Sonic Anchor #42: see it if you can feature two sound artists who are interested in the relationship of what is audible and visible. Cheuk Wing Nam brings a "programme" to the stage questioning the presence and the coexisting role of the performer and instrument in a performance area. mafmadmaf combines the bits and pieces he captured from the pagoda towers in the East Asian region, and recreates the essence of the tiered towers in a live set.

Programmes and accidents don't co-exist, do they?

What are the odds to flip the role of the performer and the programmed electronics? It is a norm to perform with prepared electronics that are often programmed and designed prior to a performance. In a performance, the performer, often the human, interacts with these prepared electronics on stage. The meticulously programmed electronics exist to execute a series of actions commanded by the programmer. Are accidents factored in? How would “they” view the odds?

About the artists:
▎Cheuk Wing Nam
Cheuk Wing Nam is an interdisciplinary artist who devotes to develop her artwork with new concepts of mixing sound and other media with the modern computer technology.

She graduated from her Master Degree of Visual Arts (Studio Art and Extended Media) in Hong Kong Baptist University. She is specialising herself in new media installation and sound sculpture.

▎mafmadmaf
Born and raised in Canton, *mafmadmaf* is a sound artist who also engages in graphic design and publishing. His work mainly includes ambient music, installation and publications. Inspired by the openness and logical rationality of modular synthesisers and combined with interdisciplinary practice in biological sciences, visual arts and musical instrument training, his creation is thus full of experimental spirit and structural aesthetics. He has been running an independent publishing house Jyugam since 2020. For more information about his over decade of practice in graphic design, printed matters and publishing, please visit maf-works.com.

Eurorack geeks - you might already know mafmadmaf as a modular synthesist from his Youtube channel. We are here to introduce mafmadmaf, who is also a sound artist interested in integrating his synthesisers playing with interdisciplinary practices.

Recently, mafmadmaf has collected field recordings and footages around the pagodas from Sichuan, Yunnan in China and Java in Indonesia. How will he utilise sound synthesis methods to recreate the essence of the pagoda in East Asian culture?

Sonic Anchor #42: see it if you can
Venue: McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date: 2023.12.19
Time: 20:00

Tickets are available at art-mate.net

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.