岑宗達 Sham Chung Tat, Victor

現於德國柏林藝術大學 (Universität der Künste Berlin) 修讀碩士學位，主修聲音研究與藝術。畢業於香港演藝學院科藝設計學系，主修音響設計。

恆常合作伙伴為本地專業藝團前進進戲劇工作坊，曾參與多個由藝術總監陳炳釗及時任駐團導演馮程程執導之劇作，擔任音響設計，從新文本劇場至參與式實錄劇場皆有涉獵。參與製作包括《聽搖滾的北京猿人》（2017）、《甜美生活》（2018）、《會客室－Best Wishes》（2018），《大驅離》（2019）及《在新的一天我們繼續向理想前進》（2022）。

近期專注於聲音藝術及空間音效作品，作品曾獲第五屆歐洲學生空間音效比賽金獎（聲景及廣播組），其多聲道/空間音訊作品於美國藝術節「Burning Man, Black Rock City 2022」播出。

近期參與聲效及音樂創作：奇想偶戲劇團《迷霧中的藍果樹》（2022），春秋大夢《光築城市 | 歷史建築投影計劃第一站：THE MILLS》（2020）。

現為自由身劇場工作者。

Sham is currently based in Berlin, pursuing his master’s degree at the Berlin University of the Arts, majoring in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts. Graduating from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) and receiving a degree in Sound Design, Sham has been collaborating with a variety of Hong Kong theatre groups, festivals and independent artists.

In 2021, Sham’s spatial audio composition “What is your Soundmark of the year?” was awarded the golden prize of the Europe’s Fifth Student 3D Audio Production Competition (Soundscape/Audio drama), organized by the Verband Deutscher Tonmeister*innen (VDT), a world-leading professional association for audio professionals. He has also been the contributing artist of a collective art project “Windwall“, a sound sculpture consisting of 4000 harmonicas collected worldwide. A pilot event was presented at the East Side Gallery accompanied by several concerts in Sep 2021. Currently Sham is conducting a research project under the Fonds Darstellende Künste, financed by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM).

His recent theatre projects participated include a spatial audio theatre project NEWS is bad for you by Fableist Ensemble (2020), architectural projection mapping composition LIGHTS UP@THE MILLS (2021) by DAAIMUNG; The Plague (2021) by the 49th Hong Kong Arts Festival.

One of his frequent artistic partners is the widely acclaimed Hong Kong theatre company On & On Theatre Workshop, in which he has contributed to projects ranging from original text-based theatre to participatory documentary theatre, namely, The Phenomenon of Man: REVOLVER (2017), The Plot (2018), Best Wishes (2018) and Ballads of Expulsion (2019). He also worked with the creative arts organization “orleanlaiproject” in the outdoor project Circular Reflection (2017-2018) of participatory installation and experiential performance; and an intermedia collaborative performance, Claustrophobia (2017). In 2018, The Furies Variations of Rooftop Productions, in which he participated as a sound designer and live musician, earned him and his team the Best Stage Aesthetics Design in the 11th Hong Kong Theatre Libre.

Sham is also the founding member of a Hong Kong experimental theatre group, Inspire Workshop. As a sound designer he contributed to the group’s projects, including a documentary theatre about Asian domestic helper The Help (2018), a classics reworked Offending the Audience (Deconstructed) (2016), an exploration inspired by German theatre work Liebe ist Kalter Als Das Kapital (Deconstructed) (2015), and an auto-biographical theatre series Jacklam 20th, 21st and 22nd anniversary (2010－2012). Inspire Workshop recently collaborated with Rooftop Production, producing the online theatre/game experience R.U.HUMAN?.

Besides theatre works, he has extended his realm of sound design to contemporary dance since 2017. He collaborated with Y-space in Room X (2017), as well as independent choreographers KT Yau and Fai Tsang.

Website: www.victorsham.com