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CAROLYN CHEN - My End Is My Beginning

from SYNTHESIS VOL. 2 by International Compilation

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Carolyn Chen (San Diego, United States ) has made music for supermarket, demolition district, and the dark. Her work reconfigures the everyday to take apart habits of our ears using sound, text, light, image, and movement. Recent projects include an opera mashup of Euripides’ Hekabe and Red Riding Hood sung to helicopter and digestion sounds, and an assemblage on falling interweaving personal stories, interviews with physicists, and footage from falling cameras commissioned for the 2014 MATA Festival of New Music.

The New York Times described Wilder Shores of Love, a chamber orchestra piece commissioned for a 2011 Zankel Hall premiere by S.E.M. and Ostravska Banda, as “evening’s most consistently alluring piece … a quiet but lush meditation.” The work has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, MATA, American Composers Forum, ASCAP, Stanford University, University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, Emory Planetarium, Wellesley Composers Conference, and Machine Project at the Hammer Museum, presented in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Israel, Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, the U.K., Germany, Switzerland, China, Australia, Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. Chen has been fortunate to work with ensembles such as Pamplemousse, Surplus, Talea, Chamber Cartel, Die Ordnung Der Dinge, Dal Niente, Ensemble This Ensemble That, Asamisamasa, NorthArc, Now Hear, Kallisti, Ostravska Banda, S.E.M., Prague Modern, Gliss, thingNY, Red Light, New York Miniaturist Ensemble, red fish blue fish, Silent Book, orkest de ereprijs, and Zwo. 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 honors thesis on Free Improvisation and Radical Politics.

Program Note

"My End Is My Beginning" was first made for a coffin-sized immersive listening space. The Foley sound opera spins out from a whale-swallowing, merging everyday and fantastical sounds with underwater recordings.

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from SYNTHESIS VOL. 2, released July 5, 2015

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