Dr. Natalie Alexandra Tse is a sound artist, educator, and researcher whose work weaves together experimental improvisation, traditional Chinese music, and early childhood pedagogy. As a guzheng performer, she explores extended techniques to create evocative soundscapes rooted in emotion, texture and atmosphere.
Natalie is the co-founder and Director of Young Audience & Community Engagement, Education and Research at SAtheCollective, a Singapore-based arts company that investigates the relationship between human, nature and technology through the alchemy of ritual, play and improvisation. She also founded LittleCr3atures®️, its young audience initiative, where infants and toddlers engage in immersive, open-ended sonic experiences.
Her doctoral research into babies’ sonic play, shaped by her own journey as a mother, laid the foundation for SonicPlay™️, a pedagogy centred on listening, response, and sound-based exploration. She brings this approach into the classroom as Atelierista and SonicPlay™️ Pedagogista at Trehaus School, nurturing children’s natural curiosity through sound.
Natalie’s practice sits at the intersection of art and academia. She has published in IJMEC (International Journal of Music in Early Childhood) and contributed to volumes such as Arts and Creativity in East and Southeast Asian Preschools and Visions of Sustainability for Arts Education. She regularly presents at international conferences, advocating for the reimagination of music education from birth and the role of sound in shaping empathy, identity, and ecological awareness.
She lectures at LASALLE College of the Arts, the National Institute of Education, and the Singapore University of Social Sciences, mentoring future artist-educators and researchers. Across all her work, Natalie invites us to listen more deeply, through our bodies, with our children, and to the world around us.