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LittleCr3atures® is a Singapore-based social enterprise that uses SonicPlay™ to nurture connection, well-being, and creativity among mothers, children, and communities. Through sound, listening, storytelling, movement, and sensory play, we create meaningful experiences that support emotional grounding while creating pathways for mothers to become trained SonicPlay facilitators.
What if music education began not with learning notes, but with learning to listen?
SonicPlay™ is our research-informed approach to learning, connection, and well-being through sound. Combining listening, storytelling, movement, improvisation, and sensory exploration, SonicPlay™ invites participants of all ages to engage with sound as a tool for creativity, self-expression, and meaningful relationships. Rooted in artistic practice, early childhood education, and relational care, SonicPlay™ encourages presence, curiosity, and connection over performance or outcomes.
Our work began with children, mothers, and families, with a particular commitment to supporting caregivers who may face emotional, social, or economic challenges.
Today, our community continues to grow across children, families, educators, facilitators, adults, and organisations. We create spaces where people can connect, listen, explore, and grow through SonicPlay™.
Whether supporting a child’s development, a caregiver’s wellbeing, an adult’s learning journey, a facilitator’s practice, or a team’s connection, we believe meaningful listening and creative exploration can create positive experiences across different stages of life.
Dr. Natalie Alexandra Tse is a sound artist, educator, researcher, and founder of LittleCr3atures®.
Her work began with a simple but transformative question: What if music education began not with learning notes, but with learning to listen?
Working across artistic practice, education, and research, Natalie explores sound not simply as something we create, but as a relationship we experience. Through her doctoral research, artistic practice, and journey through motherhood, she developed SonicPlay™, a listening centred methodology that brings together sound, curiosity, creativity, and play.
What began through her work with children, caregivers, and communities has continued to grow. Today, SonicPlay™ is also being explored across adult learning, facilitation, and organisational settings, creating opportunities for people of different ages and backgrounds to listen more deeply, connect more meaningfully, and engage with the world around them.
Natalie believes that in a rapidly changing world, listening remains one of our most deeply human capacities. It is a practice that can help us reconnect with ourselves, with one another, and with the environments we share.
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Tse, N.A. (2025). Creating sonic experiences for 3-6 years old children in a preschool setting: Reflections from a Sonic Play Specialist in a Singaporean School. In A. Bautista (ed.), Arts and Creativity in Asian Preschools: Towards High-quality Glocal Pedagogies (pp. 281-297). Springer.
Lum, C.H. & Tse, N.A. (2024). Deep listening and playing in the intercultural space: On soundscapes, improvisation and collaborative creative processes in early childhood and elementary music education. In Aróstegui, J.L., C. Christophersen, K. Matsunobu and J. Nichols (eds.), SAGE Handbook of School Music Education (Ch.26). SAGE.
Tse, N.A. (2023). Afterword. In Lum, C.H. Soundscapes of Our Lives: Lessons from Singapore Contemporary Artists. In: Reimagining Singapore, 107-130. Singapore: Springer. Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0864-6_5
Tse, N. A. (2023). N/nature as an impetus for the creation of a sonic experience for babies. International Journal of Music in Early Childhood, 18(1), 43-51. Link: https://doi.org/10.1386/ijmec_00056_1
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Tse, N. A. (2021). Creating a Sonic Experience for Babies. In Benjamin Bolden and Neryl Jeanneret (eds.). Visions of Sustainability for Arts Education: Value, Challenge and Potential, 169-174. Singapore: Springer.
Tse, N.A. & Chia, A. (2020). Producing the Atypical: SA Trio and Singaporean Chinese Ethnic Identity. In Michelle Loh (ed.). Traditional Chinese Music in Contemporary Singapore, 287-311. Singapore: Pagesetters.
Tse, N.A. (2020). Early Childhood Education: Incorporating Chinese Music. In Michelle Loh (ed.). Traditional Chinese Music in Contemporary Singapore, 94-120. Singapore: Pagesetters.
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