Music X Habitat X Art was founded on the idea of the livable, breathable, “habitat” created from the marriage of the visual and auditory: exploring the lines between the digital, concrete, and subconscious. We are an interdisciplinary group whose medium is digital artwork, installation, and contemporary piano performance: merging contemporary music with digital art and performance installation.Music X Habitat X Art challenges the contemplation of classical music through the lens of the subconscious, asking the viewers to challenge their preconceived notions of what music and art can be on a journey beyond the familiar.[The struggle of consciousness’ ascent toward meaning and light is like a lotus flower which struggles to birth itself through the muck of the pond bed, to finally lay itself on the water's surface and bloom.]Music X Habitat X Art 希望挑战观众对现代音乐和视觉艺术的固有观感，透过潜意识的摄影影像重新审视现代音乐和艺术。意识在自我挣扎中上浮，找到光和意义。就像莲花突破泥潭，最终在水面绽放。

Rivulet—I Dream A Lot But I Never Sleep... combines artist-designed robotics, piano performance, video art, robotic arts, and sonic contemplation to explore consciousness, dreaming, and the human-technology duality. "Rivulet" symbolizes life's flow, emotions, and spirituality, representing change and transformation based on the dreamer's emotions and inner world. The robot of the same name, “Rivulet”, guides gently towards discovery and peace, embodying a sense of being unfinished and reflecting feelings of loneliness. Alongside a robot spider that dances expressively, Rivulet's imaginative world is depicted, showing its sense of being caught in a web. Through both internal reflection and external isolation, Rivulet and the spider find a way out in the end.

Rivulet—I Dream A Lot But I Never Sleep..., 7'35'', 2023/2024 4K Digital Art Film, Dimensions Variable
[1 Channel | 3840x2160 | 4K | 60p | Stereo Sound | 48kGz] Artist resigned robot, piano performance, spider robot

Matchsticks: 3’30’’ is a call to action: to fight for the return to equanimity. The “Call to Action” uses the same iconography and archetypical imagery as the digital artwork: the cross, fire, tree of life, nature (land, sea, sky) and the human: built environments, the spirit, and consciousness. The call begs to rise and fight for our rights—to become the protectors of the natural balance and equality of the world—opposed by the forces of L’homme moderne: the modern man, his greed, and the destruction of the natural environment.

[Matchsticks 3’30’’] [2022] 4K VIDEO
Dimensions Variable, 4K Digital Art Film
(4K Digital Art Film, Dimensions Variable, [1 Channel | 3840x2160 | 4K | 60p | Stereo Sound | 48kGz])

The album "Allegory of the Cove: Midnight...Daybreak...Dusk," composed and performed by Sherman, uses handmade porcelain gongs and bowls, piano, glasses, bird calls, and digitally manipulated sounds to invite the listener into an imagined cove. The music guides the listener through a temporal transformation from midnight to daybreak, beginning at midnight. Stark forlorn birdcalls precede the emergence from an etherial otherness.In the cove, mysterious boats of peculiar shapes and colors materialize and vanish like playful apparitions. Adorning the tops of these tugboats are porcelain tubes that catch the wind, producing whistling horn calls like celestial love songs. We also hear reverberations of an ancient Japanese Gagaku orchestra--the music once only heard by the highest imperial royal family. At daybreak, Whooper swans emerge, singing mating calls calls to one another in melancholy harmony. The boats echo these calls in unison, offering a prayer of safe travels. At dusk, crickets and fireflies whisper strange rhyming poems to a fisherman who casts his line by lamplight, into the utmost calm water.

Introduction: kiss...beyond those stars, those ebony fish and coral jewels...a message from a boat swept to sea
Movement I: A cove's memory of the stars and fractured moonlight (Cove at Midnight)
Movement II: ...And then daybreak opens from the heavens and boats whistle strange tunes (Cove at Daybreak)
Movement III: ...as dusk enters, crickets and fireflies make friends with a traveling fisherman (Cove at Dusk)
Epilogue, Mono no aware: A Wave's Guide In Stars; A Wave's Guide In Stars...

[THE PRINCESS OF BALI, 2’46’’ & [MANA V: La Vache, 1’40''] (2022)
Sister digital works [digital collage, travel documentation, on-site installation & documentation]
4K Digital Art Film, Dimensions Variable—[3840x2160 | 4K | 60p | Stereo Sound | 48kGz]

[OHANA] x MHA: Fleeting Scroll, 14'19'', (2021/2022)
Digital art film & live performance installation
Dimensions Variable
Silk fabric, 7ft wood dowels, rubber, aged metal clips, digital media, projector, laptop, standing lights, steinway piano, pianist
Virtual Music—Art—Work
Dimensions variable

La boîte à Bijoux: A Night's Wayfaring Stranger, 2'02'' (2021)
Digital art film, vertical, <Intended for Mobile>
Virtual Music—Art—Work
Dimensions variable

The Horizonless River, 7’25’’, (2021)
Digital art film
Virtual Music—Art—Work
Dimensions variable

"Good Night On Sixth", 3'59''
Digital art film
Virtual Music—Art—Work
Dimensions variable

Founders 创建者
Scott Sherman, Pianist 钢琴家, composer 作曲家, Video and Digital Art 影像艺术
Amelie Jiang 爱美丽, Curator 策展人，Visual Artist 视觉艺术家，Photographer 摄影师
Yaoyue Huang 黄尧玥, Pianist 钢琴家，New Music 现代音乐，Photographic Manipulation 摄影处理

