"Ondées"
Concessionary tickets are available for full-time students, senior citizens aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and the minder (Concessionary tickets are available on a first come, first served basis.) Concessionary ticket holders must produce evidence of their identity or age upon admission.
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- The Performance/Installation runs approximately 40 minutes without interval.
- Audiences under the age of 6 will not be admitted.
- Audiences are advised to arrive punctually. No latecomers will be admitted.
- The Performance/Installation may feature dim lighting or strong lights. Audiences with photosensitive epilepsy, other light-sensitive conditions may experience discomfort.
- Programme enquiries: team@jazz.org.hk
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.
In the four Performance/Installation sessions on 8 and 9 March, Alan Kwan performs his new compositions for Ondées live together with jazz pianist Bowen Li. The duo’s improvisational performance interacts real-time with the digital projections and introduces spontaneity and complexity to the installation, creating a dynamic and immersive experience which mirrors nature’s unpredictability.
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
| Date & Time: | 2025.03.04 - 07 (Tue – Fri) (Enrol now) 2025.03.10 - 16 (Mon – Sun) (Enrol now) |
| Venue: |
The Beats, East Kowloon Cultural Centre |
| Sessions: |
1) 4pm - 4:20pm |
| Duration: | Approximately 20 minutes |
| Quota per session: | 40 |
| Fee: | Free admission, enrolment required |
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, G.E.M., Terence Lam, Kay Tse, Chet Lam, Yoyo Sham, 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 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.
In the four Performance/Installation sessions on 8 and 9 March, Alan Kwan performs his new compositions for Ondées live together with jazz pianist Bowen Li. The duo’s improvisational performance interacts real-time with the digital projections and introduces spontaneity and complexity to the installation, creating a dynamic and immersive experience which mirrors nature’s unpredictability.
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
| Date & Time: | 2025.03.04 - 07 (Tue – Fri) (Enrol now) 2025.03.10 - 16 (Mon – Sun) (Enrol now) |
| Venue: |
The Beats, East Kowloon Cultural Centre |
| Sessions: |
1) 4pm - 4:20pm |
| Duration: | Approximately 20 minutes |
| Quota per session: | 40 |
| Fee: | Free admission, enrolment required |
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, G.E.M., Terence Lam, Kay Tse, Chet Lam, Yoyo Sham, 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.