与七七许星愿 Wish Upon the Stars with Qiqi
与七七许星愿 Wish Upon the Stars with Qiqi is a Qixi Festival Theme Song that is commissioned by Lynn WONG. The song employs the use of Artificial Intelligence in coming up with preliminary ideas for the Chinese lyrics as we had only 3 weeks to compose, arrange, produce and record the whole work. This latest 2024 version incorporates Tanglin Club Junior Choir and Schola Cantorum Singapore Ltd. Choral Scholar Sophia Kate TAN’s singing.
Soundlocity Rush
Soundlocity Rush is the antithesis to previous electroacoustic music such as the programmatic “Longing (Electroacoustic)” and “Sounds of a Rothko Pollock” where the music patiently unfolds and moves at glacial speeds. This work aims to give the listener a visceral “rush” via the sonic barrage that is “soundlocity” (a portmanteau on the words “sound” and “velocity”). Thank you Dr. Kerry Hagan for teaching me how to compose with an eraser!!
排排坐 Sitting in a Row
A commission from heritage curator Ms. Lynn Wong to compose a theme song/jingle for her 2021 Ho Yeah Festival, an event promoting Cantonese and Hakka culture. The video features Schola Cantorum Singapore Ltd. and is the first Singaporean choral recording employing the use of spatial audio. Best experienced with ear phones but please make sure volume is not too loud in view of surprise ala Haydn.
你是我的家 You Are My Home
Commissioned by the Taiwanese Ministry of Education Filial Piety Teaching Resource Centre. Melody and arrangement by Albert TAY, text by 金曲獎Golden Melody Award winner, lyricist WANG Zhong Yan (王中言). Golden Melody Award winning producer 吳蒙惠 Vikung RULJADENG helped record and assisted with the production of the original music video.
Mary Had a Little Techno
Musicators is a music literacy game app that my colleagues and I worked on together to help make music literacy accessible to the masses. Designed to support face-to-face music sessions, the app will allow students to practice on their own. This is one of several original theme music composed specially for this app.
Rise
An fun exploration of Electronic Dance Music (EDM). Thanks to maestro Don RICHMOND for his generosity in lending his lyrics for this exercise!
Scoot Jingle
Had fun in this composition exercise imagining what a Scoot Jingle might sound like. Aside: Hey Scoot, hit me up if you wanna use this in your airplanes!
Nihil Ad Rem (Nothing Matters)
Electronica and minimalism experiment and my first foray into bouncing sounds between your ears. Best experienced with headphones!
Bass Guitar Galore
Compositional challenge accepted – write a new work that features the bass guitar as a solo!
Albert Tay 