Zai Tang

Sacred Soundscapes: The Sanctum

This is a video of my most recent work “Sacred Soundscapes” (2010). Find out more about this project here:

http://www.sacredsoundscapes.wordpress.com/

Photoperiod Picadilly

I collaborated recently with Rupert Burton on the above work entitled Photoperiod Picadilly. The film shows fluctuating intensity of environmental light in Piccadilly Circus over a 24 hour period, using real world lighting data. I had the pleasure of creating sound design / music for it.

Live @ Blackhole, Singapore

I will be performing alongside Zai Kuning, Harold Seah, Ian Woo and Shark Fung @ Blackhole on 15th July 2010. Expect to hear an eclectic mix of death folk blues, scratch vinyl remnants of  the past, local found sound and drum-synth exploration.

Talk & Soundwalk @ R.I.T.E.S

I will be giving a brief talk about my work and introducing some of my research into acoustic ecology @ The Substation auditorium on 2nd May 2010. After the talk I will be conducting a soundwalk, leading those who wish to participate on a journey through the local terrain as lead by the ear.

Sacred Soundscapes

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 the Tapestry of Sacred Music festival taking place there between 22nd – 25th April.

To keep up to date on the development of this project please visit:

http://www.sacredsoundscapes.wordpress.com/

Grey Matter Article

I recently had an article published in Grey Matter magazine, entitled “Comparing the relationships between music and image-making in the works of Kandinsky and Klee with that of Electroacoustic composers“.

The essay is preceded by a short introduction, which outlines my Sonorous City project and how the research for the essay relates to it. To download the full article click the image below:

Sonorous City: an introduction

A special thanks to AHRC, who funded this MA research project.

Seeing Sound Symposium @ Bath Spa University

19th/20th September

<<click image above for link to website>>

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: London Soundscape Project

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.

For more info click HERE.

Sonorous City is the result of a 2 year (part-time) MA research project in Digital Arts and part of the Camberwell MA final degree show 2009.