The Box, Freespace, West Kowloon | The performance marks a significant premiere, bringing Steen-Andersen’s vision to Hong Kong —— Black Box Music

Description

HKNME is thrilled to present Simon Steen-Andersen’s Black Box Music as a cornerstone of our GAME\PLAY initiative. This innovative work typifies Steen-Andersen’s interdisciplinary approach, blending various artistic expressions and defying conventional genre boundaries. Conducted by a percussionist via a live video feed, Black Box Music critiques and reimagines the act of conducting as a form of puppet theatre, humorously deconstructing traditional hierarchical dynamics between conductor and musicians.

This performance marks a significant premiere, bringing Steen-Andersen’s vision to Hong Kong and fostering a dialogue between Western avant-garde practices and the region’s rich cultural backdrop. Accompanying this, curator Daniel Lo will present a newly commissioned piece that resonates with Steen-Andersen’s themes, further exploring the relationship between the music produced and the musicians’ performing gestures, as well as the connection between the audience’s sonic and visual experiences.

Percussion

Roberto Maqueda
 

Composer

Simon Steen-Andersen
 

Composer / Curator

Daniel Lo
 

Video／Visual Artist

Yu Wing-yan