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Nicole Chow, ümen Whispers of the Wilderness

2025

Image courtesy of ümen

From faint breaths to layered textures, this music evokes a barren grassland, a place where different sounds build and shift. Musical elements dissolve into silence and re-emerge, symbolising purification and rebirth, from chaos to harmony, and from nothing to existence.

About Music Pairing:
Music curator Sheeta Ng brought local and international musicians together to compose original pieces for the exhibition M+ Sigg Collection: Inner Worlds. Drawn from the emotional atmosphere of the works on display, these musical responses open an intimate dialogue between sound and image.

Curator: Sheeta Ng
Composers; Various Instruments and Voices: Nicole Chow and ümen
Recording and Mixing: Gut @ slow burning room