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"Ondées" Installation (10-16 Mar)

Presented by Jazz Society
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2025.03.04 - 2025.03.16
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2025.03.10 - 16 (Mon - Sun)
4pm, 4:40pm, 5:20pm, 7:20pm, 8pm, 8:40pm 

2025.03.04 - 07 (Tue - Fri) (Enrol Here)
4pm, 4:40pm, 5:20pm, 7:20pm, 8pm, 8:40pm 
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Free

Online enrolment commences from 2025.02.17 (Mon).

Tickets are limited, on a first-come-first-served basis.

Each email address can only enrol once for a maximum of 4 visitors in the same session.

Visitors with successful enrolment will receive a confirmation email. Visitors are required to present the email (in either printed or digital format) for admission. 

  • Each session runs approximately 20 minutes.Free seating.
  • Participants are free to roam around. Comfortable clothing is recommended.
  • All ages are welcome. Children under 12 must be accompanied by parents or adults.
  • Please arrive at the venue 10 minutes before the programme starts.
  • The programme will involve projections and 360-degree imaging, facilitated by dimmed lighting. Please inform a member of staff if you feel dizzy or unwell during the experience.
  • Eating, drinking and the use of flash, tripods and selfie sticks are not allowed in the venue. Photography and filming are allowed for personal use only without disturbing others.
  • Please avoid bringing large objects or any items that may cause inconvenience to others. Participants may be refused entry otherwise. 
 
Ondées draws inspiration from spring rain, transforming it into an immersive journey of sound and light. Golden Melody Award-winning composer and jazz musician Alan Kwan partners with French digital media artist Sébastien Labrunie to embark on a lyrical dialogue between Alan’s signature mellow jazz tunes and Sébastien’s mesmerizing digital projections.

Ondées celebrates more than the rain itself. Through the interplay of sound and light, it creates an introspective audiovisual experience that echoes rain’s many forms—soft drizzles, rushing torrents, and the silences in between. It contemplates on the delicate balance between chaos and serenity of nature, inviting reflection on humanity’s connection to nature. 

Date & Time: 2025.03.04 - 07 (Tue – Fri) 
2025.03.10 - 16 (Mon – Sun) 
Sessions:  1)  4pm - 4:20pm
2)  4:40pm - 5pm
3)  5:20pm - 5:40pm
4)  7:20pm - 7:40pm
5)  8pm - 8:20pm
6)  8:40pm - 9pm
Quota per session: 40



Jazz Society is the venue partner of East Kowloon Cultural Centre

Ondées is one of the "Unbox EKCC" trial programmes of the East Kowloon Cultural Centre 

The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department

The presenter reserves the right to change the programme and its opening hours
Alan Kwan  

Artistic Director, Composer, Guitarist

 

Alan Kwan is recognized worldwide as a multi-talented guitarist, composer, and producer. Under Kwan’s leadership, the band Invisible Architecture, which debuted in 2021 with the album Between Now and Never, won the Golden Melody Award (GMA) for Best Instrumental Album Producer and received three additional nominations. Kwan’s first album, Petrichor, also earned three nominations at the 31st GMA. In 2024, Kwan collaborated with Japanese pianist Masaki Hayashi to release a duo jazz album Liquid Sunshine, which is featured on multiple Apple Music editorial playlists.

 

Kwan performs and records with many of the world’s leading musicians, including Billy Childs, Stefan Karlsson, Dayna Stephens, Fabian Almazan, Linda May Oh, Johnathan Blake, Orlando Le Fleming, Reuben James, Glenn Zaleski, Paul Bollenback, Rogerio Boccato, Kazumi Watanabe, Lisa Ono, and Riyoko Takagi, among others.

 

Kwan regularly conducts masterclasses worldwide and has been invited by the Musicians Institute as a Visiting Artist for its Masterclass Series. He collaborates with prominent instrument and gear makers, serving as artists for Eventide, JAM Pedals, Westville Guitars, Yamaoka Guitars, Stringjoy, and VEMURAM. His music transcends traditional boundaries, with compositions featured in films, television and visual art projects, solidifying his reputation as a trailblazing artist in modern jazz.

 

Sébastien Labrunie

Media Artist

 

Sébastien Labrunie is a French multidisciplinary visual artist, producing immersive installations, 360 fulldome films, experimental VR experiences and A/V live performances. Using a multi-medium approach, he crafts loops and glitches connections between analog and digital worlds to create sensory experiences, exploring human perceptions through organic textures and light.

