Music

“I UNWRAPPED the musician in me.” That’s the best way to describe what I came to do in preparation for my gig at Lim Siang Jin’s Off Stone exhibition series. I did not set out with that idea in mind, but hindsight is a wonderful and revealing thing. No one had ever before called on me to speak about my music, and the time leading up to my appearance at the Offstone launch was laden with trepidation, anxiety and doubt - not least because, My goodness, who could be interested in that? But Jin was insistent, persistent. Talk about yourself, he told me, your music. It will be interesting, he said. I already know my old friend as an artist with a motherlode to offer the world. But, as our Off Stone discussions evolved (Jin in KL, and I in Sydney), I began to also see Jin as curator and mentor. Jin had invited me to speak about and perform my music months before my scheduled appearance. As is my wont, it was only in the five days or so leading to the event that I really began taking notes fo...