ACID: Network Jamming Post graduate researcher and Canto Pop producer John Ong has been working with singers Haze Yam and Charis Chua to develop scenes for Jam2jam that reflect the expressiveness of Hong Kong Chinese popular music. The result has been a delightful sounding demo recording and a scene that will enable players to both play and compose their own Canto Pop song.

Charis is a graduate of Griffith University Conservatorium and Haze is a Nursing graduate from Queensland University of Technology. Both are actively involved in singing as part of the expressiveness in their lives. John Ong has been researching music and religious ecstasy form the western Church music directors perspective.

With the network Jamming project we have always tried to involve people from the community to design musical environments so that the first sounds players hear are ones that are familiar and potentially provide an opportunity for expressive and collaborative performance.

Dr Steve Dillon has been invited by the innovative Professor Sam Leong to present the new version at the Hong Kong Institute of Education to examine research partnerships to explore the musical and social implications of generative media and popular music in Hong Kong Schools.