The O.P.E.N CLUB - Club Malam @ Old Kallang Airport
7, 8, 9 July
6.30pm - 11pm
OLD KALLANG AIRPORT transforms into a playground for EIGHT artists in Club Malam.
Groove and rave to the sounds of contemporary bands - Indonesian rock duo SENYAWA (Jogjakarta) and NADA (Singapore) - while at the same time witness a ‘happening’ by the title of Speak Cryptic’s The Tribe performed by close to 100 public artists interpreting the works of Singaporean visual artist Speak Cryptic. Aside from that, check out TWO installations— Standard Time and Clockwork— by Berlin artists Mark Formanek and Julius Von Bismarck & Julian Charriere, mounted on the grounds of Old Kallang Airport. And get temporarily INKED by Berlin's Marc Brandenburg's works in Temporary Tattoo - a work exploring the concept of “wearable art” inked temporarily on your skin, bringing his drawings into the realm of performance art and using his very own skin as his canvas.
Join us at the iconic Old Kallang Airport for an explosive rave where music, digital media, installation and performance collide and interact in a heady, exciting fashion!
More info at: www.sifa.sg/theopen/event/Club-Malam/
Ticketing details
The O.P.E.N. Pass - $45
The O.P.E.N. Concession Pass - $25
(Concession applies to Singaporean and International students, NSFs and seniors aged 55 and above)
The O.P.E.N. Pass allows entry to CLUB MALAM and 39 other events including a concert by PERHAT KHALIQ & QETIQ (24, 24 June).
For the full line-up, visit www.sifa.sg/theopen
GRAB YOUR O.P.E.N. PASSES here: http://www.sistic.com.sg/events/sifa2016
Senyawa
Punk. Jazz. Rock. Heavy metal. Tribal.
Leave all stereotypes of world music at the door, because the Jogjakarta two-man band, Senyawa, are about to shatter preconceptions and redefine the boundaries of the experimental with their performance, Sound & Fury.
Be blown away by instrumentalist Wukir Suryadi’s self-made instruments – skilfully repurposed from bamboo, animal skins, wire, fishing lines and even a farmer’s plough. His famous ‘bamboo wukir’, a stringed bamboo ‘spear’ hooked up to an amplifier, can evoke the sounds of a tabla, a sitar and an electric guitar or produce percussive beats through plucking. Add to that the sampling and garage guitar distortion through an electronic hook-up, and the all-enveloping effect is that of a full band onstage. Singer Rully Shabara is no less accomplished as a vocalist – his range has been described as freakishly wide, from shrieks to guttural chants to a surprisingly delicate falsetto.
Together, Wukir and Rully produce a sound that is truly original in today’s musical world, cemented by a searing emotional energy described as being akin to ecstatic spirituality and catharsis.
Senyawa has not only performed at music festivals from Denmark to China. In the lead-up to the release of Senyawa’s new album this year from Morphine Records, there is no better time to experience the music that is both distinctly Indonesian yet gut-wrenchingly universal. Get ready for their riotous performance at The O.P.E.N.’s Club Malam.
NADA
By RIZMAN PUTRA & SAFUAN JOHARI | Digital Media by BRANDON TAY
Be caught up in a rush of sound and memory as NADA – made up of Rizman Putra and Safuan Johari – aurally create the soundscape for Club Malam. NADA will reimagine Malay popular music and dance hotbeds during the Sixties, celebrating forgotten sounds from the past through its contemporary musical lenses. The glorious melodies of Bunga Tanjong at New World Park, Gay World’s ronggeng bandstands and Tropicana’s keronchong ensembles are brought back from the past.
NADA is a visual arts and sound project that specialises in conjuring up lost eras through music, particularly the golden period of Malay and Southeast Asian traditional and popular music from the 1960s to the 1980s. Deconstructing popular Malay songs from the past and putting them together again with a present-day twist, NADA fuses fiction with reality, vintage allure with refreshing modernity. Since 2014, NADA’s brand of music has gone beyond Singapore to Paris, Beijing, London and New York.
Fleshing out NADA’s sensory experience for Club Malam is Brandon Tay, a media artist based in Singapore. Through the use of projection-mapped sculpture, moving images and interactive software, Tay creates rich visual content that encompasses all the elements of lighting, music and staging.
