No Man’s Band

No Man’s Band

Song-Ming Ang

9.30 mins Located in the gardens outside the Venice Biennale Giardini entrance, in the shade of a disused bandstand.

‘No Man’s Band’ consists of recordings of school band rehearsals before they formally begin, capturing moments of student chatter and instrument practice. Noise, silence, and music sit alongside each other as individual warm-ups merge into collective improvisations.

A total of 4 hours of audio was recorded from 15 Singaporean school bands. This is a 10-minute selection from one of the schools.

Song-Ming Ang makes art revolving around the everyday and popular culture, with sound as a recurrent interest. His works have been presented at Camden Arts Centre (London), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Witte de With (Rotterdam), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), Museum Voorlinden (Wassenaar), 3rd Singapore Biennale, and 14th Istanbul Biennial.

Song Ming Ang is currently showing Music for Everyone: Variations on a Theme in the Singapore Pavilion, 58th Venice Biennale. https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/256903/song-ming-angmusic-for-everyone-variations-on-a-theme/

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