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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

Yesterday Yet To Come/다가올 어제/昨日将至 2 (2025)      
For installation, cassette tapes, and live electronics
   
Installation by Wonchul Ryu
Sound and Performance by Yanqi Chen

13 minutes in loop 
Premiered and performed October 11, 2025, exhibited October 11-18, 2025 at DIFFERENTIATION, MakingSpace, Baltimore, MD

In the installation, Ryu arranges bamboo, food containers, cable ties, and fragments of translation into layered configurations that suggest adaptation, binding, and distortion. The assemblages echo the spliced sounds: both operate through interruption and reconfiguration. Within this shared rhythm of fracture and repair, the work opens a space where differentiation is not a boundary but a method — a living process of resonance between materials, bodies, and cultures.
The sound part from Yanqi, on the other hand, blurs the temporal boundary between past and present. Yanqi collected field recordings from travels, daily radio broadcasts, and old songs in the artists’ mother language, then wove them together with cassette tapes from the 1980s belonging to strangers. Performed live on two vintage cassette players, these sonic fragments form a layered collage that unsettles linear time and stable identities, creating an acoustic space in which cultural traces and temporal fragments intertwine, resonate, and take on new forms.







 

YANQI CHEN

last updated July 2026