I'm starting a personal project and I need to have 10 to 15 Vietnamese songs (FLAC, MP3) converted to MIDI files. Note that I'm not looking for the MIDI files that is used for karaoke where there is no foreground melody. (Those I can find easily online everywhere). I need it to include the full melody. Just think of it as how a song is heard from a mechanical music box. I need the full song (vocal, foreground, background) converted to a 1-track MIDI file
I'm posting in this forum instead of a music forum because the songs are mostly traditional Vietnamese folk songs (e.g, Bolero) and it's better to have someone very familiar with Vietnamese music.
Does anyone here have (or know someone that has) this expertise?

Salut,
Je (M31) suis rentré hier en vélo (comme d'habitude, environ 6-7km, pas mal de montée) après plusieurs heures de karaoke. Dès que j'ai accéléré pas mal en vélo en montée, j'ai senti mon coeur qui battait anormalement (pas trop vite, mais disons, "fort", une fois sur cinq ou sur dix). J'ai essayé de calmer un peu l'allure mais bon, faut bien rentrer...
J'ai fait une partie de mon trajet à pied.
En arrivant chez moi, j'avais des douleurs thoraciques (un peu sur la gauche, au niveau du coeur) en respirant fort (j'ai essayé de faire passer le truc en faisant gonfler mes poumons au maximum, sans succès...). Douleurs aussi en fonction des mouvements ou de la posture.
Bref je me suis dit que ça passerait dans la nuit, mais nous voici le lendemain midi et ça ne passe pas. J'ai une légère douleuincofort au repos, et des douleurs plus fortes quand je respire plus fort.
Rythme cardiaque régulier, 58bpm.
Je viens de regarder doctolib, pas de consultation dispo avant au moins une semaine. Est-ce que je devrais m'inquiéter et tenter un appel au 15 pour voir ce qu'ils en disent, ou est-ce que je prends un RDV pour la semaine prochaine chez le généraliste ?
EDIT: ça fait plusieurs jours que j'ai le fond de la gorge irrité, yeux irrités, mal de tête notamment après être sorti à vélo en journée, mais je pense que ce sont les allergies au pollen.

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This list is soley based on my own experience. I've been producing with soundtrap for about three years, using it to do music, podcasts, film sound design, etc all throughout my highschool career. This is my personal opinion of each effect.
S:
Clipper: Solid effect that I always find use for. One of the lighter distorts, but very useful for saturation and making a sound cut more through the mix, or sound more aggressive, and it can easily get loud if I want it to. I put it on almost everything when I'm looking for a good, intense sound profile that isn't too grating.
Stereo Chorus: Also an effect that I find myself using almost every project. I always reach for this effect when I want something to sit back in the mix, and have an increased stereo width at the same time. It really helps blend everything together and make certain sounds more subtle and spread into the sides of each ear without losing their influence.
Visual EQ: One of the best recent additions Soundtrap has made imo. I do wish there was options to make more bands or change the band's types, but even in its current state I feel spoiled with this utility. It's by far the best way to EQ and I don't think it should be premium only.
All of the Modulation Effects: Let's be honest, it sucks that we can't modulate every dial on any effect (or ESPECIALLY modulate pitch without doing some weird mono sampler stuff). However, the utility that modular volume, panning and sweeps provide is still invaluable and worthy of S. One of the best pieces of advice when it comes to producing is that your volume panners are your most powerful tools.
Reverb: This is such an incredible improvement over the default reverb dial in the Instrument settings. The fact that you can tweak the mix of the reverb with the raw sound, low pass/high pass the reverb, and that there's so many different reverbs to choose from is just excellent. The room reverbs are also good for making a sound wider or step back in a mix. Shoutout to anyone who remembers when this effect was just called "room."
Dynamics Compressor: Compression is very important, especially when it comes to vocals/podcast or narration recording, something I use Soundtrap for a lot. Normalizing the volumes of the voice goes a long way in making it sound professional. Dynamics Compressor is simply a better version of Compressor One, I just do not FULLY understand it yet as compared to its simpler counterpart lmao. Still S because compression is really good.
A:
Mod Delay: I'll say it: this is simply a better delay effect than any other delay. Sure, stereo delay can do panning that Mod can't, but being able to modulate the delay, increase the brightness to make the delay cut more, and even increase the stereo width is reaaaaally fun. Still, I don't find myself using delays very often in my own music, just rarely in sound design, so it gets an A for utility from me.
Brighter: Another effect I find myself slapping onto anything I want to cut through the mix more, almost like a saturation effect. Very similar use case to Clipper, just a less "aggressive" alternative.
Tape Wobble: I loooove this one. In regular music it might not find the most use, but when I want that old distorted tape/ghostly/antique vibe I always reach for this. My favorite novelty effect simply for the vibe it produces.
All other Distorts: I actually put all of the other distorts on the fence between A and B. While they are each excellent for what they do, I don't often find myself needing the shreddy, gritty and crushed sound many of them provide.
Chorus: Also a solid effect for making something sit back in the mix, however without the stereo-width benefits of Stereo Chorus. It's still useful for when I want something to have the chorus effect while remaining limited in terms of stereo, but I always find myself using this one less than its stereo counterpart.
Parametric EQ: Excellent EQ for when you want to more generally cut out certain ranges of a sound, however, like all other EQ effects, it is overshadowed by Visual EQ.
Compressor One: A very simple alternative to Dynamics Compressor. I find myself using this compressor when I need compression for an instrument instead of the Dynamics Compressor, as I am afraid of the Dynamics Compressor and only know how to use it effectively for voice mostly lmao.
Equalizer: An excellent EQ that you could only justify using if your subscription does not offer Visual EQ. Still, an OG effect from the good 'ol days that serves its purpose well. I personally think Soundtrap should rework this one to at least include a display to show the sound frequencies in real time like the Visual EQ, to let it compete at least a little.
B:
Filter: Simple and great at what it does, with solid applications. Wanna cut out that bit of piercing top-end? Wanna make something sound muffled? Wanna make something sound as if its coming through a radio/walkie talkie? Filter, Filter, Filter. Idk why I didn't give this an A, I just don't use it the most when compared to other effects and it doesn't stand out as much. I can also accomplish the same thing with other EQ's.
All other delay effects: Delay, Stereo Delay and Slapback are all fine and have their very justifiable use cases, but they're quite similar. If you don't want to get overwhelmed with options with Mod Delay, they serve their simple purposes.
3D: A really fun trick that just doesn't have much use in actual music, unless you're trying to create some weird, hyper-immersive soundscape in the middle of your song, which more power to you if you are. It's better for sound design, but although its novel, it isn't the most useful in practice especially since you cannot modulate it and it slightly dampens any sound you put through it.
All default Amps: The amps all do what they need to, and they're great! I personally just don't find myself using them often as I don't work with guitars much. Vocal Pre Amp is still quite useful though for getting a closer voice tone, and its the one I use most.
Phaser: I'll be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of weird phase-y or flange-y effects. When I need it though, Phaser always comes in clutch. Fun to add to a lofi snare to bring some variation to those midi percussion instruments, so that they don't sound so artificial!
Tremelo: This is just a great effect for its use. The fact that you can change the shape too is soooo good. Personally I just don't find myself using it the most, but when I need it, it does exactly what I need.
Auto-Wah: Again, another pink that is great at what it does but I just don't use that much personally. I had great fun putting this on some hard-panned tambourines for extra, record-scratchy texture in a song one time!
Auto Pan: Once again, a pink that excellently does a job that I don't need often. When I do need it though, Auto Pan is great. Idk why the name of this one doesn't have a -dash- between the words like "Auto-Wah" though.
C:
Volume: Fine, I guess. Only useful when the default volume knob reaches its limits though. Easy C-tier effect; not good or bad.
Vocal Doubler: Thinking more, I'd actually bump this one up to B, as I have found some uses for it, specifically in making a sound feel more artificial/computer-generated. Could probably also be applied to other stuff like lead melody instruments, it's just new so I haven't had enough experience to get a feel for its full utility. As for putting it on ACTUAL vocals, I'd much prefer to double my vocals by simply doing a second take personally. Still glad we have this one now.
Karaoke: What does this even do? I think it cuts out the top frequencies and leaves only bass?? I have no idea. At least it isn't egregiously bad at doing something that would otherwise be useful unlike De-Esser.
Flanger: I just prefer Phaser usually. Still, a fine effect.
Rotary: Haven't found many uses for this one, and its lack of adjustability is a little jarring. Maybe with some more time I could bump my rating up, but at the moment I can simply replicate many of the qualities of this effect with other effects.
Vibrato: Yet ANOTHER pink that does its job fine but I just don't use commonly. This one's in C though because I just prefer Tape Wobble.
2-Band EQ: Real ones remember when the Bass and Treble knobs were just in the Instrument settings. They were convenient for when I was too lazy to EQ with a proper effect, but now that they're in the effects tab I don't often bother with them.
D:
De-Esser: The ONLY effect I'd ever give a bad rating. All other effects serve their purpose, no matter how uncommon that purpose is. De-Esser simply does not do a job that WOULD be REALLY useful, especially for my AT2020 that has really defined "s" and "t" sounds. Instead, we have an effect that doesn't even work 75% of the time. And when it does, it does its job POORLY by ducking out all the top end WAY too much. Maybe I'm inexperienced, and this is actually somehow a perfect De-Esser that I just haven't figured out myself. Well if that is true, PLEASE! TELL ME!! I would LOVE to be proven wrong and have an actual De-Esser that works!!
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Anyways, that's the end of my list, thanks for reading if you gt this far! I hope this was fun and/or could provide some knowledge for anyone new :D
I'll leave you all with some possible suggestions for new effects that I've had for a while:

