‘Research’ is a word that doesn’t seem pertinent to the arts. Many people assume the arts to be wholly inspired and created through the artist’s natural or divinely-given talent and passion or genius and impulse. But this is never the whole picture. “There is no such thing as an impulsive artist…
Sarah Ong Wen Qi is a pioneer of the Contemporary Music (Audio Technology) programme from Sunway University’s School of Arts. After graduating in 2019, she took on the role as a Radio Production Engineer for Astro Radio. Her work involves working with different radio stations, producing music and…
During the Movement Control Order in 2020, film students and lecturers at the Department of Film and Performing Arts found themselves at the crossroads. As gathering in groups was strictly prohibited, and filmmaking not allowed, a pivot was needed. An opportunity presented itself when film…
As we now traverse a second year of online teaching and learning, we can look on both technological and pedagogical developments from extended adventures in the digital realm. This brief article draws on a number of the author’s research projects in the arena, and provides three overarching…
Aiman begins by talking about how he felt uncomfortable when he was pushed towards creative integrity again and again by every lecturer of his, "I think it helped that I came in with a head full of filmographic references, as well as this queer artistic instinct”. He mentioned that it was all…
The Virtual International Music Competition Malaysia 2020 was carried out successfully in a collaboration between Sunway University and the Chopin Society Malaysia. Although originally planned as a live event, the pandemic had made global travel almost impossible, and thus came about the biggest…
In 1994, I was playing the trombone on the main stage in a cruise ship somewhere on the Caribbean Sea. I was playing with the 5th Dimension, a pop/soul/R&B band that had its biggest hits almost 30 years earlier. While performing, I was flooded with emotion from a long-lost memory.
Most people…
Aleatoric music has existed in one form or another in western art music for centuries, having become something of a staple of Modern Music of the 20th and 21st centuries. One 18th century form of aleatoric music involved dice, with the composer creating snippets of music that could be performed in…
