To date, his music- or sound-inspired artworks have run the gamut. Song-Ming Ang has taken on the world of classical music by, for example, trying to play a Bach piece backward (on a harpsichord for the first time), assembling a piano from scratch and recreating a music stand with glass.
Ang might not be playing music that much these days, but he’s still plugged into the scene. When asked if anything has changed from the days of the Music For Everyone concert series that he tackled in... See More
To date, his music- or sound-inspired artworks have run the gamut. Song-Ming Ang has taken on the world of classical music by, for example, trying to play a Bach piece backward (on a harpsichord for the first time), assembling a piano from scratch and recreating a music stand with glass.
Ang might not be playing music that much these days, but he’s still plugged into the scene. When asked if anything has changed from the days of the Music For Everyone concert series that he tackled in the Venice Biennale,
“There’s a lot of music and a lot of art in Singapore – if people spend their time not just on the surface. You’ve got the Esplanade, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Chinese Orchestra, but also concerts going on in very underground venues that people don’t know about. There are events, initiatives, infrastructure put in place by the government, but at the same time, things that are just independently created – if you know where to look.”
Or perhaps, more importantly, listen.
