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Golden Hour

20 October 2006, 7 – 8pm, Beaconsfield, London & 10 November 2006, 7 – 8pm, Resonance 104.4FM

Golden Hour (2006) is an audio work by susan pui san lok, developed during Golden (Lessons), a research residency at Beaconsfield, London, punctuated by a series of live events and performance interventions. Golden (Lessons) took up motifs of ballroom and song as vehicles of nostalgia, aspiration and cultivation, continuing an ongoing series of works exploring nostalgia, aspiration and diaspora, under the rubric Golden.

A non-stop, makeshift medley of ‘melodies for dancing and dreaming’, Golden Hour represents the artist’s attempt to navigate her father’s 1960s’ vinyl collection of Western ballroom and Chinese pop, arranging tracks into an uninterrupted and idiosyncratic index of opening and closing bars and refrains. Golden Hour was previewed at the beginning of the residency and remixed for broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM, to mark its close.

Golden Hour, 2006, audio work, 57 mins 24 secs (clip)

L.C. Lok’s Collection

  • Big Ben Hawaiian Band, Hits Hawaiian Style, Columbia EMI Records, 1964
  • Big Ben Hawaiian Band with the Mike Sammes Singers, Blue Hawaiian Skies, Columbia EMI Records, 1965
  • Cheung Yi Man, Mut Yau Leung Sum Dik Yan, Cheung Shing Records (year unknown)
  • Nat King Cole, I Don’t Want to be Hurt Anymore, Capitol EMI Records, 1964
  • Ray Conniff: His Orchestra and Chorus, You Make Me Feel So Young, CBS Records, 1964
  • Dung Pui Pui, Songs, Regal EMI Records (year unknown)
  • Mona Fong, East and West, EMI Records, 1968
  • Nam Hung, Why Did I Fall in Love, EMI Records, 1965
  • Tom Jones, The Green Green Grass of Home, Decca Records, 1967
  • Lam Doi, The Kingdom and the Beauty, Regal / EMI Records
  • James Last and his Hammond-Bar-Combo, Hammond À Gogo: 28 Melodies for Dancing and Dreaming, Polydor Records, 1966
  • James Last and his Hammond-Bar-Combo, Hammond À Gogo Vol.II, Polydor Records, 1966
  • Lazy Latin, Morgan, 1968
  • Peter Lee, Peter Lee Sings Englebert Humperdinck and Tom Jones Hits, Marble Arch Pye Records, 1969
  • Joe Loss and his Orchestra, Must Be Madison—Must Be Twist, EMI Records, 1963
  • Joe Loss and his Orchestra, Dance to the Top Pops, EMI Records, 1964
  • Joe Loss and his Orchestra, Go Latin with Loss, EMI Records, 1964
  • Joe Loss and his Orchestra, World Championship Ballroom Dances, EMI Records, 1967
  • Luk Yuet Shuet, Lucky Records (year unknown)
  • Roberto Mann, The World of Roberto Mann, Decca Records, 1968
  • Elvis Presley, Elvis’ Golden Records, RCA Decca Records, 1964
  • John Pritchard Conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Elegance of the Waltz, Marble Arch Pye Records, 1967
  • Cliff Richard, Cliff’s Hit Album, Columbia EMI, 1962
  • Cliff Richard, More Hits-By Cliff, Columbia EMI Records, 1964
  • Cliff Richard / The Shadows, Cinderella, EMI Records, 1967
  • Dance to the Music of Victor Silvester and his Orchestra, EMI Records, 1966
  • More Dancing Sounds of Cyril Stapleton, selected by Bill and Bobbie Irvine, Pye Records, 1967
  • Bobby Vee, Bobby Vee’s Golden Greats, Liberty EMI Records, 1962
  • Mary Wells, Bye Bye Baby, Oriole Records, 1963 Andy Williams, Hawaiian Wedding Song, CBS Columbia Records, 1965
  • Yeung Yin, Life Records (year unknown)

Acknowledgements

Lessons was a Beaconsfield commission, made possible with funding from the AHRC and Middlesex University, and the support of Resonance 104.4fm. Thanks also to L.C. Lok, Annie Pui Ling Lok, Mat Davidson, Ben Cummins, and Jenevieve Chang, for their generous contributions.

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