1. Tape Stop
2. Saturation that can be applied to any instrument
3. Maybe a vinyl sound effect with a cool record player as an interface idk!
4. Just let us modulate pitch pleaseeeee

Looking to make an Americana Singing Group.
If you love singing and you enjoy Classic Rock, Folk, R&B/Soul music from the 20th Century to Present, I’d love to make your acquaintance.
I’m currently living in Southern California and I’m looking to perform and make some new originals in the style of Americana Roots Music. I play guitabass/piano and even some brass instruments. But best of all, I can write MIDI tracks and make my own karaoke-style backup discs. If you love to sing and are interested, I’m open to a wide variety of styles. I love harmonies and music that is not just rhythm tracks. I want to make and share great music with and meet new friends.
Feel free to email me at info@betterbrains.net – if you tell me a bit about yourself and what you’d REALLY like to do MUSICALLY I’ll trade links to some of my online sound clips.
I’ve collaborated with musicians across the USA as well as in Canada, Australia, and Italy. I’d like to make online videos and make audio releases on all the major music sites.
I’m looking forward to getting a bunch of like-minded creative people together. Am I speaking to you?

We've got a singer that can play bass (but not both at the same time), a pianist, and myself who plays guitar and bass. We don't have the means to play multiple guitar tracks at once, and since our singer can't play bass and sing at the same time, we're kinda limited to what we can perform. I'm currently using guitar pro 8 hooked up to a TV so we can all see our parts and have a drum track and correct backing tracks, but the midi sounds are kinda limiting. Just curious if there's a way to do a similar thing in ableton to have more of a "real deal" sound as opposed to basically a cheap karaoke sound.
We've had okay results just youtubing backing tracks, but its very hard to get tracks that have just the specific parts we want. Would be more ideal to mute and unmute tracks on the fly.
We don't plan on playing live or producing anything to make money. Its just a fun thing for us to do. Eventually, I will record guitar and bass background parts on my own when work and school calm down, but that's in several years and even then we wouldn't have a drummer to make drum tracks. I'm interested to see what options we have.

I have an independent music project for which I write, produce, master, and provide my own vocals. Last month I released my first record. I’ve wanted to perform in front of an audience for a while, but never knew where to start as I’m not very involved in the music scene in my city, although I know a few people. Yesterday I received an inquiry for me to open for a small band that will be touring in my city in the summer. I told them I was super interested but have never performed before, which they didn’t seem to mind. I’m very excited and grateful for the opportunity.
However, this presents a load of logistics issues I have to work through. It’s just me, the singer, and I have no instrumentalists or band members. I produce with a lot of vocal layering as well. I’ve literally never done any kind of performance in front of anyone besides karaoke nights. How would you suggest I move forward? What kind of equipment or setup would you suggest for a solo beginner?
edit: I see there’s a lot of confusion surrounding my ability to make original music without playing an instrument. I’m a self-taught singer and understand notation enough that I compose works in notation software (I use Noteflight), I export it to MIDI, and then I work through it in Logic. It’s all virtual instruments that I program basically. I’ve spent hundreds of hours on writing music. All of my music is entirely originally written by me, minus one song that uses drum samples. Being a vocalist should be enough to deem myself a musician, and certainly having a published music record would be a categorical definition. Never heard about any music being made by a non-musician.

hi?
I've been looking for information through Google searches for months, but haven't been able to find anything.
I was also scammed by a specific person who provided data as bait.
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It's too bad to just throw away the time + money + effort I've wasted so far.
I'm frustrated that I couldn't solve it in the end, so I'm asking for help here.
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First, look at the video link below...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lw90yFcfUQ
You can see *.KYC files played on the Vanvasco player.
So I downloaded the player from the Vanvasco website and installed it, but
It didn't work.
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I succeeded in finding out that I needed to import something called the KCY converter.
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Later, I found out that I needed a KCY file converter.
But I have no idea where to get it.
I sent emails to several people who seemed to have it and even sent small amounts of money, but it was all a scam.
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Wouldn’t it be possible if Reddit were a paradise for intellectuals? I am posting this here as a last hope.
Please help me.

Essentially I am building my collection and its 99% complete, theres just one song that is charted (Rusted from the rain), lacking vocals (which is important to me because the game to me is half a karaoke machine too).
I was considering trying to reach out to the creator to see if he could add it (the rest of his has vocals) in exchange for a pizza or beer for his time, but cannot find a way to do so on rhythmverse.
So its up to me to learn, I have the latest C3 tools but im not sure what functionality lets me edit the files (midi?).
I have googled it but it seems a lot of tutorials start at the point you already are familiar with chart editors and what not, so I am looking for an easy to find "modifying my first chart for dummies" guide.

I've been using Piano Booster to add note names, but it only accepts MIDI and karaoke files. Surely there's something else that also does this and accepts more formats, right? Musescore asks for money to download files and doesn't let you practice from a computer, for instance.

Been binging this song lately, and I was looking up instrumental versions.
As far as I know, very few Disney movies have ever gotten instrumental versions released, with The Lion King being one exception thanks to this CD. There is also the Disney Karaoke Series, but at least according to the "Fandom" article there isn't one for Mulan.
There are some various Mulan songs featured in there, but not I'll Make a Man Out of You (it wouldn't really fit on one of the Princess compilations, would it lol)
So looking at YouTube...
There's this upload which I immediately recognized as simply muting the center channel of the 5.1 surround track, as I've tried to do this myself too. It doesn't work to well, as you can still hear all the various sound effects and it's missing some instruments (the center channel isn't just Donny Osmond's vocal, there's instruments mixed in too). FWIW I checked what I believe is every English language release - the original 1999 DVD, the special edition DVD, the Blu-ray... all of them have the exact same 5.1 surround mix, there was never one of those "Disney Enhanced Theater Mix" versions that might have 7.1 or something. So this isn't the most viable option...
But then there's this one. I've heard this before too, I think I have a mp3 of it somewhere I got off the internet years ago. It sounds like the official backing track, but it's based on the album version (e.g. no sound effects like the movie has). However, there's an instrument (sounds like a tenor saxophone or trombone) playing the vocal part instead of it being a pure instrumental.
Does anyone know where that came from? It's obviously not fanmade, I'm curious if there's some obscure CD I'm not aware of, but I want to obtain a higher quality rip of this. It's still not great (would love to not have the "be a man" backing vocals) but it's the best one I've found to date.
I'm aware there is a piece of software called "Disney Hotshots" and there is a Mulan CD-ROM, I found one for sale on eBay - but the Internet Archive has a bunch of other titles besides Mulan and they all seem to be using MIDI audio because they were made for Windows 95 computers - so I don't think that's the source either.

2 Feb: singaporemusicchat/comments/1agumf0/megalist_sg_concerts_raves_gigs_cny_valentines_2

19 Jan, Fri

Main: 🎨 Singapore Art Week till 28 Jan or IG, Telegram @ t.me/SGArtWeek

Side: 🎇 Light to Night Festival till 8 Feb and 📖Textures Sing Lit till 28 Jan

 

• JAMES MURPHY of LCD Soundsystem / DFA, Hawaii Nite Club @ 200 Jln Sultan, Textile Centre L4, $68
• SEARCH (MY-SG rock kapak icons), The Star Vista Theatre, $88
• LEO KU 古巨基 (HK), Marina Bay Sands Grand Ballroom, $68
• Priscilla Abby 蔡恩雨 (MY), Gateway Theatre Bukit Merah, $98
• 🎨 SG Sonic Sessions at Tg Pagar Distripark Day 1: THE OBSERVATORY, I AM DAVID SPARKLE, NADA + RAJA KIRIK, TINGGI LAYANG, Tanjong Pagar Distripark,free
• DON LEGO (IDN) - Dansa Lai! ft Banana Foster, Gruv St Runners, Marching Julys ft Niah, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3, $27
• YES933 x TGIF Music Station 周5音乐站: Through All Times 跨时代 • 跨世代 - ft Desmond Ng 黄振隆, Celest Chong 张玉华, Sherly Devonne Ng 黄艺萱, Aggylow, Jordin Tan 陈卓琳, SCCC Concourse @ 1 Straits Blvd, free
• Esplanade: Bakers in Space (indie rock, psych, acoustic set?), indoor, free
• Esplanade: Nick Zavior (pop-soul) , outdoor, free
• 🎨 ARTWALK Little India Opening Night with Poncho Music (YRFN, Rekker, P_NEDA), free

