hoh chung shih

composer, sound artist, guqin player and researcher
http://chungshih.info/NEWINDEX.html

“explores unique perspectives on space, time, physicality, process, and ultimately performance, with these often taking on structural importance in ways that are often at odds with normative concert music paradigms.” “His scores often draw from notions of irrationality and inconceivability” tied to Buddhist views. “Several scores foreground the relationship between body, breath, movement and instrument, allowing the organic negotiation of body and space to reveal the structure of the music.”

Hoh couples his interest in Classical Chinese culture, through his research on Guqin [Hoh, 2021; 2023; 2025]. “Unique within the Singapore context” with “rich and thoughtfully implemented social engagement through interactions with performers and the public,” an art making that “is not entrenched in solipsistic self expression, subsumed by concept and methodology.”