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The Book of Guilty Pleasures
by Song-Ming Ang
L A U N C H & R E A D I N G
D : Friday, 15th April 2011
T : 7:30 pm
V : BooksActually (No. 9 Yong Siak Street, Tiong Bahru. +65 6222 9195)
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T H E B O O K O F G U I L T Y P L E A S U R E S
A collection of 100 contributions from different artists, curators, musicians, and writers on their aural guilty...
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p r e s e n t s
The Book of Guilty Pleasures
by Song-Ming Ang
L A U N C H & R E A D I N G
D : Friday, 15th April 2011
T : 7:30 pm
V : BooksActually (No. 9 Yong Siak Street, Tiong Bahru. +65 6222 9195)
. . .
T H E B O O K O F G U I L T Y P L E A S U R E S
A collection of 100 contributions from different artists, curators, musicians, and writers on their aural guilty pleasures, initiated by Song-Ming Ang and co-edited with Kim Cascone. Contributors include Black Dice, Heman Chong, David Grubbs, Iain and Jane, Damon Krukowski, Katie Paterson, Guo-Liang Tan, Cyril Wong, Ming Wong, and Xiu Xiu.
“I love to listen to people in the next room have sex. Touring a lot I stay in motels a lot and people in motels have sex a lot.”
“Despite being a staunch atheist, every year I go and see a friend sing carols in a choir in an English Christian church.”
“As luck would have it, a guy at school wrangled me an entry-level job in the stockroom at a medical electronics company. [And] one day I noticed the Muzak...”
“I’m happy to say that after years of recording spam from the radio, my first LP was Wham’s groundbreaking Make it Big (I think they were referring to their hair)”
L A U N C H & T A L K
In addition to talking about how the book was conceived, Song-Ming will be playing a secret selection of his musical guilty pleasures at the launch. Audience members who correctly guess the most number of songs stand a chance to win a copy of the book!
A B O U T T H E E D I T O R
SONG-MING ANG is an artist whose work revolves around the social aspects of music. His works are currently showing at the Singapore Biennale (Old Kallang Airport).
www.circadiansongs.com
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BooksActually is an independent bookstore specialising in Literature. We publish and distribute books under Math Paper Press. We also hand-stitch notebooks and produce stationery under Birds & Co.
BooksActually is now housed at No. 9 Yong Siak Street, in the heart of Tiong Bahru.
