The first Sigma event in 2010 features exciting sound art by visual and acoustic artist Zimoun from Switzerland, live percussion performance by award winning local musician Louis Siu and electronicperformance by Sin:Ned (Wong Chung-fai). Enjoy a bottle of beer with this musical assortment which will take place on Tuesday night, 19 January 2010 at 8pm at Osage Soho
Performers
Zimoun
Zimoun (born 1977) lives in Berne, Switzerland. Since 2000 he works as a sound, visual and acoustic artist.
Zimoun's works range from visual arts to installations, performance, music, compositions and areas related to all of the above. He focuses on research of space, structure, form and empty space, but also on the cautious handling of materials, working with day-to-day phenomena and occurrences.
Louis Siu
Louis Siu has received numerous awards for his outstanding performances, notably finalist-3rd place at the 2nd International Timpani Competition of Lyon and First prize in the Australian Percussion Eisteddfod.
Louis is originally from Hong Kong, where he began piano and percussion studies. He spent his adolescent in Sydney, Australia, where he performed with the Sydney Youth Orchestra and as a soloist at the Sydney Opera House and the Verbrugghen Hall, his performances had broadcasted nationally by ABC Classic FM.
Since 2009, Louis is a member of the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble. Since 2008, Louis has been actively performing with Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta as an extra percussionist, including subscription concerts, TV broadcast and national tour. In 2007, he performed and toured with the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra, and in 2006 he appeared as principal percussionist with the Asian Youth Orchestra.
Dedicated to new music, Louis founded PROJECT.T.T. Theproject aims to promote the Percussion and Tenor Timpani and create a platform for composers to experiment possibilities for the extended range instrument. In 2007, Louis collaborated with Afiara String Quartet, resulting in two works by Alain Chiu and Winton White. Louis has also premiered works by Heinz Hollinger, Lok-yin Tang and Samson Young.
Sin:Ned (Wong Chung-fai)
Sin:Ned (Wong Chung-fai), an idiosyncratic improviser, sonic artist and free-lance writer from Hong
Kong. Co-founder of the experimental imprint Re-Records and member of the electro-acoustic duo No
One Pulse.'
Being a veteran writer of the legendary Hong Kong alternative music magazine MCB (Music Colony BWeekly), while not writing as a pseudo-music critic elaborating his esoteric worldview, in the same idiosyncratic fashion, he spends much of his time hacking and sculpting sonic materials with his laptop and various non-standard electronic gears. With his on-going experimentation encompassing
improvisation, sound art, experimental music, noise art, electronic music and field recordings, he has been re-visioning a sound-making process that is dictated solely and directly by intuition. He had taken part and performed in various festivals and exhibitions such as HK Sound and Vision Festival (2003), Get It Louder (2007), Hong Kong & Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (2007, 2009), Architecture is Art Festival (2009), Notch Festival 2009 Guangzhou Station (2009).
ABOUT THE HONG KONG NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE
The Hong Kong New Music Ensemble (HKNME) is a chamber ensemble, formed in 2008 with some of the best local and international instrumentalists living in Hong Kong. The HKNME presents the best new music in Hong Kong by local Hong Kong composers, Asian composers and also by important international figures. It intends to foster interesting interdisciplinary collaborations, and to present the highest quality contemporary music to Hong Kong audiences on a regular basis. The ensemble is of a flexible instrumentation, from chamber music configuration to the size of a small chamber orchestra.
In October 2008 members of the HKNME were resident at the Shanghai Conservatory. Since early 2009 the HKNME has present regular concerts in Hong Kong, and has also toured to Mainland China and to the Malaysian Contemporary Music Festival.
Programme
8 pm
Performance by Zimoun
Sound Sculptures and Installations (film)
8:30pm
Percussion performance by Louis Siu
Jacques Delécluse: 3 Etudes Pour Caisse Claire
Charles Boone : Nightfall, Last Gleaming and Twenty-Seven Lines
9pm
Sin:Ned electronics LIVE!
Tickets are at $120 (standard) and $80 (concession) and include one drink. For bookings and enquiries
please contact Nancy Chua at 2537 0688 or email to nancychua@osagegallery.com.
Date: 19 January 2010 (Tuesday)
Time: 8:00pm
Ticket: $120 (Standard)
$80 (Concession for full-time students, people with disabilities and senior citizens aged 60
or above)
*Alcoholic drinks will not be offered to persons under the age of 18.
**Limited to 50 tickets only. Availabel on a first-come-first-served basis.
