New Music-Media Theatre - Mirror Mind  

A cross-over experiment combining dramatic performance, live percussion, interactive multi-channel electronic music and new-media visual arts, Minds Mirror expects to explore the multi-layered nature of human being by rendering the reciprocal reflection of one’s inside and outside world with a "pan-acoustic" narrative approach.  The Kunqu performer tries to talk with the digital illumination and his reflection in mirror initiating a dialogue between sound and image, and then break up with them, which causes a series of wobble, distortion, metamorphosis and sublimation…  The production and rehearsal process of the work is inside the Shanghai Key Laboratory for Art of Musical Acoustics and supported by Construction Program for In-novative Research Team, Shanghai Institutions of Higher Education (2ndPhase).  (Co-commissioned by CSIAF & Shanghai Conservatory of Music)

Composer Qin Yi is a lecturer in the Music Engineering Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music.  As a member of “Touch Sound - New Music-Media Group,” she has been awarded the First Prize in 2006 Tsang-Houei Hsu International Music Composition Competition, the Second and Third Prize of the 4th and 8th "Chinese Music Jin Zhong Award" Awards respectively, and the Honorary Mentions in 2008 Prix Ars Electronica Digital Music Category.  Her works have been featured in numerous international arts festivals in USA, Germany, France, Holland, Austria, Luxembourg, Australia, Singapore and China, etc.  Her music, Shadow of Sound, was described as "hard not to be entranced" by the New York Times.  Mirror Mind is created by "Touch Sound" - an open team of originality and production in new music-media consisted of composers, engineers, new-media artists, and performing artists.  The group devotes itself to the technological exploration and research in electronic music, new-media arts, visualized music, contemporary sonic arts and installation, as well as experimental music composition and staging practice.  It promotes the cross-media field cooperation concerning art and technology which based on innovative ideals from Chinese traditional culture.  “Touch Sound - New Music-Media Group,” established by Professor Chen Qiangbin of Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 2006, has the professor himself as its Art Director, and several composers and electronic artists of the new generation like Qin Yi, Xu Zhibo, Fang Dalei as its core members.  For recent years, the team members have not only won plentiful awards home and abroad, but also created more than ten concerts and sound installation exhibitions with brand new concepts.  With those events, it has accumulated abundant works of electronic music, new music-media and sound installation.  The Group represents the pioneer of Chinese contemporary electronic music and new music-media.  Mirror Mind manages to invite Da Yan, the creative director in Novatrio new media emsemble, as the Visual Interactive Art Designer and Director, Wu Shuang, national first-level actor in Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe, winner of the 12th Wenhua Performance Award, as its main performer, and Zhang Zujing as the percussion performer.