SYNCHRONIZING BERLIN HONG KONG LAM Lai (*1983) Frozen Moment (World Premiere) 25 min for two ensembles

es and video Video: Jason Wong ---Interval--Paul Friedrich Frick (*1979) Synchronizing (World Premiere) 40 min for two ensembles Video: Aron Kitzig Ensemble Adapter Manuel Nawri, Conductor Inglfur Vilhjlmsson, Clarinet Michael Rauter, Violoncello Gunnhildur Einarsdttir, Harp Matthias Engler, Percussion Hong Kong New Music Ensemble Vicky Shin, Conductor Izumi Chloe Nikaido, Flute Wang Shuang, Guzheng Simon Hui, Bass Heidi Law, Percussion

BIOGRAPHIES LAM Lai, Born in Hong Kong, LAM Lai is studying her Master Degree in the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in composition and electronic music, studying with LAW Wing-fai and Clarence MAK. She composes for different musical genres including orchestral work, traditional chamber, mixed chinese and western ensembles, electronic music and multimedia productions. In 2008, she received The Lions & Joseph Koo Music Foundation Scholarship and went for an exchange trip in Taiwan. She visited numbers of universities and presented her compositions in seminars. In 2009 and 2010, She received Scholarships for her study. In 2010 May, her work Maos Song for live electronics and video was performed in HKAPA Exchange Concert with National Taiwan Normal University at HKAPA Concert Hall. In 2010 September, her mixed chamber work She Said was performed in the concert 2010 Interchange Concert of Taiwan and Hong Kong Composers at Taipei Recital Hall, Taiwan. In 2010 November, she was invited to perform her multimedia work Virtual Metropolis II for live electronics and video, in the GET IT GREEN Youth Summit of An International Conference On Climate Change 2010 Hong Kong at HKAPA Amphitheatre. Apart from presenting her compositions in concerts, LAM also composed film music for YMCAs Foundation of Youth Self-Realization Scheme. She is active in promoting contemporary music to public. In July 2009, She produced a contemporary music concert Words in at HKAPA Recital Hall. In February 2010, her commissioned work of the Creator of Music Performance Organization (COMPO) The Neon Lantern was performed in foyer of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. Frozen Moment Time is frozen when you are not hurrying to somewhere. Synchronizing two cities, synchronizing two space-time. Delayed second traces out the Frozen Moment. LAM Lai

Paul Friedrich Frick was born in 1979 in Berlin. From 1991, studied composition with Il-Ryun Chung. 2000-2006 studied composition with Friedrich Goldmann at the University of the Arts, and masterclasses there from 2006-2008. His work consists mainly of chamber music, theater and radio play music. His plays have been performed among others, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Ensemble Adapter, Ensemble Est! Est!!Est!!! and the Ensemble Kaleidoscope. Paul Friedrich Frick is also active as a pianist and as a producer / live performer of electronic dance music. He has published on the label Karaoke Kalk Pets and Doppelschall and with the techno-acoustic ensemble "Brandt Brauer Frick, " Tartelet Records and !K7 Records. In the club context, he has performed at numerous renowned venues, including Berghain Berlin, Museum Ludwig Cologne, Mutek Montreal, Institute Of Contemporary Art in London, Glastonbury Festival, MIDEM Cannes, Coachella Festival California, EuroSonic Festival Groningen, The Museum of Modern Art, Oslo. "Synchronizing" is in the broadest sense a canon. This piece is designed in two directions, in Hong Kong it is different than in Berlin. This is due to the delay in the sound and image transmission. Interactions between the two groups, which corresponded to only one, not two perspectives in my ideas had to be omitted. It was sometimes painful, but I was just irritated the resulting limitation of resources and caused them to compensate with new approaches. The differences occur in the small, the large structure is the same. It is a play, an essence, only two points of view. Since none of the spectators times shortly after Hong Kong and Berlin flies, each version must work for themselves and carry the essence. So it can not obviously be a matter of comparing the two perspectives together, even if this is interesting. Each represents the whole. Paul Friedrich Frick Golden Shield "Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from the Internet, the new home of the spirit. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. "(John Perry Barlow, " Grateful Dead ") The video concept is based on the genuine and direct transmission through the Internet. It is necessary to obtain information on political, religious censorship and content of time. Synchronizing creates the possibility of the "Golden Shield" to break through to strive for a free development of the Internet. Aron Kitzig Ensemble Adapter is a quintet for new music consisting of Kristjana Helgadttir (ute), Inglfur Vilhjlmsson (clarinet), Gunnhildur Einarsdttir (harp), Marc Tritschler (piano) and Matthias Engler (percussion). The ve instrumentalists from Iceland and Germany are based in Berlin. In international concerts and in the studio Adapter plays music by composers of the meantime and the recent past. In cooperations the ensemble acts as a producing or co-producing unit, testing chances and limits of transmedial approaches in different kinds of settings. In workshops the group transfers knowledge of how to write, study and perform contemporary music to composers, instrumentalists and creative people worldwide. Adapter stays in touch with the latest developments in the differing scenes of contemporary creation, maintaining a progressive, authentic and powerful style. www.ensemble-adapter.de The Hong Kong New Music Ensemble (HKNME) was founded in 2008 with an aim to present high quality performances of contemporary music to Hong Kong audiences. Since its inception, the group has been widely praised for its innovative programming and interdisciplinary collaborations with artists from HKNME has collaborated with such organizations as Zuni Icosahedron, Guangdong Modern Dance Company, Osage Gallery, soundpocket, Contemporary Musiking, Hong Kong Composers

Guild and the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Architecture Biennale. The group has also worked with such composers as Samson Young, Chan Hing-yan, Benedict Mason, Chinary Ung, Kawai Shiu and a talented body of younger Hong Kong composers. The groups versatile repertoire includes works by local and overseas composers, as well as contemporary pieces that are seldom heard in Hong Kong. In October 2008, members of the HKNME were resident at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Since 2009, the group has presented regular concerts in Hong Kong, and has toured to China (Guangzhou, Shanghai), Macau, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Taiwan (Taipei) and Singapore. The HKNME was featured at Hong Kongs New Vision Arts Festival 2010, and its touring schedule in 2011 includes performances at international festivals in five countries. www.hknme.org

SYNCHRONIZING BERLIN HONG KONG TEAM Idea and Concept: Producer: Technical Director: Technical Assistant: Coordination: Visual Concept: Video: Composers: Graphics and Animation: Supported by: Goethe Institute Hong Kong Bundeskulturstiftung Partners Venue Partner: Osage Thank you to: Christopher Keyes/ Laboratory for Music Exploration and Research, Hong Kong Baptist University Deborah Waugh/ Hong Kong University Michael Karl Schmidt / Felix Dreher Michael Karl Schmidt Felix Dreher Sebastian Schottke Matthias Engler (Berlin) / William Lane (Hong Kong) Aron Kitzig Aron Kitzig (Frick) / Jason Wong (LAM Lai) Paul Friedrich Frick / LAM Lai Danae Diaz