New music release this Spring 2022 – ALAN’s Fantasy, comprising 16 new songs and an orchestrated theme ALAN song “La Fantaisie d’ALAN

ALAN’s Fantasy

A fantasy of companionship between human and inanimate, conceptualized by Susan Lim and Christina Teenz Tan, both MDs, driven by the challenges facing us in society today, longevity and loneliness on the one hand, and the disruptive new technologies enabling artificial life on the other. Four composers Joi Barua, Ron J Danziger, Matthieu Eymard and Manu Martin join Susan Lim and Christina Teenz Tan, co-lyricists, to create the 17 tracks for ALAN’s Fantasy. Together, these songs share the journey of a soul from an animate to an inanimate, where it is embedded in a cotton body suit, and ultimately becomes entangled within the inanimate’s human companion. Joi Barua starts with the Inanimate ALAN’s joyful theme, the ALAN Song, as it recounts its existence in the wild, Jungle Song, then the journey of its soul from wild to captive Origins. Ron J Danziger begins a playful chapter for the captive soul as an Inanimate, its new Life On The Shelf , then heads Off to College with its human companion. This partnership is serenaded in Companion Friend by Matthieu Eymard, which endures the rest of time in Ron J Danziger’s Timeless. The woes of the Inanimate as it laments its wear and tear, is affectionately realised by its human companion in Ode to ALAN, a dedication from human to inanimate. The inanimate steps up to the challenge of the new sciences, in Synthetic DNA, enabling Synthetic Me , and equipped with artificial intelligence for a New World Order by Joi Barua. Two contrasting personalities, an Evil Professor who attempts to thwart the efforts of a brilliant Boy Scientist working in Quantum Physics, is imagined by Ron J Danziger. The Inanimate takes one last look back at its past, in the Tribal Bushman Song by Matthieu Eymard, before leaping forward for an eternal existence with its human companion in Teleportation by Joi Barua. Ron J Danziger relates these challenges to human life in Fantasise, while composer Manu Martin creates the grand finale of ALAN’s Fantasy with an orchestration of the ALAN Song, La Fantaisie d’ALAN.

Enter the musical world of the new film ‘Evil Professor’

The Montreal Independent Film Festival has something for everyone. Cinephiles of all stripes can gather to watch some of the most impressive indie films in a wide variety of genres. Evil Professor, directed by Dr. Susan Lim, offers fans of science fiction and speculative fiction the chance to delve in the mind-bending world of future technologies and to ask what it really means to be human and to find companionship in life. Evil Professor is a musical animated short that is part of a larger musical project called Alan the Musical. The project tells the story of a young undergraduate student and her relationship with a plush toy named Alan that is powered by artificial intelligence. The musical explores the possibility of relationships between humans and AI, which is something that Dr. Susan Lim will be a big component of life in the future. The shorts that make up Alan the Musical have been featured at numerous film festivals, and brought home ten wins from the 2021 Cannes International Film Festival. The visuals, sounds, and ideas that power Evil Professor and the rest of the Alan project are as enticing as they are universal. Come explore the world of ideas behind Evil Professor and the visionary director behind the project. Evil Professor This animated short asks viewers to examine their relationship with reality, sentience, and supposedly “inanimate” objects like robots and artificial intelligences. It asks what a person would do if their professor was revealed to be a person from the past, nothing more or less than a simulated being based on what was once a “real” human. Could you trust such a person? Would you fear them? As robots and AI become increasingly a part of everyday life, the questions that drive Evil Professor will become more & more necessary for everyone to consider. The short film really digs into the emotional core of such questions. It’s less a matter of how AI gets incorporated into life and more a question of how people will react when it inevitably does.

Boy Scientist mentioned in NY Times

Boy Scientist, multi-filmfestival award winner, scores a mention in the New York Times 3 June 2021 -  “5 Things to do this Weekend - Cinema treats, short and often sweet”

Signum Records releases The Lim Fantasy of Companionship for Piano & Orchestra, Tedd Joselson, LSO, Arthur Fagen.

The Lim ‘Fantasy of Companionship’ for piano and orchestra created by dr Susan Lim and dr Christina Teenz tan composed and produced by Manu Martin co-produced by grammy-nominated producer, Adrian peacock with acclaimed pianist Tedd Joselson the London symphony orchestra and London Voices conducted by Arthur Fagen. Set for release on 23rd april 2021 on signum records