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DYOLO? (2026)
      For Interactive Installation   

Even As I Am Silent, and Am Not Wont To Speak (2026)
      For Vocal Sextet and Electronics   

The Fallen Leave Falls (2025)
      For flute, bassoon, piano, live electronics and video   

Yesterday Yet To Come 2 (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   

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   

Visual

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

Photography

Cloud of Sound, Sound of Cloud  

B&W

Color

Even As I Am Silent, and Am Not Wont To Speak (2026)
 For vocal sextet and electronics
   
10 minutes in one movement. 

Commissioned by Ekmeles Ensemble
Premiered April 21, 2026, at St Paul’s Chapel, New York, NY

The piece inhabits the precarious threshold between interior thought and exteriorized expression, challenging theconventional hierarchy that treats speech as a mere vessel for stable, semantic meaning. The performers navigate aworld of scattered syllables and phonetic friction, where the impulse to communicate stutters against the impossibility offinding a "perfect" word. Yet, even in these fragments, a trace of meaning persists. They carry the resonant echoes oflanguage, existing as an endless chain of deferral that dissolves and extends into sonic textures. This fragmentation alsoinvolves a dissemination of expression, drifting into the sensory space unsettled by embodied gestures. Instead ofpantomiming text, they enact an autonomous experience that resists linguistic capture. Silence is reconstituted not as anabsence, but as a dense, formless space where the body’s breath and movement speak what syntax cannot. This unspoken text is drawn from each performer's own writings and curated by the composer. Through collaboration, thesememories and emotions are then translated into gestures. Moving beyond the surface of literal signification, the workinvites an intuitive perception of what remains unsaid, allowing the dissolution of language to become an act of liberationthat reveals an entangled trace within the vibrant, unresolved tension of silence.





 

YANQI CHEN

last updated July 2026