Is there anybody you enjoy working with in terms of production or DJing?įor production, Paul Mac, we work really well together and he's far better at embracing new technology than me so that helps. i've been a vinyl junkie for 25 years and there's no rehabs for addicts like me, so i've got no choice now
have done since I was a kid so whether I was a professional dj or just a bedroom dj, i'd still be doing the same thing, it's just a part of me now. I just love music and enjoy manipulating it, mixing it.
once I get my head around different programs etc i'll start incorporating the old hardware again.
What equipment do you use to produce in terms of hardware and software?Īt the moment i'm using software but it's only recently that I moved studio and I haven't made alot of music in the past year really, so it feels like i'm learning again. it wasn't until I started playing a few tracks in my sets off dubplate and they got a good reaction that I even considered releasing anything. Just natural progression really, i'd been messing about making tracks and re-edits etc since about 89 but just for fun. How/why did you make the step from DJing to producing? the promoter kept coming up to me and apologising but I could barely hear him as I was laughing so much.
I have plenty of those not sure which is my favourite tho, one time I was playing a club in spain and a fight between 2 girls on the dancefloor started, pretty vicious, and a security guard tried to stop it and one of the girls punched him, he fell on someone, they fell on someone else and within 30 seconds the entire dancefloor was beating the shit out of each other, it was like an old cowboy movie bar fight, chairs and glasses flying everywhere. something crazy that happened or a disaster or something funny or a favorite story you like to tell? Michael Jackson- Ben, my nan bought it for meĭo you have a favorite DJ story. my first gig was the school disco when I was 11.ĭo you remember what your first vinyl/CD was? That can be difficult when i'm away so much but I share my apartment with one of my best friends, so that helps and I try to be as social as possible during the week (if I have the energy)Īt about 9 years old, I saved up my pocket money, got an after school job delivering free papers and after about a year I bought myself a cheap dj set up. How do you make time for friends and family? Sims just sounded better and simple, the reason is a secret tho
Catch new unique and exciting short films as we release them across the museum’s online platforms throughout the year, and celebrate the breadth and creativity of Singapore-based filmmakers.Published: 5 September 2008 What is your age/date of birth ?īack in the day I just called myself Ben S, as I was doing alot of pirate radio and didn't wanna use my full real name obviously, but it sounded shit so I changed it.
Join us for a livestream discussion and Q&A on 30 September, Wednesday with Zai Tang and Jerome Chee (Programmer, Moving Image and Emerging Media, ArtScience Museum) happening on the same day as the launch of Sonorous Sketches: Visualising a Field Recording Dubplate!Īs part of its ongoing support for local arts ecology, ArtScience Museum is proud to present a series of newly-commissioned films for the smallest screens, from some of Singapore’s most prominent artists and filmmakers. Livestream Q&A on 30 Sep, Wednesday at 8pm Mobile - Watch on Instagram TV or Facebook with headphones
The latter is explored through software-based frame-by-frame animation, and the former is manifested through the imaginative hands of artist and filmmaker Rei Hayama, using 35mm film.ĭesktop - select 1080p resolution below and watch with headphones
Led by Zai, the piece visualises the sensuous character of both the wildlife recordings and the turbulent sounds of the worn out dubplate itself, using a combination of both analog and digital mark-making methods. These field recordings were pressed on to a dubplate record in 2013 and have been used as an improvisational performance tool ever since, resulting in the accumulated degradation of the animal calls found within the grooves.Ī selection of ten short excerpts from this dubplate were re-recorded and used as the impetus to create the moving images seen within Sonorous Sketches. Sonorous Sketches: Visualising a Field Recording Dubplate is an animated short film comprising of experimental visualisations of soundscapes recorded in the Singaporean wild.