplification, feedback systems, and complex textural strata. COSGROVE is currently a doctoral candidate at SUNY Stony Brook in New York.
Nick HWANG is a composer and sonic artist whose work explores connections in art, technology and interaction. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater. HWANG earned his PhD in Compositional and Experimental Music & Digital Media at the Louisiana State University. He holds a Masters degree in Music Composition from Louisiana State University and B.A. in Theory and Composition from the University of Florida. His teachers have included James Paul Sain, Paul Koonce, Paul Richards, Paul Basler, Dinos Constantinides, and Stephen David Beck. (More Details)
Conversation with Artists: The paradox of coexistence
Presentation by LO Lai Lai Natalie, Visual Artist and LAM Lai, Composer
Sunday, December 6th, 2020 | 11:30am - 1:00pm
Lo Lai Lai Natalie was born in 1983 in Hong Kong. She graduated from the Faculty of Art in The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Major in Fine Arts, minor in Japanese Studies) in 2006. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2017. Lai Lai is a former travel journalist. She is interested in the development and the construction of nature. She is a learner at the collective organic farm Sangwoodgoon (Hong Kong) where she also explores the lifestyle of “Half-Farming, Half-X”, a practice that seeks alternatives and autonomy as an artist and Hong-Konger. Lai Lai founded the Slow-so TV channel, with a focus on food, farming, fermentation, slow-driving, surveil- lance, and meditation. Her artworks are mostly moving images, photography, mixed media and installation. Her work is collected by the Sigg Collection.
Lam Lai received her BA and MA in composition and electronic music at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and further studied at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. She carries out projects at the interface of art, science and technology in relation to the environment, society, culture and mankind. She is interested in the creation of new media hybrids and new experiences for the audience. Her compositions - orchestra, ensemble, electronic, and interdisciplinary works - have celebrated their world premieres all across the globe. Participated festivals include Cycle Music and Art festival (Iceland), Musica Nova Helsinki, Atlas Festival (Amsterdam), New Vision Arts Festival (Hong Kong), and Sound Forms (Hong Kong). Music-theatre works include “Title:undefined” (2018, Leiden), “Basketball” (2020, Stuttgart) and group production “Bubble <3” (2018, Munich). She is also active on organizing events. In 2020, she organized a global performance and art event 02022020.space connecting artists in more than 35 cities around the globe. (More Details)
The Vigil of Debris - a waste discarding ritual
Presentation by Karen YU, Percussionist, performance artist and interdisciplinary arts researcher
Sunday, December 6th, 2020 | 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Percussionist, performance artist and interdisciplinary arts researcher, Karen Yu uses sound-making as a medium to question and subvert the relationship between audience and performer. In explorations of new possibilities in performing arts and concert culture, she has collaborated with a number of artists and musicians, including Ken Ueno, Philippe Leroux, Michael Pisaro, Zihua Tan, Vinko Globokar and Jean-Pierre Drouet. Based in Hong Kong, Yu is a co-founder and co-director of the chamber percussion group, The Up:Strike Project, member of NOVA Ensemble, and co-founder of EXORDIUM Collective.
As an active performer, Yu was most recently featured at the opening of Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong’s Sound Forms 2019, and co-presented a lecture recital, “People Can Be Trusted: Performative Dialogues in the Music of Sean Griffin” at the recent edition of Transplanted Roots Percussion Research Symposium. Previously an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre of Arts and Creativity and a fellow at the Blackbird Creative Lab, Yu has also performed in Hong Kong Sinfonietta @ Artistree “Notating Beauty That Moves,” Tai Kwun Lunch Time Series, Percussive Arts Society Day(s) of Percussion (Hong Kong, Montreal), Hong Kong Arts Festival, Transplanted Roots Percussion Research Symposiums (Guanajuato, Brisbane, Montreal), Biennale Montreal, IRCAM ManiFeste Academy, SoundSCAPE New Music Festival, PRISM Chamber Music Festival, and Sonic Anchor. Her chamber music performances can be listened to on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Naxos Records and Radio Television Hong Kong.
Karen Yu received her Master of Music and Bachelor of Music from McGill University under the guidance of Professor Aiyun Huang and Fabrice Marandola. Her studies at McGill University were fully supported by the Schulich Graduate Fellowship. Her projects have been supported by Centre of Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, Hong Kong Arts Development Council and Hong Kong Home Affairs Bureau.
Aside from being a percussionist, Karen is the Executive Officer of McGill University Asia Office and a sour beer enthusiast. (More details)
The wonderful world of insects in Hong Kong and beyond
Talk by Ying LUO, Scientist
Sunday, December 6th, 2020 | 3:30pm - 4:00pm
Ying has a scientific background in entomology and plastic pollution in mangroves. As a research assistant at HKU she published a paper describing a new species of ant, found right on Hong Kong Island’s Lung Fu Shan Country Park. Her further studies are currently focused on plastic pollution in mangroves, particularly in Hong Kong. She continues to share her passion and work on insects via Instagram and YouTube. (More Details)
Music and Activism
Keynote Presentation by Victor GAMA, Composer, Instrument Designer
Sunday, December 6th, 2020 | 4:00pm - 4:45pm
Victor Gama is an Angolan composer, artist and researcher, whose practice combines scientific methodologies and digital technology together with traditional practice and non-western systems of knowledge often from his home country.
Gama holds an MA in Digital Organology and Music Technology from Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University and is currently phD candidate at KASK & Conservatorium / School of Arts Gent in Belgium. His musical compositions are expansive works that bring together diverse mediums such as music, photography, video, field recording and the design of contemporary musical instruments and sound installations.
He frequently collaborates with Institutes and Universities, including the Centre for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University, the Centre for Arts Science and Technology at MIT and the Institute for International Study at Indiana University. (More details)
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