Venere (Edit) was premiered in Hong Kong in 2024, as the score for an audiovisual work created in collaboration with Japanese visual artists Koki Sakakihara and Hina Ebihara. It is a revised edition of Venere, premiered in Alicante, Spain in 2022. Venere (Edit) integrates the sound environment of Hong Kong into the original composition, created for a commission based on the theme of Slow Life.

While walking through Hong Kong, I was struck by the rhythm of the traffic lights: the red pedestrian signal emitted a slow beep, while the green one nearly doubled in speed. I sampled these beeps, creating a panning effect with alternating sounds from left to right. By layering the sounds in phases, the fast beeps from one pattern overlapped with the slower ones from another, creating a rhythmic and spatial counterpoint. I then added the music.

In a nod to Slow Life, this rhythm of waiting and crossing quickly became a sound design reflection of the frenetic pace of capitalist society. The music flows through these relentless rhythmic patterns, pristine and foreign, yet still warmly framed by them.