Programme Note by composer:
Has your heart ever skipped a beat? Do you remember that moment, that encounter, that sensation? The work captures those fleeting yet intense experiences, echoing the adventure of emotions and memories as they reverberate through time. Ephemeral and elusive, the music beckons the fragility and wonder of these sensations, leaving behind the memory of its resonance.
Biography:
Award-winning composer from Singapore, Joyce Beetuan Koh, writes concert music, works
in dance collaborations, composes for films, and creates sound installations and multimedia
productions. Her music engages the intellect and elicits the senses. Underpinning her creative impulse is a fascination with architectural structures and scientific theories. Nuanced by her Asian sensibilities, her language is abstract and self-contained.
Versatile and collaborative, Joyce has a wealth of experience working across acoustic and
electronic media with musicians, choreographers, theatre-makers, artists, writers,
philosophers, filmmakers, and architects. Her creative output is regularly featured at
international festivals and concert series and presented at galleries and museums, notably at International Computer Music Conferences, World Stage Design, Biennale Musiques
France, Sir Henry Wood Promenade UK, London Spitalfields Festival, Melbourne Arts
Festival, Sydney InsideOut Festival, Singapore Arts Festival, Singapore Dan:s Festival,
Soundislands Festival, BBC Radio Concert Series, SSO Chamber Music Series, Singapore
National Gallery, and Singapore ArtScience Museum.
Highlights of two large-scale works include Kohnomos, a sound installation cum music
instrument shaped like a sailing mast that beckons the player-musician to sail in the sea of
dark matter sonically, and A Micropolyphonic Stage, a pair of art benches situated along
an art trail called ‘Benchmarks’ by the Singapore River, embraces the sitter for mindful
contemplation.
In 2023, she was Laureate of the ‘Institut français, Cité Internationale des Arts Paris
residency program awarded by the French Culture Institut Français. She is Associate Dean
of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Research Division at the Nanyang Academy of
Fine Arts, University of Arts Singapore. https://www.jbtkoh.net/
Patrick Yim, violinist 