Singapore Pavilion at World Expo 2025
(2025)Director: Finding Pictures
Role: Composer
The Singapore Pavilion at the World Expo 2025 Osaka features large-scale animated projections by the local animation studio Finding Pictures, presenting Singapore’s urban landscape, ecological systems, and long-term planning.
The composition blends original material with field recordings drawn from everyday life in Singapore. Familiar infrastructural sounds — EZ-Link card taps, MRT door tones, and ambient transit rhythms — are layered with environmental textures, including bird calls such as the koel.
The calls of many other animals featured in the animation — the common palm civet, Sunda pangolin, sambar deer, and oriental pied hornbill — are woven into the soundscape too.
To reflect the pavilion’s emphasis on coexistence between infrastructure and biodiversity, mechanical and organic elements are interlaced throughout the piece. The aim is to create a single, integrated sonic environment in which both worlds can complement one another.
The Pavilion was recognised in the broader exhibition community: it received the People’s Choice Award from EXHIBITOR Magazine, voted by the public, underscoring its popularity among attendees.
Multimedia Director: Jerrold Chong
Multimedia Producer: Mark Wee
Line Producers: Nursyafiqah Jusman, Kenneth Yoong
Music and Sound Design: Jevon Chandra
Agency: Kingsmen
