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About the event
Toolbox Percussion's ‘Taipo Rhythm Pulse’ Creative Percussion Arts Project is one of the 18dART programmes in 2025-26. The Opening Concert will be launched as the campaign's foremost event. Surrounded by the clear waters and lush greenery around the Tolo Harbour, the sound of contemporary percussion music puts forth a symbiosis between culture and nature, offering musical amusements to the audience in the brilliance of open air and daylight.
In conjunction with the city's first 'Intangible Cultural Heritage Month', the outdoor concerts features a special performance that pays homage to the 'Dragon Boat' tradition, interpreting the Lingnan festival custom with Western percussion music while envisioning the annual atmospheric race event at the park's promenade through musical notes.
Programme
Kevin Tuck | Summon the Spirit
Kevin Tuck | Tribal Beat Sound System
Daniel Wirtz | Das Lied vom jungen Akkordeonspieler
Saint-Saëns | Carnival of the Animals
Mark Ford | Head Talk
Bizet Carmen | Suite No. 1
Rossini William | Tell Overture
Free admission. No prior registration is required.
About the organizer
Toolbox Percussion has been driving percussive arts programming in Hong Kong since 2012, curating ambitious music projects in innovative ways. As a creative incubator, Toolbox Percussion works to make new music happen by commissioning, collaborating, providing professional training, performing, recording, and touring contemporary performances. We believe in the beautiful concerted efforts of every young talent we involve. Toolbox Percussion continues to empower the audience to discover versatility in daily soundscapes by anchoring our work closely to the here and now of Hong Kong.
Over the past seasons, Toolbox Percussion toured to the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea, and made its US debut at the San Francisco International Arts Festival. Other appearances included the Shipyard 1862 Theatre in Shanghai, JOCKEY CLUB New Arts Power, and active involvement in audience development programmes co-presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Hong Kong Arts Festival PLUS, and Tai Kwun.
Co-hosted with the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco in 2019, works of Toolbox Percussion were showcased in an exhibition titled ‘A Double Listen’ for the first time in the United States. This sound-based exhibition became an ongoing project as a core production series, with a scalable rerun held at H Queen's in June 2021, and a site-specific edition for ArtisTree in August 2022. A sound-based art exhibition, ‘A DOUBLE LISTEN: Yama no Oto’, toured at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale in 2023, and later anchored key themes of ‘encounters oi! oi! oi!’ which was selected as a 2024 Oi! Spotlight project. In collaboration with the local media arts group Dimension Plus, Toolbox Percussion presented the site-specific multimedia programme ‘After the Rain’ at the 2024 ASIA+ Festival.
Toolbox Percussion is currently a three-year grantee of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.