Chaospace 2025 Special Edition
for Apply Triangle
Magical Garden
Sunday, November 23, 2025 · 3:00 PM EST
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Cary Hall
450 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018
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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 (Royal College of Music 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.
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