Join us and Lee Kim as we lead a guest lecture and workshop at the CUNY Graduate Center’s Data Visualization and Storytelling Intensive Course, centered on our long-term project From Roots We Carry. Drawing from three years of audience responses gathered through touring the work, students will collaborate in groups to analyze text-based data and explore creative, ethical, and accessible ways of translating lived experiences into public-facing visual and narrative forms.

Join us for an intimate and playful program on the PAC NYC Lobby Stage for a winter-themed program that reflects on the season’s quietude and transformation, drawing inspiration from Debussy and Bach, and drifting through newly crafted soundscapes that explore the serenity of nature, as well as the inner warmth and connectedness with loved ones that characterize this time of year.

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We will be presenting Ocean of Memories at the a2ru 2025 Conference, and share how the interdisciplinary performance initiative had equipped performing arts students with tools to engage local climate issues, framed through the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal: Life Below Water. Conference attendees will have the opportunity to explore a demo of the AR experience at the gallery, offering a hands-on understanding of its functionality and impact.

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Join Lucy at the National Sawdust as a guest artist for Yasmin Williams!

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Georgetown University’s Friday Music Series will present Dorothy on Sept 19th! Swing by to enjoy an afternoon of toy piano and electronic music, as well as originals on prepared piano featuring visual art by Jen Harris.

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We are excited to be part of the 2025 WAA Conference as presenters at the Pitch NOW Sessions.

Pitch NOW is a forum for bold artistic ideas that need more than a stage and tour date to become reality, and features new, innovative performing arts projects that span disciplines, support social movements, work well in nontraditional venues, engage communities or schools, or utilize the latest technology.  

We will be presenting our new work-in-progress: In Remembrance We Breathe, an AR Soundwalk that explores themes of loss and adaptation, transforming community trails and parks into spaces for reflection, connection, and remembrance. Through interviews, rituals, and music, it uplifts the voices of Alzheimer’s patients and caregivers, offering connection and healing.

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Presenters and Panelists for the Asian American / Asian Research Institute’s 2025 symposium, co-organized with NYU Steinhardt and City University of New York. Addressing the topic “Healing during Uncertainty: Asian American Mental Health”, we shared how the power of art and storytelling can navigate intergenerational trauma, reclaim cultural identities and foster healing, empowerment within AAPI communities.

A new commission and collaboration with Wellspring/Cori Terry & Dancers – one of the nation’s longest-standing, small professional modern dance companies – this will be an event featuring incredible music, dance, and storytelling.

The program will explore the themes of home, food, and belonging. This work is centered on the question “What food makes you think of home?” and explores the ways that love is expressed through cultural memory.

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November 22nd 8:00pm

Novermber 23rd 8:00pm

Novermber 24th 2:00pm 

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Join us for the opening ceremony of “how fragile, we bloom”, an immersive soundwalk created in collaboration with Wave Hill and the Art, Community, Education and Science youth program interns.

Alongside Chromic Duo's sound design, narration and composition, stories from the ACES have been incorporated into a site-specific, meditative soundwalk that invites audiences to reflect upon this current moment in history. The ACES stories speak to individual and collective experiences, creating a storytelling capsule. Through communal creation and connection, Chromic Duo provides a platform for Wave Hill visitors to contemplate the ways that seasons bring change, their own relationships to nature and the larger community, and ultimately, how to support one another through times of uncertainty. 

The launch event begins in the newly renovated Glyndor Terrace Garden with an introduction to the soundwalk and live musical performance by Chromic Duo. The artists then lead participants on a guided tour of the soundwalk through Wave Hill’s Herbert & Hyonja Abrons Woodland. The event culminates with a group reflection with the artists. 

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Lucy Yao and Dorothy Chan, as Chromic Duo, use toy pianos, “real” pianos, electronics, and multimedia to uncover truths and reimagine human connection. Their program Room of Oceans invites audiences to reflect on the question, “how can we create moments of connection and empathy?” Through a series of new commissions and nature-inspired works by Chopin, Ravel, Olafur Arnalds, and Brian Eno, Chromic creates a space for audience members to reflect on their current state of being and experience an undercurrent of dynamic emotions. 

With their unique blend of toy piano, electronics, and multimedia, Chromic Duo— comprised of award-winning pianists Lucy Yao and Dorothy Chan—present Room of Oceans, a program that ruminates on the question: How can we create moments of connection and empathy? Featuring pieces inspired by nature, Chromic invites audiences to reflect on their current state of being, believing that by slowing down and looking at the smallest objects of the everyday, "we can uncover truths and reimagine how we connect with each other.”

This concert is part of “Roots and Branches,” Wave Hill’s indoor concert series featuring artists from across musical disciplines, exploring how traditions and heritage inspire musical exploration and growth. Explore more Roots and Branches concerts here.

“All that you touch
You Change.

All that you Change
Changes you.

The only lasting truth
is Change.”

— Octavia Butler

Reflections
Vision Duo violinist Ariel Horowitz and percussionist Britton-René Collins) and Chromic Duo (toy pianists and multimedia artists Lucy Yao and Dorothy Chan) explore our experience of time in three musical chapters centering past, future and present. Past will begin with a performance of the final movement of Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time – a masterpiece from the Western Classical 20th canon exploring the concept of immortality. Text shared by the audience will be projected onto the walls of Merkin Hall as the artists move from the Messiaen into their own original compositions and improvisations based on the audience's words. Future will feature further improvisations and original multimedia compositions, and Present will conclude the program with the Messiaen reimagined, symbolic of the convergence of past and future.

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Catch us in Huntsville Alabama on Nov 9th!

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Hosted by the School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts, we will be playing a concert “From Roots We Carry” to start our residency and soundwalk project with faculty and students of Texas A&M.

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Join us at Afterhours @ NMAA for an Ay-O exhibit and Fluxus inspired evening at the National Museum of Asian Art!

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Chromic Duo curates an evening of Nightcap, the cabaret-style series of music and conversation in the new Kenneth C. Griffin Sidewalk Studio.

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It is the National Museum of Asian Art’s Centennial year — it is both a milestone and a springboard to a transformative vision for their next one hundred years, but what will the next one hundred years look like? Join us on the museum's actual birth date for a contemplative, forward-thinking, dynamic performance, that incorporates the museum’s legacy of the last one hundred years and reshape the way we think about the next one hundred.

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Short performances at 12pm, 3pm

Full performance at 7pm

Chromic duo will be performing at the McGarvey Commons as part of the Logan Series Music at Noon, at Pennsylvania State Behrend College.

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Chromic duo will be performing at the Dalton Center Recital Hall as part of the Bullock Series at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI.

Pre-concert talk: 7:00pm

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Catch us at the East Meadow Public Library for an afternoon concert! Featuring our originals as well as compositions and covers by Bing & Ruth, Yasmin Williams, Phong Tran and Andy Akiho.

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Presented by The Englert Theatre and Little Village Magazine, Witching Hour is a platform dedicated to exploring the unknown, discussing the creative process, and presenting new work.

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Presenting as part of the National Gallery Nights series, Chromic will share two sets at 7pm and 8pm. Living Between the Lines is a program that transcribes the stories and lives behind the storefronts and murals of Chinatown. Fusing recollections of childhood and moments of loss, the piece explores how our ideas of belonging are constantly rupturing and mending, creating moments for grief and joy to intertwine.

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