Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 OFFERING 2: ahma’s horn (with Flora Yin Wong)
Part of the •~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• exhibition programme
A one-off music performance by Flora Yin Wong taking place within Tramway's current main gallery exhibition •~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• by Rae-Yen Song.
Yin Wong is an experimental sound artist and writer whose work combines field recordings and traditional early instruments (such as singing bowls, yangqin and kemence) with electronic processing and software. Flora Yin Wong will create a site-specific performance utilising the exhibition’s sound system, live chants, sculptural tools and instruments.
Through live experimentation, resonance and electronic manipulation, the set will move through ideas of consumption, decomposition and dispersion that swirl through •~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• , echoing a dispersed lifeform cycling in continuous change and perpetual migration.
The artist collaborated with Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 on the exhibition itself. In response to the story of tua mak, Yin Wong has woven her own field recordings with a bank of Song’s audio samples: of family gatherings and other recordings made in Singapore (between 2009 - 2016); sounds of the artist’s father and Song meditating together; samples of Gamalan music heard in Indonesia; sounds of the jungle; sounds of the sea. These are mixed with recordings that Yin Wong and Song made together, using a hydrophone to listen to the pond's interior life.
Access/Audience notes
This event is recommended for ages 18+.
This is a relaxed listening experience, and you can choose where to stand, sit or lie within the exhibition. Available seating will be a mix of mats, bean bags and benches, please let us know in advance if you require a chair - email tramwayexhibitions@gmail.com
Tramway and its galleries is wheelchair accessible. Read more information about the building on our Access page
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•~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• is a co-commission by Tramway, FACT Liverpool, FVU, and Advanced Research Centre at the University of Glasgow; and supported by Thinking Culture, a cultural programme from the University of Glasgow’s School of Culture & Creative Arts.
Funders - Creative Scotland, Arts Council England, and The Henry Moore Foundation.
Image: Details from •~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~• (Tramway, 2025/26). Installation photo - Keith Hunter