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Sound

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

When Clouds Are One Cloud Till The Horizon (2025)

For mixed string ensemble (2 vln, 2 vla, 2 cl, 2 e. gtr, cb)
9 minutes in one movement
Premiered August 10, 2025, at Creative Dialogue, Château de Beauchêne, France

During the summer of 2025, I began to explore some printmaking works. The act of layering inks and repeating gestures in the printing process felt profoundly musical to me. For this project, I turned to one of my favorite subjects agagin -- clouds. Drawing on photographs of clouds I have taken over the years, I explored ways of translating their shifting forms into patterns and textures.

This piece extends that exploration into sound. Just as printmaking builds depth through repetition and layering, the music unfolds through textures that return and transform, delicate variations, and shifting harmonic spaces within the ensemble. In this horizon-like expanse, clouds become not only visual material but also a metaphor for resonance, transformation, and continuity—countless gestures merging into one cloud till the horizon.













YANQI CHEN

last updated July 2026