Chaklam Ng
The Club Special Edition for Design Trust Futures Festival 2025
2025
Mixed media
"The Club" is an interactive musical instrument design that explores the concept of productivity within gaming. Originally featured in deTour 2024, the Club utilizes a nostalgic pinball machine, each gameplay—from the initial launch of the ball to the interactions with the bumpers—generates a unique rhythm that has never been heard before. The Special Edition for Design Trust Futures Festival 2025 responds to the existing spatial setting of Murray House.
About Chaklam Ng
Chaklam Ng is a musical instrument inventor and sound artist based in Hong Kong, known for his innovative approach to sound and design. As the founder of Oblik Soundwork, he creates unique musical instruments and sound sculptures with unconventional interfaces. Chaklam explores the intricate communication between the instrument, the musician and the audience. He often draws inspiration from sports and games, incorporating familiar interactive elements into his projects to create unexpected soundscapes. Notable exhibitions include “The Interpreter,” a sound installation that translates language into rhythm, showcased at Art.Techs 2022, and “Pause Rec Play 2.0,” a sound collage machine inspired by mahjong at Clockenflap 2023. His recent project, “The Club,” merges a pinball machine with a turntable, featured at deTour 2024.
Chaklam is driven by the belief that every object should produce beautiful sounds. His recent projects delve into exploring the tonal qualities of everyday items, such as utensils and tableware, in a new endeavor to transform these commonplace objects into musical instruments.
