Music + Light
Terence Woon
Thian Bao
National University of Singapore [Singapore]
Music has always been a universal language, one that surpasses all barriers. The advent of digital music has, however, led do a fast growing urban trend in which everyone is plugged in to their own music wherever they might be. One becomes detached from one’s surroundings and those around oneself.
Light translates music into yet a new universal language, one which enables the visualization of sound, thereby breathing a new life into the enjoyment of music. Not only is one able to outwardly express and share one’s style and taste whilst enjoying one’ s choice of music privately, being plugged in no longer means losing interaction and awareness of one’s surroundings. It is then that light can bring vibrancy and liveliness back to the city to from a whole new urban landscape – one that everyone has a part in.