 

• 🎇 Light Night: SNYO Percussion Ensemble: As One, Victoria Concert Hall, $10
• SSO: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 3 and Symphony 3 - LAST, ESPLANADE, $15
• 🎻: Red Dot Baroque Ensemble: No Trebles Allowed, NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, $10
• Chinese Orchestra: 31st Spring in the City : Spring Harmonies---Heaven & Earth 第三十一届春城洋溢华夏情：龙腾四海天地和 - Day 1, Capitol Theatre City Hall, $20
• NAFA: Nanyang International Music Competition 2023 Chinese Division Prizewinners' Concert - Day 1, Lee Foundation Theatre @ 151 Bencoolen St, free RSVP
• Maduro Jazz: JAZZ BRASILEIRO by Aya Sekine Trio, maduro @ sofitel sentosa, $38++ drink credits
• Jazz Loft: Dan Hartig Quartet - blues and Latin-tinged jazz fusion, Blu Jaz L3 @ bali ln (bugis), , $24,
• 🎨 Electronic / DJ , ZLOX (CN IDM/AMBIENT TECHNO) Live DAY 1, as posted in this subreddit, Highlight Art Gallery 海莱艺术 @ 72 Club Street, free

 

• DJ Dance Party All-Ages: One Night in Seoul - SG's Biggest K-Pop Random Play Dance ft DJs Clammr, brizzy, HUND, Ngee Ann City Orchard, free
• DJ, High House: SG ART WEEK AFTERPARTY with MANNFRED (aka Myrne) & Zushan, HighHouse Lounge @ One Raffles Place Lvl 61, $38
• DJ, LOCO PARTIES: Ragers Only ft DJ Chervy, SOS, Bigdbandgla (rage hiphop), Projector X Golden Village Ruby Lounge L6 @ Cineleisure Orchard, $28
• DJ, The Last Ever Toska and Friends 360 - EDM Night ft DJs Four Teh (GothMysteryMafia, Rekker, Viticz, JumboGoatXXL), Toska, Kaeiz b2b blvckvox, electro house, dnb, techno, hardstyle, club iki @ ikigai izakaya riverwalk,$22
• DJ, Vertigo 26: Westside Muzeeq's Singapore Vinyl Tour (70s indonesian funk and rare groove), listening bar @ MINT Museum City Hall 26 Seah St, free/bar
• DJ, Unmute Invites: MOGWAA (KR electro acid house, electronica) ft loyboy, jas, tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd, $30
• DJ, LUCIA LU (GER house, techno, pop, hip-hop, disco), headquarters techno-house club @ 66A boat quay, $36
• DJ, Kings of Bass 012 - MAKOTO (JPN liquid dnb icon), TPI Building - MDLR club @ 62 cecil street (cbd), $30
• DJ, Marquee: DJ HYO of SNSD Girls Generation, club @ marina bay sands, $70

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26 Jan, Fri - Artbox

• COLDPLAY: DAY 3 of 6, Nati0nal Stadium, from $68
• PENNY Tai 戴佩妮, The Star Vista Theatre (buona vista), $98
• 🎨 SG Sonic Sessions Day 3 Rock: taledrops, Iman's League, Fool's Decade, George Chua on electronics, Closing Time, Tanjong Pagar Distripark ( temporary Singapore Art Museum), see schedule,free
• ARTBOX Street Food & Market - Day 1 Weekend 1 of 2: Sarco, Mister Spruce, The Mad Trio ft Khim Ng, Singapore Expo Hall 2, aliwal chess club $6
• Twilight Flea & Feast Market Day 1: zzzat, Suntec City Convention L4, free
• MOOD DESTABILISER VOL. 2 - Second Chance (emo), Ruckus Invasion (punk), Four Daze (indie), Kudis (punk), Velvaet (classic Rock), Strndead (metal), aljunied, $20
• Shuttersonicon - Night Shift Edition ft wat3rfl0wer (LAT), smomid (US-NYC), fictional character, auji x sn, w@nderfool, circuittrip, experimental electronic noise gig, Post-black metal, rad studio 345 sq, $15
• SUTD Bands - Spring Heads Concerts - Rock, Metal, Jazz, Pop, Indie, Singapore University of Technology & Design (upper changi), $8
• Wheeler's : Maia Lee (rock), Wheeler's Estate bar grill @ Seletar
• Small Goodbye Party at Second Story: Peace Edition, Peace Centre Selegie free
• Esplanade: Absence! (indie synthpop band), indoor, free
• Esplanade: Reintroducing Me by Bernice Ong (singer-songwriter, folk soul rnb), outdoor, teaser free

 

• SSO Pops: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Film with Live Orchestra - Day 1, ESPLANADE, $20
• SCO: Rhapsodies of Spring 2024 春花齐放 2024：祥龙吐珠庆丰年 (G), Singapore Chinese Orchestra @ Singapore Conference Hall @ 7 Shenton Way, $20
• SOTA: Celebrating 125 Years of Francis Poulenc, SOTA Concert Hall (Dhoby/Bencoolen), chamber, from $15
• Jazz @ SCO: Music Tapas: The Jazzlings - Day 1 630pm, Singapore Conference Hall @ 7 Shenton Way, free
• Intercontinental Hotel Jazz Fridays: Jacintha, @ 80 Middle Road (Bugis), $38
• Cool Cats: Evie Feroza & band (MY R&B, Soul, Funk) - Day 2, nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $38
• Simply Jazz: The LITMUS Jazz Ensemble ft Nyali & Sam Cheah, Simply Jazz Bar @ CHIJMES (city hall), free/reserve/lounge
• Maduro Jazz: A Pop Jazz Night with Mila Vidanovic & Richard Tombs, maduro bar @ sofitel sentosa, $38++ drink credits
• Jazz Loft: Arnold Pontoh Quintet, Blu Jaz L3 @ bali ln (bugis) $24
• NLB: LimTayPeng (singers + composer-pianist) - Open Stage Originals, National Library Building Lobby, free rsvp
• 🎇 Light Night: The Odditorium @ asian civilisations - circus acts, traditional martial arts etc., Asian Civilisations Museum Foyer (city hall) , free
• 🎇 Light Night: Also on Sat Gallery Gigs - LASALLE Interdisciplinary Festival Performance), national gallery supreme court foyer (city hall), free
• 🎇Light Night: Also on Sat - Gallery Gigs - Varsha (Carnatic-jazz)
  • nkei (jazzy folky duo), national gallery padang atrium, free'
• 🎇 Light Night: DJ at Museum, Gallery Gigs — Tropika (930pm, world eclectic disco ) - weekend 2, national gallery padang atrium, free

 

• DJ, CULTURE X Who Hurt You pres Iconic Anthems with Mr J (Pop-Punk Emo Alt Rock Metalcore), club iki @ ikigai izakaya riverwalk, $31
• DJ, YES YOU presents Dance for Humanity ft DJs, Amir, HBN, Beat Usagi, Taaka - funraiser for ConnectingHumanity (house n techno), tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd, $20
• DJ, SUBPLOTSYSTEMS: VOLUME 4 - dreamkiller, mattyjudah, tikkoii (bali), turbo boyfriend, 918.kiss.jackpot (kl), hard techno, HexD Trance, ghetto tech, post punk electro, baile tech, funkot dangdut, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (city hall), $20
• DJ, Mad & Midas pres. Tekno Therapy (techno edm trance) ft DJ Andrew Tang, mad & midas cocktail bar @ 39 Ann Siang Rd (maxwell), $53
• DJ, KPOP REWIND by K Space ft DJs Javier, Ling, Sharkboy, hard rock cafe orchard cuscaden, $18
• DJ, Flashback Friday by UnfilteredPresents (2000s top hits), Projector X Golden Village @ Cineleisure Orchard, $30
• DJ, Element X Mortar & Pestle - Hip Hop, Mortar & Pestle - rooftop bar @ 269 South Bridge Rd, $32
• DJ, SPINFINITI TURNS 1 (English, Tamil and Hindi tracks!, dirty blonde @ suntec city L3 sky garden bar, $20
• DJ, Behind the Green Door, ART Week Thank God It's Over Friday - DJs Raaj, Ya5th, Leland, James Selva, & more(house), 97 Duxton Road (fmr Kilo Lounge)

 

