Born in Tokushima. BFA In piano performance from Osaka College of Music in 1985. She went to the US in 1990 to study composition at the Boston Conservatory, and graduated there at the top of the class of 1993, getting many awards and honors including Summa Cum Laude and Roger Sessions Composition Award. Getting MA from Columbia University in 1996, she had been given Andrew Mellon Fellowships for her doctral studies in composition and musical aesthetics at the university, where she taught undergraduate classes for three years.
"Chronosphere" is scored for fifteen instrumentalists and live electronics controlled by Macintosh computer. While the sound of the entire ensemble is taken by two microphones to be precessed by an external signal processing unit SPX-90. the sound of each of four instruments, oboe, trombone, piano and violin-1, is individually taken by a mirophone to be processed by MSP. The parameters of SPX-90. MSP and the mixer are controlled by Max program on the computer. The piece was completed in New York in 1999 as a part of the dissertation for her doctrate. During the work, the electro-acoustic control at the realization, as well as real sounds of the instruments, is carefully thought out as an important element of the composition.
Born in Peking in 1955 where he began his studies in composition at the Central Conservatory from 1980 to 1985. These studies were continued in the class of György Ligeti at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg until 1989. Already in 1987, his First String Quartet was premiered at the Donaueschinger Musiktage. Chen received the Composition Prize of the Forum Young Composers of the West-German-Ratio (WDR) in 1992, the Kaske Prize Munich (with György Ligeti) in 1993, and the J. S. Bach Prize (with Karlheinz Stocklrausen) awarded by the Hamburg Senate in 1 995. Chen has worked with prominent orchestras and ensembles such as the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Philharmonic State Orchesta of Hamburg, the Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, the London Sinfonietta, the Auryn Quartet, the Arditti String Quartet, the Ensemble 2e2m in Paris and so on.
I have chosen the English word WARP as a title for this piece because of its diverse associations, such as in "distortion" (also distortion of time), or in "weaving" of threads and in the deformation of material.
