I have embarked on a new project, Sacred Soundscapes. This project will focus on how sacred sounds and music can be understood as a wider part of a Singapore’s contemporary soundscape. I’m interested in discovering what people consider to be the sacred elements of the soundscapes they experience today: Do these sounds originate from a religious context, from nature’s orchestra, from their mother tongues?
This project will be realised as an audio-visual installation at Esplanade Tunnel Link, Singapore. The show will run between 9th April – May 2nd 2010, leading up to ATapestry of Sacred Music festival taking place there between 22nd – 25th April.
Bath Spa University (UK) hosts an informal two-day symposium exploring a broad range of multimedia work highlighting the relationship between sound and image. Areas such as visual music, abstract cinema, experimental animation, lumia, cymatics, live audiovisual performance and relevant installation work will be examined and explored.
The event is planned as an informal networking event, with the primary purpose of fostering a visual music community in the UK and beyond. It will feature paper and poster sessions, live performances and film/video screenings and will take place at the University’s beautiful Georgian parkland campus in Bath.
I will doing a short presentation about my MA project at the event too.
Sonorous City is an immersive surround-sound installation exploring the relationship between the soundscape and our perception of the urban environment. A series of soundwalks stemming from the River Thames form the basis of the work, which reveals an experience of London lead by the ear.