• DJ, Trifecta: UK Ting INNIT - DJ fatcatheartattack v Rush b2b - Garage, Grime, Jungle, DnB, Bar @ TRIFECTA Surf, Snow, Skate (orchard somerset, bs skate park), free rsvp
• DJ, Untamed: Pure Bollywood Hits - Filmfare, magic carpet, $35
• DJ, High House: Shaun Nocturnals & Andre Marc (prog house techno), HighHouse Lounge @ One Raffles Place Lvl 61, $38
• DJ, Moonstone: ONE wth Aldrin Disco 70s to 80s Party, Moonstone BAR & Restaurant @ 103 Amoy St, free/bar
• DJ, Offtrack: Bongomann atmospheric set, bs hong lim park, music gastro bar
• DJ, Bayside Drinks & Eats: IMX, Dune45, Aeden, One Fullerton - beside the Merlion (raffles place)
• DJ Izakaya: Tomo Tokyo DJ Kennerve & Skang, tomo tokyo restaurant bar @ clarke quay
• DJ, Members Club El Pico: Totally Wick'd - DJs Kylie Nicole, RPDM, Krio, 6 Hongkong St, lounge, $25
• DJ, Cherry: 10 Years Ago Throwback by Posh Singapore - DJs Dom J, Tajima, WhotheKyng, 133 cecil st (cbd), $22
• DJ, Potato Head: Mica (PH-UK disco-house), 36 Keong Saik Rd, free/bar
• DJ, CÉ LA VI: SAM DIVINE (UK house), marina bay sands hotel rooftop bar-club, $38
• DJ, Thugshop Presents - LUCKY DONE GONE [NL dreamy house, 90’s techno trance], SLOWLYGREEN [BKK Detroit & Chicago house, disco, jazz, African, dub] & PROTO-EXOTICA [AU Balearic beats, atmospheric], headquarters techno club @ 66A boat quay, $36
• DJ, TROPIKA x 100% - MINA & BRYTE (UK-GHANA afrobeats, dancehall, UK funky & everything in between) ft swtlkr, kiat & arunditha, ramesh, The Projector Intermission Bar @ Golden Mile Tower, see teaser, $35
• DJ, Thugshop Presents - XXL Series feat. FATIMA HAJJI (hard techno), MDLR club @ 62 cecil street (cbd), $47
• DJ, ZOUK: Zouk SG presents CARLITA (TUR psychedelia, indie, rock, electronic DJ), zouk club clarke quay, $48
• DJ, Marquee: TIMMY TRUMPET (AU edm bounce, happy hardcore, hard psy), club @ marina bay sands, $90

Arty Weekends

• 🎨 20-28 Jan: S.E.A. Focus 2024 Art Fair, beside Singapore Art Museum @ Tanjong Pagar Distripark, $10
• 🎨 19-28 Jan: ARTWALK Little India and also ARTWALK Katong Joo Chiat + Website, Lembu Road vs Joo Chiat Road
• 🎨 18-28 Jan: Art Exhibit The Sound of Sound - Colours in Dream, Telok Kurau Studios Open Hall @ 91 Lor J Telok Kurau, free
  • 27 Jan Sat: Sound of Sound Performance, same, free
• 📖 26-27 Jan: Textures Sing Lit - Cherita Hantu: Herror Reimagined, The Arts House, $25
• 18-28 Jan Musical: MADAGASCAR The Musical (kid friendly), ESPLANADE, $48
• 24-28 Jan: Gasho 2.0 Releak -Cross Over- ft Japanese Creators (anime ish art), Visual Arts Centre @ dhoby ghaut green (bs mrt), 10 penang rd, info
• 27 Jan Sat: Poetry: Sploosh Magazine: Vanashing issue 2 Launch, Book Bar @ 57 duxton rd (maxwell), $10
• 27 Jan Sat: NAFA Dance: Within and Without - 2-part movement inspired by Nanyang Art at NUS Museum, NUS Museum @ 50 Kent Ridge, free rsvp
• 27 Jan Sat: SCAPE COMMA Fest: HOMEGROUND 2024, Dance Party, free
• 27 Jan Sat:🎨 Art week video installation: OBSESSIONS ft some local indie names , Beauty World Centre (same mrt, bukit timah), free talk
• 26 Jan Fri: Comedy: Abishek & Nirmal: Crowdwork World Tour, ESPLANADE, $60
• 26 Jan Fri: Migration Input Output - Talk, exhibtion till 28th, ultrasupernew @ 168 tyrwhitt rd, free/rsvp
• 🎭 M1 Fringe Fest Play: Here Where You Were till 27th Jan Sat, NAFA Studio Theatre (bencoolen), $35
• 🎭 M1 Fringe Fest Play: Oo-woo By The Necessary Stage till 28th Sun, ESPLANADE, $35
• 26-28 Jan: Chinese New Year CNY Family Fun @ Singapore Chinese Cultural Center, SCCC @ 1 Straits Blvd (shenton way), Festival free and ticketed

27 Jan, Sat - Aliwal Urban Art Festival & PeaceOut - Farewell to Peace Center & ARTWALK

• DOMi & JD BECK (US nu jazz fusion), ESPLANADE, $99
• COMBUST (US NY hardcore crossover thrash) with Bleach (IDN) & Mystique, 2DK, Radigals, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (city hall), $58
• RADIA X ARMADA - Dua jiwa satu pentas (IDN Rock Icons), The Star Vista Theatre (buona vista), $108
• COLDPLAY - DAY 4 of 6, Nati0nal Stadium, from $68
• 2023 Yuewen Global IP Awards 2023 阅文全球华语IP盛典 (G), Marina Bay Sands Grand Ballroom, $368
• Wima Geylang Serai Turns 5: RAHIMAH Rahim, DAYANG Nurfaizah (MY), The PinHoles, Wisma Geylang Serai CC, Persada Budaya Level 1, free
• ARTBOX Street Food & Market Day 2 : The Parkinson (THA), Joceyln, Sam & John from SGag, The Mad Trio ft Khim Ng, Mister Spruce, Singapore Expo Hall 2, $7
• Twilight Flea & Feast Market Day 2: Dansen John & WhyLucas, Suntec City Singapore, free
• 🎨 Aliwal Urban Arts Fest, Aliwal Arts Centre @ Kampong Glam (nicoll hwy), free
  • Music: URBAN SOUNDS by Linch ft YAØ, Khally, Akeem Jahat (rnb city pop, neo-soul, hip hop), 6 to 9pm Aliwal Arts Centre, free
  • Dance/DJ: RE:Union Block Party, Aliwal, free
• 🎨 Art After Dark Gillman Barracks Day 2 mini INDIE FEST: SOBS, SUBSONIC EYE, BLUSH, Indie Rock & Alt Pop DJs EatMePopTart , 6to10pm Gillman Barracks (labrador park), free
• 🎨 Singapore Sonic Sessions Day 4 Experimental: Mervin Wong, sl_owtalk, NUS Electronic Music Lab, Bongomann, Tanjong Pagar Distripark (aka temporary Singapore Art Museum), 5to930pm see schedule,free
• DOMINUS REBELLIS CHAPTER 1 - Zackfire (thrash metal), Nuurisk & Welkin (black metal) & Unusual POi!RⒶtⒺs (crossover hxc thrash), Rad, $20
• Bar, Sorta DJ but its metal - Hellcohol, Drinq Bar @ Grantral Mall (tai seng)
• SYNTH Commune - Open Synth Jam & Meetup, Tanglin CC @ 245 Whitley Rd (stevens), free
• Esplanade: A Durian Date by Alicia DC x Sherwin Lam (jazzy eclectic alt pop, acapella @ 645 745pm), free
• Esplanade: LAYYI (pop-R&B singer-songwriter 715 845pm), free
• Blackbird: Rock Rosettes, Music Bar @ Gillman Barracks (labrador park), free/bar

 

• 🎨 ARTWALK Katong Joo Chiat : Block Party at Picotin with Poncho (YRFN, Rekker, P_NEDA), and DJ set by viticz, rekker, jumbogoatxxl, gothmysterymafia (baile funk, rave, techno) Outside Picotin Restaurant @ 382 Joo Chiat Road , free
• 🎨 ARTWALK Katong Joo Chiat : Poetry Performance Open Mic by dink collective, lgbt friendly 340A Joo Chiat Rd, free
• 🎨 ARTWALK Katong Joo Chiat: Bazaar Gigs Bear The Remedy (alt rock), Genesis Keefer (lofi hiphop, electronic, & guitar), Hazel and Haziq (singer songwriter acoustic), see profile info, gigs start at 4.30pm, free
• 🎇 Light Night: Gallery Gigs - LASALLE Interdisciplinary Festival Performance (5-630pm), national gallery supreme court foyer, free
• 🎇Light Night: Gallery Gigs - 730pm Varsha (Carnatic-jazz)
  • 9pm nkei (jazzy folky duo), national gallery padang atrium (city hall) , free'
• 🎇 Light Night: Gallery Gigs — BBbaloo and Friends (930pm hindi, tamil film songs x electronic) - weekend 2, national gallery padang atrium (city hall), free
• 🎇 Light Night: Wishful Thinking ASMR Performance (630pm gone 8pm slot available), national gallery ngee ann kongsi auditorium foyer (city hall), $5
  • Skate SG SideWalk Fest - exhibition, film screening, dj sets (DJs Ruxta, Drem of choice cuts), market etc, 45 sultan gate (kampong glam, nicoll hwy), free

 

