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This summer, TechBox returns to Freespace, inviting the audience on a poetic exploration of media art experimentation with the full-scale audio-visual performance The Travellers and The Listeners.
Loosely based on Walter de la Mare’s poem The Listeners, The Travellers and The Listeners is a collaborative creation by cross-disciplinary artist Samson Young, lighting and sound designers Kaki Lai and Gut Lam, set and costume designer Ayami Oki-Siekierczak, videographer Leung Ho-sing, musicians William Lane and Linus Fung, and performer Woo Yat-hei. Moving away from the AI-generated audio-visuals of last year’s work-in-progress presentation, the event explores stage applications of media technologies and sophisticated soundscapes, combining video and live performance in an audio-visual adventure.
With Young’s scores played live against a backdrop of video, The Travellers and The Listeners offers a surreal journey into the unknown – a sensorial experience shaped by experimentations in sound, lighting and moving image.
Each performance consists of a cyclical structure looping over a period of three hours. The audience are free to enter or leave the venue at any point during that time.
This programme is co-presented and co-produced by WestK and the School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
About TechBox
TechBox is a collaborative platform established between WestK and the School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. The platform brings together media artists, theatre designers, faculty members and students to explore new frontiers of technology and performance and devise experimental creations in a technological context.
In 2021, the opening programme art TALKS tech presented work by audio engineers, sound artists and artists specialising in digital kinetic sculptures and multimedia. Since 2022, TechBox has offered public presentation on the research and development process for creating technological works, and extended teaching content. The Travellers and The Listeners is the programme’s first full-scale production.
Principal Artist:
Samson Young
Creative Team:
Concept, Music and Video: Samson Young
Lighting Designer: Kaki Lai
Sound Designer: Gut Lam
Set and Costume Designer: Ayami Oki-Siekierczak
Videographer: Leung Ho-sing
Musicians: William Lane, Linus Fung
Performer: Woo Yat-hei
Technical Director: Allen Fung#
Deputy Technical Director: Chan Wing-kit#
Production Manager: Katrina Chan*
Production Assistant: Macy Tse*
Creative Coordinator: Thomas Yau*
Programme Coordinator: Becky Wong
Deputy Producer: Meredith Wong*
Curator: Bobo Lee*
# Faculty of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
*Staff of West Kowloon Cultural District
Co-presented and Co-produced by:
The School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Musical instrument sponsor:
Gallery
