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SONIC ECOLOGY

Digital Conference

4-6.12.2020

Asia Society Hong Kong Center

The SONIC ECOLOGY DIGITAL CONFERENCE took place 4-6 December 2020 at Asia Society Hong Kong Center. Speakers and workshop leaders engaged with an international online audience from a wide variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives, relating to the conference themes of sustainability and design, arts and environmental activism, as well as examining humanity's increasing conflict with the natural world.

SONIC ECOLOGY, the first sound-based platform advocating environmental awareness and engagement in Hong Kong, brings together composers, sound artists, film makers, scientists and researchers under the same roof. Structured around performances, workshops and a conference, SONIC ECOLOGY provides a platform to reflect on new ways the arts can respond to pressing issues of our time, including climate change, global warming and sustainable development.

Keynote

LEAH BARCLAY

sound artist,

designer,

researcher

Listening to Ecosystems from Interdisciplinary Perspectives

▶️  Keynote Lecture

▶️  Workshop

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Keynote

VICTOR GAMA

composer,

musical instrument designer

Music & Activism

▶️  Keynote Lecture

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Keynote

KASPAR KÖNIG 

sound artist, environmentalist, product designer

Soundwise Talking

▶️  Keynote Lecture

▶️  Deep Digital Listening (Workshop)

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Speaker

Eugene Birman

Composer

▶️  Aria

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Speaker

Kingsley Ng

Artist, Designer

▶️  Aria

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Paper Presentation

Jonas Baes

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Commissioned Project

Lam Lai

Lo Lai Lai Natalie

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Speaker

Michael Leung

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Speaker

Sze Ka Yan

Artist, Founder, Fragrant Village

▶️  香。校變奏

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Paper Presentation

Zhangyi Chen

Composer

▶️  Reimagining Nature through Music

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Commissioned Project

Karen Yu

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Speaker

Ying Luo

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Speaker

Wen Chin Fu

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Paper Presentation

Rob Cosgrove, Nick Hwang, Margaret Anne Schedel, Brian Smith

 

▶️  Rhumb-Line

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Venue Partners:

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The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the Caravanserais - Sonic Ecology 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 - Sonic Ecology only and do not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

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