RUPLOOPS
RupLoops: Magnetic North is an immersive, interactive performance that invites young audiences to rediscover their relationship with the living world through rhythm, story, sound, and play. Created by multi-award-winning interdisciplinary artist Ruby Singh, the work blends vocal percussion, live looping, beatboxing, poetry, field recordings, biosonified plant and mushroom music, and instruments from around the world into a theatrical concert experience for audiences of all ages.
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At the heart of the performance is a simple yet urgent question: How do we reconnect to the natural world in a time of ecological crisis?
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Using environmental recordings, from forests and waterways to the hidden electrical frequencies of plants and fungi, Magnetic North transforms scientific listening into musical storytelling. Young audiences become active participants through rhythm games, call-and-response, collective sound-making, and moments of reflection that foster curiosity, wonder, and ecological imagination.
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Rooted in themes of environmental stewardship, interconnection, and cultural dialogue, the performance bridges contemporary music technology with ancestral ways of listening. Through music, projected visuals, spoken word, and interactive composition, Magnetic North encourages youth to see themselves as part of a living ecosystem and active participants in shaping its future.
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While playful and accessible for younger audiences, the work also offers layered experiences for teens, families, and intergenerational audiences, creating space for participation, emotional connection, and shared discovery across cultures and ages. Singh’s work has been presented internationally at venues and festivals including Lincoln Center (USA), Jaipur Literature Festival (India), Fusion Festival (Germany),
and Wonderfruit (Thailand).
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With Magnetic North, RupLoops invites audiences to listen more deeply, to the earth, to one another, and to the compass within ourselves.
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“Singh spins the sounds of plants and animals into a symphony.”
— Vancouver Sun
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“A visionary artist ... blending the technological world with art, social and environmental causes ...” — CBC Radio-Canada
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"From the first moment you know you’re in good hands. Rup is a gifted performer that engages
his audiences through music, laughter and the love of life....we’re looking forward to next time”
Marnie Perrin, Artistic Director
Surrey SPARK Stages
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"Delights, entertains and draws his audience in....outstanding! His shows are fabulous!”
Katharine Carol, Artistic Director
Vancouver International Children's Festival
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"Dynamic, high energy performance....diverse and creative blends of technology, hip-hop and south asian sounds captivated the audience. Definitely a must see performance!"
Tom Makavsley, Principal,
Prince George BC
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Ruby Singh is a multi award winning performer, composer, producer and educator residing on the unceded territories of the xÊ·mÉ™θkÊ·É™yÌ“É™m, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and sÉ™lÌ“ílwÉ™taʔɬ/Selilwitulh Nations (Vancouver BC.). His creativity crosses the boundaries of music, poetry, photography and film engaging with mythos, ecology, justice and fantasy. Singh is an artist whose work is informed by sound found all around us, from the whirling planets and stars of distant galaxies to percussion of an umbrella under coastal rains, to the perpetual moving birdsong of the dawn chorus, constantly circling the globe. The richly imaginative visual textures to his sound design have found kinship in the theatre, film and dance worlds, where he has been celebrated by multiple Jessie and Leo award nominations. His distinct approach uses traditional and emergent sonic practices to create compositions that express the vast spectrum of the human experience. In 2022 Singh received the Lieutenant Governor’s Jubilee Award for excellence in Art and Music. In 2023 he received his inaugural Juno nomination and he won both the WCMA award for best Global Music Artist of the Year and BC Touring Council's Artist of the Year. Most recently in 2024, Singh was awarded the WCMA award for Electronic /
Dance Artist of the Year.
Singh’s offering are wide ranging and expansive from ambient audio-visual worlds of the Polyphonic Garden to Jhalaak, a Sufi hip hop album made alongside Manganiyar musicians recorded in the clay huts of the Thar desert in Rajasthan India, reinterpreting 13th century Sufi poetry. Vox.infold, an a cappella project bringing together the sounds of Inuit, Indigenous, Black and South Asian voices that has been met with critical acclaim. RupLoops, a solo live looping project that is a highly engaging, interactive experience using vocal percussion, rhythmic rhymes and an arsenal of eclectic instruments from around the globe. The Future Ancestors a blues and soul infused live hip hop project; kraKIN a more-than-human collaboration that brings together a boom-bap menagerie of banging Westcoast flora, fauna, and fungi. MOVE37XR, a creative studio that crafts transformative immersive experiences. Singh believes in art’s ability to reimagine futures, to repurpose aesthetic freedoms toward civil and environmental justice.
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