During the 2025 SoundPedro sound art event, we painted “Roots and Demons” with 100 festival attendees on two large Japanese folding screens,
Our performance merged visual art and sound, fostering collaboration and interpretation. Two Japanese screens stand as canvases and stage. Musicians positioned behind these backlit screens responded spontaneously to brushstrokes painted by participants using black sumi ink from the front.
Together, our collaborators explored the “chthonic” underworld with brushstrokes forming tree roots that cradled surreal, hidden dokkaebi (Korean demons).