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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

Music and Activism
音樂與行動主義

Video Presentation | 視頻演講

Victor Gama
composer, artist and researcher | 作曲家、藝術家和研究員



Abstract

Using the creative power of the arts can move us emotionally with the strategic planning of activism necessary to bring about social change. This keynote presentation will focus on three main components that can help us transform art and music in particular if it deeply engages with the natural world and the people living its dramas. Music has that power to stimulate a feeling, move us emotionally and alter our perceptions.


Main aspects discussed in this presentation:
- Singing with Nature
- Text and Score
- Ancient Mythology


摘要

藝術的創造力可以打動我們的情感，驅使我們制定必要目標和行動以推動社會變革。本次主題演講將會聚焦於三個音樂所具備的主要功能：激發情感、觸動心靈以及改變認知的力量。這些演講議題將有助我們對藝術和音樂進行改造，尤其當其與大自然及過著如戲人生的芸芸眾生深入互動時，改造所帶來的作用將會尤其重要。

本演講討論的主要內容：
- 與自然同歌
- 文本與樂譜
- 古代神話




Biography



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.

Gama has been commissioned to compose for some of the world's most prestigious ensembles and institutions such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Kronos Quartet, the Kennedy Centre in Washington D.C., the Prince Claus Fund, the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

He designed instruments and installations for the National Museums of Scotland, the Tenement Museum in New York, the Royal Opera House in London, the Clay Centre for Science and the Performing Arts in West Virginia, among others.

His most recent major music score was the multimedia opera '3 thousand RIVERS - Voices in the Forest' commissioned by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Prince Claus Fund and staged at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam, the Grand Auditorium at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon and at Teatro Roberto Arias Perez in Bogota.

The Poet Tree, commissioned for the Parque dos Poetas by the Municipality of Oeiras in Lisbon is part of Gama's current focus on developing content driven public art installations with unique mobile interactive applications.

www.victorgama.org