UNHEARD sound and music festival: Sound and the city - An examination

Through film, dialogue and his own works with HK band Blood , Wine or Honey, Joseph Von Hess examines the role urban sounds and those specific to HK play in the creative process.

Joseph discusses his artistic responses as a musician, producer and performer to the common experience of the urban; revealing connections, influences and inspirations, illustrated with examples of sound in cinema and popular music that speak to modernity, traffic, space, urbanisation and our reactions to the phenomenal rise of the City as a place where over half of all human beings now live.

bio:

Joseph von Hess is a musician, producer and performer currently living and working in Hong Kong where he plays in the dup Blood, wine or Honey. With a musicality rooted in early childhood, where he accompanied his music-writer father to countless live shows, von Hess has gradually absorbed an encyclopaedic variety of musical influences: from Hungarian folk to crust-punk, Baroque recorder recitals to Zimbabwean pop.

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Talk to be held in English