Sound explorer and designer. Creating ambient soundscapes, playing with sonic textures and composing for theatre and dance. I dig into the nowadays noise.


2025
30.11 Volkshotel, Amsterdam
09.11 Volkshotel, Amsterdam
06.11 Subtle radio, London
30.10 Garage Noord, Amsterdam (live)
19.09 B2B with dismade DeKunstfabriek, Rotterdam 
14.08 B2B with PEBMAC Radio Hinter, Amsterdam
05.07 Molly is Boven, Rotterdam (vinyl set)
29.05 Stranded FM w/ Marathon Nanna and PitStop, Utrecht
23.05 Kabul à Gogo, Utrecht (live)
05.04 BIMHUIS, Amsterdam (hybrid)
28.03 Echobox radio, Amsterdam
28.02 TNP radio, Amsterdam

2024
30.09 DKC, Sarajevo
19.07 TNP radio, Amsterdam
04.07 Centraal Laat, Utrecht (live set for dance)
21.06 BIMHUIS, Amsterdam

AUDREY CHEN is a Chinese-American musician who was born into a family of material scientists, doctors and engineers, outside of Chicago in 1976. Parting ways with the family convention, she turned to the cello at age 8 and voice at 11. After years of classical and conservatory training in both instruments, with a resulting specialization in early and new music, she parted ways again in 2003 to begin new negotiations with sound in order to discover a more individually honest aesthetic. 
Since then, using the cello, voice and occasional analog electronics, Chen’s work delves deeply into her own version of narrative and non-linear storytelling. A large component of her music is improvised and her approach to this is extremely personal and visceral. Her playing explores the combination and layering of the homemade analog synthesizer, preparations and traditional and extended techniques in both the voice and cello. She works to join these elements into a singular ecstatic personal language. 
Over the past decade plus, her predominant focus has been her solo work with the cello, voice and electronics, but she has more recently begun to shift back towards the exploration of the voice as a primary instrument. 
Recent projects, aside from performing solo, include her long running voices duo with London based artist, Phil Minton, and duos with NYC abstract turntablist, Maria Chavez, French guitarist, Jean-Yves Evrard, BEAM SPLITTER, with Norwegian trombonist, Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø, the “romantic noise duo” AFTERBURNER with Doron Sadja (electronics/light projections), with modular synth player, Richard Scott, with American percussionist, Flandrew Fleisenberg and a collaborative project with German conceptual artist, John Bock. 
Her most recent album releases (2013) include, a quartet LP with Nate Wooley, C. Spencer Yeh and Todd Carter on Monotype (Warsaw), and a duo record with Phil Minton on Subrosa (Brussels). 
Chen has performed across Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Taiwan, Brazil, Argentina, Canada and the USA. 
In 2011, in addition to her performances, she was awarded the prestigious Mary Sawyers Baker Prize, an award that was established to support individual artists living, and working in Maryland. Since 2011, she relocated to Berlin, Germany from Baltimore, MD USA and continues to maintain an active international touring schedule.
David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet has described her work as "fascinating and gripping" and "possessing something extremely vital and vivid...." 
www.audreychen.com

trying to learn from sound, nature and technology 


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future:

past:
2025
18-21 September What the garden told me (for gogbot in Enschede) 
08 July___________V23 Community day 
16 februari___________Ambient&cake [live]
2024
05december________ div.fuse [live+workshop]
19 october________ V23 [live//Matter]
12 october ________ Gifkikker [live] 
04_april________ Noase [live] 
2023
23_december___V23[live] 
22_june_________vierovier [live] 
5_march________galerie-el ___ [live] 
3_march________Noase [live]

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