audiences engaging installation | 2014
Medium: Multi media installation
Strolling along Kowloon Walled City Park - An Exhibition on Kowloon City and Extend exhibition



In the old days in China, people gather around to chit chat with shelling peanuts. Nowadays, Mr. Peanuts is a popular term in Hong Kong to describe people who like to speak without further action. I try to revert such negative impression back to a more constructive approach. The exhibition is about Kowloon City, therefore, I create a corner for listening Kowloon City's residents chatting, while audiences can shell peanuts in the exhibition. The sound of eating peanuts, stepping on the shells create a playful yet unavoidable sonic experience to the audiences. Wandering in the exhibition with peanuts could be a vintage way to witness the transformation of our city.

Such way of audiences' engagement is also a test of limitation of different parties. Since the peanut shells were left in the exhibition area throughout the period, consensus of other artists, audiences and person in charge of the venue are involved.

More Detail: http://www.creativehk.edu.hk/klncitylearningnetwork/

剝花生

以前常說的剝花生等睇戲，今天已演變成所有民生政治社會娛樂連鄰居大明小強的鬧劇，都可以成為娛樂小市民的茶餘飯後的話題。如果也可以用這般休閒八掛的態度，留意一下我們蛻變中的城市，小角落裏的人民風情，或許我們的領悟會更不同，是次展覽推介九龍城么鳳花生。

 

3 hours sound walk | 2014

As part of the Kowloon City Urban Renewal Learning Network activity, artist Lo Chi Kit and Sin Yu Tsang led a sound walk in Kowloon City. The sound walk lasted for three hours. Participants had to keep a distance from each other,  and to remain silence during the walk, including lunch time in restaurants. Besides, they had to eat slowly during lunch time. The whole process was about learning to be slow in such a 'noisy', fast paced city, take the initiative of their own lifestyle, appreciate and enjoy those they disliked formerly. What we claimed to be noisy could be transformed to life symphony.


【聲音工作坊－井田間的聲音紀錄】
遊走九龍城的井田間，我們穿越一間又一間的泰國餐廳、火鍋店、甜品鋪、水果店，會巧遇打冷美食、豆品店和茶餐廳，充斥滿街的食市更夾雜着地盆、按摩中心、車房、香燭店、雜貨店、寵物店、牙纖樓 …… 擦身而過的是食客、侍應、售貨員、苦力、街坊鄰里、消費者，他們的走路、說話、勞動、叫賣、執勤時發出的聲音高高低低，時而吵鬧，時而呢喃，配上地盆打樁的轟隆聲、車子的響鈴聲、泰國餐廳傳出的歌曲聲，可以是煩囂嗓音，亦可以是生活樂章。

More detail: http://kowlooncity.wixsite.com/kowlooncityproject/ph2---ws

 

 

31'35" performance | 2014

In this performance, I try to bring intimate domestic activities on stage. Borrowed to the specific acoustic design of the McAulay Studio, where housework is not a chore, but a sonic-theatrical event that warrants our attention.

This is my Sonic Anchor debut solo performance in Hong Kong Art Centre. Special thanks to Samson Young for the invitation, and Alex Yiu for his collaboration in the dark.

More detail: http://www.cmhk.org/2014/05/19/online-archive-sonic-anchor-16-4/

Short film by Treehouse Studio
Sound designed by sinyu.tsang

Impact 21 describes a crash. A merry-go-round in the open space hits the planet creating an impact. The impact of the 21st century can be a clue of our existence.

This project is commissioned by @ Yah Yuen Chinese Music Association Chinese plucking instrument gives me a sense of glitches, so I made a video about the rhythm and layers of the glitches. It was a fun collaboration with composer Dr. Donald Yu,  he composed the piece as a reference for me, after I've drafted the video, he refined the composition and then I finalise the video. Turns out we created the rhythm of our city with Chinese plucked instruments.

More detail: http://www.yaoyueh.com/blank-c7by

8'11" recording | 2013



recording of washing dishes, i like the drainage sound

  

Short film by Treehouse Studio

Sound and original music by sinyu.tsang 

"Hong Kong Station" is about Hong Kong life style. 4 levels of a metro station replicates 4 decades of Hong Kong. It has been awarded the 15th TBS DigiCon6 Creativity Award, Japan
 《香港站》反映著香港人的生活。四種階層代表著香港的四個車站年代。

  

greeting of the sunflowers
向日葵的祝福

45' performance | 2012
Experimentica 2012: UNSEEN, Cardiff, UK




There is a lift only reach from the G/F to the 1/F, we would like to make it a memorable journey.
During the 30 seconds, we provided some relaxing Ukelele music, ambience and uplifting quotes recorded by random local people.

  

 

sound from the stairway
樓上來的聲音

21'30" performance | 2012
Experimentica 2012: UNSEEN, Cardiff, UK



Thanks to Matt's suggestion, this special staircase allowed us to make some noise and listen the sound in the architecture. I like very much that audiences were spread around the place during the performance.

reading poems in cafe is the right business
在咖啡室唸詩才是正經事

32'23" performance | 2012
Experimentica 2012: UNSEEN, Cardiff, UK

We eat, then we read poets, broadcast a song, drink tea, and then we eat again, plus some Hong Kong flavour

performance | video documentation | 2012


In Cardiff, there were some golden falling leaves in November, it's good to have a walk!

 

performances | video documentation | 2010 - 2013
Exhibition: Around sound art festival 2013, soundpocket, HK

It demonstrate how to enjoy the sonic environment engaged in doing performance actions. I am going to explore some funny way to listen the sound by some simple practices. If we can exaggerate the environment to listen specific sound sources, we can notice the different hidden sound and spatial qualities in our living place. It is also a way to discover our own city.

More detail: http://www.soundpocket.org.hk/v2/category/around-sound-art-festival-and-retreat/around-sound-art-festival-2013/

  

an excursion in Tokwawan

A walk for listening in Tokwawan, Kowloon led by young artist Tsang Sin Yu and Wong Chun Hoi.


耳朵想旅行

海邊的魚, 樹下徹涼的風, 公園裏下棋的老人, 各式店舖內的交談, 小朋友的嬉戲, 工廈的旅客, 打麻雀的聲音, 修車聲, 叫賣聲, 地盤聲, 跑車聲… … 從海邊走向異想的舊區, 帶你耳朵去旅行，探訪一下土瓜灣

 

Short film by Treehouse Studio
Original music by sinyu.tsang

“A Decade ” is a short animation produced for Jet megazine’s “十年一刻” exhibition at Harbour City, TST, Hong Kong. The exhbition last for 4 days from 4/9/2012. A Decade talks about how life of average citizens became in the last decade.

Short video by Treehouse Studio
Sound design by sinyu.tsang

Happy launch to Treehouse Studio