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Ticking metronomes and falling rice make music at festival WAparty

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Singapore music collective weird aftertaste, made up of (from left) Daniel Yiau, Christoven Tan, Bertram Wee and Lynette Yeo and three other members, has lined up four unconventional concerts at Aliwal Arts Centre in October.

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SINGAPORE – A hundred metronomes ticking at different frequencies until they go silent; 25kg of rice dropped on various surfaces to mimic rain.

These are just two acts at WAparty, an inaugural music festival looking to expand people’s idea of classical music.

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