On Any Given Day: An Ode to Waterloo

The Listening Biennial - Singapore

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

Waterloo Centre

<h3>On Any Given Day: An Ode to Waterloo</h3> Performance Date: Sat, 30 Aug: 7 PM - 8 PMVenue: Waterloo Centre, Level 1 (Open area near Blk 263 Waterloo Street, opposite St Joseph's Church along Queen Street)If you are taking a taxi, you can drop off at B09 Taxi Stand (China Cultural Centre@Queen St)Please see the attached images of the performance location below. Presented by <a href="https://www.brack.sg/index.php/2025/07/12/the-listening-biennial-third-edition/" title="https://www.brack.sg/index.php/2025/07/12/the-listening-biennial-third-edition/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Listening Biennial</a>, a highlight of<a href="https://www.heritage.sg/sgnightfest" title="https://www.heritage.sg/sgnightfest" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> The Singapore Night Festival</a>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.

...Our photographer may be taking photos and videos. By attending this programme, you consent to be photographed or filmed. About The Listening Biennial SingaporeSince 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.The Singapore edition is curated by artist Alecia Neo and co-programmed with publisher Ng Kah Gay of Ethos Books.Read more: <a href="https://listeningbiennial.net/biennial-editions/third-edition" title="https://listeningbiennial.net/biennial-editions/third-edition" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://listeningbiennial.net/biennial-editions/third-edition</a>Singapore Edition: <a href="https://www.brack.sg/index.php/2025/07/12/the-listening-biennial-third-edition/" title="https://www.brack.sg/index.php/2025/07/12/the-listening-biennial-third-edition/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.brack.sg/index.php/2025/07/12/the-listening-biennial-third-edition/</a>