electronic music labnotes

After 39 years of housing dozens of NUS arts groups, including the Electronic Music Lab (NUS EML), the venerable building known as Runme Shaw CFA Studios is going to be demolished. There are no plans to build a replacement building. Instead, all of the arts groups that have been using the Studios for training, lessons, rehearsals, and performances, will have to find new spaces around the National University of Singapore campus. Many of them will be able to book classrooms and rehearsal rooms at NUS University Town (“UTown”) but this is subject to limited availability. Instruments will all be stored in a common storage area. Is this bad news for the arts on NUS campus? For many of the arts groups - Guitar Ensemble, Fingerstyle Guitar, Jazz Band, Symphony Orchestra, Wind Symphony, Indian Instrumental Ensemble, Indian Dance, Chinese Orchestra, Chinese Dance, Chinese Drama, Dance Blast, Dance Ensemble, Dance Synergy, Angklung Ensemble, Harmonica, and more - this will definitely add frictio