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34 Neon Lights
Choi Sai Ho, Musician
Maybe Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back
Yuen Che Hung, Storyteller
From Tak Yu Tea House to Lai Tsuen Sauna, We Look Upon for Lord’s Mercy
Liu Wai Tong, Poet
One Eyed Man
Cédric Maridet, Sound Artist
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34 Neon Lights
Choi Sai Ho, Musician
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34 Neon Lights is composed based on 34 neon signs found on the associated route. The major scale is assigned to the colours of neon lights: red (d), orange (r), yellow (m), green (f), white (s), blue (l), purple (t). The music sequence is then composed according to the colours of the neon signs, and mixed with soundscape recordings taken along the way. The electronic music piece is mainly downtempo and minimal techno in style.
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Maybe Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back
Yuen Che Hung, Storyteller
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It comes to the part of the story where my dad handed me to Uncle Wun and went into the Mahjong School, my neighbour was astonished, “Really? Your father … ?”, I responded, “Have you ever heard of anyone who would invite you over to tell you a story that is untrue?” I thank my dad for holding my little hand and taking a stroll with me, I still remember that heartwarming feeling. I thank my dad for letting me wander the streets on my own, in such way, I “bumped into life” and came to know what life is like.

(Acknowledgement: Chinese Music Archive, Music Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
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From Tak Yu Tea House to Lai Tsuen Sauna, We Look Upon for Lord’s Mercy
Liu Wai Tong, Poet
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The poem takes you through a roam through space and time shadowed by the phantom of remembrances of three generations of Hong Kongese; while the texts on the neon signs articulate their fates like secret signs.
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One Eyed Man
Cédric Maridet, Sound Artist
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The title of the piece — One Eyed Man — is taken from the neon sign of a herbal tea shop on Shanghai Street which no longer exists there. The name itself strikes me first for its potential for a mysterious narrative. It became the starting point for an unattainable quest: the impossibility to physically revisit removed localities. The remaining neon signs are topological information read by people from the street to loosely guide the drift in the city, and are anchorage points for different episodes of anecdotal sounds that punctuate the walk. All the processed and non-processed sounds of this audio walk have been recorded along the streets from Shan Tung Street to Sai Yeung Choi Street South at different moments of the day and night, and constitute a fictitious document.