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31.10.2015
聽（不）見（不）聽 （不）見（不）聽（不）見 – 網上展覽開幕暨藝術家分享會
Guest Curation Project 客席策展 (II)
The Inevitable II: the Repetitive – Online Exhibition Launch and Sharing
聽（不）見（不）聽
（不）見（不）聽（不）見
網上展覽開幕暨藝術家分享會
31.10.2015 (SAT 六) 3:30 – 5pm @ SYUT 談風：vs：再說
Unit B, 10/F, Gee Luen Factory Building, 316-318 Kwun Tong Road, Ngau Tau Kok
牛頭角觀塘道316-318號志聯工廠大廈10樓B號舖
* 此活動以廣東話主講 This event will be conducted mainly in Cantonese.
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Repetition. Does it capture our attention? Or quite the contrary?
I started writing pop lyrics more than two decades ago. This is one of the questions that keep me bewildered.
Of course, in the world of pop music, it seems evident. It seems to me that one of the inevitable manifestations of pop music is the repetitive. The melody (mostly) repeats itself, the words (mostly) repeat themselves, and only when a song is being played again and again, does it become noticed, popular, and the people connected with the song become known.
At the same time, many people in our city fare differently. They disappear even though – or precisely because – they repeat things.
Think of the ‘Next stop is…’ announcements on MTR.
Think of the cold calls urging you to try their facial treatments.
Think of the market places constructed in different tongues.
Think of the newspaper distributors early in the mornings.
Who notices them? Why is the story of repetition so different for these sounds and their makers?
Yvette Wong, Dickson Lam, Charmaine Chan and Natalie Yuen document and rework these repetitive sounds in their projects that persuade us to listen, and to visualize their usually invisible makers in the usually invisible time and space.
I guess we are trying to make it less inevitable about the repetitive, about who gets the attention and who not, about the funny operations of our commodifying city that are so very often repetitive.
Chow Yiu Fai
Curator
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Curated by lyrics’ writer Chow Yiu-fai, the second part of the Guest Curation Project by The Library by soundpocket will be launched and four student artists will share their works during the event.
Please stay tuned with us for more details!
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重複，讓我們記得，還是忘掉？
我寫了流行歌詞二十多年，這是我的一個疑問。對我來說，流行歌的其一元素就是重複。因為重複，所以流行，所以讓我們記得，記得歌，記得與歌有關的人，例如唱歌的，作曲的，寫詞的。
但我也發現，有些人的遭遇剛好相反，他們同樣為這個極其產品化的城市服務，日以繼夜的重複著某些聲音，卻很少很少得到我們的注意，更多是忘了他們的存在。
例如港鐵列車裡的廣播。
例如促銷facial的電話。
例如說著異國語言的市集。
例如凌晨分派報紙的勞動。
感謝王樂儀，林迪生，陳芷利，袁梓烈，錄下四種常常重複在我們耳邊身邊而我們卻往往聽不見的聲音，人，時，地，並以四種不一樣的方式讓我們記得，原來這個極其產品化的城市還有這些聲音，人，時，空。
從聽不見到聽見。
聽見，多有趣的兩個字，也是一個期望。
周耀輝
策展人
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由填詞人周耀輝策展的聲音圖書館客席策展計劃之第二部曲快將推出，届時的網上展覽開幕暨分享會將會由四位學生藝術家即席跟大家分享其作品。
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About the Curator
Chow Yiu-fai
Chow Yiu Fai received his PhD degree at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam. He is Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing of Hong Kong Baptist University. Next to his academic life, Chow is also an award-winning creative writer. He has penned some 1,000 lyrical works for a diversity of Chinese pop artists. Lately, Chow has been increasingly involved in prose writing, multi-media and visual art projects.
About Guest Curation Project
“Guest Curation” is The Library’s long-term project inaugurated in 2014. Artist/curator Solomon Yu, lyrics’ writer Chow Yiu-fai, and artist Pak Sheung-chuen, are invited to take an active role in interpreting the existing materials in The Library. Their concept and curation will become mini-websites that could be accessed from The Library.
有關策展人
周耀輝
周耀輝，畢業於香港大學英國語文及比較文學系，其後參與
有關客席策展計劃
「客席策展」 是聲音圖書館一個從2014年跨越到2015年的長期合