 

With a deep interest in science, spirituality and history, Labrunie also collaborates with the Harvard-FAS CAMLab to help preserve digitally endangered archaeological sites around the world using photogrammetry 3D scanning.

 

Labrunie recently won the Audience Award for his short film “Jacinthe.xyz” at the SAT FEST 2022 Fulldome Festival screened at the Satosphere in Montreal, and was nominated for the Best of Earth 2023 Awards at Dome Fest West.

 

Thomas Lo

Technical Director, Co-producer

 

Director of 4321 Music and Recording Engineer of the Q2 Sound Studio, Thomas Lo studied with the legendary recording engineer and record producer Al Schmitt in the Capitol Studios, Los Angeles. He was involved in the production of several hundred pop songs, including pop artists Eason Chan, Karen Mok, Terence Lam, Kay Tse, Yoyo Sham, G.E.M., Chet Lam, Gigi Leung, etc. He has been nominated four times for The Best Recording Engineer in Chinese Music Awards, and won in 2013. In 2015, the album he recorded was also nominated for the Golden Melody Award for Best Vocal Recording Album.

 

In 2017, he founded music production company 4321 Music and has collaborated with different arts organisations and groups in Hong Kong for audio, video and art tech projects, including Hong Kong Arts Festival, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Fringe Club, Jazz World (HK) and East Kowloon Cultural Centre etc.

 

Bowen Li

Pianist

Bowen Li studied in London at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (Bmus), and graduated with a major in jazz performance and composition in 2018. After returning to Hong Kong, Li regularly collaborated with various artistic groups such as Wuji Ensemble, Ensemble Transience, Chung Ying Theatre, Bel Canto Singers, and more. He also collaborated with the renowned director Tsai Ming-liang.He has participated in a variety of performances, including major music festivals such as “Jazz Gala—The Legend and Beyond” in 2019, “Festival Hong Kong 2019 – A Cultural Extravaganza @Shanghai”, “Jazz Up” Series: The Present – Jazz Festival of an Inward Journey presented by Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) in 2021, and the Freespace Jazz Festival from 2019 to 2023. Li is also very active in the Hong Kong jazz scene, performing his originals with the Bowen Li Trio.

In addition to performance, Li is a composer, with his compositions featured in the West Kowloon Cultural District’s Freespace Mixtape Vol. 3 and the Jazz World Series album Our Jazz Pianist. He has also composed and recorded three piano solo pieces for The Story of Wandering presented by The Mills. His compositions extend to multimedia theater productions such as To Someone Alike, Hong Kong Dance Company’s The Last Dance, Ensemble Transience’s multimedia concert Come & Gone. He also worked on the theme song for Freespace Jazz Festival 2023, Cathay Pacific’s theme song (arrangement), music for LCSD’s “18dART Community Arts Scheme” (Sha Tin) and the “When in Doubt, Go for a Walk and Beyond” series.

 

Ondées draws inspiration from spring rain, transforming it into an immersive journey of sound and light. Golden Melody Award-winning composer and jazz musician Alan Kwan partners with French digital media artist Sébastien Labrunie to embark on a lyrical dialogue between Alan’s signature mellow jazz tunes and Sébastien’s mesmerizing digital projections.

Ondées celebrates more than the rain itself. Through the interplay of sound and light, it creates an introspective audiovisual experience that echoes rain’s many forms—soft drizzles, rushing torrents, and the silences in between. It contemplates on the delicate balance between chaos and serenity of nature, inviting reflection on humanity’s connection to nature. 

Date & Time: 2025.03.04 - 07 (Tue – Fri) 
2025.03.10 - 16 (Mon – Sun) 
Sessions:  1)  4pm - 4:20pm
2)  4:40pm - 5pm
3)  5:20pm - 5:40pm
4)  7:20pm - 7:40pm
5)  8pm - 8:20pm
6)  8:40pm - 9pm
Quota per session: 40



Jazz Society is the venue partner of East Kowloon Cultural Centre

Ondées is one of the "Unbox EKCC" trial programmes of the East Kowloon Cultural Centre 

The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department

The presenter reserves the right to change the programme and its opening hours

Alan Kwan  

Artistic Director, Composer, Guitarist

 

Alan Kwan is recognized worldwide as a multi-talented guitarist, composer, and producer. Under Kwan’s leadership, the band Invisible Architecture, which debuted in 2021 with the album Between Now and Never, won the Golden Melody Award (GMA) for Best Instrumental Album Producer and received three additional nominations. Kwan’s first album, Petrichor, also earned three nominations at the 31st GMA. In 2024, Kwan collaborated with Japanese pianist Masaki Hayashi to release a duo jazz album Liquid Sunshine, which is featured on multiple Apple Music editorial playlists.

