NUS Electronic Music Lab

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NUS Electronic Music Lab (EML) is a unique music arts group that not only performs but creates, focusing on original music composition and production through the medium of digital software and electronic audio technology. As the face of electronic music in NUS since 1981, EML provides opportunities for young music-makers to expand their networks and showcase their works with wider audiences, cultivating the future of the local electronic music scene.

EML upholds a holistic approach for its members, teaching music production skills as well as how to perform and showcase electronically-produced music. EML prides itself in its diverse range of electronic musicians, spanning multiple genres including ambient, 8-bit chiptune, trance, dubstep, house, hip-hop, lo-fi, synthwave, and so on. Members of EML have no limits on the type of music they make. Some even blend electronic music with unconventional genres such as orchestral, jazz, or heavy metal.

EML is mentored by Benjamin Ang, EML’s dedicated principal tutor. One half of Singaporean synthpop duo, Cosmic Armchair, a certified Ableton Live trainer and a dedicated EML member since his days as a NUS student, Ben organises regular Ableton events and masterclasses for the electronic music community.

Key Past Events

2023 NUS Arts Festival, OmnIVerse: The Fourth Dimension (in collaboration with Bernice Ong and bani haykal)
2022 OMNIVERSE: ReG3NESIS (in collaboration with EMCC)
2021 NUS Arts Festival, Past . Presence . Future .
2020 OMNIVERSE: Cyberpunk
2020 BUILD-A-BRIDGE – HERE! Arts Carnival 2020
2019 Omniverse I
2019 NUS Arts Festival, Arts Out Loud, Counting Chaos
2019 NUS Arts Festival Opening Show, On The Shoulders of Giants (in collaboration with NUS Dance Synergy)
2019 TL;DR (in collaboration with NUS Dance Synergy and EMCC)
2017 NUS Arts Festival, Arts Out Loud
2016 18th ASEAN University Games
2016 NUS Spectrum Music Festival, University Cultural Centre
2016 After Dark, Artistry Café
2016 NUS Arts Festival, Digital Dondang Sayang at NUS Baba House
2015 EML 30th Anniversary Concert, Lepark
2015  Singapore Night Festival, The Peranakan Museum

Awards and achievements

2021 2021- Original Work of the Year, Original Soundtrack to Past . Presence . Future ., Tan Ean Kiam Arts Awards
2018 Original Work of the Year, Music Production for The City Remembers,  Tan Ean Kiam Arts Awards
2017 Original Work of the Year, Tan Ean Kiam Arts Awards
2016 Original Work of the Year, Tan Ean Kiam Arts Awards
2015 Original Work of the Year, Tan Ean Kiam Arts Awards

Benjamin Ang

Principal Tutor

Benjamin Ang never left the NUS Electronic Music Lab – he enjoyed his time performing, composing and recording as a student member so much that he stayed on as alumni, then became a tutor, and was eventually appointed Principal Tutor. Today, he is one of the select few Ableton Certified Trainers in South East Asia, and he trains EML members in producing, performing and promoting original electronic music.

 

Benjamin plays keyboards and is the producer/remixer of local electronic pop duo Cosmic Armchair, which has released four EPs and one album internationally under European record label Alfa Matrix, and produces remixes for other European artists. Cosmic Armchair and NUS EML have performed at Substation, The Arts House, The Esplanade, Zouk Club, and in Bangkok, Tokyo and Chiba.

 

Benjamin’s latest projects include the Digital Dondang Sayang series of concerts as part of the duo Neon Nonya, exploring his ancestor’s Peranakan poetry with electronic music.

Tan E-Reng

Assistant Tutor

TAN E-RENG (alter ego Falling Islands) is a Singapore-based electronic musician and synthesist who produces and performs music within a wide plethora of genres, with over ten years of experience working with Logic Pro and Ableton Live. On top of regularly releasing his own music as Falling Islands on Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp and all major platforms, he has also done scoring, sound design and soundtrack work, most notably for the 2019 mobile puzzle game Takoway, and the 2021 hybrid live-show/short film “Past . Presence . Future .” produced under the NUS Electronic Music Lab in collaboration with the NUS Dance Ensemble, and premiered at the NUS Arts Festival 2021. 

 

He also runs a YouTube channel where he regularly uploads videos of his experiments in synthesis and sound design.