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I collected and cataloged prominent Cantonese soundbites chronologically. Transcribing these sound bites that are frequently uttered by politicians into musical notes. The first goal is to create an “impressionistic” sound painting of Hong Kong, reducing the city’s identity and its recent history to “sounds” and musical notes. By repeating and looping, these words slowly lose their meanings. It is a collective jamais vu, or perhaps a slow, prolonged and city- wide speech-to-song illusion experienced by all Hong Kongers. The work consists of two alternating sections: the slow section features instrumental soli. The notes of the first section are the speech to music transcription of the farewell speech of the last Governor. This is contrasted with rhythmical, repeated sections, in which, frequently used phrases such as Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong, Long-term prosperity, Belt and Road Initiative, The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area, are transcribed, repeated, sliced and modified.