Hong Kong composer, sound artist, and media artist Larry Shuen draws deep inspiration from classical music and his extensive training in musical composition. His works often orignates from a profound engagement with music, sounds, and the act of listening itself, through which Shuen articulates his reflective thoughts on life and his surroundings.
Shuen's recent works include It’s not in the music, but it’s in the music, or not., a lecture performance that explores musicians’ performability and the myths embedded in their training systems; Deer Enclosure and Every Small Sky, pieces that draw on his memories with The Greeners’s Sound, a choral society Shuen dedicated years to; Goin’ Goin’ an audiovisual performance with media artist Nga Yan Cheng, which explores the interrelationships among field recordings, virtual navigation, and the human body's movement; Stolen Ears; Muffled Bell created with choreographer/performer Wai Lok Chan, a work that challenges conventional notions of the musician-dancer relationship and audio-visual dynamics; and a series of works focused on musicians’ gestures, which he later expanded into his first solo exhibition, What Movements Can Tell.
Shuen is also active in theatre production as an artist, and sound-and-media designer. He has collaborated with various art organizations, including West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong Performing Arts Expo, Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Hong Kong Gaudeamus Dunhuang Ensemble, Twenty Alpha, Unlock Dancing Plaza, City Contemporary Dance Company, Floating Projects, Asia Composers’ League, Dance Nuclues (Singapore), UNPOP (Canada), Yokahama Dance Collection, and Instrument Inventors Initiative (Hague).
As an educator, Shuen is committed to teaching courses in music and sound art while also actively participating in arts initiatives and university teaching.
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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。
作為教育工作者，孫氏教授音樂、作曲和聲音藝術課程，並積極參與藝術推廣計畫和大學教學工作。
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.
Shuen's recent works include It’s not in the music, but it’s in the music, or not., a lecture performance that explores musicians’ performability and the myths embedded in their training systems; Deer Enclosure and Every Small Sky, pieces that draw on his memories with The Greeners’s Sound, a choral society Shuen dedicated years to; Goin’ Goin’ an audiovisual performance with media artist Nga Yan Cheng, which explores the interrelationships among field recordings, virtual navigation, and the human body's movement; Stolen Ears; Muffled Bell created with choreographer/performer Wai Lok Chan, a work that challenges conventional notions of the musician-dancer relationship and audio-visual dynamics; and a series of works focused on musicians’ gestures, which he later expanded into his first solo exhibition, What Movements Can Tell.
Shuen is also active in theatre production as an artist, and sound-and-media designer. He has collaborated with various art organizations, including West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong Performing Arts Expo, Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Hong Kong Gaudeamus Dunhuang Ensemble, Twenty Alpha, Unlock Dancing Plaza, City Contemporary Dance Company, Floating Projects, Asia Composers’ League, Dance Nuclues (Singapore), UNPOP (Canada), Yokahama Dance Collection, and Instrument Inventors Initiative (Hague).
As an educator, Shuen is committed to teaching courses in music and sound art while also actively participating in arts initiatives and university teaching.
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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。
作為教育工作者，孫氏教授音樂、作曲和聲音藝術課程，並積極參與藝術推廣計畫和大學教學工作。
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.