Enter Duo Cichorium’s Playscape Emporium, a six-part series built around storytelling through cross-disciplinary collaboration. Each event in the series will feature a distinct artistic medium, blending music, dance, theater, visual art, poetry, puppetry, and video games. Duo Cichorium and their guest artists will craft unique narratives that blend their creative styles, resulting in unpredictable and engaging performances.

Curator

• Duo Cichorium

Guests

• Constant Yen
• Rowan Campbell
• Charli / Fahmid / Joe / Mira

Program

• Canvas Conductor (2024) – Duo Cichorium 20’
• Animation Jam – Rowan Campbell, Duo Cichorium, Musicians 15’ (World Premiere)
• INTERMISSION – COUNTERVISION (2022) by Jaz Tsui 20’
• Live graphic score creation – Constant Yen, Duo Cichorium, Musicians 30’

PAINT, PLAY centers on music improvisation driven by visual art. The audience will witness the creation of various painted works, following the story of a painting as told by the brush. Duo Cichorium’s Canvas Conductor is an electroacoustic hybrid instrument which integrates a painter’s canvas with a custom built synthesizer, and AI based sampler AudioStellar. With this mega-instrument, a painter’s brush strokes to directly control the production of sound as the image progresses. Next, the animated film work of Rowan Campbell will be featured in conjunction with improvised music. An interactive installation, COUNTERVISION, created by Jaz Tsui will be presented during intermission, in which viewers will be invited to view the creation of a graphic score and encouraged to interact with a midi board that controls the mix of pre recorded instrumental tracks playing through the room’s speakers. This work allows the viewer to be an active participant in both the viewing and listening experience. In the second half, Constant Yen will be performing their various visual practices, including painting, drawing, sculpting, animation, and oil manipulation. This will act as a visual score for Duo Cichorium, joined by 5 other improvising musicians.