2013
Single channel video with sound, 46 min 32 sec
Project participants
Patrick Lo, Alex Yiu, Carmen Chan, Iris Lo, Lorraine Lau, Leo Lee, Helen Li, Wing Sze Ng, Cui Ying, Agnes Chan, Deneb Cheung, Dilys Lowe, Albert Poon, Maggie Wong, Irene Lau, Joe Tiu, Yang Yeung, Crystal Ho Yi Wong, Joyce Lo, Vincent Wang, Lan-chee Lam, Louis But, Steven Chan, Lily Fong, Tim Chan, Maria Mo, Joan Chung, Jeff Leung, Peggy Wong, Paco Chung, Walton Lau, Connie Lam, Tommy Tsang, Alice Wong, Edwin Yeung, Tommy Lo, Andy Li, Fu Hok Chung, Chris Lau, Kenneth Kam, Teresa Tsui, Jenny Lee, Ian Cheung, Nana Choy, Toby Lai, Corvus Kwok, Stanley Yeung, Winni Wong, Cynthia Cheung, Bryan Lee, Castle Cheung, Anthony Cheung, Sing Au, Joanne Wong, Ellen Siu, Pann Hon, Annie Tam, Sandy Lee, Iriz Yuen, William Chung, Sheryl Lee, Winston Yeung, Kelly Wu, Johnson Lo
Commissioned by the Goethe Institute, Hong Kong
”Memorizing the Tristan Chord (Institute of Fictional Ethnomusicology) was commissioned by the Goethe Institut in Hong Kong to commemorate the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner. Through an open call, I recruited Cantonese speakers from Hong Kong to invent Cantonese phrases that would map onto the pitch contour that leads up to and immediately follows the “Tristan chord” from the opening moments of Richard Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde. Participants were asked to sing their invented Cantonese phrase several times in front of the camera.”
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