Update

I haven’t been here for awhile and that’s because I’ve been busy with countless compositions and assignments for school. During this time I’ve started a collective with one of my friends and we’re known as The Concerted Collective, based here in Melbourne. It is basically set up as an art collective focused mainly on sound and visuals in a live setting. Please show your support and love by visiting our facebook page, more information there as well. We’ll be playing our first show this Friday on the 25th and if any of you guys are in Melbourne then please head down and show us your support.

The winter holidays are coming up and after having a chat with my dear friend Poon,  I have decided to prepare and release my first musical collage sometime by July before the school term starts. It’ll be available in both a physical copy as well as a digital download. Shan’t reveal too much about what’s going to be inside but it’ll be different I assure you. Meanwhile please visit my Soundcloud page as I’ll be uploading the compositions I did for school as well as my Vimeo page.

Thanks guys

Hikari

I’m not sure what happened to the Autism video which was up on Youtube for awhile but it’s been removed. I think it’s because they want to put it in the main website or something. Either way I’ve uploaded a new a piece which was the 3rd draft I made for the austism video. It wasn’t the one in the final cut as the client wanted something more upbeat and catchy. However, I like this draft the most. It’s a simple track but it directs my emotions in more ways than one and works as a stand alone piece. Anyway it’s titled Hikari Ōe, named after the autistic Japanese composer.

 

Autism Awareness Day

Yes, today is Autism Awareness Day, not sure if it is elsewhere in the world, but I’m pretty sure in Singapore it is and what better way to promote and bring forth the word of it than with the help of YouTube.

Please share this video, spread the word of Autism not just in Singapore but everywhere else in the world. Thank you.

I’ll be uploading the piece from this video up on soundcloud soon, together with the other drafts I did before this was chosen. Meantime please enjoy,

Special thanks to Jon, Derrick’s evil eye and anyone else who was helped or was involved, for their hard work and effort in putting this project together.

Sleep

A new song up. My first ever song recorded in Melbourne, right here in my living room. I apologize cause it’s not so clean but yea, it was done with loopers through some mad reverb in case you wanted to know. Dedicated to my dear friend XY who suffered minute sleep paralysis and used the method in 9gag to find his way back to reality. Oh what a guy. Anyway, enjoy:

Epicism

Here is the new piece with an accompanying video of my trip to Montreal late last year till early this year. It was a wonderful trip and I love Montreal, the whole city, the vibe, the arts, the food, the language (Francais) and the weather. Though many find it gloomy, I find it awesome as it’s not everyday you get to experience snowfall especially when you live by the equator. This track and video is dedicated to the wonderful pea for her time and effort spent on me when I was in Montreal and NY.

Please watch till the end of the video as there’s an unrelated/relevant clip summing up the quirkiness of the montrealers.

Hear, download and share the track if you like it:

Every instrument was recorded in a single take with no retakes, it is as real as it gets and if you think there were any mistakes then you’ll have to appreciate them for what they are. But with that mind there are no such thing as mistakes so,

Merci beaucoup and bonne journée

QUEEN VICKS

First off, I’ve finally got internet and secondly, I’m finally here in Melbourne. And to celebrate the arrival into this wonderful city, here’s a new piece

I managed to finish editing another piece as well as a video from Montreal to go with it. It sounds great and I spent quite abit of time on it since I didnt have net when I first arrived. I’ll be uploading it a few days from now.

Meanwhile, I’ve started school at VCA and it’s been intense. Time to buck up, pull up my socks and study harder ever. Meantime, enjoy the new track.

Nigel

3 More Days

In no less than 3 days I will be out of this country. I just edited a new piece spontaneously recorded a few days ago and it sounds super. Bringing back fond movie memories of standoffs and deserted red Indian tribes, this piece is truely indescribable. One of the great things about this track is the combined use of multi cultural instruments from the rattling of the goats nails (Chapcha) to a badass rainstick.

Chick Chops At Kong Peng, the last track made and uniquely named in Singapore now available for listen and download :

Chick Chops At Kong Peng by Nigel Tan

Off to bed.