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Series of works (2018–2021). Commissioned by Osage Gallery, New Music Ensemble, and ESKYIU, Hong Kong<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2018, relocating to Korea and then Hong Kong, my practice evolved to directing music-driven films. With \u201cPieces of Eight\u201d, I collaborated with Joyce Beetuan Koh on a score and placed musicians of the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble at unusual outdoor settings: on a junk boat in Aberdeen Harbour, at a street market in Lo Wu, at the Wartime Stoves in Tai Tam Country Park, and more: places chosen for their significance for urban design in Hong Kong. The 50-minute score required each musician to listen carefully to the environment and, through their instrument, dialogue with various sound elements that appeared. The location audio recordings were post-produced for a hybrid multimedia performance and installation, presented at Taikoo Place in collaboration with ESKYIU design company. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Osage commissioned me in 2021, I re-worked the recordings and layered them with new multimedia elements to create “P8\u2022\u516b\u97f3”. An eight-channel sound installation was diffused within a site-specific wall painting (a rendition of a map of Hong Kong) was overlaid with video projections. In addition to this central work, the exhibition featured four of my films: “Simmering,” “The Sound of Origin,” “KYAGER,” and “Making the Pieces of Eight.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through the process of creating these pieces and films, the boundaries between musician and soundscape momentarily dissolve, collapsing distance into experience itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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