WU Chengyu Xavier – Louis Koo Creative Media Award 2024/25 Winner
Congratulations to WU Chengyu Xavier 吴承禹 on winning the Louis Koo Creative Media Award 2024/25 古天樂創意媒體獎!
Xavier’s project, where it takes me to…, is an Ambient, Generative, Electronic Music Album in 2nd-Order Ambisonics (Spatial Audio), and combines a highly developed compositional sensibility along with the use of a spatial audio format (Ambisonics) that has gained traction in recent years due to its incorporation into 360-video and VR that is still uncommon in popular and crossover music. The result is a rich, evocative and immersive instrumental album, that makes full use of SoundLab’s High Density Loudspeaker Array.
Advisor: Ryo Ikeshiro
古天樂創意媒體獎 Louis Koo Creative Media Award
「古天樂創意媒體獎」由古天樂先生設立，以表揚香港城市大學創意媒體學院學生於畢業專題中在藝術創作取得卓越成就。
The Louis Koo Creative Media Awards, endowed by Mr Koo Tin Lok, Louis, has announced the award winners to highlight this year’s final year undergraduate students of the City University of Hong Kong School of Creative Media who have achieved excellence in artistic creation and creativity in technology in their graduate thesis or final year project.
1’20’29”
Second Order Ambisonics, Spatial audio, Multi-genre ambient music
The project employs generative compositional techniques to build ambient textures, minimalism structures, electronic processing and rhythms within an immersive ambisonics soundscape. Each composition originates from a generative motif, explored through diverse instrumentation, field recordings, and modulation to establish its distinctive sonic identity. The album enables seamless track transitions, allowing infinite playback loops as a kind of meditation or simply the background to be ignored.
The production aims to convey meditative tranquility which express my personality. Through careful sound-selections and ambisonics spatialization, the works construct environments that mirror my own characteristic and also perspective on interpersonal relationships.
Serving as an auditory memoir, this project abstracts 4 years of Hong Kong life into a non-locational mental journey. It is proposed as audible fluid scenes shaped by emotional changes rather than physical coordinates. The title where it takes me to… also indicates that attribute. Through this album, audience will experience the journey alongside with me, resonance to my feelings and perhaps arouse their own minds to take them somewhere else.
Keywords: Ambient, Generative, Minimalism, Electronic, Ambisonics.
Cover by @ysaa.art
