We’ve got a whole new set of short courses available for your picking. Join us this February and April for them.

Hear ye, hear ye!

The third exciting installment of creative flea market Public Garden returns again.

Orita Sinclair is proud to be participating in this with the debut of the Public Library Collection Booth!

The Public Library Collection Booth was conceptualised to give used reading materials a new home to students of all creative disciplines.

Design books / magazines collected from studios, designers and the public, are up for grabs (for free!) for students on the day of the event.

Together with the good people of Public Garden, this booth was created with the dual purpose of helping out cash-strapped students, as well giving excellent reading materials a new life.

Join us there this Saturday, 18th February, at Goodman Arts Centre from 1—8pm.

— Find out more about Public Garden here, or follow them on Twitter.

9 Fountains has collaborated with Kult and Sifr to create a line of limited edition, super-premium graphic t-shirts.

Orita Sinclair and IS magazine will be sponsoring this massive show of home-grown fellowship to be held at Black Market 2.

The K/9/S collection consists of fifteen Singapore based designs handpicked from the range of international artwork in Kult Magazine’s “Animals” issue.

The issue–and resulting t-shirt collection–is full of facts about animals, visualized by some of the most exciting artists working in the world today. The Kult artwork is intended to “create a stronger bond between man and animal by increasing understanding” while the selections shine a spotlight on the thriving but oftentimes subterranean local art community in Singapore. This limited edition run (40 per design) will also showcase Sifr’s premium pima cotton t-shirts and 9 Fountains’ highly-detailed and vivid printing.

On October 6th, the exclusive launch party will give attendees the chance to meet the artists and experience the artwork/ collection for the first time.

A special pre-order sale will take place on-line at 9fountains.com from September 15th-30th where consumers can reserve the t-shirt of their choosing at a discounted price, with the first 50 customers receiving a special invitation to the launch event.

See you there!

Date: October 6, 2011

Time: 6pm-midnight

Location: Blackmarket 2
#02-10 Orchard Central
181 Orchard Road

This free workshop will explore the proper procedure for recording the live performance of a song by several musicians simultaneously. Sometimes recording one instrument at a time fits the style of music better whereas other times, recording the musicians simultaneously is preferred. This workshop is a demonstration of the latter, for instances where it is desirable to capture not just sound but the performance as well.

Participants will get a chance to record alongside the session musicians and learn the creative process involved in live studio recording.

Please indicate your preferred timeslot.
RSVP: rizal@orita-sinclair.edu.sg

The free workshop will explore the basic production procedures for recording of a simple rock/pop song by multi-tracking. The workshop will demonstrate the recording of bass, guitars, MIDI through recording and layering these tracks on the digital audio workstation Logic Pro.

Participants will get a chance to record alongside the session musicians and learn the creative process involved in the production of a piece of contemporary music.

Please indicate your preferred timeslot.
RSVP: rizal@orita-sinclair.edu.sg

Orita Sinclair School of Design, New Media & the Arts had an OPEN HOUSE on the 8th of April, 2011. We had a great line up of speakers who presented and spoke to prospective students who were here. Our academic director, Desmond Seetoh, gave an overview of the school, before introducing the rest of our speakers – Justin Lee (Lecturer for Acting), Rizal Hefni (Head of Electro-Sonics), Eitan Schalks (our very own Design Communication student) and Farizwan Fajari (Lecturer for Drawing).

Visitors were eager to check out our new iMac lab, which was recently furnished with brand new iMacs! They were also given a copy of our new prospectus (very, very cool – comes in a Ziploc bag!) as well as one of our limited edition tote bags (there were only 50 to give away)! On top of that, our Head of Electro-Sonics did a live recording demo and enraptured all of us with his amazing performance.

For those of you who missed out on all the fun, well there’s always a next time, so be sure to come by!

Playing for 4 solid hours, the Straits Sound System laid down the best of Jamaica, from jump up ska, rolling rocksteady, deep roots, skanking dub and the perfect island beat. Great set-up for a couple of sundowners.

Click here to visit the main website of The Straits Sound System.

Christina Oer
John Jerrick Sy
Low Hui Wei
Davadrian Maramis
Jaspriya Sahmey
Squid Wan
Pyia Phyo
Terrix Lin
Indra Atmadi
Victor Gui
Shermeen Tan