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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2022 15:47:33 +0000</pubDate>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2022 08:43:30 +0000</pubDate>

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Music for those who still care.
Music for a new world.


The Observatory – a name that may suggest passive objectivity, but which really describes a
band whose music is an impassioned response to the society it is enmeshed in. A world where
politics have failed us, power and greed rule us, and hate and ignorance divide us...


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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2022 08:53:13 +0000</pubDate>

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    LATEST&#38;nbsp;NEWS
    
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24 October 2026ProgrammePlayfreely StudioWe are embarking on a new series, Playfreely Studio, for musicians who are drawn to free improvisation but not had much options to pursue it. After 2 to 3 closed-door sharing sessions, five of them step into the open, in various configurations, on one night.&#38;nbsp;
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Interview with The Straits Times on Baybeats’ 25th AnniversaryThe Observatory, who made their live debut at the first Baybeats in 2002, tell The Straits Times how their sound and formats have changed since, and why platforms for alternative music can't be taken for granted.&#38;nbsp;
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2022 09:21:41 +0000</pubDate>

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    FEATURED&#38;nbsp;WORKS
    
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Asian Film Archive x Singapore Biennale 2025 - 2026&#38;nbsp;


Membrane


Could ancient caves be our oldest cinemas? 
Membrane is an attempt to create a transformative, elemental space where the border between this world and the next might become porous. Delve into a numinous time-space where echoes of a primordial past pulse through a subterranean landscape. &#38;nbsp;The installation brings together layered instrumentals, found sound, and Virtual Reality (VR) technology, inviting audiences to enter a rich, multisensorial experience as they speculate on humankind’s enduring fascination with light, movement, and storytelling.


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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2022 09:09:18 +0000</pubDate>

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    ALBUMS
    
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    PROGRAMMES
    
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BlackKaji
A study of the unseen, unsound, unsuspecting and unstable—is a regular series of live gigs and presentations conceived by Ujikaji and The Observatory.


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Source
 
A series of film screenings and performances that maps the contours of our acoustic world by tracing its movements along the periphery of art and culture.

	
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Playfreely 
          
 
A music initiative by The Observatory focusing on cross-genre, cross-cultural, and unfettered music creation plus collective improvisation that emboldens spontaneous, inventive musical collaboration between musicians from diverse musical backgrounds.


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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2022 11:12:04 +0000</pubDate>

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Share our vision and support us!
As a non-profit charity, The Observatory relies on the generosity of donors like yourself to make possible our quality, wide-ranging body of works, which includes music albums, music festivals and online radio shows.

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