Research Interests & Fieldwork

Research interests

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• Sound studies

  • The phenomenology of the sonic

  • Sounding objects

  • The politics of listening; auralities

  • Sinophone sound studies

• Experimental ethnography, Digital humanities

  • Documentary filmmaking​

  • Installation

  • XR production

  • Intermedial work

  • Theatrical work

  • Sensory ethnography

• Voice studies

  • Singing (especially Sinophone R&B and Cantopop)

  • Performed vocalities

• Political theory​

• Hong Kong studies

  • Local and diasporic Hong Kong​

  • Cantopop

• Performance studies

• Urban geography

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Fieldwork

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• Hong Kong: urban/protest sound, street performance, Cantopop, Sinophone R&B (2008 onward)

• Macao: Cantonese opera for the Ghosts Festival (2012)

• Japan: urban/metro sound, Japanese objects, Kawaii, Shrines (2014 onward)

• Taiwan: urban/metro sound (2016)

• Réunion Island: Sinophone communities (2017)

• New York City: subway/protest sound, street performance (2018, 2019)

• North America: Hong Kong diaspora protest sound (2019 onward)

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