... is a project that explores the experience of sound in the city and its relationship a specific regional and cultural space through field recordings and interviews with artists, individuals and organisations in 7 cities around the world.
Locality: is a situated place; a fact or condition of a particular position in space.
Sound Localities is a project that explores the experience
of sound in the city through field recordings and interviews with
artists, individuals and organisations in 7 cities in the local, region
and international space around Mons, Belgium. From Ghent, Brussels,
London, Madrid, Hong Kong and Seoul, the project seeks to produce a
wider dialogue in a transcultural space with and through sound as it
flows through many complex social and cultural spaces. Individuals and
organisations are asked to select artists working with sound in the city
to contribute field recordings to express something about their city.
These sounds are collected and shared online.
http://soundlocalities.tumblr.comSoundpocket
Yeung Yang 楊陽is an independent curator, writer and university lecturer. Upon graduating from Yale University with an M.A. in anthropology, she worked as a documentary video director at Radio Television Hong Kong. She graduated in 2004 with a PhD in Intercultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Exhibitions she curated include “in midair, sound works hong kong 2007” (Jun,2007), “Art Responds to 14QK” (Nov 2007), “Nocturne, Alfred Ko solo photography exhibition” (Apr, 2008), and “Around sound art festival” (2009 & 2010). She was also artistic director of “October Contemporary 2009 - Now or Never”. She currently teaches Chinese and Western classics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2008, she founded soundpocket to promote sound art and its research and education in Hong Kong.
www.soundpocket.org.hk
http://soundlocalities.tumblr.com/post/2828225604/yeung-yang-founder-executive-director
