Through a Fading Autumn (2010) 2 Huqins, Pipa, Zheng

An original work in renaissance style, written and performed by Federico Bonacossa

Tre pezzi in stile antico - III. Toccata

Adrift

Night Soundscape captured by DPA 5100, mixed down to stereo

Night Soundscape at USJ 2 garden

'Dawn' for Ten Musicians - 2025 version

The endless mile 09112025

Short Circuit refers to when neurons aren’t connecting properly in the brain, when one experiences brain fog or small seizures when tiny moments of time disappear.  In this piece, there are silences or ghosts of musical material that require the listener to mentally provide the connecting thread between the ideas to form the complete narrative.  The electronic sounds are triggered by the percussionist through Ableton Live, thus being a bridge between a piece for instruments and fixed media and a piece for interactive electronics.

Short Circuit

The Burrow, a story of an animal that has built itself a magnificent burrow, but who lives in fear that it will be found and invaded, so it spends most of its time outside the burrow keeping watch over it.

02 The Burrow - Icarus Tales of Kafka_4 Edit_15 Mix_6 - 44100Hz 16bit

Pixercise (ver. 2024) mvt 4_excerpt

Dream Gloaming (2025) for fixed media
*Originally for 4 channels, here is the stereo remixed version.

Music Composition: Chen-Hui Jen

Poem in Chinese is AI-generated by Chen-Hui Jen's language model. 
English Translation / Editor: Chen-Hui Jen

《暮之沉降》

在未醒與未眠之間
聲音尚未找到名字
只是一縷呼吸
隨暮色，散落為霧

有光未至
卻在眼皮下漾動
像河的暗潮
將一切牽向無岸

Dream Gloaming

In the liminal space between waking and sleeping,
A sound yet unnamed
But a breath
fades into haze with the twilight.

Light hasn’t arrived,
yet it flickers beneath the eyelids—
like a hidden river current,
drawing everything toward a shoreless drift.

Dream Gloaming (2025) for fixed media - Stereo Remix

Commissioned by the Lucerne Festival for the celebration of Pierre Boulez’s 100th birthday

Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, Leonard David Wacker
August 23, 2025, Lucerne Hall of the KKL Lucerne

IMPULSE Hommage à Pierre Boulez

Chen-Hui Jen is a composer, poet, and pianist, whose music presents an imaginative, spiritual, and poetic space with subtlety and sophistication. She writes music works that reflect an angle of contemporary art music that integrates time, sound, color, and poetry.

Through a Fading Autumn (2010) 2 Huqins, Pipa, Zheng

Chen-Hui Jen, Composer