Soundpocket
Soundpocket (traditional Chinese: 聲音掏腰包; simplified Chinese: 声音掏腰包) is a Hong Kong non-profit organisation that promotes sound art and culture. It was established in 2008 by Yang Yeung.
History
Soundpocket was created in 2008 by Yang Yeung (楊陽).[1][2] It is a non-profit organisation that works to advance sound art and culture.[3][4][5] Centred on sound, Soundpocket host lectures and workshops and release books.[6] Around 2010, the organisation created the Artist Support Programme (藝術家支援計劃) to support artists specialising in sound art.[7]
In March 2013, Soundpocket debuted the website The Library. It features over 150 one-minute field recordings documenting the sounds of modern Hong Kong's daily life. The selected recordings include the chirping of crickets, the steady bustle of a fast-food restaurant's customers, and silence itself. The creators included sound artists and hobbyist sound makers. Other recordings included an interview with Tomy Yu Ka-Luk, who creates sound effects for movies, and a full-day audio capture of the 2013 summer solstice.[3] According to Larissa Hjorth, a media and communications professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and her coauthors, the library's originality lies in how it connects with different audiences through leveraging social media and mobile technology.[8]
References
- ↑ Lai 2020, pp. 240, 249
- ↑ Bovino, Emily Verla (2021-10-27). "Reciprocity Against Coercion: For a Reparative Mode of Writing about Art Criticism in Hong Kong". Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Annual Conference (ASAP/12). hdl:2031/4f9e5caa-95fc-4fd8-8ec8-db09d55d23fd. Archived from the original on 2026-02-01. Retrieved 2026-02-01.
- 1 2 Martraire 2014, p. 151
- ↑ Hjorth et al. 2016, p. 134
- ↑ Nakagawa, Katsushi; Kaneko, Tomotaro (2017). "Research on the Development of Sound Art in Asian Countries" (PDF). Tokiwadai Journal of Human Sciences: 80–91. ISSN 2189-3160. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2026-02-01. Retrieved 2026-02-01.
- ↑ "打开耳朵，聆听声音艺术的新浪潮" [Open Your Ears and Listen to the New Wave of Sound Art]. 艺术新闻 [The Art Journal] (in Chinese). 2014-09-16. Archived from the original on 2026-02-01. Retrieved 2026-02-01.
- ↑ Ho, Kwai-sim 何桂嬋 (2021-06-28). "【死場不死】soundpocket展覽走入商場 藝術異域空間" ["Death Ground, Not Dead" a soundpocket exhibition enters the shopping mall, creating an otherworldly artistic space]. 明周 (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2026-02-01. Retrieved 2026-02-01.
- ↑ Hjorth et al. 2016, p. 135
Bibliography
- Hjorth, Larissa; Pink, Sarah; Sharp, Kristen; Williams, Linda (2016). Screen Ecologies: Art, Media, and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. pp. 134–135. ISBN 978-0-262-03456-2. Retrieved 2026-02-01 – via Google Books.
- Lai, Linda Chiu-han (February 2020). "Contemporary "Women's Art in Hong Kong" Reframed: Performative Research on the Potentialities of Women Art Makers". Positions: Asia Critique. 28 (1). Duke University Press: 240, 249–250, 269. doi:10.1215/10679847-7913132.
- Martraire, Marie (March 2014). "Website Review". Journal of Curatorial Studies. 1 (1): 151–153. doi:10.1386/jcs.3.1.151_7. ISSN 2045-5836.
- Nakagawa, Katsushi; Kaneko, Tomotaro (2017). "Research on the Development of Sound Art in Asian Countries" (PDF). Tokiwadai Journal of Human Sciences: 80–91. ISSN 2189-3160. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2026-02-01. Retrieved 2026-02-01.