Choi Sai-ho, a multimedia musician and media artist, has obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong in 2008. He was selected as the first Hong Kong musician to join the Red Bull Music Academy 2006 in Melbourne; the Best of Hong Kong Indie 2009 Number One by Hong Kong Time Out Magazine, the CNNGO Best Hong Kong bands in 2011. He received the Award of Young Artist (Media Arts) by “Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2012”. The participated performances include Clockenflap Music & Arts Festival (2011, Hong Kong), Electron Festival 2012 (Switzerland), Worldtronics 2012 (Germany), the 42nd Hong Kong Arts Festival “Images of Hong Kong – A concert of new works inspired by Ya Si’s Poetry” (2014), etc. His works were appeared in Perform Media Festival 2006 (USA), VideoBrazil Festival 2007 (Brazil), and more. He has held his solo multimedia concert “Audio-visual live” in 2010 and “An Audiovisual Concert: Live.Planet.Noise” in 2013.
Brighton is Our Playground
(2016, 6’39”)
Brighton Is Our Playground is a new art film work sampling 16 archive films from Screen Archive South East’s collection of SE England, re-editing and layering multiple images and newly composed music creating a new work. The historical films document the English life and culture of the early 20th century, as well as the gliding cityscapes on the highway, which are a reflection of the British lifestyle at that time, capturing past trends and historic memories.