18 January 2016 | 20:00

Nerve, Marcello Lussana & Eric Wong #93

Doors: 19:30
Start time: 20:00

Nerve, Marcello Lussana & Eric Wong

Trio based between Berlin and Hong Kong, presenting the combination of digital sound generation, processing, and improvisation

Part of the transmediale/CTM Vorspiel 2016 festival

Nerve is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice mines the boundaries between sound art, multimedia theatre and underground subcultures. His main interests are crossing boundaries, experimenting tradition and remixing art forms. He received his Master in composition and electronic music from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Since 1994 he has been working extensively with the experimental theatre group Zuni Icosahedron. At present he is a lecturer at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. His recent works included cinematic opera 1984, digital opera The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, live soundtrack of 1950s film Family, Spring, Autumn. As a DJ He has performed alongside Kode9, Pedestrian, Pinch, Scratcha DVA, Supra1, Utah Jazz and Visionist. 

Marcello Lussana is a composer, a software engineer and free thinker specialized in interactive systems. Focal point of his work is the interaction between music and human movement. He produces  for audio-visual Performances, Dance, Theater and Live Electronics and is based in Berlin.

Eric Wong: born 1981 in Minneapolis, MN, grew up in Hong Kong. His current focus is free improvisation and sound manipulation. Currently based in Berlin, and having performed in Germany, Austria, Hong Kong, Macau, USA, China, Poland, etc. Besides solo works, other projects he is also involved in Meta Fog with Sascia Pellegrini, patchworking pop culture montage, the collective Stoic Strangers with Wilson Tsang plus other Hong Kong based artists, and improvisational duo Se Noh Te with Eunice Martins.