Rhythms of the Inter-Island
Sun, Nov 12
|Nin Fung
by a HKU student team led by Otto Heim and supported by Celestial天上 and soundpocket. This set of interactive installations is for you to play! Listen or make noise... Does it recall sounds that you hear on the islands?


Time & Location
Nov 12, 2023, 10:00 AM – Nov 26, 2023, 6:00 PM
Nin Fung, 21 Mui Wo Chung Hau St, Lantau Island, Hong Kong
About the event
“Rhythms of the Inter-Island” is designed to draw visitors’ and residents’ attention to often overlooked qualities and dimensions of the relationships that characterize and distinguish life on the islands, by making them accessible to auditory experience, enjoyment, and reflection. The project creates and presents music composed and performed in response to sounds and voices heard and overheard near the sea, to explore and appreciate the vibrancy, fragility, and resilience of the inter-island environment that sustains the culture and identity of islanders.
The series of sound installations is made of found objects spreading found and composed sounds at different points of a public space. As visitors walk pass, they hear sounds arise — result of unseen interactions with the elements or themselves. Sounds echo each other, forming strange, asynchronous melodies, and invite passers-by— suddenly transformed into improvised musicians— to explore an ecosystem of sounds. Calling visitors to “listen otherwise”, by…