12 Jan '21: 
New YouTube: 
https://youtu.be/ZAUHeDIsrNk

On Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/track/40GsRYroCAz8rMtWiYPDea?si=hBOxgEU_RbaPIeWb00LXqQ

New piano and orchestra work for #PianoDay2020…Different from my norm, this work is fantastical, whimsical, and uses granular synthesis as well as tuned percussion, harp, and guitar. String flautando and harmonics create the sotte voce effect. Dedicated to my friend Lisa who has terminal cancer. Just learned Lisa passed away on 4/1. May she be in eternal peace...
https://sharonchen.bandcamp.com/track/silence-of-the-moonlight
YouTube pre-release piano performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GzwsqgN7Ag

Silence Of The Moonlight (PianoDay2020)

I had something inside that must fly free.
NeoClassical
Modern Classical
Soundtrack
OST
BSO
Not Quite Classical
And ….  Prog rock. 

https://youtube.com/channel/UCFn6yvzY1gKi7lheBTK-Ftw
@TheBirdInside

Music, Sound and Programming are old time passions. I'm posting various things here. Some recorded nearly 30 years ago, classical guitar with Roland D5 multi tracked with two tape decks.

Modular pieces are recorded live without editing ... pure impro and tweaking.

Aleatoric Journeys are generated programmatically with an application I'm working on. Output is a midi file.
The tracks are rendered in LMMS with free plugins.

Meditation tracks are produced with the current version of my application.
Midi file is now much more elaborate.
It's just rendered with timidity. Effects are added in audacity. It's based on a mutable sequence concept I'm working on.
The sequences are periodically mutating at a given frequency and level giving an ever changing sequence. For recent pieces the sequences can be set back to the original periodically and then will evolve again.


Meditation Three is another improvement in the process as all tracks are rendered individually, then mixed in audacity.

When creating this application I always tried to make things sound like they were actually played. The purpose for me is to be able to work at a concept level to capture the ideas before they go away and in a way try to compensate my ADH.

18 August 2025
https://sharonelainechen.com/so/11PYyZ4__?languageTag=en

Thanks for subbing to my YouTube for piano and violin performances/lives! https://www.youtube.com/c/SharonChenMusic

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Classically-trained, award-nominated composer. What Was I Made For? won Steve Sheppard’s Award for Best Single in April 2024, One World Music Radio, UK. Blissful and Beyond Album won third place Best Album (Sept ’24) Harvard College graduate with honors in Music and East Asian Languages and Civilizations.. I am a poet, dreamer; see my poems on Twitter. 

My songs tell stories of darkness evolving into light. I play piano lives on many medias - classical, jazz, neoclassical and somewhere in-between. My YouTube has over 640k views in classical, originals, jazz. Each of my feel-good orchestral works from Blissful and Beyond album has a story of gratitude.

New EP’s in progress in different genres. Disney/jazz (Once Upon a Time, Long,Long Ago);  Album, The Five Elements - wood, water, metal, earth, fire - elements intrinsic to ancient Chinese philosophy, poetry, landscape art.. works either sounds Chinese or western with Chinese philosophy behind it. Chopin EP with new and classic takes. 10 million+ Spotify streams.
https://www.sharonelainechen.com/ 

Watch for originals and covers on both instruments on YouTube and Spotify. Thanks for subbing to my YouTube and following me on Spotify. Find different works on my Bandcamp, One World Music Radio too.
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Dawn of the morning lightly caresses
The moon touch of our hearts reveals 
In the blackest of nights..
In the breathlessness of circumstances 
The embracing hearts slowly heals..

~SEC

My music is dependent on where inspiration takes me. I hope you enjoy something here!

Silence Of The Moonlight (PianoDay2020)

Sharon Chen Music