Chaospace 2025 Special Edition for Apply Triangle
Selected Composers
Yanqi Chen is a composer, multimedia artist, and sound engineer whose work explores the intersection of instrumental performance, electroacoustic sound, and mixed media works. Drawing inspiration from visual art, social issues, nature, and personal experience, her practice extends from instrumental composition into experimental projects encompassing installations, virtual reality, and cross-disciplinary designs integrating light, motion, dance, real-time visuals, and sound spatialization. Her work has been featured at festivals and conferences including Académie internationale de création musicale avec nouveaux media, Creative Dialogue, NSEME, SEAMUS, and SICPP, among others. She is currently a doctoral fellow in Composition at Columbia University.
Kim Hedås is a composer of orchestral, vocal, chamber, and electroacoustic music. Her music has been commissioned and performed by prominent orchestras, ensembles and soloists in Sweden and internationally. Her work also includes electroacoustic works and site-specific music installations. Her compositions have recently been performed internationally and at numerous festivals and venues in Sweden. Kim Hedås is a professor of composition at Kungliga Musikhögskolan in Stockholm and holds a PhD from the University of Gothenburg.
Jack Herscowitz is a Chicago-based composer, improviser, and sound artist working across experimental music and art practices. Described as “the slow descent of the sun at twilight” (A Closer Listen), his current work centers around commitment to unadorned musical materials to reveal their complexities, exorcisms of mass-produced tech, interruptions which peel back the curtains on cultural practices of art making, noise as an activation of the full body, and relational non-hierarchical webs of listening. His practice spans instrumental composition, dramaturgy, electroacoustic improvisation, installation, landscape film, object performance, sampling, text, and communal sound making. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Composition and Sound Practices at the University of Chicago.
Chaospace, in collaboration with Apply Triangle Ensemble, is excited to announce an Open Call for Composers to create a new work for Apply Triangle — a trio of flute, bassoon, piano, and electronics.
The selected composer will be commissioned to write a 7–8 minute piece, which will be premiered at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in Manhattan on November 23, 2025.
Apply Triangle is a NYC-based electroacoustic trio of Yoshi Weinberg (flutes), Christopher Foss (bassoon/shakuhachi), and Jixue Yang (piano). Blending live electronics, multimedia, and socially engaged themes, the trio has performed internationally at the SinusTon Festival (Germany), NYU’s Pulsing and Shaking Macro Festival, Manhattan School of Music, and the University of Pennsylvania, and led residencies at Bowling Green State University and the University of Florida. Their first Call for Scores led to Oxalis Triangularis, a three-album collection of 33 remotely recorded works released on cmntx records in 2024, reviewed by I Care If You Listen and Neon Music UK for its innovation and artistic breadth. A recipient of Chamber Music America’s Ensemble Forward Grant in 2021, Apply Triangle continues to champion bold new voices in electroacoustic chamber music.
Pronouns: They/Them
Yoshi Weinberg (they/them) is a NYC-based flutist, harpist, and composer. Lauded for their “sublime tone” and “creative interpretation and technical virtuosity” (I Care If You Listen), Yoshi is a dedicated performer of contemporary and experimental works. Yoshi has performed as a soloist across North America and Europe including Carnegie Hall (NYC), Walt Disney Concert Hall (LA), the Fitzgerald Theater (St. Paul, MN), among many others. They currently are Artistic Director of InfraSound, and is
founding member and flutist for Apply Triangle, InfraSound, and Aqueeressence. An active freelancer, Yoshi performs regularly with Talea, Contemporaneous, and ChambeQUEER, and as a guest artist with Ensemble Signal, the Da Capo Chamber Players, Zeitgeist, and many others. They currently sub on Reed 1 for The Lion King on Broadway. Additionally, Yoshi served as Artistic Director of the Minnesota new music ensemble RenegadeEnsemble for the 2017-2018 season. As a composer, Yoshi’s compositions have been described as “a stunning compositional display of polyphony and texture” (ICIYL) and “transcendent, emotional, and intimate” (Sparks and Wiry Cries). Their works have been premiered by Contemporaneous, ChamberQUEER, InfraSound, e(L)ement duo, the dream songs project, and RenegadeEnsemble, and have been featured on Minnesota Public Radio and at the American Harp Society Summer Institute. Yoshi is currently studying their DMA in Flute Performance at CUNY Graduate Center, studying with Robert Dick. They received their MM in Contemporary Performance from Manhattan School of Music with Tara O’Connor, and their BM in Performance from Saint Olaf College with Catherine Ramirez.