7, 8, 9 July
6.30pm - 11pm
OLD KALLANG AIRPORT transforms into a playground for EIGHT artists in Club Malam.
Groove and rave to the sounds of contemporary bands - Indonesian rock duo SENYAWA (Jogjakarta) and NADA (Singapore) - while at the same time witness a ‘happening’ by the title of Speak Cryptic’s The Tribe performed by close to 100 public artists interpreting the works of Singaporean visual artist Speak Cryptic. Aside from that, check out TWO installations— Standard Time and Clockwork— by Berlin artists Mark Formanek and Julius Von Bismarck & Julian Charriere, mounted on the grounds of Old Kallang Airport. And get temporarily INKED by Berlin's Marc Brandenburg's works in Temporary Tattoo - a work exploring the concept of “wearable art” inked temporarily on your skin, bringing his drawings into the realm of performance art and using his very own skin as his canvas.
Join us at the iconic Old Kallang Airport for an explosive rave where music, digital media, installation and performance collide and interact in a heady, exciting fashion!
More info at: www.sifa.sg/theopen/event/Club-Malam/
Ticketing details
The O.P.E.N. Pass - $45
The O.P.E.N. Concession Pass - $25
(Concession applies to Singaporean and International students, NSFs and seniors aged 55 and above)
The O.P.E.N. Pass allows entry to CLUB MALAM and 39 other events including a concert by PERHAT KHALIQ & QETIQ (24, 24 June).
For the full line-up, visit www.sifa.sg/theopen
GRAB YOUR O.P.E.N. PASSES here: http://www.sistic.com.sg/events/sifa2016
Senyawa
Punk. Jazz. Rock. Heavy metal. Tribal.
Leave all stereotypes of world music at the door, because the Jogjakarta two-man band, Senyawa, are about to shatter preconceptions and redefine the boundaries of the experimental with their performance, Sound & Fury.
Be blown away by instrumentalist Wukir Suryadi’s self-made instruments – skilfully repurposed from bamboo, animal skins, wire, fishing lines and even a farmer’s plough. His famous ‘bamboo wukir’, a stringed bamboo ‘spear’ hooked up to an amplifier, can evoke the sounds of a tabla, a sitar and an electric guitar or produce percussive beats through plucking. Add to that the sampling and garage guitar distortion through an electronic hook-up, and the all-enveloping effect is that of a full band onstage. Singer Rully Shabara is no less accomplished as a vocalist – his range has been described as freakishly wide, from shrieks to guttural chants to a surprisingly delicate falsetto.
Together, Wukir and Rully produce a sound that is truly original in today’s musical world, cemented by a searing emotional energy described as being akin to ecstatic spirituality and catharsis.
Senyawa has not only performed at music festivals from Denmark to China. In the lead-up to the release of Senyawa’s new album this year from Morphine Records, there is no better time to experience the music that is both distinctly Indonesian yet gut-wrenchingly universal. Get ready for their riotous performance at The O.P.E.N.’s Club Malam.
NADA
By RIZMAN PUTRA & SAFUAN JOHARI | Digital Media by BRANDON TAY
Be caught up in a rush of sound and memory as NADA – made up of Rizman Putra and Safuan Johari – aurally create the soundscape for Club Malam. NADA will reimagine Malay popular music and dance hotbeds during the Sixties, celebrating forgotten sounds from the past through its contemporary musical lenses. The glorious melodies of Bunga Tanjong at New World Park, Gay World’s ronggeng bandstands and Tropicana’s keronchong ensembles are brought back from the past.
NADA is a visual arts and sound project that specialises in conjuring up lost eras through music, particularly the golden period of Malay and Southeast Asian traditional and popular music from the 1960s to the 1980s. Deconstructing popular Malay songs from the past and putting them together again with a present-day twist, NADA fuses fiction with reality, vintage allure with refreshing modernity. Since 2014, NADA’s brand of music has gone beyond Singapore to Paris, Beijing, London and New York.
Fleshing out NADA’s sensory experience for Club Malam is Brandon Tay, a media artist based in Singapore. Through the use of projection-mapped sculpture, moving images and interactive software, Tay creates rich visual content that encompasses all the elements of lighting, music and staging.
