Creative Notes

The brief called for a mash-up of Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You" as well as a piece from Paganini. The 24th Caprice was chosen as it is the most well-known amongst his works. It opens with a quote from Rachmaninoff's Variations on a Theme of Paganini which also uses the same Caprice as its source. Throughout the piece, there is a lot of development and interaction between the motifs and melodic material of the two songs. Look out for other easter eggs as well.

Scope of work: music arrangement, guidance of recording, editing, final mix

Format: virtual ensemble

Client: City Chinese Orchestra

Scope of work: music arrangement

Client: StellaVee

Scope of work: music arrangement

Client: Unity Secondary School

Production: Unity Secondary School 20th Anniversary and Homecoming Dinner

Scope of work: music arrangement

Format: video for National Day Parade 2019 pre-show

Client: National Day Committee

Production: Care and Share Thank-you Concert (2016)

Scope of work: music re-arrangement

Format: concert item

Client: Music and Movement for the Community Chest of Singapore

Location: Max Pavilion, Singapore EXPO

Scope of work: music arrangement, musical supervision

Format: flash mob

Client: PLAY Inc. for People's Association

Location: Tampines Interchange

Creative Notes

Flutist Rit Xu and pianist August Lum had made a cover of "Little Blessings", and this led to Music and Movement asking for this to be performed at the Community Chest's "Care and Share Thank-you Concert". During the performance, it accompanied the video that you may see on the link to the left. Both songs were woven together, and towards the end you will hear a mash of both tunes.

Creative notes

The video features all the performers from the concert. Each appearance is accompanied by the songs that these individuals or groups perform in the concert. In order to achieve a seamless transition between songs, the music was prepared first, and the video editors laid down the footage according to the music.

Scope of work: music editing, design of soundscape and sound effects, QLab programming

Format: cirque / freak-show with song and dance performances

Client: Universal Studios Singapore (USS)

Location: Pantages Theatre, USS

Creative notes

For World Oceans Day, the SEA Aquarium commissioned a shadow puppet performance that utilised the magnificent aquarium as its backdrop. The story centres around a mermaid and her undersea friends; she chances upon a diver and takes an interest in him. Trouble occurs when underwater garbage threatens the ocean, and entraps the mermaid; thankfully, the diver rescues her.

This track contains a mix of customised arrangements of existing music with needle-dropped tracks.

Scope of work: music direction, music arrangements, composition of additional music, soundscape design

Client: Unity Secondary School

Creative notes

We provide original background music, curated music and sound design for indoor and outdoor spaces. Existing audio systems are used for this purpose. For premises without an existing sound system, and should the client wish to install one, we are able to provide recommendations of vendors who specialise in such projects.

During creative discussions, we seek to understand the ambience that the client would, ideally, like to achieve. At the same time, we survey the premises, making note of its design and the moods that it brings to people passing through.

As with other site-specific installations, we take logistical and technical concerns into account, and tailor our content to overcome these. We discuss with our clients to come to a compromise between initial aspirations and practical application. Let’s say, the ideal situation had been to provide different music for different parts of the premises. However, is is discovered that it is not possible to zone the sound system. Eventually, we get around by creating one single track, and we stagger different styles of music initially meant for different zones within this singular track, as a form of workaround.