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In tempore belli...

Generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes recorded in Mantua, Italy between September 10-14, 2024:
    1) A walk through the historical center of Mantua
    2) A gelataria with the best ice cream in town
    3) Inside the Basilica di Sant'Andrea
    4) A rehearsal of the ensemble "nova ars cantandi" in the Basilica Palatina di Santa Barbara, singing "Dona Nobis Pacem" from an unknown mass by Antonio Nola (1642-1715).
Released: Sep 23rd, 2024
Info: https://essl.at/works/HEAD.html

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M.A.N.T.

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M.A.N.T. (Most Answers Never Translate) - BINAURAL

Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra
Yannick Mayaud, direction

Bogossitude II (2024)

NAMES ensemble 
dir. Gregor Mayrhofer

Marina Iglesias, flauta baja
Marco Sala, clarinete bajo
Anna Lindenbaum, violín
Valerie Fritz, cello
Špela Mastnak, percusión
Matthias Leboucher, piano

grabación en directo del estreno el 10-IX-2024
festival Klangspuren Schwaz

Isila bezain ilun

Poisoning in the field, among the grains (2025) for amplified Ensemble

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vacant lot (strange bird) (2023), for large amplified ensemble
commissioned by Ensemble Intercontemporain

Live Recording, Klangforum Wien

vacant lot (strange bird) (2023), for large amplified ensemble

Saxophone - Juan Moreda
Piano - Panos Nikitaris
Percussion - Taikan Yamasaki
Electronics - Yuheng Chen

Mastering - Christoph Himmelfreundpointner

Yuheng Chen - OD_OD [overdose_overdrive]

Violin - Youngseo Kim
Saxophone - Juan Moreda
Piano - Panos Nikitaris
Percussion - Taikan Yamasaki

Mastering - Christoph Himmelfreundpointner

Sergej Newski - Bastelmusik II

Automaton - Youngseo Kim
Viola - Jingyi Zhai
Saxophone - Juan Moreda
Piano - Panos Nikitaris
Electronics - Yuheng Chen

Mastering - Christoph Himmelfreundpointner

Yuheng Chen - overflowed clouds dispose themselves, why is that rain?

Sergej Newski - Bastelmusik I

Marta Gentilucci - Über

Nachtstück for Ensemble, Ensemble Mosaik Berlin, Conducter: Bas Wiegers

Nachtstueck - Urbane Klangräume Nr. 1

Yuheng Chen – Composer, Pianist, and Contemporary Arts Event Organizer. Born in 1998 in Jinan, China,

Chen’s work draws on memory—awakening and transforming personal traumas—through dense, grainy textures and weighted pulses whose resonances give space for reflection.

Chen studied composition under Michael Jarrell and Clara Iannotta, as well as electroacoustic composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw) with Karlheinz Essl. Starting in 2024, Chen will begin working with the International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA) based in Frankfurt.

In 2022, Chen was a finalist in the Ö1 Talentebörse competition in Austria. In 2023, Chen was a laureate of the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award and received first prizes at the Concorso Internazionale di Composizione, the Frank Robert Abell Young Composers Competition in the USA, and the Irino Composition Prize in Japan. Chen is active in numerous music festivals, including Witten Tage für neue Kammermusik, Tokyo Operacity Composium 2023, Impuls Festival Graz, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, Klangspuren Schwaz, Festival Mixtur Barcelona, and Wien Modern. Chen’s works have been performed by various orchestras and ensembles such as the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Names, Ensemble Phace, Ensemble Platypus, Ensemble Modern, and many others.

Chen also attended private classes with Ying Wang, and masterclasses with Olga Neuwirth, Chaya Czernowin, Francesco Filidei, and Franck Bedrossian, among others.
Contact :yuhengchencomposer@gmail.com

Poisoning in the field, among the grains (2025) for amplified Ensemble

Yuheng CHEN

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