VIREDIV is the result of the live collaboration of Edwin Lo and Bjorn Ho in Once Upon a Summer Live. Starting with the monologue Chai Ling, one of the student leaders in Tienanmen Square Protest, this performance aims at to speak for certain feelings and thoughts through the language of our sound expression. And, after 20 years, we still remember.

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photo by Kobe

A short note after the performance:
I think it is an amusing moment that someone shouted at us (or I guess the one was pointing at me) said: “I don’t understand.” (and Björn said: “i’ve heard ‘wasting electrictiy!’”) Indeed we didn’t have anything or message to give audiences. We were just using our language to express certain feelings or listening experiences. And, yes, what I can say to this guy is: “I don’t understand what you don’t understand and I never beg you for your understanding with your narrowed mind.“  – Edwin Lo

VIREDIV (19’29)
Live at Once Upon a Summer Live, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, 29th May 2009.

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Rabbit Travelogue: Prologue (4 channel Video installation)

Rabbit is forced to leave his home and hence forced to be a traveler. In fact, he doesn’t go anywhere; just his mood and identity are slightly changed, becomes a stranger in his hometown.

He doesn’t have any choices indeed. Witnessing the places turning into ruins, all of the memories, images and sound becoming the emptiness and nothingness, the only thing Rabbit can do is drifting and using his ears in listening carefully.

Prologue: it is about the escape of Rabbit from the empty space of Wong Chuk Hang to the last days of Queen Pier, the occasion of mourning of Tiananmen massacre, 71 demonstrations and the gathering of Anti-High Speed Rail Movement.

Rabbit Travelogue: Through the fictional character Rabbit who engages in different occasion and spot, the project documents this fictional character drifting into the scenes of reality and facing the powerless of inability of changing status quo. This is the record of this fictional character bringing us the helplessness of reality.

旅行兔子: 序 (四頻錄像裝置)

兔子，他，是迫於成為旅者，離開他的家鄉，成為異客。其實他什麼地方都沒有去，只是轉換了心情，轉變了身份，在自己的家鄉成為了異客。

他沒有選擇的餘地，看著舊有的村落成為鬼異空城，一切的記憶，一切可以掌握的影像，聲音已成為失去塵埃，空空蕩蕩，什麼都沒有。他只好帶著一雙兔耳，遊走，小心聆聽。

序：是兔子的出走，由失去了人氣的黃竹坑，到皇后碼頭最後時光，六四，七一，反高鐵的聲音與錄像記錄。

【 旅行兔子】藉著創造兔子這個虛構人物，參與香港不同的場合和景點，記錄著這個虛構人物遊走真實的場景之中，而無力的對任何的場景作出改變。只是純粹的記錄這虛構的人物帶來真實的無奈。

Extending and reproducing the material presented in hell hot festival, Underneath the Ocean presents the artist’s on-going investigation of underwater soundscape and constituting abstract forms of manipulation of recordings.

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A Rabbit Travelogue Production

© 2010 Rabbit Travelogue Edition
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Headsonica is an on-going series of performance presenting soundscape composition / sound work for headphone. Transmitting sound performance by using headphone, the project aims at articulating different auditory experiences by its directness and spatialisation of its materials.

Based on the recordings captured in Aberdeen of Hong Kong, the first work of Headsonica presents the sonic qualities of its seascape and the micro-events of the area.

You can download the work at Mediafire, Soundcloud and purchase the FLAC version of the work for US$3 in Bandcamp.

