Rings… Through Rings (Installations)

This project reimagines the turntable as both a musical instrument and a cultural interface, translating archival cartographic data into sonic experience. Audience members interact with laser-etched discs derived from historical maps of Hong Kong’s disappearing military fortifications. Eachdisc encodes terrain and structures as groove patterns, creating unique textures under the stylus. As participants rotate the discs, adjust speeds, or shift the needle, they activate audiovisual layers: archival footage, micro-lens videos, spatialized soundscapes, and ensemble fragments. These interactions reinterpret rather than replay history. Subtle gestures shift tones, rhythms, and imagery, emphasizing the instability and subjectivity of memory. The work addresses the erasure of intangible heritage through active listening and embodied exploration. Rather than preserving history as static, the piece invites the audience to reconstruct and reimagine it. Archived data becomes both score and site for improvisation. Fusing analog playback with computational systems, this work explores how historical narratives are encoded, distorted, and re-performed. The audience is not as passive receivers, but as co-performers, shaping a living soundscape — a sonic archaeology of memory into motion.