• SSO Pops: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Film with Live Orchestra - Day 2, ESPLANADE, $20
• Chamber Music Fest: Concert I: Aoi Trio, NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, $15
• Chamber Music Fest: Chamber Academy - Coaching Session I & II, NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, $10
• Ministry of Bellz MOB-17: The Pinnacle (Handbell), Victoria Concert Hall, $25
• Choral: Voce Vibrante Musical Visions: A Journey In Sound ft NUS Temasek Hall Vox, Armenian Church Hill Street (City Hall/bras basah), $27
• SIM Esprimere's 2024 Almost Musical Production: Into The Land Of zO in Concert, SIM Campus @ 461 Clementi Rd, $12
• SCO: Rhapsodies of Spring 2024 春花齐放 2024：祥龙吐珠庆丰年 (G), Singapore Chinese Orchestra @ Singapore Conference Hall @ 7 Shenton Way, $20
• CNY Family FUN by SCCC x SCO: Diale-cacy Opera Reunion FUN 戏曲团圆FUN - Day 1, SCCC Auditorium @ 1 Straits Blvd (shenton way), $12
  • Jazz @ SCO: Music Tapas: The Jazzlings - Day 2 630pm, Singapore Conference Hall @ 7 Shenton Way, free
• LatinFest at Intercontinental: Live Music and Sultry Rhythms of Latin America - Last Weekend, Hotel Intercontinetal @ 80 Middle Rd (bugis), $44
• Cool Cats Jazz: Evie Feroza & band (R&B, Soul, Funk) - LAST, nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $38
• Jazz Loft: URBAN MANOUCHE - Karen de Silva and Alvin Wong reinterprates gypsy jazz, The Jazz Loft @ Blu Jaz, $24,
• Hero's Bar: The Black Dogs (classic rock), 69 Circular Rd (boat quay), after 10pm has cover charge, free/bar
• Rocks In Singapore Day 1: Pyromania, Rouge, Seven High at Ipanema World Music Bar, YSY Building L12 @ 139 Cecil Street (CBD, telok ayer), $30
  
• Peace Centre DJ & Arts Fest, BRING THE ROOF DOWN PeaceOut Festival - Farewell to Peace Center (everything from techno house to latin afro to k-pop), Peace Centre @ Selegie (bencoolen, mt sophia), website 🎟 $48
  
  • Techno, House: Blackout Agency Peaceout - DEMI RIQUISIMO (UK), Beat Usagi b2b Loyboy, LeLand b2b Koonz, peace center, tix 🎟
  • Drag & Circuit: Unleash the Underground with House of Heals BKK, peace center, tix for all 🎟 $68
  • Experimental: CÛN: The Second Signal Day 1 - art installations - performance by SMOMID (USA midi guitar), wat3rfl0w3r (LAT), Cruise Chen , peace center, tix here 🎟, $14

 

• Open DJ & Cleanup Morning, Wild Pearl - DJ and Ocean Purpose Project Beach Cleanup at Pasir Ris Beach, the OPP Beach Hub @ Pasir Ris Beach Carpark E, free
• DJ, 195 Pearl's Hill: 2-5pm Community Garden - curated by Wild Pearl - DJs Jenn Chunes, Proto Exotica (AU, Slowly Green (TH), 195 Pearl's Hill Terrace (chinatown), free
• DJ, 🏖 Manifest Pool Party - House Edition - DEAN Chew, JONNY Purelove, JAS + LELAND + ANWAR, 1-Altitude Coast at The Outpost Hotel Sentosa, $36
• DJ, 🏖 Sand Bar: Throwback Time Machine 80s 90s Revival - DJs Daryl & Chris Seow, DJ The Partyman, Sand Bar @ Siloso Beach Walk Sentosa, free/bar
• DJ, EATMEPOPTART E/M/P/T: THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT ft DJs fantastic dinosaur & ya5th (unapologetic pop night), Projector x GV No Spoilers Bar @ Cineleisure Orchard, $12
• DJ, LAST Saturdays - Keep Coo! daytime basement party ft DJs Kylie Nicole, Prem, 3MZY, Residents Haili HZQ HBN Sho&tell (house, eclectic dance), THE COUP by BUNKERBUNKER!! bar @ 7 Ann Siang Hill (chinatown/maxwell), tix 🎟 $20
• DJ, 🏖 Caribbean Vibes Pool Party: VOL IV - (Dancehall/Reggaeton/Afrobeats/Ol' Skool Hip Hop), Sofitel Singapore City Centre 9 Wallich Street, $27
• DJ, CHAMBERS + SPADES ft DJs Joon, Keagan, Tajima, JumboGoatXXL (hiphop rnb house rave), SPADESROOM (tai seng), $30
• DJ, Wallich Manor: TRANCE4M at Wallich House Party (trance), Lounge @ Sofitel City Centre Hotel / Guoco Tower (tg pagar), free/reservation
• Drag, Gay event Man About Town - Bingo Edition, 87 Club Street Bar
• DJ & Drag, RIOT! cum Baby Boy Becca's Birthday Bonanza, hard rock cafe orchard cuscaden, from $30
  • Just the party, BABY BOY vol 31: ASSPIRATIONS, $20
• DJ, Club Hell: Kpop in Hell, gay lgbt club @ 113 telok ayer st, $30 door
• DJ, Neil Conversion: Swiftie in Hell, 43 Neil Road (maxwell), lgbt gay bar-club
• DJ, Silent Disco: Pelago's Silent Disco Full Moon Party at Marina Bay Sands Skypark, marina bay sands roof, $38
• DJ, Vibes And Tides ft The DJ Dispensary -Brendon P, Dave Howarth, Matty Roque, Stephen Day, Las Palmas Rooftop Bar @ Courtyard by Marriott Novena

 

• DJ, NEW HigherGround by Thugshop: Sunnier Sunny Side Up Early Evening Rooftop Sessions (from 4pm-10.30pm) - DJs MaDe, Boonshao, Vaibs, 64 Boat Quay L4 , $21
• DJ, Trifecta: Open Deck Vol. 1 - house, techno pop hiphop, Bar @ Trifecta - Surf, Snow, Skate (orchard somerset, bs skate park), free
• DJ, Offtrack: Proto Exotic (AU) x Slowlygreen (TH) playing Baeleric Beats & Dubby House, bs hong lim park, music gastro bar
• DJ, High House: L.I.A, Muttiah (prog house techno), HighHouse Lounge @ One Raffles Place Lvl 61, $38
• DJ, Sopranos Bar & Bistro: Smash & Mash, 18 Carpenter St (clarke/boat quay), free
• DJ, Moonstone: SickBoy (nu disco, jazzy soulful house), Moonstone BAR @ 103 Amoy St, free/bar
• DJ, Potato Head: DJ K (open format), 36 Keong Saik Rd, free/bar
• DJ, Asiatic: DJ Silas (hard dance), asiatic club @ 114 middle rd (bugis) L4, asian style club
• DJ, Ark11: DJ MASS (bass, edm dubstep, hard dance), ARK 11 Club @ Orchard Central Mall L11
• DJ, Yang: Long Night Ahead ft DJs sherpa, miggy t, ethan, big m, hund, yang club clarke quay
• DJ, Zouk Capital: Total Recall with Caden Jeremy Boon (90s and 00s), zouk capital lounge, $45
• DJ, Zouk: Charged ft DJs Ezra Hazard, The Infamous & Hong (hard dance, techno), zouk club clarke quay, $35
• DJ, HQ: Thugshop Presents - CORA (CN-HK techno trance breakbeats house), headquarters techno club @ 66A boat quay, $36
• DJ, TUFF:Celestial Seasonings with Abdul Raeva (EST house music) ft Mako & sivanesh, tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd, $32
• DJ, Revision pres COCO BRYCE (NED jungle, atmospheric dnb, MYOR) ft DJs Gahmen, Helios XL, Snooze, Tink, club iki @ ikigai izakaya riverwalk (clarke quay), $37
• DJ, Marquee: JAMES HYPE (UK tech house edm) ft TITA LAU, club @ marina bay sands, $45

28 Jan, Sun

• KREATOR (GER thrash metal), ESPLANADE, $128
• ARTBOX Street Food & Market Day 3 : Jocelyn, TMD ft. Allie, REVERIE, Happy Together ft Amanda Tee, Singapore Expo Hall 2, $7
• Twilight Flea & Feast Market Day 3: Jamiel Said, Midnight Blu, Suntec City Convention L4, free
• Esplanade: Paint The Sky Red (atmospheric post-rock), outdoor, free
• Esplanade: Long Way Home with zzzat (rnb), indoor,free
• Rocks In Singapore Day 2: Pyromania, Rouge, Legacy at Ipanema World Music Bar, YSY Building L12 @ 139 Cecil Street (CBD, telok ayer), $30
• Blackbird: LeGroupe - French pop and rock songs from the 80s, Music Bar @ Gillman Barracks (labrador park), free/bar
• NLB PRESSPLAY Fest: A Cappella Showcase, National Library Building Lobby (bugis), free
• NLB Press Play Fest: Talk - Decoding Y2k on Graphic design, fashion & Singaporean Punk zines ft Ginnete Chitteck , online
• Peace Centre: Let’s Jam for good at Peace Centre pop-up! by Temasek Shophouse& playpan.co , Peace Centre Selegie (bencoolen), free
• Peace Centre: CÛN: The Second Signal - art installations, performance ft Vacant Affair's Rudi Osman, movement by XUE, Liz Sgt Tan, Sanat Mehta (IN), peace center selegie (bencoolen, mt sohpia) $14

