1842 · Hokkien community · Asia
The chamber score
Pagodes
Claude Debussy · 1903
A garden-city scored as gamelan heard from Europe, then returned.
An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.
Why it is here
The oldest Hokkien temple in Singapore, a monument of diaspora faith.
Commission the full chamber
This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.
Ask the studio to reconstruct Thian Hock Keng through hope — or shift it into another corridor.
Open a commissionShift the feeling
What if Thian Hock Keng was rebuilt as something else?
Ask the architect
