Composer/Creative Director: JIANG Chaoqian

Visuals Design: XIA Hongda, ZENG Ziqiao, SUN Jingqi

Bamboo Flute: WEI Sijun

Pipa: ZHANG Ling

Percussion: XU Wenjia

Bili/Duduk: CHEN Mingnan

Inspired by a Journey to the Dunhuang Grottoes.Taking Cave 25 of the Yulin Grottoes as its starting point and "revitalizing murals through music" as its core concept, this work integrates original music, digital images and interactive technology. Following Monk Lezun, the founder of the grottoes, the audience steps into a narrative time-space built by light, particles and soundscapes, experiencing the whole process from enlightenment in the desert, grotto founding to the "revitalization" of mural stories, and feeling the profound charm of Dunhuang's musical culture and Buddhist art. It is not only an artistic reproduction of ancient murals, but also a cross-temporal dialogue combining history, technology and music.

Composer: LI Qiuxiao

Interactive System & Digital Visual Design: QIAO Hanying, ZHU Jingyi, WANG Yicheng

Visual Direction:XIA Hongda

Pipa Performer: ZHANG Ling

In the year 366 AD, the monk Le Zun witnessed a miraculous sunset over Mount Sanwei - its golden rays manifesting as a thousand Buddhas in the sky. This divine vision inspired him to carve the first cave, thus beginning Dunhuang's sacred tradition of preserving spiritual sounds within stone walls. These grottoes became living archives of the Silk Road's sonic heritage, where monastic chants echoed alongside artisans’ chisels and the eternal chime of caravan bells. This groundbreaking transmedia production reimagines Dunhuang's cultural legacy through an immersive interplay of electronic soundscapes, virtuosic pipa performance, and real-time audiovisual interaction. Titled “Niches of Fire,” it visualizes the Buddhist concept of infinite illumination - where each flickering lamp in the cave niches symbolizes the Dharma's boundless radiance.

Composer: CHENG Huicong

Programming: DING Kaicheng

Percussionist: LIU Meng

Female Voice: JIANG Xiao

Visual Design: RAN Haoling, XU Mingshan

The work adopts a combination of live musical instruments and sampling, combined with multimedia video presentation, showing the story of a teenager looking for ancient scores on Shazhou (the old name of Dunhuang in the Tang Dynasty).

Composer: SHEN Ji

Sheng：WANG Haitao

Guzheng：WANG Yiting

“A sudden drizzle descends; the wind stirs into ripples. Raindrops fall from the heavens, yet—swayed by the breeze—they lose their destined paths, weaving through the air in endless forms: now a beaded curtain cascading, now wandering silken threads adrift.” Chained Rain—this composition roots itself in the zither’s shimmering clarity and the sheng’s resonant depth, fused with the multidimensional soundscape of modern electronic music. Through an "interplay of illusion and substance" in its sonic tapestry, it conjures this primordial spectacle.

Composer: YANG Lei

Percussionists: WANG Xindi, ZHUANG Hongli, WAN Ruixin

A folk from northern China.

Composer/Writer: SONG Jialin

Visual Design: MA Shihua

Shakuhachi: YANG Bowen

Deaf to the Rain is a multimedia stage production composed for shakuhachi, electronic music, and interactive visual projections. The title draws inspiration from the lyrics of the poem “Calming the Waves · Listen Not to the Sound Through Woods and Leaves” by the renowned Northern Song dynasty writer Su Shi. Inspired by the poetic imagery of his work, I have created a fictional solo narrative that moves from the external natural environment into the inner psychological world of a character. Through this piece, I express my deep appreciation for the spirit conveyed in Su Shi’s writing—an optimistic and magnanimous humanistic spirit.

07  Blossoming Shadows - Interactive Electronic Music with Real-time AI-generated Visuals (2025/4'30''/World Premiere)

Composer/Performer: WAN Fang

Visual Design: ZENG Ziqiao

Blossoming Shadows is an interactive audiovisual electronic music composition that draws inspiration from the Zen Buddhist concept of “a flower in hand, a smile unfolds”. Through the medium of the hand, the piece merges motion recognition with AI-generated visuals to explore the relationship between body, algorithm, and civilizational memory. As hand shadows glide through space, ephemeral digital illusions emerge in response—images born from intention, gestures, and thought. Here, AI is not a mere tool, but a perceptive collaborator. Together, human and machine engage in a choreographed dialogue, where ancient symbols find renewed form through contemporary algorithmic logic. In this meditative interplay of light and movement, Blossoming Shadows evokes an Eastern aesthetic of transformation where presence gives rise to vision, and the immaterial becomes visible. It is a dance of perception, a co-creation of past and future, tradition and technology.

Audiovisual Composition: WANG Xinyu

Interactive Design & Engineering: XUE Nianzhi

Digital Percussion Solo: LIU Meng

On January 3, 2019, the Chang’e-4 probe successfully landed in the Von Kármán crater within the South Pole–Aitken basin on the far side of the Moon, achieving the first-ever soft landing and scientific exploration of the lunar far side in human history. This piece, based on spectral data collected by the Chang’e-4 research team and published in Nature, leverages intelligent technologies to transform these unique natural science datasets into audiovisual interaction, audiovisual structure, and musical spatialization data. These transformed elements subsequently constitute the primary compositional material. The Chinese title Yue Yin of the piece is a homophone of “musical tone” in Chinese, symbolically evoking the concept of “lunar tones” through the expressive medium of technology-based art. This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China under the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Project (No. 22YJC760102) and the Department of Culture and Tourism of Zhejiang Province (No. 1110C4512201).

Composer: DUAN Ruilei

Guqin: ZHOU Hengcheng

Programming: MA Zhengyang, DUAN Ruilei

“A Thousand Listenings” is an interactive sound installation that contemplates the dialogue between ancient Eastern resonance and modern digital collective consciousness. At the heart of the piece lies the solitary tremor of a guqin string—an inquiry from history, a primordial frequency emanating from the depths of civilization. Its sound is captured, deconstructed by algorithms, and reanimated with an electronic pulse. In response, a constellation of smartphones in the audience awakens, weaving a continually evolving, immersive soundscape—an acoustic landscape that grows in real-time. This is not merely a performance but an aural ritual spanning millennia, where the ancient breath of the guqin meets the distributed, networked consciousness of the present, facilitated by every participant's device.