Substation Guinness Theatre & TIMBRE at The Substation Garden
8pm 15th July till 8pm 16th July 2005
Organized by Pink Ark {PICS}

$18 inclusive of 1 complimentary drink and
10% discount on all items sold at Timbre,
available at The Substation Box Office

UNA VOCE means “With One Voice”. The voice of a collective of different sound artists from diverse background e.g musician, DJ and sound artist who congregate to form an art event that demonstrates each other’s artistic traits. UNA VOCE 2005 is a 24hrs sound festival exploring experimental sound, electronic music and the creative use of new and emerging technologies. This project explores and searches the different language and meaning of sound in today’s context.

In a sense, the experience of performed or prepared sound reasserts the materiality of everyday life; as sound plays a tremendous role in the construction of space. The flow of our daily lives is marked by a shifting of our senses of time and space within the ever expanding realms of a rapidly globalizing place. We are extending ourselves into new modes of communication enabled through digital cultures.

It is not just the sounds of an environment that are threatened with extinction but our ability to listen to them, to distinguish a tune and rhythm to open ourselves to more germinative thinking. Projected sounds are always perceived and experience it as composed music, the objective of this project is to create an experience of sound in it’s pure form to enable audiences and practioners to engage sound art as a discourse in relation to their respective artistic practices. This project also challenges the boundaries and perceptions of the physical and mental state of each individual through the creation of sound art.





Our aim is to open up more possibilities of working together among the local sound artists in Singapore. This is to create a platform for sound-based works through digital and analog production mediums. Through this event, We hope to develop consistent practice of sound art and a long term appreciation of sound art as a contemporary art form.We are currently organising discussions among practitioners that will lead to the public presentations of each individual’s respective art forms in UNA VOCE 2005. At the same time, we are conducting sound art workshops in schools and also developing sound production projects with theatre groups and local sound production companies in Singapore. We hope to develop this inaugural festival into a international festival of sound art. We are planning to make this festival as a yearly event and will be focusing more towards the local artists for this year. As time progress, we hope to invite international artists to be part of the festival and to establish Singapore as a cultural and industrial hub for sound art and sound productions.

Pink Ark is a sound collective formed by artists Zulkifle Mahmod and kAI (Lam Hoi Lit) as an extension of their art practices in the medium of installation, video and live performances. The idea of this inter-disciplinary practice came about when Zul and kAI got together to discuss the possibilities of sound productions based on their respective art practices. Both artists had come from sculpture background and have been practicing three-dimensional art since 1995.

Pink Ark is a respond by the founding members to explore the sensibilities of sound production in the field of visual art practice. The group seeks to invite artistic collaborations from practitioners of various backgrounds (in and out of the art context) to expand the possibilities of sound production, through spontaneous manipulation of assorted sounds and the fusion of projected live and recorded sounds, as a collaborative form to promote inter-disciplinary practices. Pink Ark aims to raise a heightened appreciation in the field of audio and visual arts practice as a total experience.

To date, Pink Ark has released an album “Pink Ark” in 2004 and is currently working on the release of their second album. This year, they will be starting a sound art research and development centre as a practical and theorectical discourse with like-minded artists. Since Pink Ark’s formation last year, they have collaborated with musicians, performance artists, poets, video artists, dancers and theatre practitioners.