From Bin, one of the founders of PMP:

PMP  is an audiovisual collective made up of Ivan, Felix and Bin. PMP focuses on creating works that explores the interaction between sound and visuals, steering away from the notion that sound is often secondary to visuals or vice versa. Being a young collective that is barely a year old, we have been dabbing both in the design and art field with works for clients such as fred perry, parco and artistic performances such as the upcoming “Perceptio” for the Singapore M1 Fringe Festival ( Sonic Fringe ).

Our works always start off from a conceptual seed, an idea that excites or inspire us. From the seed stage, we move on to creating a “score sheet” that is really more like a mood chart. The reason being that we want to try  creating music and visuals concurrently and not being dependent on one another. Sometimes we get very nice surprises, sometimes … we don’t. Such a workflow is very experiential for us as a group and in a way our works become tangible. For example, in our upcoming work “Perceptio”. We went around singapore collecting sound and visual samples for use in the performance. Such field recordings allow us to think and feel more deeply for the subject matter and sometimes our perception of things change as a result. So we would say that we have a very process oriented workflow.

PMP will be staging an audio-visual concert at the Esplanade Theatre Studio on the 15th of January as part of the Singapore Fringe Festival 2011. Go check out their website for more of their awesome work.

Another Building Projection:

It’s not very often that the average person gets to see the creative process behind a painting. Artist Lawrence Yang decided to change that by photographing the various steps behind his latest work, Fish Triptych.

About Lawrence,

Lawrence Yang wrestles with informational abstractions by day and paints by night. Influenced by graffiti art and traditional Chinese painting, he employs ink, marker, and watercolor, as the permanence of this media adds a sense of immediacy to his work. Lawrence’s paintings make use of color to communicate atmosphere and emotion, and they are concerned primarily with creating order out of chaos (and vice versa). Lawrence once ate an entire bag of Fun Size Three Musketeers™. He lives in San Francisco with his imaginary pets, Cholo and Binky.

Click here to view his website.

About the artist, Peter Root:

On graduating from the Fine Art BA Hons at University College Falmouth in 2000, my work was initially very much about highly repetitive techniques and algorithmic procedures applied to restricted units such as lines on a page or pieces of metal (see the Transformer series on my website).

In 2001 I spent ten weeks at the Chitraniketan Artist Residency in Kerala, South India and exhibited the resulting work in an exhibition titled ‘Nearly Everything’ at a gallery in Thiruvananthapuram (see Under-Construction on my website). Prior to and since returning to Guernsey I have traveled extensively throughout South America and Asia.

My work experience includes a variety of professions such as architecture, contemporary media production and education. These jobs have always been very supportive of my life as an artist and have all had a massive impact on the type of artwork I create. Architecture has always been an influence on my work; this can be seen in my use of architectonic models (both digital and physical) and technical drawing skills.

More at his website.

The PYT series aims to showcase the work of upcoming Singapore artists whose work is both promising and exciting, and deemed of high enough standard to represent Singapore at international art fairs and platforms. Four promising young artists are short-listed by a curatorial committee to exhibit their works at the Singapore Art Museum.

For PYT09, the artists will create and present a new artwork especially for the exhibition. In addition, for the very first time in the PYT series, one artist out of the four nominees will be chosen to receive a cash award and a sponsored residency abroad. The award, sponsored by Credit Suisse, will allow the artist to further his / her artistic development and enable him/her to further his/her artistic development and to gain invaluable exposure to art communities and practices overseas.

More information at their website.

Khoda, a 5 minute psychological thriller, took the better part of two years to complete. What’s impressive about it, is that each and every single frame of Khoda is a painstakingly produced painting. Over 6000 unique paintings were created for this student project, a student project that many saw as ‘impossible’. Director Reza Dolatabadi was inspired by the idea of pausing a film and everytime being faced with a different and unique painting.

What do you think of Khoda?