Stories that shine a spotlight on pioneering thinkers who forge new paths in their respective fields or those oddball eccentrics exploring the weird and wonderful.
As co-founders of design and architecture studio Sybarite, Simon Mitchell and Torquil McIntosh work wonderfully in tandem. Yet, the music driving their creativity differs like night and day.
A Malaysian ensemble breathing new life in the old-style artform of shadow puppetry, Fusion Wayang Kulit has won over a new generation of fans around the world with its inclusion of modern references, such as Star Wars and Marvel and DC superheroes.
Morag Myerscough’s work is bright, bold and unapologetically fun. Her recent Hong Kong installation, titled “Make Those Who Are Near Happy”, is all that and more, but more importantly, it incorporates sound in the most creative of ways.
The 2020 we originally envisioned will continue to remain a “what-if”, but for artist Janet Laurence, the conversation between living things shows that life must go on for all of us.
As an industrial designer, Paul Priestman moves people around cities, through space and over water. Drawing from sound, he builds aural conditions into redefining lifescapes.
Colombian artist Diana Beltran Herrera makes life-like bird models such as hummingbirds and magpies with just paper. Find out how nature inspires her work and what else is in her paper universe.
Have you wondered who are some of the people behind the popular Christmas songs you hear every year? Songs like All 'I Want For Christmas Is You', 'Santa Claus Is Coming To Town' or 'Last Christmas' – written by the likes of Haven Gillespie, Mariah Carey, George Michael and more, they all have fascinating tales.
We meet Ulrich Gerhartz of Steinway & Sons to discuss a machine with more parts than a car, one that easily can live well beyond a hundred years and be as spectacularly precise as the day it was put together (with adequate repair, of course) – none other than the piano.
