The Female Soundscape Project is an ongoing research-creation initiative led by GUI Ren that investigates how women experience, express, and intervene in the world through sound. It brings together sound art, feminist methodology, and participatory practices to explore the dynamic relationships between gender, listening, memory, and urban space.
A core strand of the project focuses on the everyday auditory experiences of Chinese female new immigrants in Hong Kong. Through collaborative soundwalks, field recordings, sound-based workshops, and soundscape composition, this strand examines how migration and spatial displacement are embodied and re-narrated through sound. However, the scope of the Female Soundscape Project extends beyond a single demographic. It is equally concerned with broader questions of how women—as both listeners and vocal agents—engage with and transform acoustic environments.
The project invites women from different backgrounds to participate in critical listening and creative sound practices, aiming to challenge dominant auditory norms while fostering care, attention, and collective memory through sound. Participants are encouraged not only to share their listening experiences but to actively shape them through sound-based artistic engagement.
As an evolving platform, the Female Soundscape Project amplifies marginalised auditory perspectives and promotes feminist listening as both a method and a form of agency. Its outcomes include multichannel compositions, site-specific installations, public performances, and the 2025 exhibition Sonic Transitions: Auditory Stories of Female New Immigrants in Hong Kong, curated by GUI Ren and organised by SoundLab, with funding support from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and the Cultural and Sports Committee of City University of Hong Kong.
《女性聲音景觀計劃》（Female Soundscape Project）是由藝術家桂仁發起並主持的一項持續性研究與創作計劃，聚焦女性如何透過聲音感知世界、表達自身，並介入空間與社會關係。計劃融合聲音藝術、女性主義方法論與參與式實踐，探索性別、聆聽、記憶與城市空間之間的流動關係。
計劃的一個核心部分關注內地女性新移民在香港的日常聆聽經驗。透過聲音散步、田野錄音、聲音藝術工作坊與聲音景觀創作，旨在描繪女性如何在遷徙與空間變動中，透過聲音重構記憶與身體經驗。然而，《女性聲音景觀計劃》的視野不僅限於特定族群，更關注不同背景的女性如何作為「聆聽者」與「發聲者」，介入與重構我們所處的聲音環境。
本計劃邀請各種背景的女性參與聆聽與聲音創作的實踐，挑戰主流的聲音感知模式，並透過聲音創作與集體聆聽，培養感知力、照顧意識與記憶的流動。參與者不只是分享個人經驗，更透過聲音成為空間中的行動者與敘述者。
作為一個持續發展的平台，《女性聲音景觀計劃》致力於擴大被忽視的聽覺視角，將女性主義聆聽作為方法、策略與行動力。計劃成果包括多聲道作品、場域特定聲音裝置、公開演出，以及由桂仁策展、聲音實驗室（SoundLab）主辦，並獲得香港藝術發展局與香港城市大學文化與體育委員會資助的2025年展覽《聲音穿梭：香港女性新移民的聽覺故事》。