Ang Song Ming often uses music as a subject matter in his art practice. His work is frequently rooted in the everyday, beginning from simple ideas and presented through various media. Based on processes like exchanges and transformations, Ang’s work finds meaning in the music and paraphernalia he refashions.

Produced during his residency with ARCUS Project in the Japanese town of Moriya, Colour Scale features seven photographs Ang took of brightly painted houses in the town. He then spray-painted a glockenspiel to match the colours of the houses. The first glockenspiel was gifted to a children’s community centre in Moriya, completing an act of exchange in which the artist takes and gives back to the source of his inspiration.