 

• Ding Yi Music Company x TW Taoyuan Chinese Orchestra - Of Time and Classics《时代响音》, Victoria Concert Hall, $28
• Reverberance 回响 Wind Percussion x Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre x Bhaskar’s Arts Academy (Indian Classical) - Blast 24 Chinese New Year Concert , SCCC Auditorium @ 1 Straits Blvd (shenton way), $11
• Ngee Ann Poly Chinese Orchestra: POP-20-RAMA (modern spins on trad chinese to western), Singapore Conference Hall @ 7 Shenton Way, free rsvp
• Red Dot Baroque: Sprezzatura: A collaboration with La Risonanza (Milan), The Arts House (city hall), $20
• Chamber Music Fest: Chamber Academy - Coaching Session III & IV, NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, $10
• CNY Family FUN by SCCC x SCO: Diale-cacy Opera Reunion FUN 戏曲团圆FUN - Day 2, SCCC Auditorium @ 1 Straits Blvd (shenton way), $12
• Novo Winds in Concert: Migration, ESPLANADE, $20

 

• 🎇 Light Night: DJ, Gallery Gigs - Groovetop at 3-6pm, national gallery padang atrium, free
• DJ, SUNDAY MESS 4 w Muto,mr Legume, Dangdude, Loyboy And Juhvunnn,The Coup by BUNKERBUNKER!! @ 7 Ann Siang Hill (chinatown/maxwell), $16
• DJ, Sunny Side ft. DJs Monke, Jiggy & Nauv.feeds & Gan & moss & Dee & fatcatheartattack , Hideout Rooftop @ nothing fancy - 11 Hamilton Rd, $20
• DJ, New Nakhra - Sunset Studio (Afrobeats & Desi) , Mortar & Pestle - rooftop bar @ 269 South Bridge Rd
• DJ, 🏖 W Singapore Presents Victor G.(KL ) at WET Deck, W Singapore Hotel @ Sentosa Cove

29 Jan, Mon

• Esplanade: Leslie Low (fmr Humpback Oak & The Observatory), free
• Gluttony by Night - a one-woman live-singing drag show by Honey Queen (musical theatre, pop parodies) , $37
• Rocks in Singapore Last Day: Pyromania, Rouge, Legacy at Mo's Grill Bar, Mo's Grill & Bar @ 27 West Coast Hwy (haw par villa), $30
• DJ, Offtrack Anniversary: Mimag Asia Takeover with Arun K(HK), bs hong lim park, music gastro bar

30 Jan, Tue

• LUDOVICO EINAUDI (ITA modern classical), Esplanade, $48
• COLDPLAY - DAY 5 of 6, Nati0nal Stadium, from $68
• Chamber Music Fest: Concert II: Ning An and Friends, NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, $15
• Candlelight: A Tribute to ABBA with vox String Quartet, CHIJMES Hall @ City Hall, $56
• Simply Jazz: (Claude) Nougaro Project , lounge @ CHIJMES City Hall B1, free/reserve
• Cool Cats Jazz: Boni De Souza, nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $30
• Esplanade: RHAUN , free
• Esplanade: SAF Central Band In Harmony 40: War and Peace, free RSVP
• * DJ, Vertigo26: New Order - Technique album listening party, listening bar @ MINT Museum City Hall 26 Seah St, free/bar
• DJ, Offtrack Anniversary: Bongomann + Kitchen Takeover, bs hong lim park, music gastro bar

31 Jan, Wed

• * Singer-Songwriter Series at Flying V Metal Bar - Phil Gruber & Raphael’s Mercy,The Adelphi B1 @ city hall, free
• TwoSet Violin World Tour 2024 - Day 1, ESPLANADE, $129
• COLDPLAY: DAY 6 of 6, Nati0nal Stadium, from $68
• Chamber Music Fest: Concert III: Friends, New and Old (shostakovic, mendelsohhn, mozart, tchaikovsky, NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, $15
• Esplanade: Brielle Kaga (bedroom indie pop), free
• NLB:Piano Voyage: Screen Serenades - Preview Concert by Laselle, National Library Building Lobby (bugis), free,
• Candlelight: A Tribute to Queen by Vox String quartet, CHIJMES Hall @ City Hall, $56
• * DJ, Ark11: Space Bass - The Famous, ARK 11 Club @ Orchard Central Mall L11
• DJ, Offtrack Anniversary: Vinylheavy x Itch (asian boogie, rare grooves), bs hong lim park, music gastro bar

01 Feb, Thu - Esplanade Retro Date with Friends Weekend

• BRENT Faiyaz (US RNB neo-soul), Capitol Theatre City Hall, $88
• TwoSet Violin - LAST, ESPLANADE, $129
• KidsFest 2024 - We’re Going On A Bear Hunt (G), Victoria Concert Hall, $42
• Jazz Loft: GROOVEWORKS, Blu Jaz L3 @ bali ln (bugis), $24
• Storytelling & Standup Comedy: Mixed Tape: Jests and Zests, Projector x GV No Spoilers Bar @ Cineleisure Orchard, $40
• Esplanade: Down Memory Lane by Danny Koh (classic vocal jazz-pop), free
• Esplanade: Getai Fun Night, outdoor, free
• Esplanade: Just Can’t Get Enough With Uberjam, Shawn De Mello & Wayne Sandz , ESPLANADE Annexe Studio, $30
• Esplanade: Makan and Sing Song Karaoke Booth, free
• DJ, Offtrack Anniversary: Revision Music Takeover - Halia & Nez Senja, bs hong lim park, music gastro bar
• * DJ, Yang: Good Luck, Have Fun - ORIENTAL RAVE 十六 (Raydxn, MiggyT, Ez.rawr & Kasho), yang club clarke quay

 
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does anyone have the link to where i can buy the black midi karaoke machine

