"What Burns Never Return"-modern dance + music live performing

What Burns Never Return
from objective map to subjective mapping
project by Alessandro Carboni
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For more than month, Alessandro Carboni has been in Hong Kong focusing his research around Platform#8 on Nga Tsin Wai village: one of the last ancient villages remained in Kowloon and Hong Kong at large. Taking this as a point of departure, Carboni examines local disappearing urban spaces, which overlap with several discrete boundaries within Kai Tak River, Kowloon Walled City and To Kwa Wan. The project reflects the renewed recognition that space matters to cutting edge practices, especially the analysis on urban and body transformation, making use of knowledge in choreography, urban geography and visual art.

EXHIBITION
from objective map to subjective mapping
27/6/ 2009 – 19/7/2009
Venue | 1a space Unit 14, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kln (Hong Kong)

OPENING+PERFORMANCES
26/6/ 2009 (Fri), 7:30pm – 9:30pm @ 1a space

Searching for estimate space
Choreography and Installation | Alessandro Carboni
Performers | Song Nan, Cheung Sau King, Tsui Ivy Yik Chit, Tong Wai Chun Mayson
Music | Dickson Dee

Unrealistic figure between map and shadow
Choreography and Installation | Alessandro Carboni
Performers | Tsui Ivy Yik Chit, Tong Wai Chun Mayson
Music | Dickson Dee

The measurements as given position
Choreography and Installation | Alessandro Carboni
Performers | Song Nan, Alessandro Carboni
Music | Dickson Dee

Overlapping discrete boundaries. Kai Tak River, Kowloon Walled City and To Kwa Wan according to my personal geography
video, sound and editing | Alessandro Carboni
HD, 30 min, color, video-documentary

SYMPOSIUM
Hong Kong city: dynamic land for use and art interpretation
27/6/ 2009 (Sat), 11am – 1pm@ 1a space
Visual / media artists, choreographers and urban planners – including Choi yan-chi (Experienced Visual Artist), Prof. Chang Ping-hung (Architect) and Xing Liang (Resident Artist, City Contemporary Dance Company) – will sit down face-to-face with Carboni, and openly discuss the curious relations between urban transformation and different art practices.

WORKSHOP
LaDU_HK (Multimedia Lab of Urban Densit)
27/6/ 2009 (Sat), 2pm – 5pm;28/6/2009 (Sun), 2pm – 5pm@ 1a space
Inspired by the article “Terrae Incognitae: The Place of Imagination in Geography” by John K. Wright, Carboni aims to explore new methodological modalities in examining the relations between choreography, urban geography and visual art. (John K. Wright “Terrae Incognitae: The Place of Imagination in Geography”)

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WORKING TEAM:
Concept, installation and choreography | Alessandro Carboni
Performers | Song Nan, King Sau Cheung, Ivy Tsui Yik Chit, Tong Wai Chun Mayson
Music | Dickson Dee
Production | Associazione Culturale Ouroboros (Italy)
Presenter | 1aspace (Hong Kong) www.oneaspace.org.hk
Programme Partner | CCDC – City Contemporary Dance Company (Hong Kong) www.ccdc.com.hk
Rehearsal space is partially sponsored by
 Partnership Programme, CCDC Dance Centre and CCDC
Support | LaDU/MultimediaLab. of Urban Density – DIARCH Department of Architecture- Cagliari (Italy)
D3D_Master Didital Environment_NABA (Italy)

1a space working team | Kiki Ho, Natasha Wong, Vangi Fong
Project Assistant | Bernice Lau
CCDC team | Raymond (Coordinator), Kevin (Assistant Coordinator)

Contributors for research | Wallace Chang (Department of Architecture, CUHK), Choi Yan Chi (1a space), Tse Yin Mo (Art Product Promotion), Anthony Siu Kwok-Kin (Research Institute of China. History and Department of Chinese), Wing Sze Blake (community Development), Leung sik-lun (Vice-president of Nga tsin Wai community)

INFO:
[web]: www.alessandrocarboni.org
[email]: [email protected]
[external relations]: alessia esposito
[email protected]
[blog]: www.wbnr.wordpress.com
: www.vimeo.com/ooffouro
[Ladu]: ladulab.wordpress.com
[web]:www.dicksondee.com

Gannon’s Mutant Toy Musical Instruments


Musician Aj Pyatak, aka Gannon modifies old toys and electronic gadgets into mutant retro-futuristic musical instruments. He’s taken everything from an old Atari video game cartridge to vintage toy keyboards and warped their insides to pull out all new noisy electronic sounds. This process is commonly known as circuit bending.

