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Audrey Chen

A second generation Chinese/Taiwanese-American musician, Audrey Chen returns to Barreiro after a memorable performance in early 2020. Having studied the cello and voice since an early age, granting her with a technique and wit that allow her to escape academic entropy trappings through a free and personal expression, for nearly two decades Chen's trajectory has been mostly solitary, manifested through a ceaseless exploration of the peculiarities of those same instruments, generally in conjunction with electronics, through lyricism, extended techniques, harmonics, repetition and pure sound as means for hypnosis. In the last few years, Chen's been developing collaborations with artists on the same wavelength such as Phil Minton, Kaffe Matthews or Maria Chavez.