Back in 2017, I spent Christmas Eve with my old high-school friend, Michael, who I hadn’t seen for some years since we’d graduated. I’d left to go work in the city, and he’d stayed behind in our hometown where he lived in the suburbs with his girlfriend, Nicole.
We enjoyed reminiscing, joking, and drinking, but after a while, Michael started to seem a little… off. He was agitated, nervous. He kept looking at his watch. Thinking that this was my cue to leave, I said my goodbyes, but, as I headed to the door, I noticed Michael in the kitchen, initiating a rather peculiar Christmas ritual.
Most of you will be familiar with the tradition of leaving a snack out for Santa Claus, perhaps a mince pie and a carrot for his reindeer, but this was something… different.
Instead of carrots or mince pies, Michael had placed a large chunk of meat, raw and bloody, on the kitchen table. When he saw me, he quickly kicked the door shut. As it closed, I could swear that his hand was dripping blood. Had he cut himself?
I caught Nicole’s worried glance to the clock. It was 11:45 pm, just fifteen minutes before Christmas Day.
I had two choices; I could simply leave them to it, or I could interfere. Now, I am a naturally inquisitive person, and of course, I’d been drinking all night, so I chose the latter.
I gently nudged Nicole aside and made my way into the kitchen. She protested at first, then relented, with a peculiar hesitation. Perhaps she wanted me to investigate or challenge Michael’s strange behaviour.
The door opened to reveal Michael hunched over the kitchen table, fist clenched as he eked out some extra drops of blood onto the meat. He looked at me with an expression that lay somewhere between embarrassment and fear, before wiping his hand with a kitchen towel. Nicole darted past me and opened a cupboard door to fetch a Band-Aid for the fresh cut on Michael’s palm.
I was stunned, but, forever arrogant, I demanded an explanation. Michael smiled sadly at Nicole, a sign of resignation. She left us to it.
“I’m sorry, I know it looks weird, but it’s a tradition. I’ve always done it, ever since I was a kid.”
I couldn’t take my eyes off the raw meat soaked in animal blood, and in my friend’s blood too.
“But… why?” I asked.
“I wouldn’t even know where to begin. Let’s just say I do this because… I have to.”
I laughed at him.
“Is this for Santa? Is he a hardcore carnivore?”
Michael didn’t laugh. He looked around the room anxiously, as if he were listening out for a sign. He trembled, startled by something, and with an urgent expression, declared;
“I think you should go. Now.”
In defiance, I folded my arms and explained that I wasn’t going anywhere, not until he told me the truth. To this day, I wish I had heard him out properly, or just minded my own business.
But perhaps you would have laughed too, and trust me, you’re about to laugh, just as I did, when I tell you exactly what came out of his mouth next.
“Since before I was born, my family has offered our blood to Black Santa.”
In the hall behind me, Nicole shook her head, disappearing into the bedroom. Clearly, he was serious, and while I understand that now, at the time I could only ridicule him.
“Black Santa? What the hell’s Black Santa? Is he like James Brown? Will he come down your chimney tonight?”
I rushed out of the kitchen and sang ‘I Feel Good’ into the fireplace, before turning to Michael with a condescending grin, a look that screamed its demand for a real answer.
But that was his only answer.
It was 12:05 am, making it Christmas Day. Frustrated by his obstinate refusal to answer, I decided that I would force a change in my friend’s tradition. So, I went back to the kitchen, and before Michael could react, I grabbed the bloody steak and threw it into the fire.
In the process, I hadn’t realised that the meat was skewered on a spike, and I had managed to cut myself, adding my own blood to his. Mesmerised at the sight of the meat sizzling on the fire, Michael stepped up beside me.
In a frightful tone, he whispered;
“What have you done?”
I turned to him.
“Fuck Black Santa.”
He noticed the blood on my hand, and his lip quivered. I realise now the importance of the ritual, but at the time, I thought I had liberated my friend from an odd compulsion.
Michael tried half-heartedly to detain me with promises of an explanation about Black Santa, this strange boogeyman that he and his father and his father’s father had appeased over the decades. I was having none of it. I say ‘half-hearted’ because there was a new-found relief in Michael, which I sensed from Nicole as well, as if I had lifted a great burden from them, for reasons I would soon discover.
I sped away in my car, disappointed to have left in such weird and unsettled circumstances, but also amused at the oddness of it all. I laughed as I drove, recalling the ridiculous name of Michael’s boogeyman. The unexpected events of the evening had left me alert and very much awake, so I decided to head downtown, where I hoped there might still be bars open.
Black Santa indeed…
I can’t remember the name of the bar, but it was surprisingly quiet, comprising mostly of middle-aged loners, the town’s leftovers. Despite being from there, I had always retained a certain aloofness, which I guess made me stand out. A bristly-faced man with a plaid shirt leaned over his stool at the bar to sneer, while a woman with pock-marked skin paused in her negotiation with the karaoke DJ to shoot me an inviting smile. You might wonder how I can recall all these little details, but trust me, the events of this night are forever imprinted upon my mind.
I went straight to the bar and ordered a drink, then chatted idly to the man in the plaid shirt, doing my best to ignore the caterwauling of the woman singing behind me.
The midi-electric music of the karaoke had a distinctly retro feel, as did the songs sung by the drunken siren. Then, quite gradually, I realised that the woman was no longer singing. Someone else had replaced her mid-song. It was a booming man’s voice with a deep, gravelly resonance that imbued the lyrics of T’pau’s ‘China in Your Hand’ with a strange fury.
I turned quickly to see who it was, almost knocking my drink in the process. As I did, the tune broke into the ‘saxophone’ solo, played out in staccato bleeps via the midi system. The performer danced slowly, sensually, swaying their hips in time to the music. This was not the drunk woman, but a large, bearded man in a Santa Claus outfit.
At the climax of the chorus, he reached out to me with the same dramatic flair one might expect from a performer before an audience of thousands. With unblinking eye contact, as a tear rolled down his bright red cheek, he blasted out the lines;
“Don’t push too far; your dreams are china in your hand…”
I suddenly felt a nervous urge. My hand tightened around the glass I was holding. Why were his eyes so tiny, like shining pins?
“Don’t wish too hard, because they may come true…”
Why is he now smiling so strangely at me—just me and nobody else? I was irritated by this, but no one else seemed to care or even acknowledge the outrageous scene.
“You don’t know what you might have… set upon yourself.”
I clenched my drink so hard that it shattered, showering me and the burly, plaid-shirt-wearing man with glass splinters. He pulled me off my stool, ready to punch me, then hesitated and let me go. With great relief, I patted myself dry and realised that the song had finally ended. I looked back at the stage and could see no sign of the peculiar performer, only the woman and the DJ from before.
I turned to the bartender, intending to order a Black Russian, but instead the words ‘Black Santa’ came out. He looked at me strangely and suggested that I should perhaps go home.
“You don’t know what you might have set upon yourself.”
Why had the words the man sung sounded so threatening?
He had resembled an idealised version of Santa Claus, like you might expect from an old-fashioned Christmas card, or the Coca-Cola Christmas commercials. He would have looked perfect if it weren’t for some subtle, sinister imperfections that produced an instinctual sense of repulsion. His cruel, cherubic grin and pinprick eyes somehow filled me with dread.
I fled to the restroom to steady my nerves. As I sat in the cubicle, taking deep breaths, I became aware that the cubicle next to me was not empty.
I can be a little self-conscious in public toilets, but the man beside me was decidedly not so. After producing a great volume of noise and smell, he made an outrageous, uproarious laugh.
It went like this; “Ho, Ho, Ho,” then changed mid-way into an evil laugh, the type we might associate with a cartoon villain.
“Ho, Ho, Ho… muhahaha!”
The acoustics changed too, from a muffled echo to my left, to a sharp, clear sound right above me!
I jumped with fright and looked up to see, staring down at me over the cubicle wall, the bearded face from before. It was bright red with laughter, glaring at me with those beady, black eyes. Then I saw that he was holding something… a giant, rolled-up ball of wet toilet paper, soaked in urine and excrement.
A second later it was thrown with tremendous force straight into my face. It hit me so hard that it knocked me off the toilet onto the floor. The horrifying object made me retch with disgust. I was so shocked that I couldn’t even scream or shout for help. I wiped the oozing mess off my face and dashed out of the cubicle, ready to punch this vile stranger.
His cubicle door was swinging wildly, but the man himself was nowhere to be seen. I rushed back into the bar, crashing straight into a patron, before feverishly shouting if anyone had seen him? The bartender, who was already convinced I’d drunk too many, signalled to the bouncers to kick me out, all of which played out to Foreigner’s “I Want to Know What Love Is.”
Stinking of crap, I stumbled past suspicious passers-by who quickly moved aside with looks of disgust. I must have resembled a vagrant, but nevertheless, I made my way back to the car.
Ah, my beautiful, silver, German-produced Audi A4. My pride and joy.
You can probably tell by those words that some strange fate befell it. Well, you still won’t believe it.
In the window of a nearby department store was a bank of televisions, all set to the same channel. They were playing an episode of an unfamiliar game show, with a hysterical couple jumping up and down after having won the star prize. I stopped for a moment, because the man dashing to the prize podium was dressed in a Santa costume and resembled the man who attacked me. Well, he wasn’t dressed quite like Santa exactly… the colour of his costume was too dark.
With a flourish, the man pulled off the sheet to reveal an Audi A4. The couple ran towards it, embracing the car like a lost child. I smiled, glad that this working-class couple could experience the luxury of a car only people like me could usually afford, but then, I noticed the license plate—the same number as mine!
The man dressed as Santa turned to the camera and began walking towards it until his face engulfed the screen. He was mouthing something through the glass, but I couldn’t hear it. I leant in close until I could faintly hear words repeating over the buzz of the televisions. He was singing something.
“Don’t push too far; your dreams are china in your hand…”
I ran as fast as I could, all the way back to my car, which, as you might expect, was not where I left it. There weren’t even any marks in the snow to suggest it had ever been there.
Still smelling of crap and now without a car, I began the long trudge back to my motel. Despite my soiled state, I tried to hitch a ride, hoping some kind soul would take pity on me.
After about a hundred cars had sped past, at long last, a truck slowed to a crawl beside me. It was decorated in Christmas lights, yet, inside the cabin, it was pitch black.
The garish exterior and unsettling interior discouraged me, but with the snow now falling harder, I stepped up to enter the cabin. That was when the demonic man’s face leered out suddenly from the darkness, the bristles of his beard scratching at my face.
“HOHOHO-Muhahahaha,” he roared, as I tumbled backwards out of the cabin and fell into the snow. As I fell, my ankle struck a jagged rock, hard, shattering it inside. Searing pain engulfed me as I clambered up, hobbling away as fast as I could towards the motel.
The truck continued to crawl along the road beside me, its radio on full blast, playing ‘China in Your Hand’ on repeat.
Try as I might, I just couldn’t go on. The pain had become too great and I collapsed with exhaustion. Looking to my foot, I could see that the injury was worse than I had first imagined. The bone was protruding from my skin, and my foot lay in a thick pool of blood.
The realisation hit me that this could be my final night. I could actually die like this. I was about to lose everything I had accomplished; the city career and the awesome car. I realised then that none of it had ever mattered, for here I was, a humble wretch crying in the snow, covered in blood and excrement.
The instinct to survive is a powerful thing, and I started to crawl once more, fighting to remain conscious.
Finally, my body gave out. I collapsed on my back and just lay there, looking up at the stars and the moon, at the waves of snowflakes spiraling gently towards me.
In the corner of my eye, I could see that the truck had stopped. The man, this demonic Santa Claus, was now effortlessly striding through the snow towards me, clenching a small fire axe.
He leaned over me, sniffing loudly for the scent of blood, which soon led him to my crippled foot. Close up, I could see that this man’s Santa costume was not red… but black.
He loomed over me, staring with those tiny, cruel eyes that shone like ancient stars, his body heaving with triumphant anticipation.
One month later, I awoke in the hospital, where I learned that I had been placed in an induced coma due to the extent of my injuries.
Within weeks, I could talk and move once more. Everything was as it should be… except for my left foot. They told me that it had been hacked off and that something had eaten it, leaving only the bones beside my body.
It’s now Christmas Eve, 2019, and I can get around well enough with my new prosthetic foot. I make my way to the kitchen, where I will prepare two snacks. One is a mince pie for Santa Claus, and the other, a steak tartare with a dash of my own blood, for Black Santa.

