Audrey Chen / Wouter Jaspers
Audrey Chen / Wouter Jaspers
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By way of combining their disparate backgrounds of acoustic and electronic manipulations, they are able to create an organic synthesis of sound, which together, fashion an unusual and distinctive vernacular comprised of folk, animal, feral, freely calculated, and cerebrally devouring. cello/voice/electromagnetic waves, respectively.
Audrey Chen is a Chinese-American musician who was born into a family of material scientists, doctors and engineers, outside of Chicago in 1976. Parting ways with the family convention, she turned to the cello at age 8 and voice at 11. After years of classical and conservatory training in both instruments, with a resulting specialization in early and new music, she parted ways again in 2003 to begin new negotiations with sound in order to discover a more individually honest aesthetic. Now, using the cello, voice and analog electronics, Chen’s work delves deeply into her own version of narrative and non-linear storytelling. A large component of her music is improvised and her approach to this is extremely personal and visceral. Her playing explores the combination and layering of a homemade analog synth, preparations and traditional and extended techniques in both the voice and cello. She works to join these elements into a singular ecstatic personal language.
Wouter Jaspers is a experimental composer, soundartist and musician from Tilburg, The Netherlands, who currently lives in Berlin, Germany. Wouter Jaspers creates dark repetitive music, psychedelic soundart combined with electro-acoustic elements and fieldrecordings. He has no specific instrument he plays, but mostly performs with electromagnetic waves, analog synthesizers and modified electric guitars. Besides his solo project Franz Fjödor, he also performs together with Audrey Chen, Sten Ove Toft, Steffan de Turck, Tom Smith, Jos Smolders and many others. Between 2007 and the end of 2010 he played over 400 performances over the globe and is considered the most active Dutch experimental musician around.
