Guitarist and theatre performer Michael Chan works with multiple performance groups including local indie band Bad Math, Shatin-based art collective TCKR, and free jazz group Fountain Collective. Chan has performed at Emax@Music Zone, Lost Stars Livehouse Bar & Eatery, Innonation Production Livestreams and various jazz gigs in Hong Kong, and is a co-founder of the local jazz group Fountain de Chopin. Since 2019, Chan has studied with some of Hong Kong’s best musicians under the Hong Kong Youth Jazz Collective education programme. He has also studied with Ensemble Transience, led by Ted Lo and Teriver Cheung (2020–2021), and completed a two-year programme with the Physical Theatre Institute at the Tang Shu-Wing Theatre Studio.

Recent performances include cross-disciplinary performance Freespace Ensemble Pop Plus: Jonathan Yang – VENT! at The Box, Freespace.

Hong Kong-based guitarist Isaac So began his musical training studying classical piano and flute. He obtained a BA in Music from Newcastle University, UK, where he was drawn to folk music and ethnomusicology. So is a regularly performing multi-instrumentalist with experience in guitar, keyboard, vocals and flute, and specialised in the slide guitar.

Maka is a Hong Kong bassist, founder of band CODE and music producer at Alevia Records. His music composition and performance are mostly influenced by jazz, fusion, funk, pop and electronic music.

Hong Kong pianist, composer, arranger, producer and music director Daniel Chu graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Music from Berklee College of Music at 20 years old and has collaborated with across disciplines with artists such as painter Makoto Fujimura, songwriter Jordan Waré, and pop divas Sammi Cheng and Janice Vidal. In 2018, he formed the electroacoustic music trio manvsmachine with sound designer hirsk and drummer Blue Kwok, and has since performed with them at festivals in Europe and Asia. In 2021, Chu presented his work Game Play with Freespace Ensemble and the solo piano recital Extremes. In 2022, he was music director for Terence Lam and The Absent Brother’s MOOV Digital Concert and keyboardist for Freespace Ensemble Pop Plus: Kraftwerk Reimagined, and presented two solo piano sets spotlighting the ballads of Leslie Cheung. He was music director for HKT x WestK POPFEST: I Am What I Am – A tribute to Leslie Cheung in 2023.

Classical, jazz and experimental double bassist Nelson Fung performs with a range of jazz ensembles, big bands and pop artists and loves to explore musical boundaries. As an experimental musician, Fung explores the possibilities of sound using different effects and techniques, and has played in free improvisation performances such as Sonic Encounter and Experimental Music Lab by West Kowloon. Fung is a co-founder of ensembles Rootless Voyagers and The Water, and local jazz group Fountain de Chopin, and has performed at a number of festivals, including Freespace Jazz Fest 2020, 2021 and 2022; HKT x WESTK POPFEST and the 2019 Jazz Marathon presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. He has also played with the Patrick Lui Jazz Orchestra and collaborated with musicians such as Olivier Cong, Yoyo Sham, JB and many more. Fung is currently a member of Freespace Ensemble.

Gill Mok is the drummer of Hong Kong-based instrumental band CODE. His inspiration spans from drum to bass, math rock to modern jazz. His drum sounds combines tight snares and dry cymbals, forming a machine-like accuracy with improvisational sensibilities.

Luk Long-man is a Hong Kong-based erhu musician and sound artist. The generative potential of computer music and the wonder of natural soundscapes unlock him to a broad range of materials and a new approach to listening. His recent works seek to explore the sound shaping progress among nature, human and technology.

Local producer and live electronic musician hirsk (aka Khris Nung) graduated from the Electronic Production and Design programme at Berklee College of Music. A creator of unique soundscapes, hirsk was invited to the 2017 Pop-Kultur Festival in Berlin, Ear Up Incubation 2018 in Hong Kong and the Frameworks Festival 2019 in Munich. hirsk has collaborated with a number of local artists including Kiri T, Sophy Wong, Serrini, Gin Lee, Chow Yiu-fai and Cy Leo. He currently performs with jazz drummer Blue Kwok and pianist Daniel Chu exploring electronic and jazz music as manvsmachine. His latest album noista/gia was recognised in the Golden Melody Awards 2021.

Born in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong artist Loisey is an independent electronic music producer, sound designer, composer and live performer known for his meticulous arrangements of classical piano with a variety of instruments and IDM elements. In 2020, he founded the electronic and rap music label Alevia Records, and in 2021 he formed the electronic jazz fusion band Code.

