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Chan Hing​-​yan: Sonic Affairs

by Hong Kong New Music Ensemble

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Notes by the composer:
Sonic Affairs was commissioned by the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, premiered at the Shanghai New Music Week 2018.

The four-character Chinese title of Sonic Affairs is an idiom, and is a metaphor of the act of romantic dalliance: fenghua xueyue ''flower in the breeze, snow under the moon." Yet the work is not programmatic in any sense to portray dissipated affairs. Rather, the four Chinese characters each combines with another character to form a poetic subtitle that limits my compositional choices for each movement: zhufeng (the wind chase), yihua (flowers in dew), aoxue (defying snow), and tiyue (warbling under the moon). The resulting score is a four-part sonic palette of distinctive musical gestures, whose characteristics are defined by their respective English titles.

About Hong Kong Monograph:
Hong Kong Monograph seeks to document HKNME's most significant 'made in Hong Kong' commissions and premieres in the past seasons. The series, which features both live and studio recordings, is released exclusively on Bandcamp.

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released March 12, 2022

Hong Kong New Music Ensemble
Angus Lee, flutes;
Linus Fung, clarinets;
Matthew Lau, percussion;
Linda Yim, piano;
Euna Kim, violin;
Simon Hui, double bass;

Loo Sze-wang, solo sheng

Vicky Shin, conductor

SONIC AFFAIRS is commissioned with sponsorship from CASH Music Fund.

Sound engineer / post-production:
Lai Chin-kong @ CONTROL S PRODUCTIONS

Cover Art:
Harp (2009) from MUSIC FAMILIES, by Wilson Shieh
www.wilsonshieh.com/WilsonShieh/Signature_Serie_1./Pages/Music_Families.html

Hong Kong Monograph
Hong Kong New Music is financially supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

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Founded in 2008 by William Lane, the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble (HKNME) is hailed as “one of Hong Kong’s most progressive groups of musicians” (CNN). Widely praised for its innovative programming, the Ensemble’s productions include concerts, educational outreach events, and interdisciplinary collaborations and research projects with artists from different artistic fields. ... more

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