A Rabbit Travelogue Production

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Dead Slowly 慢性中毒 (2009, Hong Kong, Color, HDV)

Language: Cantonese

Duration: 90 mins

故事大綱：

兔仔跳進了時間的洞，弄醒了沉睡中的眉。眉在半夢半醒下發現自己存活於現在之間，沒有過去，只有現在的一剎。政遇上了一宗平凡的食物中毒案件，卻勾起了他八年前的污點，他沈迷於過去與現在的因果關係，對疑犯眉作了無謂的幻想與補償。凝沒有方向，失去了愛人，同時也失去了可依賴的姊姊眉，沒有前進，要放棄才能完滿。沒有任何關係的清，她的身份成為了她的所有，政的妻子，孩子的媽，還有不可能有但存活於別人眼中的虛構關係，與彥是情人。清渴望一了百了，斷之所有，如死了重新，失去所有關係。

有什麼比一具躺在血床上的女屍，來得更加多幻想，更加多的故事，更加多可能性的關係被閱讀？

Synopsis:

The so called “relationship” doesn’t existed, but only fictional relationship throughout the whole process: Rabbit is jumping through the hole of time, turning into the awakening of a lady, Mei, who gradually realizes herself living in the ambiguity of her life. Plainclothes policeman, Jing, remembers his past failure 8 years ago while he is investigating an ordinary food poison case. He traps into the casual relationship between present and past, devotes himself for the useless redemption and imagination for the suspect of the case, Mei. Ying, the younger sister of Mei, is losing her way, her love, her reliable sister, no way out, giving up is the only exit. Ching, the wife of Jing, who supposed to be outsider, her identity is the only thing of her: as the wife of Jing, as the mother of her son and the made-up relationship with Yin, a policeman in the police station, through other’s eyes. The longing for cutting and wiping out all of them, to reborn from death, is shutting down all relationship. In fact, is there nothing more than a dead female body for so much imagination, more stories inside her mind and more possibility for such reading for relationship?

Position crew:

Exec. Producer 監製 / Jessey Tang 曾翠珊, Kattie Fan 范可琪

Director, Screenplay 導演, 編劇 / Rita Hui 許雅舒

Director of Photography 攝影指導 / Nelson Szeto 司徒勁鋒, Angus Tong 戴偉棠

Art Director 美術指導 / Ahong Cheung 張兆康, Heiward Mak 麥曦茵

Sound Design 音效設計 / May Mok 莫美華

Original Score 原創音樂 / Choi Sai Ho, aka ST 蔡世豪

Editor 剪接 / Haze Tsui 崔嘉曦, Rita Hui 許雅舒

Casts:

Mei 眉 / Joman Chiang 蔣祖蔓

Ching 清 / Siu Man Ko 高少敏

Ying 凝 / Sheung Ling Cheng 鄭湘玲

Yin 彥 / Yiu Sing Lam 林耀聲

Boy 男孩 / Cliff Huen 禤天揚

Jing 政 / Samuel Pang 彭敬慈

Uncle Chi 智叔 / Risky Lui 廖劍清

Mother 母親 / Brenda Chan 陳桂芬

Rabbit 兔子/ Edwin Lo 羅潤庭

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Rabbit Travelogue: Central Region

Wandering through different spaces and most importantly, the social and political events in Central of Hong Kong, Rabbit Travelogue: Central Region is not only a production related to the listening of specific soundscape, it is also about how sound engaging into to society, how to convey the social and political aspect of daily life through documentation of sound. From the processed soundwalks to the demonstration of Queen Pier (one of the historical symbol and public space in Hong Kong), and ending with the demonstration of Anti-express national railway outside Legislative Council in Hong Kong, this release tries to express the artist’s personal sentiment toward the current status and the destruction in Hong Kong: “a city forgets the past, its future will not be beautirful.” (from the banner of exhibition “Coming Near you: The Destruction of Central Hong Kong”, 2005)

Duration: 46’45

Field recordings are recorded between July, 2007 – January, 2010 in Sheung Wan and Central.
Composed by Edwin Lo.
Cover design by Jimmy Lo.

A Rabbit Travelogue Production

© 2010 Rabbit Travelogue Edition
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For the places, moments and memories.
Special thanks to Rita Hui, Ip Yuk Yiu, Cedric Maridet, Haze Tsui, May Fung, Eno Yim, Anthony Yeung, Yeung Yang, HKADC, Videotage, Dennis Wong, Alok Leung, Bjorn Ho, KWC, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity.

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