Huihui Cheng

Wergo characterized Huihui Cheng’s portrait CD (2015–20) as „a blend of playful, mysterious, and otherworldly sounds,“ reflecting her artistic journey during this period into what she termed „theatrically extended composition.“ This involved integrating intermedia elements, delving into the visual aspects of music, infusing sound with theatrical depth, thus expanding the expressive possibilities of musical meaning. In many works, she incorporated elements such as costumes, lighting, or unconventional objects and action into her compositional palette, in order to explore alternative performance formats, freeing musicians from traditional constraints. Her performances occasionally embrace installation-based and audience-involved approaches, questioning the interplay of sound, movement, and space. By blurring the boundaries of traditional performance settings, Cheng’s innovations help bridging the gap between art and music, performer and audience.