Hong Kong City Hall
Ng Cheuk-yin is a versatile musician. He not only composes and arranges music for Canto-pop singers such as Hacken Lee Hak-kan and Hins Cheung King-hin, but also performs in an a cappella group called The Gay Singers, and founded the band SIU2, where he plays the sheng, an ancient Chinese reed instrument made of bamboo tubes.
This weekend the 34-year-old will be wearing his performer's hat to appear with SIU2 in their concert titled "Sonic Travelogue".
"The basic idea is to use music to bring the audience [from] around the world but we are not putting world music into our own, just impressions," says Ng, in an office crammed with instruments, from keyboards to erhus, recording equipment and stacks of sheet music.
"Living in such an internationally diverse community like Hong Kong, different kinds of music are already inside you … the music inside me is already mixed. I'm not mixing blue and yellow, I'm doing green."