Fractured Scenes Underground Music-Making in Hong Kong and East Asia

Dr. Damien Charrieras is Associate Professor at the School of Creative Media (City University of Hong Kong), one of the most prominent new media art school in Asia. He recently co-published a paper about Hong Kong musical and visual art spaces in the journal Cities . He co-edits a volume on electronic music, policies and spaces around the world and he published several papers on underground musical scenes and electronic music performances, with a focus on South East Asia. He recently published a report for the Hong Kong government on the development of new media expertise in the creative economy of Hong Kong (2019). As a theorist, he is also interested in a variety of topics pertaining to digital creation.

Dr. François Mouillot holds a joint appointment as Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Music and in the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing at the Hong Kong Baptist University, where he is also a member of the CreativeMedia and Practice Research Cluster. He has written extensively on independent rock and improvised poetry in the Basque region of France, the role of DIY record labels and other institutions in Montreal’s experimental music scenes, and on underground music in Hong Kong.