NUS Arts Festival 2017

InTempo 2017: Rise of the Transhuman

NUS Wind Symphony

Creative Partner: Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

Sun 19 Mar | 8pm | UCC Hall | $27, Students: $19

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Transhumanism is the ideology of enhancing human intellectual, physical and psychological capacities through advanced technology. NUS Wind Symphony explores the implications of the development of transhumans and their impact on human life through music by modern composers such as Steven Bryant, David Maslanka and Daisuke Shimizu.

Electronic music seamlessly weaved into traditional wind band music in Steven Bryant's Ecstatic Waters is used as a musical metaphor of how peace in humanity can be achieved through transhuman technologies that create a collective subconscious. Traveler by David Maslanka suggests that in the future, human consciousness may be transferred or uploaded into a collective memory, allowing one to essentially'travel forward through time' by having perpetual life.

The NUS Wind Symphony will also premiere a special commissioned work by emerging Japanese composer Daisuke Shimizu.

Photo: Kinetic Expressions Photography

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NUS Wind Symphony

Since its inception in 1968, the NUS Wind Symphony (NUSWS) has established itself as one of the premier wind orchestras in Singapore. Boasting an illustrious history, the wind orchestra places its emphasis on creating quality music with a wide range of quality repertoire of varying difficulty – from orchestral transcriptions to modern band music.

From its humble beginnings as a military band, NUSWS has since grown from strength to strength, playing works of increasing depth and sophistication under the baton of its Resident Conductor, PBM A/P Ho Hwee Long, as well as Associate Conductor, Mr Francis Tan.

As one of the pioneering bands in Singapore, NUSWS also aims to produce world class musicians who have a fine appreciation for the arts and who will lead the arts scene both locally and internationally. NUSWS performs two concerts every year Da Capo in October featuring freshmen talents, and InTempo, Singapore's longest running concert series, in March and has participated in several music festivals and competitions overseas.

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Professor Ho Hwee Long

Music Director & Resident Conductor

Associate Professor Ho Hwee Long started conducting in 1967. He was a french horn player with the National Symphony Orchestra (1967-1967), and the founder and conductor of the Singapore Polytechnic Band and the National Theatre Symphonic Band. He was the Music Director of the Singapore Teachers' Band from 1986 to 1991. In 2008, A/P Ho was appointed Music Director and Resident Conductor of the NUS Wind Symphony. A faculty member since 1974 in the National Institute of Education, he is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor of the Visual and Performing Arts, and the coordinator and lecturer of the Special Diploma in Band Directing and Advanced Diploma in Band Directing.

Francis Tan

Associate Conductor

Francis Tan received his music education from Indiana University and Australian National University, where he studied with several notable instrumentalists and pedagogues. His diverse contribution to the music field includes involvement in the coaching, performance and community arenas, including working with youths and professionals at various Wind Bands Association of Singapore festivals and at West Winds, Band of the Bukit Batok Community Club, as their Associate Conductor. Currently Francis is reading his Masters in Conducting at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music.