I couldn’t sing it because I could only picture YOU NEED TO PEE.
Also the machine is a WOW Videoke from 2010z

I went on a personal mission to clean and refurbish a lot of pieces of my collection recently, including my Wii, Guitar Hero guitars, and drum set. I first bought games like Guitar Hero World Tour, Rock Band 2, and Band Hero at the height of the music game craze, but I haven’t touched any of them since well before the pandemic. I now have a much larger game room than at my last place, making it easier than ever before for me to enjoy music games with full bands.
I’ve also become a lot better at playing guitar, bass, and drums in real life (though worse at singing) since these games were released, which made me feel like I knew more about the songs and their structures. Though I spent more time playing music games back then, I was able to score higher on most songs in this recent playthrough than I ever could at the time. With drums specifically, I have so far managed to complete half of the songs in World Tour on expert difficulty, something I never could have achieved in 2008.
When I was younger, I remember most music teachers I worked with discouraged my friends and I from playing Guitar Hero while learning real instruments as they feared we would rely too heavily on techniques we learned from the game which, believe it or not, are not very conducive to playing real guitar. However, there are some aspects of the gameplay that I do believe teach basic musicality in an engaging way, and give the average player a better understanding of the parts each instrument is playing that make up their favorite song. There is also subtle commentary on the state of the music industry at the time in the games’ career modes, with Guitar Hero: World Tour in particular featuring a pay-to-play model for your band in the later levels at those venues.
If you lived under a rock in the mid-to-late 2000s, Guitar Hero involves players strumming a guitar controller and tapping five different color buttons that correspond to different notes of a song. The drum controller is the same, but with different color pads.
Overall, the charts for the songs do a good job of representing actual fretboard and drum kit techniques musicians use every time they play. However, the developers are occasionally guilty of ‘overcharting’ particular songs, like if a song features a strummed acoustic guitar. This can be made out to be much more complicated than if it were played on a real guitar, since it involves subtle fingering changes that are represented in a more blatant way on the guitar controller than on a guitar. In Band Hero specifically, this makes Take a Picture by Filter the hardest song in the game, while songs like Janet Jackson’s Black Cat, though much harder to play on a real guitar than Take a Picture, are less physically demanding in Band Hero.
As far as the drum controller, the pads are not as bouncy as the average electric drum set or practice pad, so it can be hard for even skilled drummers to perform paradiddles and other common techniques, changing the way they would need to play songs to do well in the games versus real life. Because of this, songs like Everlong by Foo Fighters become unduly hard for players who can not bounce their sticks off the cymbal pad, forcing them to hit every sixteenth note individually; something not even Taylor Hawkins did live.
Additionally, I think certain aspects of the drum parts of a lot of songs were left out or changed, such as ghost notes. The drum controllers don’t take hit velocity into account for the sake of the gameplay, but plug one into a MIDI interface and you will find out they’re capable.
With the vocals, I found that dry, plain delivery of the lyrics without any embellishment of the notes got me the most points, especially on harder difficulties. You have to sing it very mechanically compared to how you would sing it in real life or in karaoke.
Overall, Guitar Hero and the like are still such fun arcade/party games. I have enjoyed progressing through the career modes and unlocking outfits for my characters. I found it difficult to make decent looking Black characters with the customization options available, but that’s another Oprah. I was also surprised to see you can’t make characters particularly fat, either. When you take the music selection in most of these games into consideration, though, it’s easy to see how such options could have been neglected. These games targeted predominantly white fans of mainstream rock and alternative music until around 2011, the year alternative rock began declining in popularity from a commercial perspective. Activision canceled the Guitar Hero game they were working on for that year and put the franchise on hiatus until the release of Guitar Hero Live, an already discontinued game I have never played.
These games may be novel and a bit of a relic, but if you have them lying around they are worth revisiting. If you don’t, they are generally undesired and usually available for very cheap. The controllers are a little harder to find though, and can be expensive depending on the condition and variant.
I look forward to any feedback.

Hello, I was wondering if there's anywhere I can get my hands on midi files of vocaloid songs for free? I have only ever found one that worked for "midi karaoke" and it was usseewa, I haven't been able to find a single other one, the app says they're low quality and can't detect the vocals, please lmk if they're out there! thank you.

Hello!
I've been struggling to find free realistic soundfonts for my own music. I do have some sf2 soundfonts downloaded but most of those don't produce realistic sounds like an orchestra or some paid libraries like Spitfire, Native Instruments, Symphony Series, BBC Orchestral Symphony, etc.
Maybe some instruments may sound real but I'm more concerned about the strings as I cannot find a suitable one based on what I always hear from these amazing MIDI mockups and film soundtracks.
Is there any links or sites you can recommend for me to download realistic or orchestral soundfonts for free? I've always been wanted to produce my music with realistic instruments instead of Karaoke-sounded ones.
Thank you!

I couldn't find an easy to follow guide on how to do this anywhere so since I figured it out I thought I should share. It's quite simple and many may already know this but it does involve editing some gcode (as well as splicing up a midi file to just the part you want) which some may not be easy for some.
Step 1: Create your Midi g-code
Bambu has provided an easy to use tool to convert any midi file to g-code. You will also want to crop to just the part of the song you want to play, otherwise you'll have to sit and listen to your printer hum out a 3 minute song. You can do all of this easily using this online tool available here:
https://midi-to-gcode.bambulab.com/edit
Click file > open and load the midi file of your choice. Midi files have been around since the early days of the internet; a simple google search of the name of the song you want + "midi file" should yield a free download of the song you want. No one pays for midi files so don't go to a site that wants to charge you for one. Since all we want is the main hook of the song, try to find a file that has a clear track of the melody of the song (some midi's are just backing instrumental tracks without the melody - those are for karaoke, not 3d printing) . The A1 can only support at max 3 tracks and you will define each as chord, base, or main theme.
Once you've loaded your midi file, you can listen to it and try to find the part of the song you want. You'll need to navigate between the "Piano Roll" and "Arrange" to properly trim the part of your song. In the "Arrange" tab, you'll see each track that has notes playing. Find the part of the song you want, and click and drag to select the entire section (for more precise selection, you can change how many bars the selection tool selects by increasing the number next to the music note in the top right corner).
Here's where it gets kinda janky - after selecting just hit ctrl + X to cut that section of the song from the midi. Then, whle still in the arrange tab, select all of the remaining notes in the entire song and delete them (hit delete). You may need to zoom out and scroll to make sure you get all of the remaining notes completely. You should now have a completely empty arrangement view; scroll to the beginning and paste your selection at the top right. Then you want to isolate up to 3 tracks that you want to turn into gcode - remember that our printers use their motors to vibrate and play the tune, not an actual speaker so you don't want anything too crazy or it will sound like crap. Switch back to the piano roll to assign up to 3 tracks as chord, base, or main theme for playback on your A1 mini. Then hit file > save as gcode file.
Step 2: Slice your file in Bambu Slicer
Slice your file like you normally would, but unfortunately you cannot send the print to your printer over the cloud like normal if you want to have your custom song play. Instead, you'll need to export the sliced file to save on your computer as we will need to edit it later. File > "export plate sliced file" (if your model is just a single plate) or "export all plates sliced file" if your model is on multiple plates. This will save your file to a .3mf file, but it is really just a zip file that contains everything that gets sent to the printer.
Step 3: Edit exported gcode
Find your exported 3mf file and open it using winrar (other zip programs would probably work too). Unzip all the files to a folder (you will need to re-zip these back together later). In the unzipped files, open the "Metadata" folder. Inside you will find a file plate_1.gcode; it will be the largest sized file. Right click and open using Notepad. Then you just need to find the section where you will paste the midi gcode you created earlier (so go ahead and open that file as well using Notepad, "select all" using ctrl + A and "copy" using ctrl + C. You can then close that file. Go back to the plate_1.gcode and paste the midi gcode in either:
;=====start printer sound ===================(highlight everything underneath and paste your midi gcode)
or
;=====printer finish sound=========(highlight everything underneath and paste your midi gcode, but before the 2nd..);=====printer finish sound=========
You'll see the default tune gcode inside these areas. Just highlight everything in those sections and paste your midi gcode that you copied earlier. Save the file in notepad and close it.
Then you'll want to highlight everything in the folder that you unzipped previously:_rels (folder)3D (folder)Metadata (folder)[Content_Types].xml
Select these 4 things and zip them back together, except when saving change the .zip extension to be .3mf.
Step 4: Save to SD card and print!
Last step is to take your edited 3mf file and save that directly to the root of the SD card from your A1 printer. Put it back in your printer and you should now see your file under the print menu on you A1 mini's screen. Select the appropriate colors (if its a multi-color print), and you should now hear your custom tune at the beginning or end of your print depending on what part you changed!