標籤: Interactive

Memorial Birdsongs-An immersive, interactive garden of natural music

Support by Hong Kong Arts Development Council

About Memorial Birdsongs

As a communal safe space for healing, Memorial Birdsongs creates a growing community choir of recorded birdsongs, each selected by visitors to memorialize a lost loved one. Using their phones or through this site, visitors select a birdsong and painting in memory and add the name to place their song in the garden.

They also receive a digital memento of the painting and song for social media sharing. Over the course of the exhibition, the garden fills with a choir of birdsongs from around the world, each representing someone lost but remembered.

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Opening Reception: 30 September 2023

Exhibition Period: 1 October – 14 October 2023 (Mon to Sun)

Venue: K11 Musea 8/F Nature Discovery Park

Website: https://www.memorialbirdsongs.com/

IG: @memorialbirdsongs

Creative Team

Scott Hessels (artistic director) and his design studio FugitiveColor create public artworks that use technology for richer social participation, with frameworks that include interactive collaboration and immersive spaces. Based in Hong Kong, US and Portugal, his projects span different media including moving image, data visualization, kinetic sculpture, and site-specific installation. His artworks have been presented internationally in exhibitions focusing on both technology and Fine Art. His recognitions include patents for developed technologies, references in books and periodicals on new media art, and coverage in popular cultural media.

Zoe Chan (co-producer) is a local innovator in New Media Art exhibition curation and development. Her projects have broken boundaries in both content and form, merging new technologies seamlessly with traditional performance and cultural art forms as well as siting the events in unexpected and meaningful venues and contexts. She is adept at the planning, execution, promotion, documentation and reporting of large-format works particularly in the Arts-Tech sector.

MetaObjects (technical development and fabrication) is a digital studio based in Hong Kong and London that aims to facilitate digital production with artists and cultural institutions. Working across a range of media, the studio seeks to encourage the sharing of knowledge of new digital tools and processes. Through close collaborations, MetaObjects builds a deep understanding of the possibilities of new technologies to help realize projects to a high standard of production.

Original Paintings by Li Changan
Research by Cyrus Leung
UI/UX Design by Marek Gollan
Logotype by Dom Chung

Promotion and Publicity – Amy Zang, Anson Kong, Claudia Sei Grace Whitfield, Karine Cheung, Mick Wong, Ryan Hong & Wendy Zhou

Technical and Installation – Anson Lam, David Yau, Kelvin Wong, Tommy Cheung & Vincent Cheung

Film and Video Documentation – Emma Paddock, Mau King-Ho, Michelle Tse, Samuel Kwan & Tony Cha

2023-10-04
~Pandemic~ Chaos-An Interactive Sound Installation about COVID-19

This project involves the contributions of Mr. Chan Sheung Fung, Mr. Tse Man Ki, and Mr. Wong Yiu Sing for documentation, graphic design, and equipment preparation—special thanks for their hard work.

What is ~Pandemic~ Chaos ?

After three years of the pandemic, Hong Kong citizens can finally rest and breathe fresh air without masks in public at the expense of living hard and inconvenienced at those times. This interactive sound installation is going to stimulate our audiences and make them reflect on the time of the pandemic. Besides, we would like to experiment with them by creating unexpected results and collecting their reactions to these “sensitive” sounds, such as spraying and coughing. What will they do or feel?

Location of the Sound Installation

The interior area of the 2/F in Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre. The location has a square for walking. Providing different sound effects with main background music could increase interactivity.

How does ~Pandemic~ Chaos work?

This installation includes three pieces of music played by three main speakers and a list of sound effects played by portable devices. All the music has been uploaded to the link below.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hrI8VH3XH_xlF4e6ZFQRa9grSGke2xk2?usp=share_link

Composition of Background Music and Sound Effects

The first piece of music focuses on using masks and people’s unawareness of the pandemic. The music used audio clips from news and press conferences to inform the audience about the first year’s pandemic. Low frequencies are used to create invisible pressure about the pandemic. We intentionally made extreme contrasts in the dynamics to create pressure.

The second main music focuses on vaccinations and the LeaveHomeSafe mobile application. The keywords “vaccination” and “LeaveHomeSafe” are repeated throughout the music. Since the second speaker is placed in a relatively closed area, we repeat the melody and keywords to make the music around the audience to illustrate that the pandemic is all around us. Percussion instruments are used from the middle to the end of the music to create tension about the increasing concern about the pandemic. The music ends at the climax, illustrating that the pandemic is not over.

The third music piece concentrates on the cancellation of different covid prevention policies. Instead of using different instruments and audio clips, we create a relaxed feeling in the third music using a simple string melody and a single audio clip.

For the sound effects provided to the audience to play with, we collect the sounds that we usually hear in our daily lives during the pandemic, such as coughing and sneezing, to add more variation to the installation.

2023-09-13

標籤: Interactive

Memorial Birdsongs-An immersive, interactive garden of natural music

About Memorial Birdsongs

Creative Team

~Pandemic~ Chaos-An Interactive Sound Installation about COVID-19

What is ~Pandemic~ Chaos ?

Location of the Sound Installation

How does ~Pandemic~ Chaos work?

Composition of Background Music and Sound Effects