4x4: Episodes of Singapore Art
Four programmes on four Singapore visual artists.
Written and directed by Ho Tzu Nyen.
Music & sound design by Chong Li-Chuan.
Produced by FreeFlow for Arts Central.

Shown every Tuesday at 9pm on Arts Central (Singapore), on the following dates:
20th September 2005, Episode One: Cheong Soo Pieng - A Dream of Tropical Life
27th September 2005, Episode Two: Cheo Chai Hiang - A Thousand Singapore Rivers
4th October 2005, Episode Three: Tang Da Wu - The Most Radical Gesture
11th October 2005, Episode Four: Lim Tzay Chuen - The Invisible Artwork

shadow & subterfuge a series of free in-store performances presented by FLUX US	event postcard front | back
line-up MINISTER [ George Chua, Evan Tan, Yuen Chee Wai ] CHONG LI CHUAN [ a.k.a. Chuan ] SEMBAWANG AIR EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH STATION [ Justin & Harold Seah ]
Date/time: Saturday, 10 September 2005, 6pm Place: 3 Coleman Street, Peninsula Shopping Centre, #04-34, Singapore 179804 Admission: Free Contact: info@flux-us.com.sg

THE ALIEN a theatre play		a collaboration with Matti Braun
Date/time: 1-3 September 2005, 8pm Place: Space Upstairs @ Project Arts Centre (Dublin, Ireland) Admission: Free (booking essential) Booking line: +353(0)1 881 9614/13		credits [ choreographer ] Henrietta Hale [ composer ] Li-Chuan Chong [ kantele player ] Eva Alkula [ production manager ] Lian Bell [ cast ]
	Karima Bouthlagem, Brian Cass, Mark Garry, Tom Galione, Liza Cox, Suman Gopinath, Sara Horgan, Rajiv Lutful Khan, Alice Maher, Ciaran Murphy, Katie Richards McCrea, Nina Tanis, Willie White.
The Alien is a project by Matti Braun, initiated by The Showroom, London and developed collaboratively by Project, The Showroom, and If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution Festival a/d Werf, Utrecht Theaterfestival Boulevard, Den Bosch de Veenfabriek, Leiden.

Hung At Dawn @ The Substation

Hung At Dawn is organised by an independent group of artists and individuals called Songs for Sam. It marks the start of an ongoing series of regional concerts, projects and events Against the Death Penalty in Southeast Asia.

Date/time: Friday, 5 August 2005, 6pm
Place: Guinness Theatre, Substation (Singapore)
Admission: S$7 at the door.
Line-up (bands): Harakiri, One Man Nation, The Leaven Trait, Carburetor Dung, Blankshot, Slowjaxx, Ila Mitra, and Molotove.

Date/time: Thursday, 18 August 2005, 6pm
Place: Guinness Theatre, Substation (Singapore)
Admission: S$7 at the door.
Line-up: Cyril Wong & Ang Song Ming, sixTnine, George Chua, Chong Li-Chuan, Yuen Chee Wai, One Man Nation, and Zai Kuning.

UnaVoce 2005 presented by pink ark
A 24-hour sound art event.

Date/time: Friday, 15 July 2005, 8pm to Saturday, 16 July 2005, 8pm
Place: Guinness Theatre @ The Substation (Singapore)
Admission: S$18
_{inclusive of 1 complimentary drink and 10% discount on all items sold at Timbré bistro music bar.
Tickets from The Substation Box Office.}

Programme:
15 & 16 July 2005
8pm - Ang Song Ming
9pm - Cyril Wong
10pm - Zai Kuning
11pm - Evan Tan, Yuen Chee Wai and Koichi Shimizu
12midnight - Break
1 till 6am - 640 WEST (DJ sets)
7 till 9am - playback of footages from previous night
10am till 12noon - Sound Check
1pm - Open Jam among artists
3pm - Koichi Shimizu, with Zai Kuning
4pm - Cheng Guang Feng
5pm - Gradimir Aleksic (cancelled due to ill health) Replaced by Li-Chuan Chong
6pm - George Chua
7pm - Rizman Putra & Vijay Singh
8pm - End of Una Voce 05

Buddhist Bhangra Bling with THE-BUDDHA-MACHINE (Stephen Ives, Simon Poulter)
Guests include: Zulkifle Mahmod, George Chua, and Li-Chuan Chong.

