Waves and Currents

Waves and Currents
Song-Ming Ang

Published by Temporary Press, 2024
Edition of 400
213mm × 300mm

ISBN 978-981-18-9584-5

This boxed set contains material ranging from 24 drawings (prints), 81 minutes of music, 11 minutes of video, and a 12-page booklet of poetry produced by artist Song-Ming Ang in a period of intense self-study and exploration in experimental electronic music and modular synthesis since the pandemic.

The prints, titled Voltage Drawings and Isometric Drawings (in A3 and A4 size respectively), are drawn on graph paper. The former mirrors how voltages and waveforms move in time and the latter contains motifs and forms that recur and develop like symbols on graphic scores. The music and video, titled Patches and Pulses respectively, are housed in a USB stick. Patches explores composing and improvising by way of patching and through creating chaotic systems through feedback and recursive modulation; Pulses uses abstraction and geometry in video synthesis to manifest emotion while moving along to the dynamics of the soundtrack. The poems, simply titled Words, are very blunt, repetitive, and insistent, while sounding immensely rhythmic and feel quite sculptural.

All contents in the box are Risograph printed.