These are the selected sounds from recordings of the HDB Ambassadors

Space A

Space B

TrafficBeep

WaterFeature

This is the first draft of a soundscape composition by Zai Tang & Eswandy Sarip, which takes the listener on a journey through Toa Payoh lead by the ear. We encounter many different sound environments on our journey; the park (shifting from night to morning), a local coffee shop, the shopping parades and pasamalam, the bus interchange and HDB hub. More spaces will be explored as the composition develops (such as the library and hawker centre).

Zai & Eswandy have composed this using a variety of field recordings made by HDB's Heartland Ambassadors during the Environmental Sound Workshop (22nd Dec 2012), as well as using a small selection of their own recordings from Toa Payoh and beyond.

Within the composition we can hear a balance between imagination and reality, moving from realistic scenes of Toa Payoh's soundscape to more dream-like impressions of its environmental, communal and cultural spaces and activities.


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