Lau graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and the City University of Hong Kong, majoring in composing, electronic music, and creative media. He navigates the scenes of theatres, galleries, and underground music as a sound designer, sound artist, and performer. Lau’s interests lie in creative collaboration through which he expands his oeuvres from music to sonic, performing, and installation arts of floating boundaries. Recent endeavours include A Musician’s Prepares (from 2019), a methodological exploration of music and sonic art creation as performance; Chain of Dialogues (2021), a community-facing project which explores personal relationships by means of in-situ interviews and performances; Elemental Practice – Text (2020) and Elemental Practice – Spectator (2021), a series of experiments on the relationship between music and text or spectatorship; The Glory Pillar (2022), an art installation which turns an exhibition into a site of public participation and expression through the guidance of and interaction with the text.

Charles Kwong is a Hong Kong-based composer whose creative output focuses on orchestral music, instrumental compositions for musicians across various musical cultures, site-specific music and transdisciplinary work. Experimental in nature, Kwong’s work explores the notions of time and space as revealed by sounds and listening, the eclecticism of juxtaposed performance practices, site specificity and the performativity of musical forms and genres. Kwong’s music has been performed in Asia and Europe, with recent collaborators such as London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble contemporain and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Commissioners include Ensemble recherche, Lucerne Festival, Takefu International Music Festival, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Tai Kwun Contemporary and Hong Kong New Music Ensemble.

Kwong is the Artist Associate of Hong Kong Sinfonietta in 2020–2022. He co-founded PROJECT21st in 2019 and has been its Artistic Director since then.

Larry Shuen is a Hong Kong-based composer and multidisciplinary artist whose artistic practice includes music for concerts, film scores, interactive programming, video essays, sound art, installation art and media art. In recent years, Shuen has also been active in theatre production. Shuen is the sound designer of Unlock Dancing Plaza’s 2022 production Six Mouths. His recent multidisciplinary work Goin’ Goin’, a collaboration with artist Cheng Nga-yan, explores a superimposed relationship between sound, virtual navigation and an exercising body.

Nelson Hiu was born and raised in Hawaii and studied ethnomusicology at the University of Hawaii. He has worked as a dance accompanist and participated in a wide variety of music making from free improvisation to noise, punk, reggae, jazz, world music, post-folk and structured chance happenings.

moon.noon is a real-time visual artist who creates audio-visual projects and experiments. He likes to weave real-world quantities, like sound, sight, time and sensory data, into abstract audio-visual vignettes and storytelling experiences.

Music video director, video editor and visual jockey, Yeung combines vintage video hardware with liquid light show techniques as his main creative elements. He has been experimenting in the field of video signal disruption, aiming to explore more possibilities and applications in glitch art.

Founded in 2021, EJAR (EASTERN JADE Art Renaissance) aspires to encourage a more vibrant cultural scene in Hong Kong where “East meets West”. As an independent, non-profit art organisation formed by a Hong Kong-based artist collective located in Shau Kei Wan on Hong Kong Island, EJAR aims to explore and reflect on possibilities for communication, collective art-making, and artistic research, as well as to facilitate cultural exchange and networking among art-related entities between Hong Kong and the rest of the world.

EJAR has hosted and curated exhibitions and events with assorted themes and media. Major shows include Above the Underline (Non-solo 2021), One – Original Works and Prints by Félix Landry Yuan (2021), Katharsis (2021, Hong Kong International Photography Festival), Lousy People (2022, with Square Street Gallery), Signal #1 (2023) and more. EJAR has also been actively engaged in the music and performance scene in Hong Kong. Recent appearances include Turning Over Every Stone – Release Performance for Spiral at Tong 3 (2021), Art After Hours: LOUD (visual support for David Boring) at Tai Kwun (2022), and Freespace Jazz Fest: Experimental Lab at Freespace, West Kowloon Cultural District (2022).

Graduated from the School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2022, majoring in Lighting Design.

Recent lighting design works include The Acceptance of Being by the Dance Academy of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts’ summer performance, Sunset Concert 2022 by the School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts, and the Merry Lamb Lamb Genesis concert 2022.

Other participation in stage productions and productions include Pants Theatre Production’s Quills (Lighting Programmer and Operator), Hong Kong Repertory Theatre’s Landing to Blossom (Lighting Programmer and Operator), and TONE Music Festival 2022 (Follow Spot Operator).