Name: ArtScience Encounters: A Sonic Walk with Louis Quek
Start: 2025-11-14T20:00:00+08:00
End: 2025-11-14T21:00:00+08:00
Location: ArtScience Museum

ArtScience Encounters: A Sonic Walk with Louis Quek

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𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗔 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝗸
📅 𝟭𝟰 𝗡𝗼𝘃 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 (𝗙𝗿𝗶), 𝟴𝗽𝗺 – 𝟵𝗽𝗺
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What boundaries dissolve when we listen deeply to spaces, to each other, to the unseen?
In this guided walk, sound artist Louis Quek invites participants into a slow, contemplative journey shaped by the textures of the everyday. Drawing on principles of deep listening and sonic poetics, the walk encourages a porous mode of attention, one where listening is more about presence.
As a companion to his installation Threshold, the walk extends Quek’s exploration of dissolving boundaries: between listener and environment, sound and silence, self and other. Each step becomes a practice of attunement, an invitation to notice the flux and resonance that ripple just beneath the surface of daily life.
In a world often overwhelmed by noise and velocity, A Sonic Walk offers a rehearsal for other ways of being and gentler futures that are imagined through attention.

𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝗸
📅 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟳 𝗡𝗼𝘃 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱
📍 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺, 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝟭
🎟️ 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗔𝗱𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻
In Threshold, sound artist Louis Quek proposes futures where boundaries and margins dissolve, existing instead in a perpetual state of endless transitions.
Within a sonic landscape shaped by subtle shifts in tone, subharmonic vibrations and spatial resonance, Quek creates an environment where divisions lose their hold: between centre and periphery, sound and silence, self and surrounding. These fleeting moments are reimagined as potential sites for transformation, uncanny stillness and radical presence.
The installation unfolds as a space to drift, notice and recalibrate — inviting us to reflect on how we listen, and how a world in flux might also be a world of possibility.
Presented as part of Soundworks from Worlds Not Yet Born, a programme within Futures Festival: Worlds in the Making that explores memory, speculation and the futures emerging through sound.

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁
Louis Quek is a Singaporean sound artist and sound designer who navigates multiple realms simultaneously, exploring the intricate interplay between sound, space and perception. Based in Singapore, his practice expands from a foundation in electronic music into art installations, films, theatre productions, and cross-disciplinary collaborations.
Quek’s work spans contexts from experimental performance to corporate campaigns. Driven by a passion for sound design as both craft and inquiry, each project extends his vocabulary and forges new dialogues between his sonic world and its transformative possibilities.
Under his alias Intriguant, Quek has released solo works and collaborated widely across disciplines — integrating ambient textures, immersive spatial design and cross-media experimentation.

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗬𝗲𝘁 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗻
What kind of futures become possible when sound is treated as a medium of memory, transformation and ontological speculation?
Soundworks for Worlds Not Yet Born invites us to listen closely, curiously and with the imagination wide open. Across installations and live activations, the programme explores sound and music as portals into speculative futures that emerge from memory, myth and dream. In this programme, sound is not merely heard but inhabited. It reverberates with ancestral knowledge, unsettles linear time, and opens space for alternative worlds to take root.
Through reimagined traditions, ambient architectures and sonic fictions, artists use sound to dissolve boundaries — between past and future, self and other, centre and margin. The works do not offer destinations. Instead, they tune us to shifting frequencies of becoming.