Chaospace 2025 Special Edition
In Collaboration with Apply Triangle
Magical Garden
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Sunday, November 23, 2025 · 3:00 PM EST
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Cary Hall
450 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018
Chaospace 2025 Special Edition Concert Magical Garden, curated by Chen Shuhe Yue, presented in collaboration with Apply Triangle, is an acoustic-electronic and multimedia performance featuring six works in total, including five world premieres.
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The Magical Garden project is supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA).
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Composers of Premiered Works (in program order)
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.
Chen Shuhe Yue (Yue Chen) is a composer, soprano, and interdisciplinary artist. Her practice combines instrumental composition, theater, movement, and sound installation into immersive creations that interlace acoustic, electroacoustic, and multimedia dimensions. Her music explores social themes related to mental health, illness, and marginalized experience through an objective yet empathetic sonic language that invites reflection and accessibility. With a strong dramaturgical sensibility, she expands the expressive scope of music by shaping sound into spatial and sensory experiences. Her works have been presented in over twenty countries and in collaboration with ensembles such as JACK Quartet, Ensemble PHACE, and ICE. She is currently a Doctoral Fellow in Composition at the Manhattan School of Music.
Tianyu Zou is a composer and multimedia artist whose practice merges experimental electronic music, moving image, and socio-cultural inquiry through immersive audiovisual experimentation. His work integrates instrumental virtuosity, electronics, visuals, and lighting, using forms reminiscent of urban memes to explore the complex relationship between the internet and contemporary society. His projects have been presented at festivals and institutions, including GMEM (FR), EMS (SE), Liminal/Crossroads (AT), Musikfestival Bern (CH), MIXTUR (SP), Kalvfestivalen (SE), IRCAM, C-Lab (TW), Rümlingen (CH), and Lucerne Festival. He has been awarded several grants from the Nicati de-Luze Foundation and Ernst von Siemens Grants. He is currently pursuing his Doctorate in Composition at the University of California, Berkeley.
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.
Apply Triangle is a NYC-based electroacoustic trio founded by Yoshi Weinberg (flutes), Tyler Neidermayer (clarinets), 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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Special guest bassoonist David Nagy will be joining us for the Magical Garden concert in November 2025.​​​​​​​​
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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.
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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.
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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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Dávid Ádám Nagy is a Hungarian-born protodisciplinary artist, contemporary bassoonist, and creative entrepreneur whose work dissolves the boundaries between disciplines — not to erase them, but to discover the intersections that connect them.
A graduate of Bard College and The Juilliard School, Dávid is recognized for performances that unite emotional and conceptual depth with resonance and virtuosity, creating concert experiences that linger far beyond sound. He approaches performance as a living of experiment — an encounter between structure and spontaneity, attention and intuition.
Dávid has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician at MoMA, the Budapest Spring Festival, White Nights in St. Petersburg, Lorin Maazel’s Castleton Festival, the Prototype Festival, and the Bard Music Festival. He is a member of contemporaneous, a renowned ensemble devoted to performing the most exciting music of today. His artistic collaborations have extended to institutions including The Clark Art Institute, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Columbia University, NYU, the Liszt Institute, and the John Cage Trust.
Beyond music, Dávid’s work unfolds across visual art, writing, and design. His practice seeks to tune creativity into one living form — where art, science, and philosophy resonate as facets of the same curiosity: what it means to be alive and aware.
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