 

Kwan performs and records with many of the world’s leading musicians, including Billy Childs, Stefan Karlsson, Dayna Stephens, Fabian Almazan, Linda May Oh, Johnathan Blake, Orlando Le Fleming, Reuben James, Glenn Zaleski, Paul Bollenback, Rogerio Boccato, Kazumi Watanabe, Lisa Ono, and Riyoko Takagi, among others.

 

Kwan regularly conducts masterclasses worldwide and has been invited by the Musicians Institute as a Visiting Artist for its Masterclass Series. He collaborates with prominent instrument and gear makers, serving as artists for Eventide, JAM Pedals, Westville Guitars, Yamaoka Guitars, Stringjoy, and VEMURAM. His music transcends traditional boundaries, with compositions featured in films, television and visual art projects, solidifying his reputation as a trailblazing artist in modern jazz.

 

Sébastien Labrunie

Media Artist

 

Sébastien Labrunie is a French multidisciplinary visual artist, producing immersive installations, 360 fulldome films, experimental VR experiences and A/V live performances. Using a multi-medium approach, he crafts loops and glitches connections between analog and digital worlds to create sensory experiences, exploring human perceptions through organic textures and light.

 

With a deep interest in science, spirituality and history, Labrunie also collaborates with the Harvard-FAS CAMLab to help preserve digitally endangered archaeological sites around the world using photogrammetry 3D scanning.

 

Labrunie recently won the Audience Award for his short film “Jacinthe.xyz” at the SAT FEST 2022 Fulldome Festival screened at the Satosphere in Montreal, and was nominated for the Best of Earth 2023 Awards at Dome Fest West.

 

Thomas Lo

Technical Director, Co-producer

 

Director of 4321 Music and Recording Engineer of the Q2 Sound Studio, Thomas Lo studied with the legendary recording engineer and record producer Al Schmitt in the Capitol Studios, Los Angeles. He was involved in the production of several hundred pop songs, including pop artists Eason Chan, Karen Mok, Terence Lam, Kay Tse, Yoyo Sham, G.E.M., Chet Lam, Gigi Leung, etc. He has been nominated four times for The Best Recording Engineer in Chinese Music Awards, and won in 2013. In 2015, the album he recorded was also nominated for the Golden Melody Award for Best Vocal Recording Album.

 

In 2017, he founded music production company 4321 Music and has collaborated with different arts organisations and groups in Hong Kong for audio, video and art tech projects, including Hong Kong Arts Festival, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Fringe Club, Jazz World (HK) and East Kowloon Cultural Centre etc.

 

Bowen Li

Pianist

Bowen Li studied in London at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (Bmus), and graduated with a major in jazz performance and composition in 2018. After returning to Hong Kong, Li regularly collaborated with various artistic groups such as Wuji Ensemble, Ensemble Transience, Chung Ying Theatre, Bel Canto Singers, and more. He also collaborated with the renowned director Tsai Ming-liang.He has participated in a variety of performances, including major music festivals such as “Jazz Gala—The Legend and Beyond” in 2019, “Festival Hong Kong 2019 – A Cultural Extravaganza @Shanghai”, “Jazz Up” Series: The Present – Jazz Festival of an Inward Journey presented by Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) in 2021, and the Freespace Jazz Festival from 2019 to 2023. Li is also very active in the Hong Kong jazz scene, performing his originals with the Bowen Li Trio.

In addition to performance, Li is a composer, with his compositions featured in the West Kowloon Cultural District’s Freespace Mixtape Vol. 3 and the Jazz World Series album Our Jazz Pianist. He has also composed and recorded three piano solo pieces for The Story of Wandering presented by The Mills. His compositions extend to multimedia theater productions such as To Someone Alike, Hong Kong Dance Company’s The Last Dance, Ensemble Transience’s multimedia concert Come & Gone. He also worked on the theme song for Freespace Jazz Festival 2023, Cathay Pacific’s theme song (arrangement), music for LCSD’s “18dART Community Arts Scheme” (Sha Tin) and the “When in Doubt, Go for a Walk and Beyond” series.