I penned down my answers in music and sounds, recording moments of my life…
these silent audiographies in time.
silent audiographies <<静默的散文>> is a series of 12 minimalist sound and music expositions recorded over a period of one and a half years from 2008 to 2009; accompanied by 12 proses and passages written by sonicbrat, included in the download zip as PDF booklet…
music and sound: sonicbrat 樂玩仔 [website]: www.sonicbrat.com [music]: www.myspace.com/s0nicbrat [sound art]: www.myspace.com/sonicbrat
audiographies texts: sonicbrat 樂玩仔 english to chinese translation: kate wang 王放
Total Recording Time: 60′00″
Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Singapore All music and sounds composed, arranged, performed and recorded by sonicbrat All music, sounds and materials copyright of Darren Ng (a.k.a. sonicbrat) 2009 f|m records (Singapore) in conjunction with Nephelai Label (China)
It has been, a while, alright, too long... since I've updated on multiply. I didn't want to delete this account because there's still very interesting blogs by my friends here and I get updated on emails; there's also a lot of my past recorded down here and I would like to keep them locked in this virtual journal, what not.
Here are some changes:
1) My website is finally up: http://www.sonicbrat.com (Do drop by)
2) For work and "sonicbrat" stuffs, I'll be blogging over at http://sonicbrat.wordpress.com
3) I will continue to use this site, once in a while, for personal updates and whatever rubbish I want to say. Personal blogging lah. And for reading interesting posts and updates by friends over here.
Well, I had been really busy for the past year. Great to gear back up again. See you around.
The first cultural, artistic exchange and electronic music performance program held in Vietnam in 2008 marked a big success while drawing a number of Vietnamese and international artists’ participation. The program was to aim at cultural and artistic exchange between the artists all over the world and the domestic audience with a love of music, contributed to heightening the knowledge of electronic music and creating a healthy, helpful playground amongst the students. Festival this year 2009 will have a more thorough content preparation, with the presence of a variety of artists coming from Germany, Austria, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Holland, Denmark, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and also the famous names from Vietnam such as Meritorious Artist Thanh Lam, Composer Quoc Trung, Vu Nhat Tan, Tri Minh. Especially, there will be a performance of Nguyen Thi Giang. The foci of the program are still the matters of cultural exploration and exchange, environment protection message conveyance, introduction of electronic music performance. The festival will be held on March 28-29, 2009 at the Van Ho gallery, starting at 14h-16h with the cultural and music exchange program. From 18h-23h will be the electronic music performances by the artists. Besides, the program plans to have some exchange activities with students and a concert at Hanoi Conservatory (as Hanoi Conservatory programmed).
Sonicbrat (processed piano and sound art) + Lim Chin Huat (movement) + Lim Woan Wen (light)
06032009 + 07032009
2000hrs
The Substation Theatre
$15 @ The Substation Box Office
(free seating on floor)
A music and sound performance presented by sonicbrat (Darren Ng), supported by organic movement interpretation by dancer Lim Chin Huat and emotive ambient light show by lighting designer Lim Woan Wen. Three national award winning artists from Singapore get together to explore the ideology of “liminality” as they present to you their personal take on space, time and emptiness. QUIESCE is a minimalist performance that fuses Asian aesthetics and philosophies with multi-disciplinary art forms.
Expositing gaps, silences and spaces as thresholds between what is before and what comes after, immersing in the state of betwixt and between. A quiet collaboration of sound/music, movement and light, three artists gather to explore the notion of space, silence, emptiness and inactivity; of displacements, juxtapositions and ambiguity… in search of a liminal space.
The show will have its Europe Premiere in Vienna, Wiener Festwochen 2009 (Asian Village)
For more information or to track our process, visit HERE.
Presented by sonicbrat, co-presented by ECNAD & The Substation.
"f|m records is delighted to bring you a collection of electro-acoustic, ambient and experimental sounds for shoegazing and contemplative listening. Our first VA gathers talented artists spanning from around the globe, each contributing a piece created based on the concept of toys. We hope you'll enjoy the free download album and continue to support f|m records."
It was truly an amazing experience that I will never forget for the rest of my life. Making music everyday, meeting talented artists from all over the world of various genres in music, partying till 6am almost everyday, meeting my heroes (Christian Fennesz, etc), playing with the Reactable and much more... truly once in a lifetime experience. With that, the blues and missing everyone at RBMA (participants and instructors) here's a track to commemorate the trip...
audiography001
live improvisation on prepared guitar + max/msp processing + field recording of rain in Barcelona; part of my "a silent story of bearing" project. Best over headphones...
Librations of the Moon... one of the best gig/concert I have this year thanks to Terence, Zul and Randolf. Thank you also to friends who had graced the event and lent their support. Photos of the event updated HERE. Do drop by. Be sure to check out Zul's DIY synthesizers, yes, he built them from scratch... an amazing artist!
