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Same 36 Tunes for 100 Years
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Kalun Leung & Sam Longbottom

"Same 36 Tunes for 100 Years" is an 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. In this installation, one of these historic tunes is deconstructed and spread across a field. As audience members move through the space, they experience the role of the organ grinder, triggering different parts of the melody and harmonies, creating a sense of time suspended in sound.


Local Music
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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 support from the Canada Arts Council.

Past Performances:

Darmstadt New Music 2024, Germany (2023)


Sound the Mound (2018)
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Kalun Leung - performer

Site-Specific Improvisation (2018)

Produced by Carlos Patrao, full post here.

Photos by Andrew Shea.

Freshkills Park Staten Island, NY, USA

Tech-driven acoustic ecology project using on-site data from Arable Labs. Freshkills was once the world's largest landfill and is being transformed into a public park three times the size of Central Park.


Part of the Parsons Course “Sound the Mound”

http://www.spring2018.soundthemound.com/

In this course, students will address complex issues of climate, sanitation, consumer behavior, landfill reclamation, public parks, cellular technology, public art, sonification and more. We will work with three partners: Freshkills Park, a reclaimed landfill in Staten Island that will be almost three times the size of Central Park (2200 acres); Arable Labs, a remote monitoring technology developed for crop management that uses sensors and cellular data to measure and communicate rainfall, crop water demand, water stress, microclimate, and canopy biomass; and Gaynor McCown Expeditionary High School. Students in this course will build upon a prototype called “Botanical Transmissions” that emerged from a 2016 Transdisciplinary Studio, which translates data into music-by-and-for-plants using a genetic algorithm that responds to the health of the plants at the park, and will develop additional concepts that take inspiration from this prototype.