Laurie Lau, 27, who went viral for remixing city noises into songs, explains how curiosity led him to reimagine stressful sounds as harmonies
Walking around the streets of Hong Kong, you might notice a man curiously holding out his phone and pointing it towards the sky in the middle of the crowd.
To Laurie Lau Kwok-hong, the incessant ticking of traffic lights, the jingles in MTR stations and even the “tsks” of annoyed commuters all have endless potential to be transformed into notes that form the harmony of the city’s soundscape.
Indeed, what others consider noise pollution in a densely populated city like Hong Kong is often music to Lau’s ears.
The 27-year-old musician went viral on social media in April for recording noises he heard around the city and remixing them into music.
