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。

"MusicXHabitatXArt: [Porcelain & Sound]" project consists both installations and functional music making objects: intended to perform music with, and create sound from. The instruments are like headdresses and ancient Egyptian collar necklaces. Cut from slabs, smoothed like silk: forgotten memories. The project invites the listener into a state of meditative aural- visual contemplation.

[Matchsticks 3’30’’] [2022] 4K VIDEO
Dimensions Variable, 4K Digital Art Film
(4K Digital Art Film, Dimensions Variable)

[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: Crosses of Blood 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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Music X Habitat X Art was founded on the livable and breathable “habitat” created by the marriage of the visual and auditory: exploring archetypal symbolism and imagery by traversing the lines between the digital, concrete, and subconscious. We are a multi-disciplinary collective whose medium is digital video artwork, sculpture, and live performance: using installation and contemporary piano performance by merging contemporary music with digital art, deconstructive process, and poetic augmentation. Interactive visual storytelling is our method of presentation of the abstract in music and art. Our mission is to further the enjoyment and appreciation of underrepresented contemporary music post-1900.MHA’s founders are Yaoyue Huang, Scott Lowell Sherman, and Zhongjing Jiang. Sherman and Huang are performing classical pianists based in the US, and Jiang is an exhibiting photographer, curator, poet, and lecturer based in London and Guangzhou. Sherman also works in digital video art and sculpture, Huang in Photographic Manipulation and sculpture. MHA challenges the contemplation of contemporary music through the lens of the subconscious: asking viewers to challenge preconceived notions of what music, art, and sound can be—on a journey beyond the familiar: beyond cultural or state lines. Our works are a transformed medium—an amalgamation of various processes which modulate both music and imagery through MHA’s explorative vision.MHA is dedicated to presenting classical and contemporary music in new interdisciplinary ways to audiences, engaging them visually and aurally through communal experience of contemporary music and art. Music X Habitat X Art seeks to create new ways to experience: where the need for human connection through collective experience brings a sense of community and belonging.