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People Concerto | A Hybrid Creature
People Concerto exists at the intersection of participatory composed theater, large-scale interactive sound installation, and AI Crowd Dynamic Analytics - a form with no exact precedent. The theater becomes the instrument. Thirty-five strangers walk onto the stage and, without being told, begin composing music together.
Across 63 sensor-embedded sound cells, each footstep, pause, and shift of direction generates sound. Vocal and instrumental material by Ictus Ensemble and Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart has been deconstructed and distributed throughout the space - waiting to be activated. As individual trajectories intersect and accumulate, the boundary between soloist and orchestra, performer and participant, ceases to hold. The traditional hierarchy of the concerto dissolves. There is no singular hero. There is only the crowd, and what it becomes.
World premiere. April 10~12, 2026. Weiwuying, Kaohsiung.
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Concept|CHANG Shiuan & Ma Yuanyuan
Artistic Director & Composition | CHANG Shiuan
Installation & Visual Direction|MA Yuanyuan
Creative Consultant|HUNG Wei-yao
Recording and Live Musician|Ictus Ensemble
Sheng|
@lilichin1111
Choreographer & Performer|LIU I-ling
Recording|Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Sound Design & Audio Engineer|
@sun_shaoting
Lighting Designer|
@ray_tseng___
Costume Designer|
@thenewcrosser
Makeup Artist |
@lifeofhsin
Technical Director|Nick HUNG
Video Technician | WU I-Yeh
Producer|
@easoncheng1125 , Yinglu Wang
Production Executive | LIU Guan-Ling
Co-Production & Commission |
@weiwuying_centerforthearts
Co-developed and Technically Support|Quanta Research Institute
Composition Exclusive Sponsor|Muzik3 Foundation
Sound Engineering Exclusive Sponsor|Jessica Chu & Hendrick Lee
Work-in-progress support|
@nationaltaichungtheater
Creation research supported and commissioned by National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, and premiere at the Weiwuying National Arts and Culture Center on April 10, 2026.
Photos credit to: Kim Lee