Small Songs Studio is a Singapore-based inclusive music practice founded by artist-educator Jane Lau. The studio creates participatory music and movement programmes for early childhood, disability and special education, older adults, and intergenerational communities.
Through singing, rhythm, movement, instruments, stories and culturally meaningful repertoire, each experience is shaped around the people in the room.
At Small Songs Studio, participation does not have to look or sound the same for everyone. A person may contribute through singing, playing an instrument, moving, gesturing, choosing, listening or responding in their own way.
Programmes combine thoughtful artistic planning with responsiveness in the moment. Familiar structures can offer security, while exploration, choice and shared play create space for participants’ personalities and ideas to emerge.
Musicality — creating experiences with artistic intention, imagination and care
Accessibility — offering different ways for people to enter and participate
Responsiveness — listening closely and adapting to the people in the room
Connection — making space for people to notice, respond to and create with one another
Multilingual songs, culturally familiar repertoire and participants’ own ideas often become starting points for shared music-making.
The name Small Songs reflects the belief that meaningful music-making often begins with something simple: a shared rhythm, a remembered melody, a gesture, a breath or an idea offered by a participant.
These small musical moments can open the way to confidence, creativity and genuine connection.
Small Songs Studio works with schools, community organisations, care settings and arts partners across Singapore through workshops, programme series, sustained projects and creative collaborations.
Planning a programme or exploring a partnership?
Tell Jane about your participants, setting and what you hope to make possible.