Project Tom Waits for Nobody (Singapore)

Leslie Lo - vocal, acoustic and electro guitar
Zai Kuning - vocal, acoustic and electro guitar
Yuen Chee Wai - piano

Zai Kunning - musician, artist and writer. His work is a highly promising alternative.
Chee Wai - designer, photographer
Lesli Lo - singer and composer widely known in Singapore. He is the leader of the OBSERVATORY group.
 

Tom Waits For Nobody is an experimental sound collaboration between 3 musicians - Zai Kuning, Leslie Low and Yuen Chee Wai. It is initially based and inspired by a story written by Zai. The story is about a boy who discovers his ability to fly, but only moments before his death.

The work surrounds the motif of the mystery involved in the search and discovery of one's natural talent.

Sounds transforms from deep and dark melodies to minimal, to buzz, to noise, to psychedelics, to low-frequency phonation, to atonal piano, to folk and further… In some sense, we return to the vanguard
Tom Waits for Nobody

The name of the performance is called TOM WAITS FOR NOBODY by a group of musicians. The work was performed at The Arts House in 2006 as part of our second anniversary events.
Here is a description by one of the musicians:  “the sound traverses from innocent and dark melodies, to minimal sounds, to drone, to noise, to some psychedelic, to low sub frequencies, to
atonal piano, to folk and more..... in a certain way, perhaps it can be said that we have put some feelings
back to the avant garde.” and here’s a website on it: http://www.ferret.com.sg/mp3/tomwaitsfornobody.m4a
 These  performers are very well-known in Singapore:
 Zai Kuning: he is a multi-faceted artist in that he does performance art, music as well as visual art and also writes. He has been active in the arts scene here for a long time and I suppose in a way, you could call the work which he does as being “alternative” and constantly challenging. He has been involved also in many different productions and worked quite extensively in Japan.
 Chee Wai: he is another multi-faceted artist (designer, photographer and sound artist) who is equally talented in both music and design. He designed the logo for the Singapore representation at the Venice Biennale this year and he is also a sound-artist. We worked with him actually last year for our project Spotlight Singapore in Tokyo. I believe we passed you a copy of the CD of the work we put up in Tokyo: the artwork for the CD is entirely designed by him. He has also done sound design for dance, film and TV / radio.
 Leslie Low: is a very well-known singer-songwriter in Singapore and he has a following here. He did a launch of an album at The Arts House and the room was packed – standing room only and we had to turn away some who came late because there was truly no more space in the room for his performance. He is the frontman for a popular group here called Observatory. 
 All three performers too have done solo work and are soloists in their own right.