HONG-KAI WANG   PROJECTS A Coney Island of the Ear Setting Up the Banquet Pleasure Garden The Broken Orchestra Qi Min Organic Restaurant Duet in the Courtyard Symphony Elevator Music Feedback Water Meditation Listening with Dumplings COLLABORATIONS

(Excerpt) Listening with Dumplings 2005 Sound installation HOWL! Festival, New York   The sounds of an East Village dumpling shop -- the pounding of the dough, casual conversations, the clatter, the sizzling of the grill -- were recorded and edited into a multi-channel soundtrack and played back in the restaurant. The work attempts to mingle sounds of the seen and the unseen- an experiment in aural displacement.