Fractured Scenes

Fractured Scenes is the first extensive academic account of music and sound art practices that fall outside of the scope of `mainstream music' in Hong Kong. It combines academic essays with original interviews conducted with prominent Hong Kong underground/independent musicians and sound artists as well as first hand-accounts by key local scene actors in order to survey genres such as experimental/noise music, deconstructed electronic music, indie-pop, punk, garage rock, sound art and DIY `computer' music (among others). It examines these Hong Kong underground music practices in relief with specific case studies in Mainland China and Japan to begin re-defining the notion of a `musical underground' in the context of contemporary Hong Kong. Read more Close