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the box book
-the beauty and the beast of hoong kong culture
Edited by Kung Chi Shing, Peter Suart, Peter Suart, Lo Yin Shan and Valerie Doran
ISBN 978-988-99843-9-7
200mm (H) x 200mm (W)
A box set of 3 books and 2 dvds
Bilingual (Chinese and Englsh)
HK$375 (inclusive of delivery)
US$49.5 + postage fee (outside Hong Kong delivery)
The box is a theatrical music ensemble
founded by Kung Chi Shing and Peter Suart in Hong Kong in 1987. The two founders
share an interest in experimental music, improvisation, visual and theatrical
environments for music, and in literature. It draws on various musical forms
¡X ambient, electronic, rock, folk ¡X and uses sound, words, images, movement,
costume and environment in a theatrical fashion. the box has collaborated
with numerous musicians, artists, dancers, writers and actors, both on box
shows and on the dance and theatre works of other gourps. The band occupies
an unusual position in Hong Kong culture, one which straddles popular and
experimental forms. B
ook 1-band history presents an overview of twenty-two years of its work. Book 2-songwords, prose, poetry contains a selection of songs, stories and poems written for the Hong Kong theatrical music ensemble the box and for other projects in which Kung and Suart have had a part. Most of the texts are by Peter Suart, Valerie Doran and a number of other writers. No band is an island. The box has been shaped by the city of Hong Kong, Book 3-conversations carries cover 20 dialogues and 15 articles, contributed by a wide range of people, about Hong Kong, its cultural environment and its arts scene between 1987 and 2009.
About the Author
Peter Suart was born in Jamaica, raised in Hong Kong and educated in U.K.
From 1985 to 1999 he lived in Hong Kong, where he worked mainly in the
performing arts field, and also for some years was a part-time lecturer
on Music for Dance at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts...
About the Author
Kung was born in 1961 and raised in Hong Kong. He studied classical music
and composition in the United States with Allen Trubitt and George Crumb.
He focuses on experimentation with different types of music and art forms.
Since 1996 he has created, composed and staged four full-length music
theatre pieces: Destiny Travels Limited, The Floating Bridge, City Inside
a Broken Sky and M Garden.