I'll be ending my gigging phase for now (well, unless something tempting comes along the way) and going back to theatre productions. Two SRT productions this year, and three dance productions (one with Quik Swee Boon, one with SDT and one with Chin Huat). So, I guess it's time to earn some bread and fill my tummy as well.
Photo(s) taken by my lovely Nongying... thank you so much for always supporting and loving me. And also, for taking such nice pictures of my gigs.
Have been searching for the best file host for some time and each time it fails me. The WEAVING album continues to garner overwhelming downloads and crashed almost all the servers I've used hence I had been moving from site to site searching for the best host. Fileden was my last and even after upgrading to Diamond plan, it still ran out on bandwidth. So now, I've shifted it to Internet Archive. Seems pretty stable so here's the new download site + new album artwork + .mp3 format in 320kb instead of 128kb. Hope you'll enjoy it.
Click on the images below to access the new download site:
Inspired by the book "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo. A simple piano composition, I hope you'll like it. For my girlfriend:
An Argentinean film that one of my songs (Flight of the Plastic Bags) are used in the OST. Looking forward to getting a copy of the film. The pictures thus far look fabulous! A little details below:
"Man of Dust is a trivial story that progressively becomes stranger due to the customs and ways of the lonely characters that, each in its own way, seem to be in need of another person. This is the first feature film of the Argentinean production company Giboon. The film is also co-produced by Kinoskopik, a Spanish production company and it is directed by Ismael Julián Naim. Warm but distressing, this movie has a very unique soundtrack made exclusively by artists who are members of the MySpace.com community.
his bike, the Honda C90 Econopower, was the cornerstone of the whole project. This vehicle, more like a regular bike than a motorbike one should normally use to do thousands of miles in the road, was very popular in Japan, USA, Mexico, Colombia, Uruguay and Argentina. Now we are paying a tribute to this bike in its 50th anniversary (1958-2008) and the Honda C90 will be a fundamental piece in this story.
Warm but distressing, this movie has a very unique soundtrack made exclusively by artists who are members of the MySpace.com community. The music is key in the storytelling and its eclectic style shows 20 songs composed by bands/solo artists from countries like Singapore, Serbia, Finland, Greece, England, Austria, Italy, Germany and Spain. Also present are the Argentinean bands Acantilada, Taura and the solo artist Gabo Ferro. "
I am delighted to be part of this. Visit their film myspace page to listen to some of the tracks. The film company site is HERE.
Producción
Giboon + Kinoskopik
Dirección
Ismael Julián Naim
Guión
Ismael Julián Naim + Gaizka Ugarte
Dirección de Fotografía
Gorka Gómez Andreu
Producción Artística Musical
Giboon Records
Reparto
Gaizka Ugarte
Mariano Fabricante
Carolina Dolan
Mariano Singer
Laura Chocho
Silvina Fonteviva
Jorgelina Vera
Suky Naim
Mario Arozamena
Juliana Skorojod
Ioshoy Ioshu
Johanna Alfageme
Almudena Gallego Serralvo
María de los Angeles Argudo Moreno
Quim Ramos
Manolo Tebar Ferre
Fely Fernandez Teruelo
Aitor Acosta
Álvaro Canchado
MUSICA ORIGINAL
Nunnamos
"The dream is dead" + “Cry dog” “Never ending day”+ "The mirror always lie"
www.myspace.com/nunnamos
Winter's breath of filthy snow
Giboon Records - 2008
Argentina - Buenos Aires
Keep Away From Heat
"Everything... Senseless..."
www.myspace.com/keepawayfromheatorflame
Helium Bliss
Rack&RuinRecords / No Bottom Records - 2008
Serbia - Belgrado
Porous
Turn the key
Porous
www.myspace.com/porousmatters
Shore Leave
T.B.A. - 2008
Alemania – Berlín
Gabo Ferro
“El jardín más bello”
www.myspace.com/gaboferro
Canciones que un hombre no debería cantar
Azione Artigianale - 2005
Argentina - Buenos Aires
Chronik
“Tape in my mind”
www.myspace.com/chronikath
Speechless
Vu-us - 2008
Grecia - Atenas
Sonicbrat
“Flight of the Plastic Bags”
www.myspace.com/s0nicbrat
Of Things Unending
2008 - Nil
Singapur - Nil
Taura
“Nudo.Árido.Seco”
www.myspace.com/tauraband
Huésped
2008 - Giboon Records
Argentina - Buenos Aires
Naono
“Eventide” + “Floating Tree Eye”
www.myspace.com/naono
Tumbleweed Tracks
CCT - 2008
Grecia - Atenas
Puny
“As long as my feet can carry” (Mirror Ghost Mix)
www.myspace.com/punysounds
It kills you (Original version of “As long as my feet can carry”)
