CHEN, Carolyn

Carolyn Chen is an American composer, sound artist, and performance artist, born in Red Bank, New Jersey, in 1983 and based in Los Angeles. She studied music and modern thought at Stanford University and earned a Ph.D. in music from the University of California, San Diego. Her work combines sound, text, movement, light, and everyday objects, and is also influenced by her long-term study of the Chinese guqin.
Her works include The Sleeper and the Drinker, Animalcules, We Were Dead and We Could Breathe, The Mussels, Oceans in Oceans and This Is a Scream. Her music has been commissioned by ensembles and institutions including Klangforum Wien and the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group.