Potluck // Gathering

Alvin Wong is a full time musician and educator, highly active in the local music scene.

As a graduate of Berklee College of Music with a Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance, Alvin has spent a lot of time refining his musical vision and is passionate and fluent in many different styles of music.

He currently leads his own bands, Spiral Group and Gypsyfication, playing original music influenced by jazz and folk music. He also loves being a part of several music groups in Singapore, and hopes to continue contributing his musical voice to Singapore’s music scene.

Vick is a sound designer/artist based in Singapore. Traditionally trained in the cello, he fuses both organic and electronic sonic elements to create textural soundscapes. His works are influenced by the genres of minimalism, electronica and ambient, creating a space for organic and electronic elements to co-exist.

He is a part of Canvas Conversations, an electronic ambient quartet that won the Noise Singapore Award in 2015. They have also performed for Singapore Biennale 2016 and Mosaic Music Series 2017 at the Esplanade.

After graduating from LASALLE College of the Arts in 2015—specialising in Music Technology—he went on to design for dance, film and theatre. In 2019, he was nominated for Best Sound Design for The Straits Times Life Theatre Awards for The Watching (Toy Factory Productions).

Being heavily involved in theatre for young audiences, his compositions have been featured in works such as In Search of You (The Kueh Tutus), When Sadness Comes to Call (MySuperFuture Theatrical Productions) and The Dragon’s Dentist and Us from Esplanade’s PLAYtime! series.

Some of his recent sound design work include Kwa Geok Choo (Toy Factory Productions), See You Anniversary (Nine Years Theatre), Hutan (2022 AWESOME Festival, Perth), and Windward Side of the Mountain (SCCC Cultural Extravaganza 2022).

Karen De Silva is a jazz violinist, composer and educator. Having practised law, she gave up her career to pursue her passion in music, graduating with First Class Honours from Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, majoring in Jazz Performance. Her commitment to the arts and education led her to attain a MA in Arts Pedagogy and Practice, where her thesis explored the use of manga as a medium that enables musicians to reconnect with their emotions and express their sense of self. A frequent performer at concerts and outreach programmes, she has performed in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam, and New Zealand. Her performance and composition explorations traverse the acoustic and electric spectrums—incorporating live-looping in recent years—to transmute classical and popular music aesthetics in a multi-genre approach to music-making.