Labculture 'live' event at the Substation (Singapore)
Date/time: Sunday, 10 July 2005, 8pm
Place: Timbré Music Bar (Substation Garden)
Admission: FREE

a collaboration with Matti Braun part of If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution a co-production from Festival a/d Werf, Theaterfestival Boulevard and de Veenfabriek, jointly curated by Frédérique Bergholtz, Annie Fletcher and Tanja Elstgeest.
Vikram Sarabhai, 2004 Performance lecture by Matti Braun. Date/time: Friday, 20 May 2005, starts 8.30pm (1 hour) Place: studio 2, Huis a/d Werf, Boorstraat 107, Utrecht Admission: 9 Euro. This includes a programme book and full admission to the ten day programme. For details, please visit: http://www.festivalaandewerf.nl/	Matti Braun is interested in historical relations between people that cause almost invisible shifts of meaning in cultural history. For his performative lecture Vikram Sarabhai, Matti Braun takes as his point of departure certain cultural developments and productions of the Modernist movement in India of the twentieth century. This research concentrates on, among others, the figure of Vikram Sarabhai (1919-1971), the father of the Indian space programme. Sarabhai was born to an influential and progressive family, which maintained relations with figures like Le Corbusier, the architect of their residence in Ahmedabad (1951), and also with John Cage from the New York artistic avant-garde.
The Alien (sketch), 2005 Presentation of work-in-progress. Date/time: Friday, 20 May 2005, starts 5pm (1/2 hour) Saturday, 21 May 2005, starts 7.30pm (1/2 hour) Place: koepelzaal, Huis a/d Werf, Boorstraat 107, Utrecht Admission: 9 Euro. This includes a programme book and full admission to the ten day programme. For details, please visit: http://www.festivalaandewerf.nl/	For his second project at If I Can't Dance called The Alien, Matti Braun departs from an un-filmed screenplay by the famous Bengalese film director Satyajit Ray (1921-1992). The script tells the story about an alien from outer space who crash lands in an Indian village and befriends a local child. Braun analyses this text, compares it with other cultural phenomena from that period and translates all these influences to a theatrical sketch that will be performed during Festival a/d Werfin Utrecht. Concept: Matti Braun; Music: Li-Chuan Chong; Choreography: Henrietta Hale; Electric kantele: Timo Väänänen, Eva Alkula; Actor: Mees Jongema The Alien is a project by Matti Braun, initiated by The Showroom/Kirsty Ogg, and is a coproduction of If I Can't Dance... (Utrecht, 's-Hertogenbosch, Leiden), The Project Arts Centre (Dublin) and The Showroom (London).

Sonic Subjects & Acoustic Objects
9.45am - 7pm, Thursday 27th May 2004
Small Hall/Cinema (MB185), Goldsmiths College, University of London.

A one day Goldsmiths College inter-departmental symposium on sound, aiming to capture the spirit of emerging enthusiasm for studies of things sonic.

Guest speaker Prof. John Hull

Curated by:
John Drever (Music)
Julian Henriques (Media & Comms)
Tom Rice (Anthropology)

Organised by the Screen School & the Electronic Music Studios.

More details:
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/music/ems/sonicsubj.html

(Li-Chuan will present his paper at 4.15pm, Subjects, Objects, and Phrase-formation in Musical Composition. See item below.)

Talk @ P-10 ^{[ website: http://www.p-10.org/ ]}
Art Networking Potluck no.6

Gooi Tah Choe and Li-Chuan Chong will talk to artists and musicians about composing music, multiculturalism and cross-disciplinary collaborations.

Date/Time: Monday, 17th May 2004, Start 7.30pm
Admission: Donation (Limited capacity. To avoid disappointment, please contact P-10 to confirm availability.)
Address: 10 Perumal Road, Singapore 218777, Republic of Singapore. (Nearest MRT station is Farrer Park.)
Tel: +65 6294 0041
Email: admin@p-10.org

Gooi Tah Choe graduated from University of British Columbia in 1997 and had been a doctorate music research scholar and teaching assistant in VPA, NIE, from 1997-2001. His research area is on Tan Dun's music, with main focus on composition strategies and identity. Having taught music in both Raffles Junior College (MEP) and Woodgrove Secondary School, he has been arranging and composing for participating choirs in SYF competition as well as other musical groups.

Gooi Tah Choe's talk will focus on Tan Dun's "Ghost Opera", which is part of his research on hybrid, multiculturalism and compositional strategies. Tan Dun is a composer who thinks both about visual aesthetics and the musical experience. In his compositions, concepts from shamanism are transformed and staged as a multicultural platform of musical quotations and collage. Excerpts from "Ghost Opera", performed by Kronos Quartet, will be shown.

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Li-Chuan Chong, also known as Chuan (see bio).

