Projects (Index)

Performance - Installation / Exhibit

Same 36 Tunes for 100 Years (2024)

Baker's Lung (2023)

Conductive Dinner (2019)

BF+DA Interactive Cocoon (2018)

Sound the Mound (2018)

Die Posaune (2018)

Performance - Composition

Electronic Picnic (2019)

Movement Etudes for Performers (2019)

Twisted Twister (2017)

Siri Breakup (2017)

Digital Harings (2017)

The New Masculinity (2017)

Augmented Trombone (mubone)

Local Music Darmstadt (2023)

IRCAM ManiFeste Still Life (2022)

Garcia (2021)

Migrations (2023)

Conversations with Space & Architecture (2021 - )

Solo mubone (2019 - )

Technologies

mubone (2018 - )

Splunger (2019 - )

Ensemble Projects

ECHO Ensemble (2019 - 2020)

Trubaci McGill (2015)

Montreal Salsa Collective (2015)


Projects (Chronological)

Same 36 Tunes for 100 Years (2024)

Site-Specific Performance

Kalun Leung - Co-Creator, Fabrication
Sam Longbottom - Co-Creator, Fabrication, Composition

With support from the Canada Arts Council for participation in the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme. 

Past Performances:
75th Aldeburgh Festival, Snape Maltings, UK (2024)

Baker's Lung (2023)

Sound Art and Installation Exhibit

Kalun Leung - Creator, Performer-Composer, Installation
Felix del Tredici - Creator, Baker
Project 21st - Producer

Commissioned by Project 21st with support from HKSAR Government Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme and the Canada Arts Council.

Past Performances:
Goethe Institute, Hong Kong (2023)

Local Music (2023)

Performance Installation

Kalun Leung - Creator, Performer-Composer, Installation
Local Music Participants - Assistance

Created as part of the Local Music Workshop at Darmstadt New Music Courses 2023. With wupport from the Canada Arts Council.

Past Performances:
Darmstadt New Music 2024, Germany (2023)

mubone (2018 - )

Digital Musical Instrument Design

Kalun Leung - Performer,  Instrument Developer
Travis West - Instrument Designer

Publications:
New Interfaces for Musical Expression (2022)
International Conference on Movement and Computing (2019) 

Past Performances:
CIRMMT, Montreal, QC (2023)
The Vino Theatre, Brooklyn, NY (2022)
IRCAM ManiFeste, Paris, FR (2022)
IRCAM Forum, Paris, FR (2022)
Record Shop,  Brooklyn, NY (2022)
Le Vivier, Montreal, QC (2021)
Glass Box Theatre, New York, NY (2021)
Montclair, NJ (2019)
Spectrum, Brooklyn, NY (2019)
New York University (2019)
New York Electroacoustic Improv Summit (2019)
The Stone, New York, NY (2019)

Garcia (2021)

Solo Augmented Trombone Performance (Live Sound and Movement Processing, Choreography)

Kalun Leung - Performer, Sound Design
Bettina Szabo - Choreographer

Past Performances:
Live@CIRMMT, Montreal, Quebec (2023)
IRCAM Forum, Paris, France (2022)
Txaranga Bakalari, Montreal, Quebec (2021)
Glass Box Theatre, New York, NY (2021)

Splunger (Speaker-Plunger Device) (2019 - )

Analog Musical Instrument Design

Kalun Leung - Performer, Instrument Developer
Frank Spigner - Instrument Designer, Fabrication

Past Performances:
IBeam, Brooklyn, NY (2020)
Harvestworks Artist-in-Residence (2019)

Die Posaune (2018)

Sound Sculpture and Performance

Kalun Leung - Performer, Fabrication
Felix del Tredici - Performer, Concept

Past Performances:
International Trombone Festival, Muncie, IN (2019)
New York University, NY (2019)
Arete, Brooklyn, NY (2019)
Glass Box Theatre, New York, NY (2018)

Movement Etudes for Improvisors (2019)

Interactive Performance Composition

Kalun Leung - Composer
Augmented woodwind ensemble, mubone adapted for clarinet

Commissioned by the New York University New Music Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Esther Lamneck.

Past Performances:
Frederick Loewe Theatre, NY (2019)

Conductive Dinner (2019)

Interactive Sound Installation for Prepared Speaker Woofers

Kalun Leung - Installation Design, Fabrication


Commissioned by Seed Artists for the Freedom of Sound: Percussion Festival

Past Performances:
Freedom of Sound: Percussion Festival, Montclair, NJ (2019)

Conversations with Space and Architecture (2021 - )

Ongoing series of site-specific sonic activiations with the mubone

Work-in-progress

Kalun Leung - Concept and Realization

Past Performances:
Video Recordings

Solo mubone (2019)

Ongoing series of site-specific sonic activiations with the mubone

Solo mubone prototype improvisation

Kalun Leung - Performance

Past Performances:
CUNY City Tech, Brooklyn, NY, USA (2019)

Picnic Electronic (2019)

Ongoing series of site-specific sonic activiations with the mubone

Solo trombone, mubone, battery-powered electronics, objects

Kalun Leung - Performer-Composer

Past Performances:
Spectrum Westbeth, Manhattan, NY, USA (2019)

Echo Ensemble (2019 - 2020)

Movement and Sound Ensemble

Movement and Sound Improvised Duet

Jonah Udall -  direction
Kalun Leung (trombone), Liana Kleinman (movement) - performers

Past Performances:
Dixon Place, Manhattan, NY, USA (2019)

BF+DA Interactive Cocoon (2018)

Performance Garment, Interactive Composition

Interactive Wearable Garment for Performance Artist

Kalun Leung - concept & realization
Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator -  fabrication
Rae Haas - performer

Past Performances:
Glass Box Theatre The New School, Manhattan, NY, USA (2018)

Sound the Mound (2018)

Transdisciplinary Site-Specific Activiation

Freshkills Site-Specific Improvisation

Kalun Leung - performer

The Digital Harings (2017)

Performance

Solo trombone, electronics, Casiotone, Keith Haring digital sketches

Kalun Leung - Performer-Composer

Past Performances:
Lincoln Center, Manhattan, NY, USA (2017)

Twisted Twister (2017)

Composition

Game for Audience and Improvisors

Kalun Leung - Composer

Past Performances:
Glass Box Theatre, Manhattan, NY, USA (2017)

Siri Breakup (2017)

Composition

Siri Breakup (Jane Ira Bloom's Improvisitory Artist Lab)

Kalun Leung - Performer-Composer
Jacqueline Reed - Performer

Past Performances:
Stiefel Hall, Manhattan, NY, USA (2017)

The New Masculinity (2017)

Recording

The New Masculinity (2017)

Kalun Leung - Composer
So Wrong It's Right (Trombone Quartet)  - Performers

Trubači McGill (2015)

Ensemble

Brass band music from the Balkans.

Kalun Leung - Bandleader
Trubaci McGill  - Performers

Past Performances:
Segal Center, Montreal, CA (2015)

Montreal Salsa Collective (2015)

Ensemble

Classic salsa tunes. 

Kalun Leung - Bandleader
Montreal Salsa Collective  - Performers

Past Performances:
Place d'Armes, Montreal, CA (2016)