Sham holds a Master of Arts in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts from the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sound Design from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA). Sham has collaborated with various theatre groups, festivals, and independent artists in Hong Kong.
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.
His recent audio projects include:
32-channel Spatial audio theatre project “On a New Day” (2023);
32-channel documentary sound installation “Exclave” (2023);
Sound and music design for reel puppetry film “Blue Fruit Tree in the Fog”, showcase in 2023 National Puppetry Festival
Feedback installation “The Plague” in PQ2023 Hong Kong Pavilion (2023);
Audiovisual installation “On My Way Home” in Udk SoundS graduation exhibition (2024);
Interactive audio walk/32.1 Ambisonics installation “Transverse” (2025);
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), Ballads of Expulsion (2019) and most recently On a New Day (2023).
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. 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.
In 2022, Tat Sham and Miu Law formed a creative duo “Paperback Sketch”, their first directorial piece is “執行舞台”.
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