Band Profile
Current members of Travellators are

Jacklyn Soo is a gamelan musician for 6 years, a multi-disciplinary fine artist and founder of Travellators. She aspires to express visions that go beyond the conventional and to present/introduce artistes of similar thought.

She started playing Indonesian Gamelan as an extra class during her Fine Art studies at the now LASALLE College of the Arts and soon found herself progressing and performing in numerous music events both on the international and local front. Her teachers are well-known Gamelan professors, Dr. Alex Dea and Pak Midiyanto. Both of which have contributed and helped shaped her interest in preserving ethnic cultures.

Jacklyn experiences Gamelan music as an "offering to nature in the most abstract form" and with this notion in mind and heart, she takes on new challenges in working on both traditional and new-creation music.

Jacklyn has performed at various events such as the Opening Festival of The Esplanade-Theatres on the Bay in October 2002 (Singapore), the Opening of Asian Civilisation Museum 2003 and Opening Festival of the ArtsHouse 2004. In March 2005, she was selected alongside 2 other members from Gamelan asm罫慧系� for Continuum Asia Project Youth-to-Youth Exchange to Luang Prabang, LAOS organised by Theatreworks Singapore.

Jacklyn holds a certificate of Javanese (Solo) Gamelan playing from STSI (Surakarta) and is a pioneer member of Singaporeﾕs First Professional Gamelan Company/Ensemble, Gamelan asm罫慧系�.

She provides artistic direction, motivation, gamelan traditional/experimental tunes and vocals for the band.

Wandi is a Singaporean musician and educator with a background in Javanese music (Joyga) specialising in Gamelan music and Wayang Kulit. He has obtained a scholarship from the Dharmasiswa RI Programme in 1999 to learn Karawitan Music in Indonesia. He specialises in Gender Panerus and Kendhang.

Upon completing his scholarship, Wandi joined a contemporary music ensemble at the Malay Village (Singapore) doing Jathilan (kuda-kepang) n Gamelan Kreasi Baru. He is also a member and lead musician with the NUS (National University Singapore) Javanese Gamelan Ensemble led by renowned ethnomusicologist, Dr. Jan Mr�zek.

RAGHAVENREN "Ragha" is an aspiring artist in Indian Classical Music. This budding musician began the flute at the tender age of eleven after he was deeply inspired and blown away by renowned flautist Sri Ghanavenothan Retnam. Ragha is current pursuing his musical dream at Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts, and is well on his way to achieving his Diploma in Music. Ragha has taken up an active role in Swathi, the Nritalaya Art Academyﾕs youth ensemble. With his participation, the ensemble clinched the 2nd Runnerﾕs Up Award at the Singapore National Indian Music Competition 2006 organized by the Singapore National Arts Council. Ragha has also performed in art festivals held in Singapore such as the nationﾕs Signature Parade. He plays the flute in Travellators and contributes his passion for Asian Fusion music with the band.

Chingmei started learning classical piano at around the age of 7 and have been playing for youth service in church since then and officially became their keyboardist at age 14.
She has an ABRSM classical music certificate of Grade 5 proficiency.

In 2007, Chingmei formed an a cappella group consisting of polytechnic choir alumni named Beats and Pieces and is now in a newly formed a cappella group, known as Mochapella.
She also owns an a cappella blog known as A Cappella S.O.U.N.D.S (http://acapellamusic.blogspot.com), a hobby blog that sprang from the love of a cappella music.

Her musical influences vary from Christian contemporary, pop, jazz, bossa nova and a cappella.

She has also worked in providing vocals in a pop album produced by Elisha
Her interest in fusion music came about when she met Jacklyn who was on the look out for a versatile keyboardist and so was robbed in to join Travellators as their keyboardist.

Rashid is 28 year old undergrad currently pursuing a degree in Industrial Design. He also teaches Part-time ﾔIntroduction to Design and Architectureﾕ in his course. An avid player on the guitar, Rashid enjoys playing the guitar in his two other bands: Dualtone and Standstrong, both of which have elements of jazz and blues influences.

Rashidﾕs latest performance for Travellators involved experimenting and mixing of his western instrument with the ethnic scale and tuning system from the Gamelan and India flute. It was not an easy task for him at first but he soon grew more comfortable and used to its sounds. Rashid has performed in various intimate events around Singapore as well as its neighbour country, Malaysia. He hopes to perform in more ethnically infused music as this also brings a certain light to his own ethnic roots being a authentic Malay himself.


Performers from the NUS, UCC Exxonmobile event and are also current members

Lim Wei, 21, has recently completed his Diploma in Music Technology at LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, and is currently pursuing his Diploma in Pianoforte Performance offered by The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of music (ABRSM). An active member in the local Chinese Orchestra scene, he has performed with local Singapore Youth Chinese Orchestra.

An avid player on the Zhong Ruan and Liu Qin, Lim Wei shows his talent on combining traditional Chinese music with western advant garde works in Travellators.

Jonathan He, a musician immersed in world of keyboard wizardry.
In contemporary to avant-garde styles; Jonathan creates a new soundscape for listeners by fusing the basics of music with industrial ambience, and playing with various software synthesizers.

Eugene, 22, is a curious self-confessed ethnic noise-folk laptop musician who is currently pursuing his undergraduate studies in Sociology and Gender studies at the National University of Singapore. Besides mixing music with basic software programmes on his own, he has also performed with local psychedelic band, Supercali in various gigs under the name ﾔpure beingﾕ.

Bass player Seelan is a one time contribution to the recent performance at NUS, University Cultural Centre. He is an artist, musician and activist from Singapore. He has a keen interest in fusing ethnic music with noise art. He also enjoys making films and writing poetry. He has performed in several concerts in Singapore and Malaysia and his short films have been awarded and screened at various venues in Singapore.