SONIC AMASS 2018

SONIC AMASS

As way of celebrating Midsummer, WING is delighted to invite you to participate in Sonic Amass, an ongoing audio project by Julie Semoroz.

Designed as an in-situ program over a period of three days, Sonic Amass first takes the shape of a workshop and develops into a laboratory for sound improvisation during the following days. A team of sound artists will of­fer participants the chance to record and collect various objects to be manipulated and transformed into a sound piece and installation. By mixing sounds and noises of Chai Wan, an area known for its semi-industrial as well as residential character between sea and mountains, we will create a sound metaphor that reflects the plural identities of the daily life in the surroundings of WING—a patchwork of sounds, objects, beings, thoughts and words.

Together with the participants, the artists will develop a new acoustic space to rediscover a known territory for some or to create from an unknown territory for others, in an ongoing dialogue about the identity of the space and its surroundings.

Sonic Amass explores the possibilities to merge multiple identities within a specific situation and the capacity to share views, ideas, sounds and voices, an experience unique to each venue where it takes place.

For this 2018 edition, Sonic Amass is created in collaboration with members of the Namiji Collective Samson Cheung and Fuk Kuen Wong with the support of the Consulate General of Switzerland in Hong Kong and Pro Helvetia.

Workshop on Thursday 21st June 2018

The participants are invited to collect or to bring objects (found, personal objects, object found in the area …) and are invited to record sounds in the area with K7 players provided by the organizer, in a close encounter and in a creative exchange with the artists.