Research Interests, Fieldwork, Creative Arts

Research interests/Creative Arts

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• Music/Sound studies

  • The phenomenology of sound

  • Sounding objects

  • The politics of listening; auralities

  • Sinophone sound studies

  • Aesthetics

    • The aesthetics of (1) soul and R&B ad-libs and feelings and (2) virtuosic vocal techniques in Sinophone pop and Cantopop

  • Political, festive musical rituals

• Experimental ethnography; Digital humanities​

  • Audiovisual art installation

  • Documentary filmmaking​

  • Immersive, intermedial work

  • Sensory ethnography

• Voice studies

  • Singing

    • Sinophone R&B and Cantopop

  • Performed vocalities​​

• Political theory​

  • The authoritarian ear and politicized listening

  • The free voices

• Hong Kong studies

  • Local and diasporic Hong Kong​

  • Cantopop

• Poetry (English, Traditional Chinese)

• Singer-songwriting (English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese)

• Urban geography

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Fieldwork

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• Hong Kong: urban/protest sound, street performance, Cantopop, Sinophone R&B (2008 onward)

• Macao: Cantonese opera for the Ghosts Festival (2012)

• Japan: urban/metro sound, Japanese objects, Kawaii, Shrines (2014 onward)

• Taiwan: urban/metro sound (2016)

• Réunion Island: Sinophone communities (2017)

• New York City: subway/protest sound, street performance (2018, 2019)

• North America: Hong Kong diaspora protest sound (2019 onward)

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