Rainy Night Flowers and the Evolution of the Sound Apparatus in Taiwan (Jeph Lo )
Rainy Night Flowers is not only one of the earliest modern folk song in Taiwan, but also a profound, complex Taiwanese song that has stayed highly popular. The release of this song in 1934 coincided with the invention and popularization of various sorts of sound apparatus. Sound technological devices such as microphones, radios, recorders, gramophone […]
Taginting, A Resonant Community of Sound Practice (Dayang Yraola)
Sound practice is the term this project uses when invoking all those who participate in the production of experimental, electronic, noise music and sound art. These practitioners share the same spirit of experimentation in media and discipline. It is a sustained practice, while strangely in a constant state of flux. It is a perpetually emergent […]
Liquid Love
Love in the Clouds: Welcome to the Liquid Modern World! Amy Cheng (Curator) Dear visitors, welcome to the “liquid modern world!” Liquid Love, the title of this exhibition, owes its inspiration to the book by Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds (2003). This exhibition re-thinks and explores the experiences […]
Sound Meridians ── Cultural Counter-mapping through Sound: Taiwan, the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia
Curators : Taiwan : Jeph Lo ─ Rainy Night Flowers and the Evolution of the Sound Apparatus in Taiwan / Chao-Ming Teng ─ After All These Year, / Talking Drums Radio the Philippines : Dayang Yraola─ Taginting, A Resonant Community of Sound Practice Singapore : Chee-Wai Yuen─Melantun Records Pop-up: Electronic Dreams of Tsao Chieh Ujikaji […]
Talking Drums Radio
Talking Drums Radio http://talkingdrums.twCurated by TheCube Project SpaceRadio studio designer: Mao What the “Talking Drum” Exactly Is In the 19th century, on a voyage to Africa, British naval officer William Allan discovered that the local inhabitants could convey highly poetic messages by beating the tribal drum with drumsticks insofar as to create varying rhythm and […]
After All These Years,（Chao-Ming Teng）
Rainy Night Flowers, a song that was born in 1934, was then one of the most popular songs in Taiwan. Since its release, there have been more than 30 singers who have released the song, with a dozen versions in different languages. Widely performed in political and memorial campaigns, this song elicits nostalgia and a […]
Melantun Records Pop-Up: Electronic Dreams of Tsao Chieh（Chee-Wai Yuen ＆ Ujikaji）
Melantun Records was an artwork installed at a vacant unit of a Singapore shopping centre in 2017. Set up to look and feel like a record shop, the artwork allowed the audience to enter a place where the past, present and future of underground music culture in Singapore seemed to converge, through displays of historically […]
Silver Noise: Sound Circuits of Peninsula Malaysia in Parts, on Exile (Sow-Yee Au)
Peninsula Malaysia is not Malaysia in its entirety. The peninsula stretching from the southern part of Thailand and located in the north of Singapore, has ironically constructed the mainstream historical narrative of Malaysia. Here is a story that begins with exile. A tune or a song being heard while in exile had then become a […]
