On Any Given Day: An Ode to Waterloo
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On Any Given Day: An Ode to Waterloo

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Live performance by composer Chong Li-Chuan weaving improvised electronic music, field recordings, and live percussion on street furniture

By The Listening Biennial - Singapore

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Waterloo Centre

261 Waterloo Street Singapore, 180261 Singapore

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On Any Given Day: An Ode to Waterloo

Live Performance

Sat, 30 Aug: 7 PM - 8 PM

Waterloo Complex, Level 1

Presented by The Listening Biennial, a highlight of The Singapore Night Festival

For The Listening Biennial, Third Edition, Chong Li-Chuan made a soundscape composition entitled On Any Given Day. It is an 8.5-minute stereo piece created from field recordings made at Hong Lim Complex in Singapore. The work is a meditation on the site’s layered history, specifically its role during the Japanese Occupation in 1942. The piece positions listening as an act of remembrance and woven into the soundscape is a personal thread: the story of Li-Chuan’s grandfather’s improbable escape from death during Sook Ching. On Any Given Day: An Ode to Waterloo shifts the locus of remembrance and reconciliation to a corner of Waterloo Centre, adjacent to the old campus of Catholic High School on Queen Street where Li-Chuan attended preprimary. An Ode to Waterloo is a 40-minute site-responsive performance that weaves improvised electronic music, field recordings, and live percussion on street furniture, to reanimate the textures of a city that hums with forgetting. The performance is an invitation to convalesce, to listen beyond the surface where memory lingers in metal, air, and gesture, to mutually witness, and to hold open the act of listening.

About The Listening Biennial

Since 2021, The Listening Biennial has sought to foster research and discussion on listening, recognising its transformative power as key to enriching personal lives and social initiatives, and which supports ethical and political practices. As part of the Singapore Night Festival, the artists of The Listening Biennial invite you to enter the space of Third Listening, to listen out for a plurality of life-forms as well as pathways of interconnection between seemingly irreconcilable differences.

Read more: https://listeningbiennial.net/biennial-editions/third-edition

Singapore Edition: https://www.brack.sg/index.php/2025/07/12/the-listening-biennial-third-edition/

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About The Listening Biennial

The Listening Biennial focuses on listening as a creative practice, and on building listening cultures and knowledge. Its decentred format encourages collaboration and simultaneous presentations with partner institutions and spaces, involving a network of practitioners and organisations in different parts of the world.

Curated by: Soledad García Saavedra, Alecia Neo and Suvani Suri with Brandon LaBelle.

https://listeningbiennial.net/biennial-editions/third-edition

An Invite into Third Listening

The third edition of The Listening Biennial invites us to tune into the humming stars above and the countless voices they carry. These are voices of love and loss, voices that hold the past while evoking a future, and that resound with mystery and force, threading cosmic matter and embodied life with their potent stories. As part of the Singapore Night Festival, the artists of The Listening Biennial invite you to enter the space of Third Listening, to listen out for a plurality of life-forms as well as pathways of interconnection between seemingly irreconcilable differences.

The Singapore edition is co-programmed by artist Alecia Neo and publisher Ng Kah Gay of Ethos Books.

For the full programme in Singapore, visit:

https://www.brack.sg/index.php/2025/07/12/the-listening-biennial-third-edition/

FreeAug 30 · 7:00 PM GMT+8