This is a great looking website that catalogs Hong Kong photographer/videographer Vic Shing’s massive chest of documentation. Check it out below.
“Vic Shing is a photographer capturing Hong Kong’s independent live music performances. Since 2009, he has been shooting and documenting the changes and continuity in the indie music scene in Hong Kong under the moniker Music Surveillance, tirelessly and relentlessly chronicling gigs and performances in the city. The name Music Surveillance refers to how the cameras are arranged like CCTVs before each show, with Vic Shing oscillating between filming in a fixed location and darting back and forth the venue. Vic Shing does not discriminate between music genres—he’s at every show that interests him. The photographs and video recordings of these shows are uploaded onto the Music Surveillance Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube pages, with almost daily updates.
Vic Shing’s images and videos pay tribute to the work and live performances of Hong Kong’s past and present musicians, and are freeze-frames that document the history of music shows. Reflected through his lens is an alternative history of the city that takes place over the course of ten years; he has chronicled the emergence and breakup of countless bands, as well as important venues in Hong Kong that have since closed down. His work allows the public to revisit Hong Kong’s indie music performances through still and moving images, trace the transformations to artists and venues, and explore the local independent music ecology and subculture. Vic Shing hopes to be able to continually update the content on the website, and ultimately build an essential and meaningful archive of local indie music that contributes to the long-term development of the scene.”
Damn…this is crazy good. Don’t sleep on this!!! Check out Osaka-based hardcore punk band Oops on their debut collection of music released on Mouse Records (also out of Osaka)....
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