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Works

Yesterday Yet To Come (2025)
      For installation, cassette tapes, and live electronics    

When Clouds Are One Cloud Till The Horizon (2025)
      For Mixed String Ensemble    

They Have Only Existence (2025)
      For Solo Percussion, Live Electronics, and Generative Video Score   

Warp (2025)
      For 4-channel Fixed Media and Audio-reactive Video   

The Poetics of Waiting… (2025)
      Installation for Interactive Animations and Spatialized Sound  

       Shards of The Untraced (2025)

      For String Quartet and Spatialized Fixed Media    

Events And Results (2024)
      Video Game    

Unsupervised (2024)
      For Electric Guitar Quartet and Light    

Place Each Body Part on the Box And... (2023)
      For Wood, Resin, Print, Force Sensors and 6-channel Fixed Media    

inhere nowhere (2023)
      For Mixed Ensemble, Live-electronics, and Spatialization    

The Forgotten Ones (2020)
      For String Quartet and Fixed Media    

Clouds (2019)
      For Flute and Live Electronics    

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Downloadable Contents

Scordatura Tuner

36 EDO Player

48 EDO Player

About
Yanqi Chen is a composer, multimedia artist, and sound engineer whose work explores the intersection of instrumental performance, electroacoustic sound, and mixed media works. Drawing inspiration from visual art, social issues, nature, and personal experience, her practice extends from instrumental composition into experimental projects encompassing installations, virtual reality, and cross-disciplinary designs integrating light, motion, dance, real-time visuals, and sound spatialization.

Her work has been featured at festivals and conferences including Académie internationale de création musicale avec nouveaux media, Creative Dialogue, NSEME, SEAMUS, and SICPP, among others. From September 2024 to May 2025, she was an artist-in-residence at the Barnard Movement Lab, where she conducted research on motion tracking, light design, VR, and spatialized sound, culminating in her first large-scale interactive installation.

Yanqi holds a Master of Music in Composition and Computer Music from the Peabody Institute of Music, where she studied with Felipe Lara, McGregor Boyle, and Geoff Wright. She also earned a Certificate of Professional Studies in Theory and Composition from the New England Conservatory, studying with John Mallia, Bert Van Herck, and John Heiss, and a Bachelor of Music from Skidmore College. She is currently a doctoral fellow in Composition at Columbia University, working with Georg Friedrich Haas, George Lewis, Marcos Balter, Zosha Di Castri, Brad Garton, and Seth Cluett. She has also participated in masterclasses and seminars with Chaya Czernowin, Patricia Alessandrini, Pamela Z, and Mark-Anthony Turnage, among others.
Upcoming Events

Comissioned work by Apply Triangle & Chaospace
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York, NY
11-23-2025

Past EventsSynesthesia Spectrum - Differenciation 
MakingSpace, Baltimore, MD 
10-11-2025 -> 10-17-2025

Creative Dialogue 
Château de Beauchêne, France
08-10-2025

Académie internationale de création musicale avec nouveaux media
Dijon, Burgundy, France
07-12-2025

The Poetics of Waiting...
Barnard Movement Lab, NYC, NY
04-28-2025 -> 05-02-2025

Columbia Composers Presents The Rhythm Method
Fridman Gallery, NYC, NY
03-01-2025

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last updated Oct-2025