SOUND: Latitudes and Attitudes

Curated by Bani Haykal and Joleen Loh

SOUND: Latitudes and Attitudes

The sonorous world impacts upon our thoughts, bodies and spatial experiences. Sound is an active ingredient in influencing the way we experience the world we live in, both audible and inaudible. SOUND: Latitudes and Attitudes will bring together the works of seventeen artists in Singapore whose practices share the use of sound as a medium and subject. The exhibition is a brief offering, an invitation to listen and engage with the openness of sound and its most social, spatial, corporeal and public moments.

SOUND: Latitudes and Attitudes will present a confluence of forms, ideas and emanations surrounding the registers of sound art and experimental music, lending also to the blurring and rejection of these boundaries. Acknowledging the breadth in approaches to perceiving, creating and reproducing sound, it will explore sonic activities ranging from stillness to noise, random to structured forms, and personal to collective interactions with sound. It will offer audiences various entry points into experiencing sound and how it has been harnessed to describe, perform and analyse.

A latitude of approaches and creative inquiries in sound will be presented across five components: interchanging sound installations, listening stations, live performances, sound scores, and an archive of sonic practices in Singapore developed in collaboration with Mark Wong. An exhibition catalogue will be launched on the opening night, which includes essays, artists texts, and exhibition images.
A Parallel Event of the 2013 Singapore Biennale If The World Changed

PROGRAMME

Thursday 6 February, from 6:30pm

New installation by Mohamad Riduan (7th – 16th February)

Performances [7pm]: Mohamad Riduan, Zai Tang

Wednesday 19 February, from 6:30pm

New installation by Zul Mahmod (18th February – 2nd March)

Silent Walk [6pm]: Song-Ming Ang Performances [7pm]: Shaun Sankaran, Kai Lam

Wednesday 5 March, from 6:30pm

New installation by Ong Kian-Peng (4th – 9th March)

Performances [7pm]: Brian O’Reilly, George Chua

Wednesday 12 March, from 6:30pm

New installation by Darren Ng (11th – 16th March)

Silent Walk [6pm]: Song-Ming Ang

Performances [7pm]: Gulayu Arkestra, Dennis Tan in collaboration with Delphine Mei


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