Caroline Chen

Caroline Chen is a classical trained musician and electronic music composer. Her works explore the effect of spatial and temporal arrangement on one’s listening experience. There are constant aural stimulus in our daily life, in particular in new york city, sound of broken glasses, siren, subway noise, or sound in the nature– the sound of the ocean, or walking in the park, the sound of breathing, leaves rustling, and so on. “At times, I record these sounds, at times, I use the pre-recorded samples. I take and manipulate them generating new sounds which one may not recognize its sonic source, thus, giving a listener a different aural experience. I also integrate these new sounds with video that I create. I scan and render 2D paintings into 3D animated digital images that transform over time. Projecting sounds in space along with projecting these 3D images in motion on a large screen create an unique visual-aural experience.