This is the first Sonic Anchor of the 2023-2024 season features two artists with backgrounds in music composition and found their way to exploring sound performances and immersive sound spaces.

Sonic Anchor #41: Invisibly Hollow opens with Annisa Cheung's (aka nnscya) solo performance weaving the overlooked and subtle sensory experiences with our listening experiences into one through the manipulation of the room condition and data generated.

Isaac Hui Tak-Cheung presents a new version of "I saw you in the Void" at the McAulay Studio together with Wu Cheng-Yu, a Taiwanese flautist, and the Sugar Factory film SOAP (2021-2022 / Single-channel video / 17'26") by a Taiwanese artist Chang Ting-Tong. The film carries out the framework for the interwoven sounds of the live performance and the soundscape that is designed for the fictitious story of the factory.

 

About the artists:
▎Annisa Cheung  (aka nnscya)

A composer, musician, media-artist, nnscya's past works include electronic and experimental music, dance and short film soundtracks, chamber and orchestral music. Taking inspiration from daily trivia, her research interest lies in exploring the crossroad of vibration and senses, sound and emotions, as in lived experiences, memories, and tactility of the body. She highlights such quotidian observations through sonification of signals and sound-visualisation.

nnscya wanders between musical genres. She finds it difficult to categorise her style. Using existing words, reluctantly, she would describe her practices as experimental, electronic, and noise. However, she is now in a transitional phase to a more tonal and easy listening approach.

▎Isaac Hui Tak-Cheung

Isaac Hui, a composer born in Hong Kong, has a diverse portfolio that spans chamber and orchestral compositions, electronic and multi-disciplinary pieces, and sound installations. His collaborative approach often involves working with artists and scholars from various disciplines. Utilising immersive and spatial audio, physical model sound synthesis, and other music technologies, he reconstructs soundscapes from both the present and the past. His work weaves tales and stories that resonate across different eras and regions, employing human voices, musical and specially-made instruments, and loudspeakers.

Isaac has been recognised with numerous international prizes, and his compositions have been showcased at various festivals, including the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, ManiFeste Festival, ISCM Taipei New Music Festival, EstOvest Festival, and Goethe Institut Asian Composers' Showcase. In addition, he has participated different interdisciplinary projects, including The Unknown Journey of Sound and Crystal Seeding, featured and exhibited at the C-lab Sound Festival in 2021 and 2022, respectively. His sound installation, Diachronic Apparatuses, was part of the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023. There is another Capital beneath the Waves, for which he served as the music director, is currently showcasing at the YCAM.

Isaac studied at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, earned his master's degree in Composition at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and received his DMA from Boston University. During his academic years, he was awarded numerous grants and fellowships, such as the Boston University Center of New Music fellowship, Kahn Career Entry Award, and Design Trust Seed Grant. In 2017-18, he furthered his studies at IRCAM Cursus, supported by Boston University Graduate Research Grants. He is currently a faculty member at the Hong Kong Metropolitan University School of Arts and Social Sciences.

▎Wu Cheng-Yu
Flutist

Wu Cheng-Yu is known as a flutist and specialized in interpreting variety of music styles. He earned his Master's Degree in Music from Conservatorium van Amsterdam, studied contemporary music with Mr. Harrie Starreveld, and Baroque flute with Mr. Marten Root.

In 2012, Cheng-Yu started an experimental solo flute recital project titled "Just Flute?”. The project was well received and soon he was invited to feature in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Taipei International New Music Festival, De Link Music Festival, WOCMAT 2015, and 2017 Curto-Circuito contemporary music festival. In additional to concert performance, Cheng-Yu is dedicated to flute and composition education. He formed a modern music ensemble, TimeArt Studio, in 2013, Cheng-Yu is currently active as a flute soloist and a music educator.

 

 

Sonic Anchor #41: Invisibly Hollow
Venue: McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date: 2023.09.23
Time: 20:00

 

Ticket Price: $150/ $120** /$75***
**20% off for HKAC Individual members & HKAC BEE. Members must present a valid membership card upon admission.
***50% discount for full-time students, senior citizens aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and the minder. Concessionary ticket holders must produce evidence of their identity or age upon admission.