Carolyn Chen
Carolyn Chen has made music for supermarket, demolition district, and the dark. Recent
projects include a marble chase and a commission for Klangforum Wien. Her work has been
presented in 23 countries and described by The New York Times as “the evening’s most
consistently alluring … a quiet but lush meditation.” Her decade-long studies of the guqin, the
Chinese 7-string zither traditionally played for private meditation in nature, has informed her
thinking on listening in social spaces. Recordings are available on Perishable, the wulf.,
Quakebasket, and Play It Forward. She earned a PhD in music from UC San Diego, and an MA in
Modern Thought and Literature and BA in music from Stanford University, with an honours thesis
on free improvisation and radical politics.
http://www.carolyn-chen.com