Profile
Carolyn Chen was born in New Jersey and lives in San Diego. Her music looks for hidden lives of things. Influences include Schubert, sloths, and playing early music on shawm, harpsichord, and guqin, the ancient Chinese 7-string zither. Recent projects include human windchimes, music for supermarket, and an abstract comic translation of the Book of Job. Carolyn received a B.A. in Music (piano performance) and M.A. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University, where she wrote an honors thesis on free improvisation and radical politics. Currently she is a Music Composition Ph.D. candidate at UCSD, advised by Katharina Rosenberger, Anthony Burr, Charles Curtis, Norman Bryson, and Ricardo Dominguez. She is writing on aesthetics of a mundane sublime.
