Premiered by Wavefield Ensemble, Mar 25, New York
For flute, clarinet, trombone, horn, percussion, violin, viola, cello, bass, live electronics and 8-channel system

inhere nowhere

Stepping Beyond The Cave

ThePoeticsOfWaiting_Binaural

In the installation, Ryu arranges bamboo, food containers, cable ties, and fragments of translation into layered configurations that suggest adaptation, binding, and distortion. The assemblages echo the spliced sounds: both operate through interruption and reconfiguration. Within this shared rhythm of fracture and repair, the work opens a space where differentiation is not a boundary but a method — a living process of resonance between materials, bodies, and cultures.
The sound part from Yanqi, on the other hand, blurs the temporal boundary between past and present. Yanqi collected field recordings from travels, daily radio broadcasts, and old songs in the artists’ mother language, then wove them together with cassette tapes from the 1980s belonging to strangers. Performed live on two vintage cassette players, these sonic fragments form a layered collage that unsettles linear time and stable identities, creating an acoustic space in which cultural traces and temporal fragments intertwine, resonate, and take on new forms.

Yesterday Yet to Come Tape

For Violin Solo and Live Electronics

Performance:
Jean Huang, Violin
Yanqi Chen, Electronics

Production：
John Mallia

Memory In Glass Marble

For 4-channel, fixed media
Premeired on April 17, 2019, Black Box Theater at New England Conservatory
Cover by Dongsheng Xu - 徐东升

Late Sunny Day - 晚晴

All about sound and noise, illusion and reality, complexity and simplicity.

For 4-channel fixed media
Cover by Kathleen Patrick

Dimidiation

Experience the intimacy within the cage. 
The Cage, sound installation for paper, wood, metal and 4-channel digital track
SICPP 2019, at NEC, Boston

The Cage

Original text by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Yanqi Chen 

Soprano, Nicole Stover
Piano, Wanwan Yang

The Blind Woman (Excerpt)

For Rothko, No. 10, 1950 (2020), for orchestra

For Rothko, No. 10, 1950

Flute, Adam Eydelson
Electronics, Yanqi Chen
Cover Painting, Gerhard Richter. Clouds. 1982.

Clouds, for Alto Flute, Flute, Piccolo, and Live Electronics

The Forgotten Ones (2020), for String Quartet and Fixed Media
Dedicated and performed by Talea Ensemble

The Forgotten Ones (2020)

https://chenyanqiofficial.com
BA, Skidmore College 17'
SCE, NEC 19'
MM, Peabody Institute 21'
DMA, Columbia University -ing'

Yanqi Chen

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