The recording was done by camera (Think it was a Lumix?) The video quality is too good, HD video of a rather still image catching all the unsightly stage habits (including appearing too much like log). But the audio quality is really bad, yet unfortunately also capturing the worst in our music, e.g. not holding [...]

If you have been following my tweets, facebook, or is fortunate enough to receive a personal eDM from me, you would probably realise I’m helping put together one big conference in September called Accelerate which my team in SingTel (SiX) created after realizing that we need to also play our part in augmenting the innovation [...]

Come for The Philharmonic Wind’s 10th anniversary Gala Concert. No it’s not a gala concert like, with 10 course meal and getai. Just really picking deeper into the wind orchestra repertoire for rarely heard gems.
Learn more about the concert on philwinds’ website. Tickets are cheap, really (but I can’t afford another round of competition… [...]

Arts House. Play Den. Finally we get to try out a venue where the audience is literally next to the players, hearing directly from the horn’s bell, seeing water dripping from water keys, and being part of the music in the most intimate fashion. It almost reminds me of some 200 year old classical drawing [...]

Earlier at CommunicAsia, IDA launched its own self-managed Infocomm Experience Centre, called iExperience, located at the newly opened Esplanade Xchange. As usual, VIPs go first, and the public will be able to tour the place starting 1 July 2010.
The idea is to excite the public and the visitors about how residents of Singapore will be [...]

Didn’t / couldn’t publicize this earlier coz apparently all 12000 tickets were gone instantly, but what a night at the Botanic Gardens, save some confusing unrehearsed bits, but overall enchanting on a hot and humid night.
During sound check after the rain:

Audience streaming in with their goodie bags:

Unfortunately as part of the contract there isn’t any [...]

eChelon 2010 – Asia’s Leading Web Technology Event in Singapore
Well, this is not a post about the event itself. That would be redundant, since you can learn more about it yourself and buy tickets directly by heading to http://www.echelon2010.com, so why don’t you click on that (opens a new window) while you continue to read.
This [...]

A newly formed Double Wind Quintet++ is probably the best description. Hope the group can continue to write and perform!
Here are some recordings from their recent appearance at Esplanade’s Concourse:
2nd movement of the Hidas Flute Concerto

Schindler’s List

Although I must say reading the name [...]

Barcamp can sometimes be a magical place where you connect with someone totally unexpected.
#barcampsg5

Here’s Joylon Caplin, and despite the fact that he was really showing off a lot of engineering marvels he built from recycled materials during the previous Singapore Barcamp 5, what caught my eye and led to me finding the following video [...]

Check out Philwinds website for concert details, this April 10, 7:30 Esplanade.
Here I’m running a quiz to ballot away two pairs of tickets to this concert (excellent seats!) The first 2 response with the correct answer on this blog will get these tickets for free.
So what about Singapore Compose? Of the many band concerts in [...]