Artists: NS Khong Phai

NS Khong Phai

NS Khong Phai is a musician and researcher who works with various musical instruments from Southeast Asia. He researches folk music, and has learned about traditional musical instruments from local artists in Southeast Asia. In Vietnam in particular, he learned folk music from notable musicians of various ethnic communities such as Kinh, Cham, Jrai, Ede, Raglai, Thai, H’mong, and more. He owns a diverse collection of folk music instruments, gathered on various research trips, that include wind instruments, reed pipes, free reed instruments, percussions, and strings. His own music idea...

Hum a Tune | A Lecture Performance

Hum a Tune – A Lecture Performance Date/Time: Sun, 3 Mar @ 2-4PM Location: Sàn Art Millenium Masteri, Units B.16 & B.17 132 Ben Van Don, Ward 6, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Language: English & Vietnamese To understand the fascination in sound-making means dissecting the social history of the cacophony and the ‘noise’ makers (or the early forms of musical instruments) that have emerged from the particular relationship between humans and nature. Learning to create sounds is also learning to listen to them. To accompany the visual...