Yuen Chee Wai is a designer, photographer and sound artist. As a sound artist, he has performed extensively locally and overseas. He has designed and composed sound for dance, film and TV / radio. His sound explorations take the drone / ambient / field recording approaches. Chee Wai’s strong interest in Philosophy and Cultural Studies often finds him incorporating textual ideas and concepts in his sound work, with themes like memory, loss and invisibility as main thought trajectories. Chee Wai also performs in the bands hellokittyriots and Light of the South. He is also a founding member of sporesac (Singapore Sonic Arts Collective), a collective of sound artists based in Singapore. As an artist featured in the Singapore Biennale 2006, he installed a piece of work entitled, The Fog Is Rising, with George Chua. Chee Wai makes a daily living dredging through design and photography work for his own design boutique, ferret.

E-mail him: cw@ferret.com.sg