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Last week, I had the opportunity to facilitate an IN-depth module at the University of the Arts Singapore titled Artist as Futurist. Although UAS provided the workshop content, the experience resonated strongly enough that I felt compelled to document the learning trajectories, tensions, and shifts that emerged across the three sessions. What follows is not a summary of content delivered. It is, instead, a reflection on how thinking evolved through discussion, critique, and m

This past year marked a genuine paradigm shift for me. Not in the superficial sense of adding more credentials or outputs, but in the deeper work of clarifying my research voice, my pedagogic stance, and the relationship between my teaching, research, and supervision. I have come to understand more clearly how these three dimensions must cohere if the work is to be sustainable and meaningful. At the same time, I began to recognise what was no longer serving me, including cert

Lately, I have been reflecting quite a bit on my own research identity. Not the academic kind involving CV lines or publications, but the deeper question of what I actually care about in music and teaching. That process unexpectedly nudged me into this piece: a small attempt to articulate something I have sensed for years but rarely put into words. I have been sitting with a recurring realisation these past few years, something that shows up in teaching, performing, supervisi

SRMC recently put out a short Ask Me Anything reel just of me on a stool answering questions about guilty-pleasure tunes, on-stage slip-ups, and the best advice I’ve had as a musician; light stuff! But it reminded me that a lot of this work happens in small, unscripted moments and questions answered honestly. Light, fun, nothing academic, but it landed at the exact moment the term is winding down across all seven schools I’m teaching in this year. The term is ending in phase