Kaylene Tan
Founding Member
spell#7

Kaylene is one of the founding members of Performance Company, spell #7. She has worked on audio projects for the Singapore Arts Festival (Dream-Home, 2009), Singapore Biennale (Sky Duet, 2008) and was the Creative Director for the National Museum of Singapore History Gallery.

Her interest is in making audio experiences which deal with the relationship between place, memory and narrative. Her texts attempt to incorporate history and weave multiple narratives inspired by the site, altering and awakening the listener to the surrounding environment.

In 2012, Kaylene created #157: An Intimate Audio Encounter with a group of NUS students at the Baba House. She also edited and conceptualised Circle Lines (with Ben Slater and Chong Tze Chien), a book of texts by Singapore Management University (SMU) and NUS students that were inspired by the Circle Line MRT. Kaylene also writes for documentaries and teaches part time at NUS and LASALLE- College of the Arts.

Eleanor Neo
Editor

Eleanor Neo is a Literature graduate who has written for Ceriph, NUS Arts Festival and the Singapore Arts Festival. She is grateful for this opportunity to work as an editor on this project, and wants to continue learning, creating and recording stories wherever her place in life.

The writers for this production are: Benita Choo (Year 2, Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences), Chen Zhirong Jenson (Year 3, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences), Gwendolyn Lee (Year 2, English Literature, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences), Hazel Ho (Year 3, Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences), Hazel Toh, Kathleen Ong (Year 3, English Literature, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences), Kim Tan (Year 3, Political Science & Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences), Kor Jia Her, Ong Hua Xin (Year 3, English Literature, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences), Paula Lorraine Sim (Year 3, Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences), Philip Lee, Wang Liansheng (Year 4, Faculty of Law).

About the Sound Designers

Victor Low

Victor Low is a music composer/sound designer by profession, mainly writing music for the advertising industry. A multi-instrumentalist, he was a former member of two of Singapore’s influential bands, The Observatory (2002-2012), and Concave Scream (1998-2002).

Some of his other projects include composing music for the Living Galleries at the National Museum in 2006, and collaborating with Phunk Studio for Dual City Sessions 2008: Art with Sound, part of the DMY 2008-International Design Festival Berlin.

Recent works include the mastering of Throb’s Bangutot (2010), Hanging Up the Moon’s debut album (2011) and Elintseeker’s Shimmering of Heated Air EP (2012), and composing two music tracks in collaboration with Renn and Aira from Holycrap for their recent exhibition titled “blah blah blah” held at the Phunk Studio Gallery.

Evan Tan

Evan Tan is a sound artist and a frequent collaborator with spell#7, his works with them include Little India audio tour Desire Paths (2004), Sky Duet (Singapore Biennale 2008), Dream Home (Singapore Arts Festival 2009) and Ghostwalking, a series of audio walks funded by the Arts Creation Fund in 2010. In 2011, he again collaborated with spell#7 for No.7, a site-specific performance in Penang at the Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion for the Georgetown Festival.

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