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DEEP CUTS

DEEP CUTS was a two-day conference held in 2024, meant for the creative community in Singapore. It aimed to facilitate a deeper, collective examination into the current and future state of creative grassroots scenes through a series of thought-provoking panel discussions, workshops, performances and other activities. A year later, DEEP CUTS presents sineTHESIS to deconstruct the creative process through a series of local artist performances and stereo-spatial DJ sets.

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Syafiq Halid

Syafiq Halid is a manipulator of sound, electronic artist and experimental percussionist based in Singapore. He has worked in several traditional and contemporary performing arts projects regionally with various collaborators and companies at platforms like the Esplanade, National Gallery Singapore, ArtScience Museum, Nusasonic and Goethe Institute.

Drawing from sounds, aesthetics, and experiences of the Malay world, Syafiq’s compositions traverse the grey realms that exist between the traditional and the contemporary. His creations deconstruct, exploit, and reimagine these sounds, manifesting them into an experimental sonic language unique to Southeast Asia.

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Mervin Wong

Mervin Wong is a performer. Raised in chambers of string, it took a moment for him to recognize the Viola as his truest limb. The tectonic shift to this deeper, enduring register has shaped his foray into electronic music-making. Mournful but reft of grief. Mervin Wong’s long-form sensibilities rouse our waterflesh.

Years of forging his intention allow his process to be bright with speed. In service of resonance, every grain is burnished to the bone. A canoe made of ice. His sounds return to matter. Where footsteps span lightyears. Waves seethe and where the cosmos can glide through an albatross.

Mervin Wong is a performer, violist, composer, and electronic producer. He is an artist that is deeply dedicated to the shared experience of sound.

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Nah

Festering within primordial surges and ecstasy, Nah echoes drums of desire and trance-inducing hymns. The sonic concoctions he stirs syncopate hip-swayings and tunnel through the ears with elements of dancehall, breaks, hard drum and sounds of the howling arcane creeping over undulating polyrhythms to fuel a force enjoyed sober and when in disoriented stupor.

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Vangoth666

Birth from the fragments of turbulence, Vangoth666 is a Singaporean based producer and DJ. Drawing inspiration from malignant yet tender underbellies across the globe, his music is dedicated to the exploration of urban disorientation, an ode to the phantoms who linger the streets unnoticed.

Subservient to the vapid over-categorisation of musical genres, his sets reject definition and foretell a coagulation of past, present and future. Having performed alongside the likes of Bobby Beethoven (fka Total Freedom) and Juliana Huxtable at cult parties such as Horizon99, Endless Return and xex, he has most recently released a single “4nce” as a descendant of the enigmatic EP “PARODYSE CITY” released under local experimental electronic shamans @3ndlessreturn.

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chiaky

Since 2016, Isaac has been dabbling in Singapore’s music scene; drumming for bands ranging from post-hardcore to indie rock. Through working with The Glass Hut, he was (with much gratitude) introduced to electronic genres and festivals.

DJing came into the picture when a friend put his controller up for sale. From that moment, it has been a journey of traversing new soundscapes to embody the spirit of inquiry.

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