About Us

黄卫群 Ng Wei Chin /

Huang Weiqun /WQ

Director/Producer/Writer

Sound Recordist

Ng Wei Chin is owner to The Very Quiet Studio of Asia, started and initiated all collaborators to convene for this Sound Sañña project. She wrote her own Chinese Traditional XiangSheng (Crosstalks) at age 13, since then, her self taught interest for the performance arts has taken her onto many landscapes of life and the performing arts.

She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from University of Southern California in USA, Cinema & TV Production since Aug 2003, and Master in Chemical Engineering from National University of Singapore in Aug 2000.

She has directed documentaries of which one is about 2004 Asia Tsunami made in 2007, and worked in promoting Dhamma through (e) book publishing and editing such as 《成唯识论讲记》(Commentaries on Book of Yogacara) between 2009-2011 by late Ven CiHang 慈航法师 (1893-1954) and "The Happiness of a Beautiful Mind" between 2012- 2014 by Sayalay Dipankara（1964- ）(http://issuu.com/tvqs) and video/audio recording for commissioned works.

Working on new media on old genre, (http://theveryquietstudioasia.org) and conceptualizing arts expression and creative selective use of our sense consciousness, are important. Currently with more friends, works are underway to raise social awareness about taking care of mind health while aging in Singapore (http://theveryquietstudio.wix.com/olderbutwiser)

白光伟Peh Kong Wee

Sound Mixer

Peh Kong Wee is a Singapore music arranger and composer working on commercials as well as arts film. An ardent music flute player since his schooldays, he turned his interest into a career spanning composing for several advertisements and short films, recording for Singapore Steinway Youth Piano Competition in 2012, and teaching music arrangement for Digital Audio Workstation and iPad. In 2012, he provided the music for the short film, iAddict, which will be screening for Very Short International Film Festival 14th edition in May. Kong Wee was a flute player at HsingHai Art Association before expanding his music interest into composing.

Fero Aldiansya Stefanus

Composer

He was born in Jakarta in 1988. He studied music formally when he was 11 years old, in Yayasan Rossi Musik Jakarta under Australian Music Examination Board Curriculum, majoring in Electone and Fundamental of Music Theory. From 2nd Grade of Junior High School until graduated from Senior High School, he joined Canisius Wind Ensemble, studied brass instruments and ensemble conducting with Tony Suwandi. He graduated from Bachelor Program of Pelita Harapan University, Faculty of Music, majoring in Composition Department with Otto Sidharta and Prof. Bernd Asmus, and specializing in classical trumpet instrument. He is a Church organist, music teacher in Bina Bangsa School (培民学校) & Santa Theresia School, music director of South Jakarta Community Choir, music director of Teater Koma, and music composition private teacher.

傅逸人 Fu Yiren

Sound Editor

Fu Yi Ren or Ah Foo, is an ardent drum-performing artist who has begun his own search for the performing arts since schooldays. Ever since he has joined Singapore Polytechnic Taiko-Drum Club under the protégé of Jogai Onogawa Sensei, he has never left his drums cold, performing free heartedly for various communities, social groups, celebratory occasions, and even for schools, on a volunteery basis simply to induce artistic exchanges among people. With a diverse portfolio from stage managing, recording engineering, music arrangement, drum performing to coaching interest groups, Ah Foo keeps his spirit for the arts pristine yet down to earth. He has diplomas in manufacturing-engineering and in music production & engineering at SOMA (School of Music & Arts) 2008.

Azalea Birch

Musician/ Researcher

Azalea Birch translates music literature from Chinese to English, researches music, and is a musician. From 2007 until 2012, Azalea worked as an editor and translator at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. There, she worked closely with the chair of the musicology department on projects such as the first English translation of a dictionary of Chinese music, and texts for displays at a musical instrument museum. In 2011, she was sent to Sikkim, India by the Central Conservatory to research music. Her paper, “A Musical Journey to Sikkim,” will be published in forthcoming Chinese and English anthologies of Himalayan music. Azalea is also a tabla player, an instrument she started studying as a child in Kathmandu, Nepal. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 2005 with a B.A. in music, and currently lives in Singapore.