AUDREY CHEN / CARLOS QUEBRADA


AUDREY CHEN
Audrey Chen is a 2nd generation Chinese/Taiwanese-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 conservatory training with a resulting specialization in early/new music, she parted ways again in 2003 to begin new negotiations with sound in order to discover a more individually honest aesthetic.
Since then, using the un-processed voice, cello and analog electronics, Chen’s work delves deeply into her own version of narrative and non-linear storytelling. Her playing explores the combination and layering of the analog synthesizer, prepared, traditional and extended techniques in both the voice and cello. She works to join these elements into a singular ecstatic personal language.
Collaborative projects: duos w/ Phil Minton, HISS & VISCERA w/ modular synth player Richard Scott, BEAM SPLITTER w/ Norwegian trombonist Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø, MOPCUT w/ Lukas König and Julien Desprez, and a duo for voice/live digital process w/ Mexican sound artist Hugo Esquinca. Past projects: w/ German artist John Bock and w/ NYC abstract turntablist Maria Chavez.
Based in Berlin since 2011, Chen has performed across Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Taiwan, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Canada and the USA.


CARLOS QUEBRADA
Carlos E. Quebrada Vasquez is a Colombian musician Born in Bogotá in 1991 and settled in Buenos aires since 2009, Mr. Quebrada has being a relevant figure in Argentinan and Colombian contemporary creative music and avant-jazz scene. As a leader, composer, bass player and curator in many distinguished productions that varies between musical ensambles and groups, Filmscore for shortcuts and movies and sound design and composition for theater plays.
In 2015 he had won the award for the best musical composition for shortcuts in the international Bogota film festival ‘’Bogoshorts’’ with the film Becerra. And in 2018 he has being selected with other 13 musicians from all around the world to make part of ART OMI music residence in Hudson, NY, and in 2019 has being selected to make part
as Associate artist in the residence of Annie Gosfield in the Atlantic Centre for the arts. As leader and composer of the widely celebrated rock-in-opposition group Sales de Baño he had released 3 albums in various labels, was awarded with the first prix for unpublished jazz album of the ‘Fondo Nacional de las artes’ (National Art resources
entity of Argentina) in 2018 with the album ‘Geometría del Vínculo) and perform in the different jazz festivals and venues from latin America, including Buenos Aires jazz festival, ICPNA Jazz festival, Lima Jazz Festival and New music Festival of Montevideo. As a producer, side man or co-leader he had released more than 15 albums in Argentina, Colombia, Perú, Uruguay and Chile. Also composed pieces for
contemporary ensambles as Scelci Dúo (Chile), Ensamble Fractura (Chile), Nicotina es primavera (Perú/Argentina) Cabeza de Termo ensamble (Argentina). Collaborated with great musicians from all over the world such as Marta Gomez (Colombia/spain), Nicolás Ospina (Colombia), Nikolaus Neuser (Germany), Violeta García (Argentina), Nicolas del Aguila (Argentina) Weasel Walter (USA), Chris Pitsiokos
(USA), Audrey Chen (USA/Berlin), Alan Courtis (Argentina), Brandon Seabrook (USA), María Mónica Gutierrez (Colombia), Andres Gualdrón (Colombia), Benjamin Calais (France), Bonnie Lander (USA), Samuel Weinberg (USA), Camilo Angeles (Perú), Michael Evans (USA) among many others,
Currently co-direct the net label TVL REC, a record label with more than 15 albums published of experimental and new music of artist from Latin America and a monthly series of concerts since 2016 in Roseti one of the most significant venues in Buenos Aires.