17.1.2026 | SAT | 8:00PM | $200

Ticketing details to be announced.

Music as Gaming

Music as Gaming project, is an innovative commissioning programme that reimagines the relationship between composers, musicians, and performance. This platform invites three talented emerging composers from Hong Kong to challenge traditional paradigms of Western music performance by integrating the dynamism and interactivity of gaming into contemporary music composition.

Eric So Ho-chi: A Private Language Machine

A Private Language Machine is a gamified performance that explores alternative forms of musicking in a playful, democratic manner. In this work, the meaning transcends the written score, emerging instead from the spontaneity of the performers’ decisions in the moment and setting. By granting agency to the musicians, the performance emphasizes their choices while the composer retains significant authorship through the creation of the game’s system and narrative framework. This innovative approach invites audiences to witness the collaborative and evolving nature of musical expression, highlighting the shared authorship between composer and performer.
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*GAME\PLAY is financially supported by the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

*The content of this programmes does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

*Hong Kong New Music Ensemble is financially supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

*The Hong Kong Arts Development Council supports freedom of artistic expression. The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Council.