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CARAVANSERAIS

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Research


Project 1
Sonic Ecology
  1. Curatorial Statement
  2. Listening to Ecosystems from Interdisciplinary Perspectives
  3. Music and Activism
  4. The Vigil of Debris
  5. The Recycling Concerto
  6. The Unexpected Guest


Project 2
Music & Moving Image
  1. Curatorial Statement
  2. Water, The First Body
  3. Light in Infinite Darkness
  4. Kyager
  5. The Moments


Project 3
Naamyam Creative Research 
南音創意研究
  1. 策展人的話
  2. 南音的互動
  3. 戲台南音賞析
  4. 南音創意研究〈客途秋恨〉MV創意對談: 許敖山x杜泳
  5. 南音飄揚未定
  6. 香港南音之永劫回歸？
  7. 南音︰起點抑或歸處？──「南音新創作展演」的兩種實驗
  8. 傳統音樂的突破？南音未來之路——「南音研究計劃」


Project 4
Contain
  1. Genesis
  2. This is water
  3. Modul-ation
  4. Often easy, sometimes impossible
  5. Sensations of getting lost





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The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to CARAVANSERAIS only, but does not otherwise take part in it.  Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in the materials/activities (or by members of the GRANTEE’s team) are those of the organisers of CARAVANSERAIS only and do not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Mark

Kyager
Video Presentation and Notes from the Composer | 視頻及作曲家的話


PerMagnus Lindborg and Loo Sze Wang (盧思泓)



簡介

KYAGER 是關於山峰、一名音樂家，以及一部機器人的作品。每個有創造力的音樂家都夢想達到其藝術巔峰：耶穌和彼得拉克同樣登上山峰展示榮耀。一些音樂家，如Gepetto、Drosselmeyer或Frankenstein，都懷有成為機器人的勃勃雄心。但對於音樂家盧思泓先生（Loo Sze Wang）而言，是機器人渣古變得更像它的主人，還是主人變得更像機器人？ 


PerMagnus Lindborg、盧思泓等人（2021）：
現場表演版本：笙、電子音樂及影片//固定媒體版本[影片]。

PerMagnus Lindborg：作曲、影片導演、道具、攝像及剪輯。
盧思泓：笙演奏、表演及機器人渣古模型。
Joyce Beetuan Koh：附加音樂。
Manni Chen：協助攝像及製作。
由SOUNDISLANDS製作，香港城市大學（專案資助編號7200671）及香港創樂團提供支持。.



創作歷程 


因為這個「網誌」是以由下而上的方式搭建，所以它以時間倒序的方法來呈現其創作過程。以下是剪輯過程中的一些照片，大部分內容於6月份製作完成，多數在Final Cut Pro軟體中完成剪輯，並使用Max/Jitter圖形編程軟體來製作其附加影片效果。現場錄音由我本人在韓國首爾的冠嶽山和香港的大帽山錄製而成，笙演奏樣本由盧先生在其錄音室中錄製——當中大部分已採用Max軟體處理過，然後再將其以Logic Pro剪輯處理。




兩項研究

山地塗鴉

我在外出徒步旅行時，偶然發現一處十分壯觀的場地，後來它成為KYAGER影片剪輯中的一項研究重心。雖然兩個作品之間並沒有直接聯繫，但兩者共有的某種感覺卻將彼此聯繫在一起。請告訴我您對山地塗鴉的看法。


冠嶽山

KYAGER的部分背景源自我（PerMagnus）在韓國生活時拍攝有關冠嶽山「山尖」的短片。這部作品的素材來自盧先生演奏的樂曲草稿，其由Joyce所創作（2019年在新加坡錄製）、PerMagnus先生演奏的打擊樂器 —— 由Deborah Waugh（香港大學敲擊樂團）製作的石板琴，以及在首爾國立大學附近的山路上拍攝的影片片段。首演： :MO:ving::vement:::tion::::






拍攝日記

這是2021年4月至5月在香港拍攝的外景拍照，在我的博士生Manni Chen的協助下，由我和盧思泓拍攝完成。










建造和安裝道具








組裝渣古









作曲







Biographies


Dr PerMagnus Lindborg

Dr PerMagnus Lindborg is a composer whose research in sound perception and design is anchored in computer music. He explores cross-modal correspondences to enrich the science-art bond by applying empirical results in the design of artwork as well as extracting analytic data from sensory experiences. Significant output includes the ‘Locust Wrath’ series of climate data sonification installations, and the surround sound design for ‘Axis’, the world’s first dome-projected dance film.

He holds a PhD from KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm 2015) and has published in PLoS One, Leonardo, Applied Acoustics, Frontiers, Applied Sciences, IRCAM-Delatour, Springer-LNCS, and conference proceedings such as SMC, ICMC, ICMPC, and ICAD. Starting out as a pianist and composer (BMus Oslo 1995), he was an independent artist for ten years, while simultaneously pursuing studies in music computing (IRCAM Paris 1999) and contemporary musicology (DEA Paris 2003). From 2005 he has taught in higher education in France (École nationale de musique de CAPM), Singapore (Nanyang Technological University), and Korea (Seoul National University). He founded the Soundislands Festival (2013–17) and serves on the board of International Computer Music Association, as Music Coordinator and as Regional Director for Asia-Oceania. He is currently a Research Topic Editor for Frontiers Journal of Psychology on ‘human perception of environmental sound’.





Loo Sze-wang (photo by Sky Lip)

Prize-winning Loo Sze-wang is the foremost sheng (Chinese mouth-organ) player of his generation in Hong Kong. He has been active both as a soloist and as a chamber musician, having been featured several times at the Hong Kong Arts Festival, the contemporary music festival Musicarama and Radio Television Hong Kong. Since 1983, Loo has collaborated with different performing groups including the Song Company of Australia, Xenia Ensemble of Italy, St Lawrence String Quartet of the USA, POING of Norway, Het Collectif of Brussels, Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Macao Orchestra, performing in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, the USA, Japan, Taiwan, Germany, Singapore, Korea and China.

Loo premiered several sheng concertos including Miroir de Macao by Lam Bun-ching, Hark the Phoenix Soaring High and ‘Twas the Thawing Wind by Chan Hing-yan. In 2009, he was Artist-in-Residence of Cornell University, New York and gave a solo performance with Fulcrum Point New Music Project at Northwestern University, Chicago. In 2012/2013, Loo was appointed as Artist Associate of Hong Kong Sinfonietta and toured with the orchestra in North America. Recent highlights included the performances in Chan Hing-yan’s chamber opera Heart of Coral in Taipei (Hong Kong Week 2014), Law Wing-fai’s music theatre When Petals Fall in Serenity, Samson Young’s The Anatomy of Musician in Paris in 2015, world première of Chan Hing-yan’s Hark the Phoenix Solitaire Cry with Orchestra UniMi in Milan under the baton of Yip Wing-sie in 2016, and the 2017 Hong Kong Arts Festival production of Hong Kong Odyssey.

As a founding member of Chinese Music Virtuosi, a six-member Chinese instrumental ensemble that performs new and traditional works, Loo has performed at Garden Festival in Warsaw, Melbourne Festival, Singapore Arts Festival, Buenos Aires International Music Festival, Hong Kong New Vision Arts Festival, and Chinese Composers’ Festival, among others. The group also commissioned over a dozen new works, which include works that score for both Chinese and Western instruments. It was appointed as the Ensemble-in-Residence of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2011/2012.

A graduate of CUHK and The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Loo’s sheng teachers included Chen De-ren and Cheng Tak-wai. He had also taken flute lessons from Timothy Wilson and Chan Kwok-chiu.