Cosmopolis Festival - Synesthesia: An Electroacoustic Music and Multimedia Concert 

An eclectic program of works for solo live performer and digital media showcases Shaw Auditorium’s state-of-the-art audio-visual system and promises cross-stimulation of the senses! The concert will include multi-instrumentalist JUNK!’s live performance on virtual reality instruments, as well as the world premiere of a new work by prize-winning Hong Kong composer and multimedia artist Samson Young, commissioned for the festival. 

Program

• Stylianos Dimou: Momentum "I": death & escape (2019) for bass flute and electronics

  Angus Lee, bass flute 
  Stylianos Dimou, electronics 

• Timothy Page: Striate (2018/2022) for timpani-enhanced cello, objects, electronics, and video 

  Chak Yin Pun, timpani-enhanced cello 

• Tonia Ko: Breath Contained I (2013/2016) for bubble wrap soloist and live electronics  

• Samson Young: New Work (2022) for viola and electronics (world premiere - Cosmopolis Festival Commission)  

  William Lane, viola 

• Natasha Barrett: Dusk’s Gate (2018) for multichannel tape  

• JUNK!: JUNK!VR (2021) solo performance for virtual instruments and video