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Toolbox Percussion was founded in 2012, and has been driving percussive arts programming in Hong Kong, curating ambitious music projects by commissioning, collaborating, training professionals, performing, recording and touring contemporary performances. With the motto of 'transforming everyday objects into music', the group has embarked on the territories of integrating visual art, contemporary dance practices, and literature into percussive arts, using new media applications and innovative presentations as ways to broaden appreciation of contemporary music repertoires that are informed by sound art concepts.
This interdisciplinary approach of curating sound-based programmes is most evident in the recurring exhibition series "A Double Listen." In 2023, the collective presented "A DOUBLE LISTEN: Yama no Oto" at Hong Kong House and Kamigo Clove Theatre during Echigo-Tsumari Art Field. Through these various programmes, Toolbox Percussion has reinforced networks with artists worldwide, the latest being media art collective Dimension Plus and Percussions de Strasbourg.
Toolbox Percussion is currently a two-year grantee of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

Ami Yamasaki is a vocal and visual artist whose practice centers on perceiving space through a method akin to echolocation—sensing her vocalizations and their resonances through her ears, vocal cords, and skin. By transforming the acoustic shading of environments via performance and installation, she interrogates how the world is generated. Collaborating with scientists including astronomers and physicists, she explores the link between perception and worldviews to create future soundscapes. Beginning in 2025, she was selected for the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre’s multi-year project “TMT GEAR” to create a new cosmology-themed performance.
Awarded the 2023 G&A Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize, her recent projects include "The 100-Year Universe" (NAOJ, 2024) and directing and designing Salvatore Sciarrino’s "Lohengrin" (Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, 2024). Other appearances include Engawa (Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, 2023), KYOTO STEAM (2022), JAPAN. BODY_PERFORM_LIVE (PAC Milano, 2022), and Setouchi Triennale (2019). She performed Christian Marclay’s "Manga Scroll" (2021/2022) and sang at the Hirshhorn Museum’s groundbreaking (2022). She is an Asian Cultural Council (2017) and Japan Foundation Asia Center (2018) Fellow.

Hong Kong-based contemporary dance artist Wayson Poon has lived and worked in Europe and Asia as a creator, performer, and researcher. His unique practice, known as OnthewayDance, combines eastern and western spiritual methodologies, is guided by Taoist notions of “Qi”, and emphasises the connection between dancer and audience. Notable works include "Vortex," Moving a memory," and "PHONATE." His works have toured festivals in Denmark, Finland, Japan, Italy, China, and the UK.
Poon was awarded the Hong Kong Arts Development Award for Young Artist (Dance) in 2016. He received the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship in 2019 to further develop his movement research. He received the Dr Tom Brown Memorial Scholarship and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund Scholarship in 2022 to complete his Master’s degree at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with distinction.
In recent years, Poon has been actively contributing to community art and professional artist development projects. He has become an instructor for the Jockey Club Dance Well project and also mentors emergent dance artists’ in their creative process in the Flo - Choreographic Journey of Street Dance Theatre project, organised by the Hong Kong Street Dance Development Association.