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2008. Hong-Kai Wang (Cv)

YUNLIN, TAIWAN, 1971 LIVES AND WORKS IN NEW YORK WWW.W-H-K.NETWORK EXPOSED IN MADRID ABIERTO: THE BROKEN ORCHESTRA

EDUCATION2001 ·    Master of Arts, Media Studies, The New School University, New York, USA1994 ·    Bachelor of Arts, Political Science. National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

PROJECTS & EXHIBITIONS2008·    Sound installation, Taiwanese opera Phoenix Pavilion composed by Kuo Chih-Yuan and directed by Keng Yi-Wei·    A-Ma’s Tape Recorder, sound project commissioned by Taipei’s Women Rescue Foundation, Taiwan·    Sound installation, Roaring Park, Freebird Bookstore, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2007·    Sun Day Project, Sound installation in collaboration with Jungsung Kim, Sumi Jang and So Young Yang, Berlin, Germany·    Pleasure Garden, La Noche en Blanco, Madrid, Spain·    The Broken Orchestra, Volume, The 3rd Ward, New York; Art Is Not Mute, Stockholm, Sweden·    On Air, Institute of Contemporary Art- Dunaújváros, Hungary. Commissioned sound installation for Qi Min Organic Restaurant, Taipei, Taiwan·    Commissioned sound installation for Qi Min Organic Restaurant, Shanghai, China

2006·    Duet in the Courtyard, 2006 Taipei Biennial: Dirty Yoga curated by Dan Cameron and Jun-jieh Wang, Taipei, Taiwan·    Symphony, VIII Salon International De Arte Digital, Havana, Cuba, Dusk, DiVA Miami Beach, Miami·    Elevator Music, the:artist:networknew york, New York, USA·    Feedback: Classroom I, Columbia University, New York, USA

2005·    Water Meditation. Sound installation. Collaboration with Yuko Umezu and Mayumi Fujita, International Triennial of Contemporary Art Yokohama 2005, Yokohama, Japan·    Listening with Dumplings. Art in Odd Places, HOWL! Festival, New York, USA·    Built to Spill, WBAI, New York, USA

2004·    Correspondence. Audio visual. Collaboration with Kristin Worrall, Parakeet Film Salon 2005, New York, USA·    Sound design, 16mm film H.T.C. by Tung Wang Wu, Cinematexas 9, Austin, EEUU

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2008. Hong-Kai Wang. THE BROKEN ORCHESTRA

FORMAT: : MULTI-CHANNEL SOUND INSTALLATION / NEW YORK (USA) YEAR: 2007 PARTICIPATING MUSICIANS: JOSHUA CAMP- ACCORDION, ANDY COTTON- UPRIGHT BASS KATHLEEN EDWARDS- VIOLIN BEN GERSTEIN- TROMBONE MICHAEL HEARST- THEREMIN, KURT HOFFMAN- CLARINET BEN HOLMES- TRUMPET, MEG REICHARDT- BANJO PEI-YAO WANG- PIANO

 

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Jungon
Yossi Banai

9.6 MB 8:53 min

 Arnold Schoenberg famously quipped, "My music is not really modern, just badly played." My piece, The Broken Orchestra, metamorphoses his complaint into a guiding principle, imposing a musical procedure designed to reduce the proficiency of professional musicians to a primitive state, in the interests of effecting musical discoveries.

A group of musicians on various instruments are asked individually to recreate the sounds found on an old cassette recording of Bach's Ave Maria as performed by my brother on violin and me on piano when we were youngsters living in Taiwan.

The original recording is characterized by its youthful performers' wobbliness, and a significant about of extra-musical ambience: my 3 year-old sister's giggling, my scolding of her, and so on. The participating musicians' personal memories might be summoned by having to imitate the childish quality and recall the times where they were still fumbling the instruments and learning what music could possibly mean to them. Their musical sensibilities might be challenged by having to respond to this universally known tune in this imperfect and distorted form.  As each re-creation is made, the musical qualities translate through each participant's memories and their own interpretation of a form of musical simplicity.

The result of the experimentation was originally a multi-channel sound installation consisting of the original recording layered with each re-recreation in separate speakers played back in loop. For Madrid Abierto, I made a stereo mix from the original format.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2008 / 2008.02.18. RN3. La Ciudad Invisible (Hong-Kai Wang)

Name Play Size Duration
La Ciudad Invisible, RN3. THE BROKEN ORCHESTRA - Hong-Kai Wang
9.3 MB 10:08 min

 

 

 

 

 

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