Larry Shuen is a Hong Kong composer, sound artist, and media artist. Heavily inspired by classical music and composition training, Shuen’s works are often derived from music, sounds, and listening. Deer Enclosure and Every Small Sky are Shuen’s retrospective works that address his memories with The Greeners’s Sound, a choral society Shuen dedicated years to. Shuen’s collaborative work with artist Nga Yan Cheng, Goin’ Goin’, explores a superimposed relationship between field recordings, virtual navigation, and an exercising body. Shuen also engages closely with various choreographers and dancers as a sound designer and interactive media designer, inspiring him to explore the potential of musicians’ gestures as a creative resource recently. By seeing music and sound as a point of departure, Shuen expands his artistic practice to encompass interactive programming, video essays, sound art, installations, performances, and media art, through which Shuen expresses his reflective thoughts on life and surroundings.
孫禮賢從事音樂、作曲、聲音和新媒體藝術創作。深受古典音樂和作曲訓練的啟發，孫氏的作品多由音樂、聲音、聆聽為出發點。作品《鹿柴》和《每一個小天空》回望孫氏於綠韻合唱團多年的經歷和回憶；與藝術家鄭雅茵的共同創作《走走》探索了田野錄音、虛擬導航和運動身體之間的層疊關係。孫氏亦常以聲音設計和互動媒體設計的角度與不同的編舞家和舞者密切合作，啟發他近期以樂手的動作為創作可能性的探索。以音樂和聲音為出發點，孫氏的藝術實踐涵蓋互動編程、錄像散文、聲音藝術、裝置、表演和媒體藝術，藉此探討對自身及其環境的所思所感。
Exhibitions
2022. Moving Space(s) at Oil Street Art Space.
2021. AfterLive.
2019. Microcosm || Magnetism: SCM MFA Show 2019.
2019. Tai Po Youth Arts Festival 2019 – Let Bygones Be Bygones.
2018. Sonic Anchor Special Series: Sound Forms – Fresh Form 1.
2018. Unravel: SCM MFA Student Show 2018.
2017. Transient Inflections: A Selection of Works from the SCM Creative Media Show 2017.
2017. Robert Lettner: New Wunderkammer Of Rococo + Utopia Of Ornaments.
Performances
2022. West Kowloon - Jazz Fest Experimental Lab.
2022. Chan Wai Lok’s interactive choreography - In the Cloud.
2022. West Kowloon - Sonic Encounter.
2022. Goin’ Goin’, Unlock Dancing Plaza Open Field Vol.1.
2021. Goin’ Goin’, CMHK Sonic Anchor #34.
2020. Out Of Our Heads (OOOH!).
2019. Ftarri Live.
Music and Sound Design
2022. Untitled 2.0, Albert Garcia’s lecture performance work-in-progress.
2022. POV, Heiwa Wong’s dance film.
2022. Six Mouths, Unlock Dancing Plaza Annual Production.
2022. The Problematic Workout, Lee Ka Hei’s screen dance.
2021. The Graduate, Tsang Chung Yin’s film.
2020. Beyond the Veil, Hui Ka Chun’s screen dance.
Awards and Commissions
Goin’ Goin’, commissioned work in Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong (CMHK) Sonic Anchor #34, Sep 2021.
Conversation Errors, commissioned work in CMHK Out of Our Heads, May 2020.
Selected artist in CMHK Sonic Transmission 2018/19.
Selected artist in Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong (CMHK) Sonic Transmission 2018/19, Oct 2019.
Gymnopedies No.1 Remix, selected entry in CMHK Hong Kong Mixtape 2018, Jul 2018.
Gold Prize in Youth Choir Category of the 1st Tokyo International Choir Competition (as the conductor of The Greeners’ Sound), Jul 2018.
2nd Place in Choral Open Class of the 70th Hong Kong Schools Music Festival (as the conductor of The Greeners’ Sound), Mar 2018.
Partials, commissioned work in CMHK Sonic Anchor, May 2018.
Street through a Glass Ball, commissioned by Hong Kong Composers’ Guild (HKCG), Jan 2016.
Rainscape, selected entry in Chamber Category of Asian Composers League 2015 in Philippines, Nov 2015.
Deer Enclosure, commissioned and performed by The Greeners’ Sound, Jul 2015.
Sunset in Pak Nei, commissioned by HKCG, Dec 2014.
As a stream, 3rd prize in HKCG New Generation 2014, June 2014.
