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Kalun Leung

Trombonist, Composer


From the jury of the Kranichstein Music Prize 2025: “Kalun Leung is an exceptionally versatile artist. As a trombonist of outstanding technical skills and a highly sensitive dialogue partner, he operates in a variety of aesthetic contexts. The jury was impressed by Leung’s development of the digital tool “mubone,” which—originally conceived as an “augmented instrument” for the trombone—offers a creative platform for distributed authorship by performers and composers. The technological and integrative potential of this tool, as well as Leung’s artistic ideas, promise exciting collaborations in the future.”

Projects

Conversations with Space and Architecture

Conversations with Space and Architecture is an ongoing series of site-specific compositions developed using the mubone—a custom performance technology that explores the artistic potential of environment as medium.

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Same 36 Tunes for 100 Years

Immersive concert installation inspired by the last operational barrel organ in the UK, located in the parish church of Shelland, Suffolk. Barrel organs, like player pianos, use a rotating barrel with notches to play melodies. In 1925, when an article referenced in the title was published, this particular organ had three barrels, each containing 12 tunes.

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Baker’s Lung

Baker’s Lung, the second event of the #musicismore series combines professional baking experience and music practice. Both music and food are communal experiences that connect us as human beings, “Baker’s Lung” aims to amplify this connection and explore the relationships between sound and the making of bread.

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News

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[residency]

Fall 2025

I continue my half-year residency at Perte de Signal in Montréal and will have the chance to get some mentorship time with some of their incredible community artists working at the intersection of sound, image, and performance. It's my goal this year to develop a studio practice and I've made it a mission to put some time into my installative curiousities through Ambient Parade and the mubone. If you know someone I should reach out to for help please let me know.

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[residency]

August 2025

ék is heading to our final creation residency for our show Pouet! A 30-min new music show for families with a special focus on children. Our show combines mime, foley, and clown, featuring two friends discovering the world of sound and how it relates to music. We will debut the project in September in Montréal, so stay tuned by following us on IG @ek_emailluine.

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[mubone]

May 2025

Just back from Copenhagen, where we mounted the first mubone project with live projection mapping—brought to life through the brilliant digital wizardry of mubone co-creator Travis West. Mezzo-soprano and organizer Kirsten Voss, along with her production company Tonalteatret, made it all possible, and we were thrilled to present the work in a massive former boiler room in the city’s west end. The space still bore traces of its industrial past, with walls beautifully stained by time, which became part of our “soundpainting” as the projections and gestures played across them.

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