YPAW 7: Mervin Wong

I had knew my guest on this episode for more than 10 years, we entered the same school after secondary school and were school mates for 3 years. And yet for some strange reason, I have hardly interacted with him or knew him at a personal level. I blame this on my larger than usual brass cohort when I first entered Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. That being said, I could tell that Mervin is an extremely diligent and dedicated musician that really took pride in his work. More often than not, I will bump into him at the lift lobby of the music building right before the guard makes his last round and he wears that "violin hickey" like a badge of honour.

Fast forward a number of years, we had went on our separate path. I moved to the UK and he started at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of music in Singapore. Observing his career from a far, I begin to see a shift in the type of work he was putting up, from a performer with a rather traditional approach focusing on musical excellence to an artist that is slowly finding his voice which led to the formation of The Empty Blue Sky Productions, founded by Mervin. His latest EP, Perihelion was produced under the name Planeswalker and is available here. One other production that really struck me was the short film Later, directed by Sal Seah with all the sound work done by Mervin. I highly recommend you to have a look at this wonderful film! And we are only scratching the surface of the work he has been involved in. If you would like to find out more about Planeswalker/Mervin you can follow him on his Instagram and Facebook.

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