MAKE brings news of one of Gannon’s fantastic creations, the Speak n’ Spellbinder. It’s a mash up of a Speak and Spell and a Rock Band Guitar controller. Watch the Speak n’Spellbinder in action below, and head over to Gannon’s site to learn more about all of his amazing devices.

+3db Asia Tour-Singapore

C.H.O.P.P.A and E139 Creative Production Presents:
+3DB
C.H.O.P.P.A. Transit series is pleased to present a showcase of Norwegian record label + 3dB. Celebrating their first four releases, +3DB brings three of their acts; Lemur, Baktruppen and Rehab to Asia for the first time. They will be joined by Singapore based electro-acoustic improvisation group Iron Egg and electronic musician Dickson Dee from Hong Kong.
+3dB presents new and unheard music with quality and originality as its only condition. The artists work range from the conceptual through experimental, acoustic and electronic. A full evening of +3dB artist is a guarantee for intense contrast and sonic pleasure.
The tour has been made possible by the Norwegian Ministry of Foriegn Affairs.

Date: Wed, 12th Nov 2008
Time: 8.30pm
Venue:
Night and Day
139 Selegie Road
Phone: 6884 5523
http://www.nightandday.sg/

Entrance fee: $20 (1 complimentary drink)

Featured Artists:

LEMUR

Bjbrnar Habbestad (flutes), Hildsofie (french horn), Lene Granager (cello),Michael Duch (double bass)
All-acoustic, improvised music from Norways new all-star quartet. The four players have played and recorded with an almost endless list of international musicians ranging from Fred Frith, Otomo Yoshihide, Mats Gustavson, Peter
Brötzman, Jaap Blonk, Mark Wastell, Matin, Evan Parker and others. Expect tight ensemble performance and sonic super control.

BAKTRUPPEN

Baktruppen is a group of artists, musicians and poets who have toured the world with their unique and spectacular shows for over 20 years. In their new constellation as a Light Metal Band, the viking daoists of europunk performance will play their new show about the global financial crisis.

REHAB

John Hegre , Bjørnar Habbestad
This brand new duo presents high-volume, high action instrumental noise performed on flutes and guitars! John Hegre of Jazzkammer fame and Bjørnar Habbestad from N-Collective produce their own peculiar take on the art of noise. File under extreme everything.

IRON EGG

Iron Egg is an electro-acoustic audio/visual improvisation group based in Singapore featuring Darren Moore (laptop/percussion), Tim O’Dwyer (saxophone) and Brian O’Reilly (bass/electronics/moving images). The group combines acoustic free improvisation and extended instrumental techniques with live electronics to create a broad range of sonic textures.

http://www.myspace.com/ironegg

DICKSON DEE

Dickson Dee (aka Li Chin Sung, Dj Dee, PNF) is a Hong Kong experimental music artist with a wide range of creative styles such as industrial noise, experimental electronic, avantgarde, cut n’paste, new classical, avant garde world music etc. His debut solo album “PAST” was released under Tzadik label (USA)in 1996, which is a collection of his works from 1992 to 1996. He has a great deal of experiences playing live shows mostly in China,Europe and Japan for the past years. Artists he performs with including Thomas Fehlmann, Zbigniew Karkowski, Otomo Yoshihide, Sainkho Namtchylak, Maja Ratkje,Sachiko M,Werner Dafeldecker, Patrick Pulsinger,Cdrk, Zhang Chu,Wang Fan,Tujiko Noriko, Tetsuo Furadate,Yoshida Tatsuya, Keiji Haino,Adichi Tomomi, Astro, etc. In addition, He is a producer participating in the album production of artists from different countries such as Otomo Yoshihide, Zbigniew Karkowski, Ruins, Haino Keiji, Yoshida Tatsuya etc. Last but not the least, he is also a concert organizer bringing artists to perform in China.
Iron Egg is an electro-acoustic audio/visual improvisation group based in Singapore featuring Darren Moore (laptop/percussion), Tim O’Dwyer (saxophone) and Brian O’Reilly (bass/electronics/moving images). The group combines acoustic free improvisation and extended instrumental techniques with live electronics to create a broad range of sonic textures.

www.myspace.com/dicksondee/

Inquiries at [email protected]

Presents by C.H.O.P.P.A and E139 Creative Production
Official tour organizer: Noise Asia and +3DB Records