Coherence II, commissioned by HKCG, Oct 2013.
Meditation, selected entry in HKCG New Generation 2013, Jun 2013.
Qualifications
Master of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2020-2021.
Master of Fine Arts (Distinction), The City University of Hong Kong, 2016-2019.
Bachelor of Music (1st class honours), The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, 2012-2016. Associate Diploma in Recital in Solo Piano, Trinity College London, 2007.
孫禮賢從事音樂、作曲、聲音和新媒體藝術創作。深受古典音樂和作曲訓練的啟發，孫氏的作品多由音樂、聲音、聆聽為出發點。作品《鹿柴》和《每一個小天空》回望孫氏於綠韻合唱團多年的經歷和回憶；與藝術家鄭雅茵的共同創作《走走》探索了田野錄音、虛擬導航和運動身體之間的層疊關係。孫氏亦常以聲音設計和互動媒體設計的角度與不同的編舞家和舞者密切合作，啟發他近期以樂手的動作為創作可能性的探索。以音樂和聲音為出發點，孫氏的藝術實踐涵蓋互動編程、錄像散文、聲音藝術、裝置、表演和媒體藝術，藉此探討對自身及其環境的所思所感。
Exhibitions
2022. Moving Space(s) at Oil Street Art Space.
2021. AfterLive.
2019. Microcosm || Magnetism: SCM MFA Show 2019.
2019. Tai Po Youth Arts Festival 2019 – Let Bygones Be Bygones.
2018. Sonic Anchor Special Series: Sound Forms – Fresh Form 1.
2018. Unravel: SCM MFA Student Show 2018.
2017. Transient Inflections: A Selection of Works from the SCM Creative Media Show 2017.
2017. Robert Lettner: New Wunderkammer Of Rococo + Utopia Of Ornaments.
Performances
2022. West Kowloon - Jazz Fest Experimental Lab.
2022. Chan Wai Lok’s interactive choreography - In the Cloud.
2022. West Kowloon - Sonic Encounter.
2022. Goin’ Goin’, Unlock Dancing Plaza Open Field Vol.1.
2021. Goin’ Goin’, CMHK Sonic Anchor #34.
2020. Out Of Our Heads (OOOH!).
2019. Ftarri Live.
Music and Sound Design
2022. Untitled 2.0, Albert Garcia’s lecture performance work-in-progress.
2022. POV, Heiwa Wong’s dance film.
2022. Six Mouths, Unlock Dancing Plaza Annual Production.
2022. The Problematic Workout, Lee Ka Hei’s screen dance.
2021. The Graduate, Tsang Chung Yin’s film.
2020. Beyond the Veil, Hui Ka Chun’s screen dance.
Awards and Commissions
Goin’ Goin’, commissioned work in Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong (CMHK) Sonic Anchor #34, Sep 2021.
Conversation Errors, commissioned work in CMHK Out of Our Heads, May 2020.
Selected artist in CMHK Sonic Transmission 2018/19.
Selected artist in Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong (CMHK) Sonic Transmission 2018/19, Oct 2019.
Gymnopedies No.1 Remix, selected entry in CMHK Hong Kong Mixtape 2018, Jul 2018.
Gold Prize in Youth Choir Category of the 1st Tokyo International Choir Competition (as the conductor of The Greeners’ Sound), Jul 2018.
2nd Place in Choral Open Class of the 70th Hong Kong Schools Music Festival (as the conductor of The Greeners’ Sound), Mar 2018.
Partials, commissioned work in CMHK Sonic Anchor, May 2018.
Street through a Glass Ball, commissioned by Hong Kong Composers’ Guild (HKCG), Jan 2016.
Rainscape, selected entry in Chamber Category of Asian Composers League 2015 in Philippines, Nov 2015.
Deer Enclosure, commissioned and performed by The Greeners’ Sound, Jul 2015.
Sunset in Pak Nei, commissioned by HKCG, Dec 2014.
As a stream, 3rd prize in HKCG New Generation 2014, June 2014.
Coherence II, commissioned by HKCG, Oct 2013.
Meditation, selected entry in HKCG New Generation 2013, Jun 2013.
Qualifications
Master of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2020-2021.
Master of Fine Arts (Distinction), The City University of Hong Kong, 2016-2019.
Bachelor of Music (1st class honours), The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, 2012-2016. Associate Diploma in Recital in Solo Piano, Trinity College London, 2007.