Pronouns: He/They
Brooklyn bassoonist Christopher Foss is a multi-instrumentalist who has been praised for "aggressively imaginative contributions" in new music (NY Classical Review.) Recently returned from a two-year Broadway tour of The Sound of Music, he is working with groups such as SEM Ensemble and Wordless Music after performing across much of China and Southeast Asia. He is formerly contrabassoonist with the Bakersfield Symphony and American Youth Symphony with performances in Walt Disney Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall, and in the international opening of the new Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Center in Mumbai, India. He has appeared as a soloist with the New Millennium Orchestra, Divertimento Strings, and premiered new works for bassoon at REDCAT Theatre in Downtown LA. He has been lucky to appear in concert with critically acclaimed artists such as Joanna Newsome, Ravi Coltrane, and Kathleen Battle among many extraordinary performers.
His credits in contemporary classical music include work with WildUp, Relachê Ensemble, SEM Ensemble, Tri-Centric Foundation, Atlantic Music Festival, Brooklyn Raga Massive, Curiosity Cabinet, recording with Roscoe Mitchell, and interdisciplinary works within series at Roulette Intermedium. He frequently performs in house concerts, improvisations, experimental music venues, and plays Wandelweiser works with LCollective on Teodora Stepančić’s series Piano+. He has completed graduate studies at the California Institute of the Arts, an orchestral fellowship with Lynn Philharmonia, and research in reed construction at the Gaetano Donizetti institute in Bergamo, Italy. He is an adjunct instructor of music at CUNY CityTech, St. Francis College, and is an active elementary teaching artist with Midori & Friends as well as the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. He is pursuing Alexander Technique certification at Balance Arts Center and is a continuing student of Kinko-ryu shakuhachi playing with studies in Tokyo and had the opportunity to perform at the 2025 World Shakuhachi Festival alongside his teachers Ralph Samuelson and Elizabeth Brown.
Pronouns: She/They
New York-based pianist Jixue Yang is known for her genre-defying performances that explore sound, gesture, and identity through experimental and electroacoustic music. She was the first Chinese citizen admitted to the Manhattan School of Music’s Contemporary Performance Program, where she is currently completing her Doctor of Musical Arts. Her principal teachers include Phillip Kawin, Margaret Kampmeier, Solomon Mikowsky, and Inesa Sinkevych.
Yang has received the Gold Award at the Singapore International Music Competition and was named Pianist of the Season at the Ad Libitum Piano Competition, with multiple top prizes recognizing her interpretations of 20th- and 21st-century repertoire. She has performed internationally at venues including Akoesticum (Netherlands), Hochschule für Musik Leipzig and Dresden, Opera America’s Marc A. Scorca Hall, DiMenna Center, and the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center. Her residency and festival appearances include SinusTon Festival, Nief-Norf, Cortona Sessions, Creative Dialogue IX, NYU’s Pulsing & Shaking Festival, and the Negentropy Nexus by Absonus Lab.
A dedicated educator, Yang has taught at Manhattan School of Music, Columbia University, and through community programs such as the Misty Copeland Foundation’s Be Bold initiative. Her teaching focuses on inclusivity, critical listening, and experimental techniques. She has presented lectures and workshops at institutions including the University of Florida, University of Pennsylvania, Bowling Green State University, and Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, often centering underrepresented voices and evolving technologies in contemporary music.
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