Digital Musics & Sound Art
AWARD OF DISTINICTION
Installation
This is how Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony can sound too: keys click, sheets of music rustle, and bows sweep tonelessly over strings. By “muting” the foregrounded sound event, a surprising amount of previously unnoticed sounds can be heard in this performance.
In Muted Situation #22 – presented as a 12-channel audio installation – Samson Young’s idea is to suppress the dominant voices, uncover the unheard, and point out basic principles about hearing and sounding.
Muted Situation #22: Muted Tchaikovsky’s 5th/Samson Young (HK), Credit: Samson Young
Muted Situation #22: Muted Tchaikovsky’s 5th/Samson Young (HK), Credit: Samson Young
Project Credits:
- Performed by the Flora Sinfonie Orchester, conducted by Thomas Jung.
- Commissioned by the 21st Biennale of Sydney, the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, and the Hong Kong Art Promotion Office
