Prelude: To Listening: Concert Version 2023

Ryo IKESHIRO* (Artist), Farah Yang (Other), Ren Gui (Other)

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Creative and Literary Works in Non - textual FormRGC 44 - Performance and participation in exhibits

Abstract

Sanxian/sanshin, Ambisonics field recording, video, text, computer

The work invites the audience to embark on an exercise into listening: listening in the present, but to the past and the future, and listening across time. Through audio, video and text, it gradually guides the listener and the viewer to traces of history that may or may not be evident in sound: acoustic resonance caused by material remnants from World War II in Hong Kong; the ringing of the three metal strings of the sanxian morphing into the three nylon strings of its slightly smaller cousin: the sanshin from Okinawa, Japan; echoes of sounds from instruments which are no longer in Hong Kong. A neural network attempts to sift through and make sense of these dislocations in time and space.

Performers
Stella Chan, sanxian, sanshin
Ho Yi On, Chinese percussion

Thanks to:
Green Mok, video
Longman Luk, audio
Farah Yang, software programming
Gui Ren, translation

Presented by: Hong Kong New Music Ensemble
Supported by : City University of Hong Kong, Soundlab
Translated title of the contribution前奏曲: 聆听之前: Concert Version 2023
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 23 Nov 2023
EventPrelude: To Listening: Concert Version 2023 - Freespace, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong, China
Duration: 23 Nov 2023 → …
https://www.hknme.org/events/prelude-to-listening

Bibliographical note

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Funding

The work presented in this performance by Ryo Ikeshiro was partially supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. CityU 21602822).

Research Keywords

  • field recording
  • Ambisonics
  • sound and image
  • video
  • Lamma Island
  • listening
  • sanshin
  • sanxian
  • Chinese percussion
  • generative AI
  • mixed-music

RGC Funding Information

  • RGC-funded

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