[Most Recent Works]MHA: The Book of Sounds
Live Performance | December 2023 | in co-presentation with Highways Performance Space and Gallery L.A.
[MHA: The Book of Sounds is a live performance based on Hans Otte's spiritual minimalist masterpiece—experience an aural journey of contemplation and serenity that explores the partnership between sound and silence. Through projection, body performance, calligraphy, and audience participation, MHA presents a communal "habitat" of mindfulness that honors the timeless power of village music-making.]MEMORY BOX I, Knocking; Fingers; an old mossy Japanese temple with odd shadows and no monk, 1'24'' (2023)
4K Digital Art Film, Dimensions Variable—[3840x2160 | 4K | 60p | Stereo Sound | 48kGz]Matchsticks: 3’30’’(2022)
4K Digital Art Film, Dimensions Variable—[3840x2160 | 4K | 60p | Stereo Sound | 48kGz][Jolivet X MHA]: “ MANA V. La Vache 1'40'' (2022)
Digital Artwork
Virtual Music—Art—Work
Dimensions variable
4k video, green screen fabric, metal armature, rope, ties, various locations and seasons
winter season film location: Northwest rural China
summer season film location: Hangzhou, China
André Jolivet: Mana pour piano seul, [Yaoyue Huang, Piano][Jolivet X MHA]: “ THE PRINCESS OF BALI 2’46’’  (2022)
Digital Artwork
Virtual Music—Art—Work
Dimensions variable
André Jolivet: Mana pour piano seul, [Yaoyue Huang, Piano]Fleeting Scroll, 14'19'', (2021/2022)
Digital artwork & live performance installation
Dimensions Variable
Silk fabric, 7ft wood dowels, rubber, aged metal clips, digital media, projector, laptop, standing lights, steinway piano, pianist
Maurice Ohana: 12 Etudes d'interprétation pour piano: Nr. 6 & 9 [Scott Lowell Sherman, Piano]Monet's Love, 12'14'', (2021)
Digital art film & live performance installation
Dimensions Variable
Cut flowers, Vellum, Rubber bands, DSLR, Silk fabric, 7ft wood dowels, rubber, aged metal clips, digital media, projector, laptop, standing lights, steinway piano, pianist
François Couperin: Pièces de Clavecin, [Scott Lowell Sherman, Piano]"La boîte à Bijoux, A Night's Wayfaring Stranger", 2'02'' (2021)
"MOBILE" Digital artwork
Virtual Music—Art—Work
Dimensions variable
[Intended for Mobile Viewing]
Julia Wolfe, Earring for Solo Piano,[Yaoyue Huang, Piano]"The Horizonless River", 7'24'' (2021)
Digital artwork
Virtual Music—Art—Work
Dimensions variable
William Bolcom Étude Nr. 12, Hymne à l'amour, from 12 New Ètudes for Piano [Scott Lowell Sherman, Piano]"Good Night On Sixth", 3'59'' (2020-21)
Digital art film
Virtual Music—Art—Work
Unsuk Chin: Étude Nr. 6, Grains, pour piano, [Yaoyue Huang, Piano]"Orior; oritus sum" (2020)
Hand-animated art film
George Crumb, Makrokosmos: Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac, Vol. II, I. Morning Music (Genesis II) (Cancer), [Scott Lowell Sherman, Piano]"There's April In The West Wind, And Pansies" (2020)
Art film, freshly cut flower petals, vellum paper, rubber bands
Dimensions variable
Olivier Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'enfant-Jésus, I. Regard du Père, [Yaoyue Huang, Piano]Recent Exhibitions
Solo Exhibition: Ant Nests—Allegory of the Cave at Highways Gallery, Santa Monica L.A. (December 2023)
Solo Performance of MHA: The Book of Sounds in co-presentation with Highways Performance Space L.A. (December 2023)
FILE São Paulo 2023 Electronic Language International Festival São Paulo, Brazil (July-August 2023)
"1989" at the Cerritos Gallery, LA, USA (Aug. 29-oct. 6 2022)
"1989" [Part II.] MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture, Portland, USA (Jan.-Feb. 2022)
URBAN: Works About the City, or City Life (Part of the Season 18 Five Themes Project) [MANIFEST Gallery, Cincinnati]
Solo Exhibition and public art installation @ Huacheng Square, Guangzhou (October 2021)
Éternité Éphémère Exhibition Paris, France (2021)
The Jupiter Museum of Art in Shenzhen, Group Exhibition (2021)
Solo Exhibition and public art installation @ Huacheng Square, Guangzhou (May 2021)
5th Annual Special Exhibition of Justart Space, Guangzhou, Group Exhibition (2020)

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We embrace the digital age, where the traditional biography evolves alongside our medium. Instead of static narratives, we invite you to engage directly with our work, which is entirely accessible online. The ideal way to experience what we create is through personal interaction—immersing yourself and drawing your own conclusions. Let the archetypal symbolism embedded within the visual and aural elements resonate with your unique perspective and enrich your experience.- - - - - - - - - - - -Mission Statement: MusicXHabitatXArt (MHA) is an experimental artist collective founded by Yaoyue Huang, Zhongjing Jiang, and Scott Lowell Sherman. We merge music, visual art, and both experimental and traditional performance practices to amplify their spiritual essence, exploring intersections between these forms. Rooted in a deep appreciation of nature and sound—integrating Jiang’s stark black-and-white photography and both classical and contemporary performance practices—our work engages with contemporary technologies and ascetic practices, questioning the boundaries between tradition and innovation. Through playful experimentation and our research in interplay, we seek to cultivate an unspoken bond with the strange and beautiful.