My Hong Kong Arts Development Project Grant, Neon Sounds, is making progress, with numerous personnel coming together to bring this interdisciplinary project to life. Starting with the historic preservation side, we have architects Kevin Mak and Ken Fung, founders of @streetsignhk. They’ve been preserving Hong Kong’s decommissioned neon signs and displaying them in compelling ways since 2017. For this particular project, we’ve selected a few beautiful Chinese characters, excerpted from their collection of signs, to serve as inspiration for a set of new compositions by myself and three other local composers: Chan Hing-yan, Fung Lam, and Kai-Young Chan. We are thrilled to be writing chamber music to be premiered by the musicians of the excellent Hong Kong New Music Ensemble and Toolbox Percussion. Stay posted here for more details as the sounds of this blurry neon project come into focus!
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