The Interrupted Dream in the Garden is a five-minute audio-visual electroacoustic piece based on Peony Pavilion, a romantic tragicomedy play for Kunqu Opera by dramatist Tang Xianzu in the Ming dynasty. In the pipa playing, the gentle, sweet melodies are personified by the female protagonist, Du Liniang, while the male protagonist, Liu Mengmei, is portrayed through fast, deep melodies. The piece mimics the structure of a play and is divided into 7 acts, namely “Stroll,” “Falling Into a Dream,” “Tryst,” “Liu Sheng,” “Li Niang,” “Cloud and Rain,” and “Waking up.” The processing of the pipa melodies aims at creating an atmosphere of interweaving real and imaginary, a dream-like story for what happened between the protagonists.