Chuan's talk entitled "Subjects, Objects, and Phrase-formation in Musical Composition" will begin with a fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson "The Emperor's New Clothes". An illustrated way of describing and interpreting the key terms and issues in the talk: subject, subjection, subject-formation, object, objectification, and object-relation. We shall then examine the consequences of a severer theoretical position offered in Theodor Adorno's critique on "The Culture Industry", with an emphasis "On The Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening". And to balance the cautionary tale from Adorno, we shall pay a visit to Continental philosophy through Deleuze and Derrida, occasionally dropping by Roland Barthes. And in conclusion to the talk, Chuan will introduce a theory of "phrase-formation", to re-examine what 'listeners' as 'subjects' mean, and to rethink the notions of 'unit' and 'unity' of 'material' and 'structure' in musical composition.

Chuan will be playing some of his pieces to lessen the doldrums of his talk.

Reading List

spin (for tape) ^{[ work-in-progress - download ]}
will be played at the new noise (EMS ensemble-in-residence) concert.
Date/time: 5 May, 2004, 7.30pm
Place: Recital Room, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Admission: FREE

n_t t_ b_ (for piano)
will be played at Composers' Forum directed by Roger Redgate.
Date/time: 6 Feb, 2004, 7pm
Place: Great Hall, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Admission: FREE

Featuring pieces by Rob Ainsley, Mette Bille, John Box, Jenny Chartres, Li-Chuan Chong, May Lam Tsz San, Sophie Long, Chun-Ming Lu, Mariano Nunez-West, Emma Ringquist, Rasalyn Topping, and Jerry Wigens.

	a collaboration with Daniel K & Co.
	melatonin @ tiny alice (a double-bill performance with Serotonin by Replicant, Osaka)		melatonin 2 @ esplanade
Date/time:	11 Oct, 2003, at 5pm and 8pm (Japan)		13-15 Nov, 2003, 8pm (Singapore) every evening
	12 Oct, 2003, 4pm (Japan)
Place:	Tiny Alice Theatre, Shinjuku, Tokyo.		Theatre Studio, Esplanade, Singapore.
Admission:	3,300 (Yen)		S$25 (Singapore Dollar)

SIMULCAST (installation for three cordless headphones)
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music - installation - video
Date/time: 19 Jun, 2003, 10am-6pm
Place: Music Department (various sites: MB155, MB167), Goldsmiths College, University of London
Admission: FREE

Featuring works by Mihalis Bourzoukos, Ben Casey, Li-Chuan Chong, Jade Hamilton, Konrad Kaczmarek, Aki Pasoulas, Graham Wakefield & Jonathan Wilson.
N.B.There will be a performance on electro-harp (Jade Hamilton) and laptop computer (Ben Casey) at 1.30 to 2pm in MB167.

_jttp_ (for tape) ^{[ download ]}
Made in March/April 2003; May 2003, submission for Jeu de Temps/Times Play 2003 co-organised by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) and Sonic Arts Network (UK).

"...because you discover fantastic variety and fantastic responses in yourself" (for tape)
will be played at the Electronic Music Studio (EMS) concert.
Date/time: Mar 26, 2003, 7.00pm (GMT)
Place: Recital Room (MB167), Goldsmiths College, University of London
Admission: FREE

The EMS Concert will feature the ensemble-in-residence New Noise, and the programme will include pieces for oboe, percussion and tape/electronics, and stereo/8-channel tape by:
Alisdair Bevan, Mihalis Bourzoukis, Ben Casey, Li-Chuan Chong, Jenny Crossthwaite, Richard Frost, Jade Hamilton, Konrad Kaczmarek, John Lely, Katharine Norman, Aki Pasoulas, Angus Reid, Ruth Ripoll, Ian Stonehouse, Graham Wakefield, and Michael Young.

English & Comparative Literature Postgraduate Network Seminar Spring Term 2003
Goldsmiths College, University of London

All seminars will be held in Room A, Warmington Tower (ground floor) at 6.00 p.m. unless otherwise stated.

Wednesday, 12th February 2003 - Li-Chuan Chong

Music and Performativity

"Ideas behind 'performativity' provide a crucial piece-in-the-puzzle in my theoretical work concerning 'materiality' in musical composition, or what constitutes 'music' in our general understanding of the category. And consequently, how this theory affects my own compositional thinking and the direction it has taken me so far, into the domain of 'installation art'.

I will start by introducing the notion of 'phraseological reading', or simply the notion of 'phrase', to expound my theory which attempts to rationalise the value(s) which we invest in the surface, in other words, identity of an 'ephemeral' practice. This in turn places an emphasis on the activity of listening, which intrinsically links back to ascribing the 'performative' in music."

Stepping Through Myself (for tape)
will be played at the Electronic Music Studio (EMS) concert.
Date/time: Dec 11, 2002, 7.30pm (GMT)
Place: Recital Room (MB167), Goldsmiths College, University of London
Admission: FREE