Track excerpt for the exhibition of My Phone, My World in Karin Weber Gallery (July, 2014). It is made for the coming release 'Auditory Scenes: the Chronicle of Personal Life' by Post Concrete. 



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Recorded in Amino, Japan. 23th August 2014. 

Seascape in Amino, Japan

Recorded in Amino, Japan. 22th August 2014.


Underneath the seascape, Amino Japan

To celebrate the CC version of A Brighter Summer Day finally out, I upload a new track which is originally included in my work Auditory Scenes: the Chronicle of  Personal Life. 

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For Whom We Encounter (Various Artists, CD, Kandala Records, 2011) 



Auditory Scenes: A Morning in Mountain Davis

Rehabilitation, demolition, collective memories, public spaces...with no doubt, these words can be considered as most frequent words appearing in the discussion of urban planning in Hong Kong. Streets, spaces, the aura of daily life, landscape and soundscape are undergoing the rapid changes in recent years. Behind these changes, what is the mechanism or ideology indeed? Taiwanese essayist and cultural critic, Lung Ying-tai, articulates the term "Central value" which describes the domination and limitation of the perspective in observing Hong Kong as well as main and absolute value in determining the urban development of the city. Wandering in different places or spaces and collection of soundscape in Central and Sheung Wan, what Rabbit Travelogue: Central Region trying to articulate is to observe, correspond, questioning the central value by using sound and its archival and creative practice. By continuously recording and observation of the places around the areas, this project aims at portraying different possibilities on understanding, constituting and examining the places where the artists had been over Central and Sheung Wan. Through the attentive listening about places, events and happening of the areas, how do the artist and listeners go deeper in searching for the other side of certain memories and emotions which confronting the central value?

Central Region is a side project coming up with Rabbit Travelogue which focus on the travelogues of soundscape in Central and Sheung Wan produced by Edwin Lo. This project to certain extend is the artist's personal records and diary of his wanderings in different spaces and occasions which try to reflect a different perspective on examining a place as well as articulate certain emotions towards one place.

The project is supported by Hong Kong Art development Council (HKADC) under Emerging Artist Scheme. It associates with one sound performance and a CD publication.

Rabbit Travelogue: Central Region (excerpt)

Recorded in 2nd September 2010, Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan. Hong Kong.   

Description Ghost Festival can be regarded as one of the important Chinese traditional festival in Hong Kong. Every year, different activities such as rituals and Chinese operas will be held around in different districts in Hon Kong.   Few years ago, I have started to investigate with the practice in Sheung Wan. Accoring to their practice, other than the community in Sheung Wan hire a group of people doing ritual during the ghost festival, they also hire some unknown singers to sing for the community. They cover some oldies and of course, some 80-90s cantonese pop.   Even though this short segment somehow is not enough to represent the context of the event -- for those who never experience the festival, this is just a song covered by unknown singer -- this recording can be treated as a footnote and a document for the soundscape which is being endangered (and hence, extinction). Sheung Wan is rapidly changing over past few years and we can never imagine the difference years after years. Hopefully, this recording can be meant something in the changes of soundscape in the area.  

 Edwin Lo December, 2010 

Auditory Scenes: a segment of the concert in ghost festival

 "Various - NOISERISING" (Noisoke Records/ Bunga Bangkai Records, 2013, HONG KONG)
 
“We don’t sell souvenir boxset. This is a report.” clearly states everything. A manifest of selected musicians from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, who are active(addicted) to develop and present their own SOUND nowadays! Learn what’s really happening of recent experimental and non-academic music in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, features tracks by Formalin (Guangzhou), Hatred In Eyes (Hong Kong), 台北熱秋 Taipei Hot Autumn (Taipei), 梅志勇 Mei Zhiyoung (Changchun), lllllllllllHH (Shanghai), Torturing Nurse (Shanghai), VAVABOND (Beijing), Orgasm Denial (Hong Kong) and Edwin Lo (Hong Kong).

We hope to show you at least part of the fact, some artists we have followed and communicated for days but not stupid recommendations made by Mr. Know-nothing journalists or Chinese-manias. Unfortunately, we have to give up some names because of disc length. Maybe next time if you care.

Archive_2007 (excerpt)

B.1984. Edwin Lo is a sound artist form Hong Kong. Through different explorations on sound, Lo tries to develop his own philosophy and language on sound and listening: thinking sound as an object of desire, as haunting memories and experiences.

Lo presents his body of works in different context such as writings, sound compositions, recordings, performances, video and installation. Since 2008, his works are widely presented in various local and overseas occasions such as Braunschweig Project (Germany, 2013), White Walls Have Ears (Hong Kong, 2011), Hong Kong InDependent Film Festival (Hong Kong, 2010), FILE 2010 – Electronic Language International Festival (Brazil, 2010), EMERGEANDSEE Media Art Festival (Germany, 2010) and Hong Kong Sound Station (Hong Kong, 2009)

Other than his solo works, he has also participated in theatre production since 2010. His first contribution as one of the core creative members in theatre production “Tides in Limbo” (2009) was awarded Jury Awards in Sidekick Theatre Festival. He continues his involvement in various production “My Favorite Time” (2009), “448 Things to do at 4.48” (2010) and “Woman Appetite” (2011). More recently, he also worked with sound artist and electronic musician from Japan, Shota Hirama, for contributing field recordings to his releases “Sad Vacation” (2011) and “Nice Doll to Talk” (2012).

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