The Public Life of Your Practice

Over the past 15 years, Found Sound Nation has worked with a diverse array of institutions and partners, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Doris Duke Foundation, TED, MIT, The New School, and many more, to create music-centered socially impactful programming. These initiatives - from songwriting workshops with incarcerated youth to music-making & listening seminars for MIT entrepreneurs - cemented our belief in the transformative potential of co-creation across geographic, cultural, and demographic boundaries. In 2012, we launched OneBeat, a groundbreaking music diplomacy program in partnership with the U.S. State Department. OneBeat brought together outstanding musicians from around the world to collaborate, create, and develop new models for civic and social engagement through music.

Ng Chor Guan is one of Malaysia’s most sought-after music composers and sound designers for theatre, dance, film and new media. A familiar face in many international arts festivals across the continents, Chor Guan is a prolific artist whose diverse body of work is rooted in the contemporaneous currents of technology and yet proves to transcend categories in the performing arts. Utilizing innovative musical approaches and emerging technologies, Ng Chor Guan aims to create work that in his words “represent [our] era,” yet remain “poignant and timeless.” His most recent project, “Finding” Series, is an audio-visual installation and performance powered by a bike generator and engaging with real and imagined environmental crisis and rhetoric.