Composer/Visual Design/Sound Diffusion: YANG Guang (Sichuan Conservatory of Music)

Piano: LI Wei(Taiwan, China)

Mirrorum weaves piano performance, visual projection, and electronic sound into a fluid interplay between reality and illusion.Live music merges with real-time imagery as light and projection continually reshape the stage—at times exposing the pianist’s tangible presence, at times immersing the audience in a spectral world of layered sound and image.By probing the dialogue between the real and the reflected, and the looping flow of time, the work expands the experiential boundaries of music, image, and space.

Composer/Live Electronic: YANG Kai (Tianjin Conservatory of Music)

“The Ripples” is an interactive electronic music work with innovative cross-border fusion characteristics. The work is inspired by the natural phenomenon of "water waves" and presents the beauty of this natural phenomenon through real-time video and music interaction on site. It showcases the harmony and rhythm of nature and calls on people to pay attention to the harmonious unity between the natural environment and the inner world through artistic forms.

03  Lang Tao Sha - for Satsuma Biwa and Electronic Music (2025/9'00''World Premiere)

Composer/Sound Diffusion: CHEN Mingzhi (Xinghai Conservatory of Music)

04  Overlap: The Three Realms of Consciousness - for Visual Media and Electronic Music (2024/7'01''/Hangzhou Premiere)

Composer: YE Qing (Nanjing University of the Arts), ZHOU Yuxue (Communication University of China)

“Overlap: The Three Realms of Consciousness” is a multimedia musical work that explores the deep structures of the human psyche. The sonic dimension includes ASMR trigger sounds—such as wood, metal, and human oral noises—woven into an arch-shaped structure (ABCB’A’) that connects Freud’s three dimensions of the preconscious, the unconscious, and consciousness. Through TouchDesigner, sound and visuals jointly construct a psychological landscape, revealing the interlacing and transformation of multidimensional consciousness within dreams. The audience is drawn into a psychological space that transcends reality, experiencing the flow and reflection of consciousness through the fusion of sound and form.

05  Inarticulate - for Digital Score, Three Performers, and Visual Media (2025/7'00''/World Premiere)

Composer and System Design: XIAO Xiang (Central Conservatory of Music)

Performer: XIAO Xiang, ZHI Hui, WANG Xijia (Central Conservatory of Music)

Interactive Visual Media: ZUO Moqi (Central Conservatory of Music)

“Inarticulate” is a digital score project that explores the shared "score-concept" between performers and the audience. Through animated instructions, three performers play the musical content as it is perceived by the audience. The music continuously accelerates, causing the presentation of "notes" to change. In the final high-speed section, the performers' attempts to play "correctly" fail to keep up with the rapidly moving score, thus achieving the theme of “Inarticulate”. The first version of “Inarticulate” used an interactive score based on a local network, machine learning, and neural network techniques. For this festival, we are using a fixed score to present the performance in a more straightforward manner.

06  Alchemy - for Prepared Piano and 8-Channel Electronics (2018-2025/10'00''/World Premiere)

Composer/Sound Diffusion: WEN Bihe (Macau University of Science and Technology)

Piano: Huang Xiang

Alchemy is a mixed electroacoustic work for piano and 8-channel fixed media, focusing on the trajectories of energy and motion between the live piano performance and the electronics. The sound materials of both the piano and electronics are derived from morphological archetypes and variants produced with six types of found objects inside the piano. The multichannel electronics interact and integrate with the piano performance across different structural levels of the spectral space. Rather than adopting an architectonic structure through a formalist approach, Alchemy develops its form through a perceptually driven process, emphasizing the organic organization and spatialization of sound materials.