In 2005, Ng made his career breakthrough with an interactive installation titled “Musical Loom”, where he transformed a 250-year-old antique weaving machine into an interactive musical instrument. Participants could weave sound and shadows by controlling a light beam, and generating mechanical sound or malleable musical expression based on their interaction. The work was conceived in the context of Northern France, where the textile industry has played an important role in the region’s economic development, recession and regeneration during the last two centuries. While the work referred to its local context, it also made reference to the loom’s role in the global history of new media art. Ng quoted art historian Lev Manovich, who cited a remark made by Ada Augusta, the first computer programmer, "the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves..." Manovich continued, "The connection between the Jacquard loom and the Analytical Engine is not something historians of computers make much of, since, for them, computer image synthesis represents just one application of the modern digital computer out of thousands. But for a historian of new media it is full of significance." The work was touring in exhibitions and festivals in Europe and Asia, including IRCAM – Centre Pompidou in Paris, City Sonics Festival in Belgium, Museum of Art in Hong Kong, and Lille Europe Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010.