Group project

Collaborative Music composition in a Globalised Environment

Students from the partner institutions formed groups of between 2 and 4 people, with no more than one student from each institution. Each group developed an electronic-music composition between 3 and 6 minutes in length through which they explored the possibilities afforded in combining the different cultural and musical backgrounds of the group members.

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This project involved students from three institutions working with Coventry University BSc Music Technology students:

Accademia del Suono (ADS), Milan
Hong Kong Design Institute, Higher Diploma in Digital Music and Media
Chinese University of Hong Kong

Counter-part partner lead

Stefano Pinzi (ADS)
Shirley Cheung (HKDI)
Wendy Lee (CUHK)

CU Course & Year

BSc Music Technology Year 1 (Stage 4)

Compositions:

A Little Symbol
Long Ip (Hong Kong Design Institute)
Andrea Lazaro Pacios (Coventry University)
Fiona Tsang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Uprising
Chak Fung Chan (Hong Kong Design Institute)
Arthur Mounga-Njandjo (Coventry University)

How Do You Keep Up
Ho Ting Tong (Hong Kong Design Institute)
Qasim Janjua (Coventry University)
Samuele Evangelisti (Accademia del Suono, Milan)

Metal Blues
Lam Sing Yeung (Hong Kong Design Institute)
Talim Karim (Coventry University)

PsyCat
Chi Shun Woo (Hong Kong Design Institute)
Rui Viegas Solda Tembo de Sousa (Coventry University)
So Wai Leung (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Onirico
Tsz Fung Chiu (Hong Kong Design Institute)
Douglas Mcauley (Coventry University)
Gianluca Peroni (Accademia del Suono, Milan)

Rope
Jessie Yeung (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Simon Emmanuel (Coventry University)
Stephen Xu (Hong Kong Design Institute)

Tragedy of Laika
Matthew Lam (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Vladimiras Malyskinas (Coventry University)
Manfred Sun (Hong Kong Design Institute)

School Journey
Ho Man Ho (Hong Kong Design Institute)
Jeremy Passmore (Coventry University)
Yee Ting Choy (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Students brought their own individual skills, knowledge and musical interests to the group in a collaboration with other people with complementary skills and knowledge and, perhaps, different musical interests. The aim was to encourage students to explore the possibilities afforded by working across cultures, styles and genres and thus to work in ways that they would otherwise be unable to achieve.