Multimedia installation Railtrack Songmaps brings bird songs to Tanglin Halt

Discover the birdsong and relationships birds have with people in the former Malayan railway corridor and Tanglin Halt in a new exhibition

The multimedia works shown in a Queenstown Residents' Committee centre are created by photographer Kee Ya Ting, designer Zachary Chan, artist-researcher Lucy Davis and sound artist Zai Tang.
The multimedia works shown in a Queenstown Residents' Committee centre are created by photographer (from left) Kee Ya Ting, designer Zachary Chan, artist-researcher Lucy Davis and sound artist Zai Tang. ST PHOTOS: LEE JIA WEN
The multimedia works shown in a Queenstown Residents' Committee centre are created by photographer Kee Ya Ting, designer Zachary Chan, artist-researcher Lucy Davis and sound artist Zai Tang.
The multimedia works shown in a Queenstown Residents' Committee centre are created by photographer Kee Ya Ting, designer Zachary Chan, artist-researcher Lucy Davis and sound artist Zai Tang. ST PHOTOS: LEE JIA WEN
The multimedia works (above) shown in a Queenstown Residents' Committee centre are created by (below from left) photographer Kee Ya Ting, designer Zachary Chan, artist-researcher Lucy Davis and sound artist Zai Tang.
The multimedia works (above) shown in a Queenstown Residents' Committee centre are created by (below from left) photographer Kee Ya Ting, designer Zachary Chan, artist-researcher Lucy Davis and sound artist Zai Tang. ST PHOTOS: LEE JIA WEN
The multimedia works shown in a Queenstown Residents' Committee centre are created by photographer Kee Ya Ting, designer Zachary Chan, artist-researcher Lucy Davis and sound artist Zai Tang.
The multimedia works shown in a Queenstown Residents' Committee centre are created by photographer Kee Ya Ting, designer Zachary Chan, artist-researcher Lucy Davis and sound artist Zai Tang. ST PHOTOS: LEE JIA WEN
Olivia Ho
Assistant Life Editor
Updated
Apr 10, 2018, 06:15 AM
Published
Apr 10, 2018, 05:00 AM
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In a darkened room in a Queenstown Residents' Committee centre, nests hang from the ceiling amid flickering projections and the twitter of birdsong.

Railtrack Songmaps, a multimedia art installation on the relationships between birds and people in the former Malayan railway corridor and Tanglin Halt, has come home to roost.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on April 10, 2018, with the headline Multimedia installation Railtrack Songmaps brings bird songs to Tanglin Halt. Subscribe

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