Yuen Chee Wai
Sound & Composing
Yuen Chee Wai is a Singapore-based artist, musician and experimental sound composer who has a multidisciplinary and intertextual approach to music-making. His improvisational sound work encompasses the musical idioms of drone, ambient, noise and field recordings, and the use of a spectrum of electronic instruments and guitar. His conceptualisations and collaborations, which span the realms of experimental music, visual art, dance and film, explore relationships between sound, image and word. Often inspired by ideas drawn from philosophical and literary texts, and by perspectives glimpsed through the filmic eye and photographic lens, Yuen’s stylistic oeuvre is marked by reflections on memory and loss, invisibility and indeterminacy. He is currently a member of FEN (Far East Network) and of the avant/experimental quartet rock band The Observatory (Singapore), with whom he plays guitar, synth and electronics. Since 2014, Yuen has a role of Curator for the Asian Meeting Festival helded by Otomo Yoshihide and held annually in Japan.