- published: 15 Sep 2010
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Tania Chen is a London, UK-based concert pianist specialising in experimental, improvised and contemporary music. She is known for performing the works of composers such as Cornelius Cardew (Recording), Michael Parsons, John Cage, Earle Brown (recording), Morton Feldman and Chris Newman. Composers of the younger generation she has worked with include John Lely, Li-Chuan Chong and James Saunders.
She has also collaborated with musicians including improviser and composer Steve Beresford (with whom she recorded 'Ointment'), composer Andrew Poppy (concert), pianist John Tilbury, bassist John Edwards, drummer Mark Sanders and harpist Rhodri Davies. She has also collaborated with the film-maker Jayne Parker.
She has performed in the US, UK, Asia and Europe, at venues including Tate Modern, GaleGates (Brooklyn, NYC), The Hamburger Bahnhof Museum (Berlin), the Purcell Room, where she gave a complete performance of John Cage's Music of Changes Books I-IV, and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum.
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Akio Suzuki (self-made instruments), Tania Chen (piano), Ute Wassermann (voice) and John Russell (guitar) at Fet Quaqua festival of free improvised music. Curated by John Russell and Mopomoso. Filmed by Helen Petts on the 16th August 2010.
Akio Suzuki (self-made instruments), Tania Chen (piano), Chris Burn (trumpet), John Butcher (alto saxophone), Sabu Toyozumi (drums) at Fete Quaqua festival of Free Improvisation. Day 3. Filmed by Helen Petts on the 17th August 2010.
Written & Directed by: Colin Conners Misty Mayweather: Maura Rose Gerome Jerome: Colin Conners Akio Chen: Casey Beal Tom Hanks: Hardiman Fake Akio: Carli Lind A Camera: Will Davis B Camera: Ian Radcliff C Camera: Jackson Kim Sound by: Brent A Harmon Edited by: Jonathan Hartmann Check out Jon's channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxVo... Like us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/partysnailpr... Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/PartySnailPro ·
Live from the CCRMA Stage at Stanford ... Tania Chen, Thomas Dimuzio, and Wobbly come to CCRMA to present a Bay Area all star show of electronic, acoustic, and improvised sound worlds. For more information see taniachen.com www.thomasdimuzio.com and www.detritus.net/wobbly/ event page: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/tania-chen-thomas-dimuzio-and-wobbly CCRMA, Stanford. October 20, 2016
Pas Musique presents: Amanda Chaudhary and Tania Chen live for Ambient-Chaos at Spectrum, New York, NY 5-27-2016. Video art by Jim Tuite www.pasmusique.net
Pianist Tania Chen talks about her work and life in music on this episode of In the Field with Rent Romus
Concert at CCRMA, Stanford. June 4, 2015 Henry Kaiser, guitars William Winant, percussion Tania Chen, piano https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/henry-kaiser-william-winant-tania-chen More about the performers: http://www.henrykaiserguitar.com/ http://www.williamwinant.com http://taniachen.com
Concert at CCRMA, Stanford. June 4, 2015 Henry Kaiser, guitars William Winant, percussion Tania Chen, piano https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/henry-kaiser-william-winant-tania-chen More about the performers: http://www.henrykaiserguitar.com http://www.williamwinant.com http://taniachen.com
Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth was at Goldsmiths recently, along with Tania Chen and David Toop. Here they reflect on the final months of Bowie's music and life, studying music, and the challenges of staying innovative.
Bill Thibault - live video Tania Chen, piano and electronics Gino Robair - electronics Tom Djill - electronics Tender Buttons taps sound worlds of complexity and lush emptiness, using grand piano framed by two setups of modular electronics. At times evoking sound worlds reminiscent of early Stockhausen, Cage/Tudor and new wave bands of the 1980s, the trio interplays compatibly with an intensity wrought from focused concentration – sometimes evoking a meditative “composed” sound world, at other moments setting up impossible musics in side-by-side coexistence, shimmering and translucent. Tender Buttons came together out of a shared passion for the practice of free improvisation as informed by contemporary musical disciplines, with a dash of intuitive and absurdist literatures (having borrow...
Chen (piano), Leahy (double bass), Ryan (bass clarinet) at Adam Bohman's Battersea Arts Centre free improvisation week. 6th Feb 2009. Filmed by Helen Petts. more Tania Chen on http://www.youtube.com/knittedrecords
Tania Chen ( stylophone ) / Steve Beresford ( toy drums ) @ Mopomoso Christmas Special, the Vortex, 20.12.09. Filmed by Shuffleboil.
Steve Nash (percussion & toys), Mark Browne (soprano saxophone) & Tania Chen (violin) | Recorded at 13 Greyhound Lane, Streatham, in 2000
Band Name: Les Trois Chapeaux Jaroba - woodwinds and invented instruments and electronics. Kevin Corcoran - percussion and textural sounds David Samas - vocals (guest) Tania Chen - toys, objects, electronics Note: some of the last part of the performance was not recorded - camera battery ran out.... The last event at this temporary location for the Luggage Store Creative Music Series. In downtown San Francisco with big windows on Market St. Check out the outside activities!!
Tender Buttons: Tania Chen - piano, electronics, toys Gino Robair - modular electronics Tom Djll - modular/circuit-bent electronics October 28, 2016 Turquoise Yantra Grotto, San Francisco video & editing - Charles Smith second camera - David Samas
Tania Chen, Christopher Williams and Juan Matos Capote on Found Objects, Double Bass and Bent Circuits Barcelona, February 2009
Tania Chen en la fiesta del Año del Dragón, Barrio Chino de Buenos Aires, 2012.
Teaser video from the first performances of Usurp Chance Tour at The Format Festival in Derby 15 March 2014. More info about the tour: http://www.usurp.org.uk Usurp Art Gallery in partnership with Sound and Music, presents two dynamic, ensemble performances, exploring perceptual concepts of chance, time, listening and humour, and the breadth and parameters of improvisational approaches in new music. "Indeterminacy" was originally recorded in 1959, with John Cage reading aloud 90 stories, each lasting one minute. For this performance, Stewart Lee assumes Cage's role accompanied by contemporary pianists, Tania Chen and Steve Beresford improvising on pianos and objects. "Humour and existentialist melancholy co-exist, perching on a knife-edge." Gramophone. "The Conspirators of Pleasure" fea...
Barcelona, Juan Matos Capote electronics, Christopher Williams double bass, Tania Chen toys.
We interviewed some of the artists hanging around Bass Player LIVE! 2014. Emma Anzai, Tanya O'Callaghan, Divinity Roxx, Rickey Minor, Phil Chen, Miles Mosley, Igor Saavedra, Bakithi Kumalo, Freddie Washington, Marty O'Brien, Jerry Jemmott, Gary Willis, Kevin Brandon, and Anna Sentina. See more at bassplayer.com
Teinosuke Kinugasa's A Page of Madness with saxophonist Bruce Ackley, keyboardist/etc. Tania Chen, pedal steel & Theremin player David Cuetter, trombonist Andy Strain, Yangqinist & vocalist Josephine Torio, and synthesist Benjamin Ethan Tinker.
Lie alone in an empty bedroom
You were young so long ago
Lost the purple heart they gave you
Why did it mean so much before?
Crawled from the remains of war
Soon the world will care no more
They've never been through living hell
"Just an old man with a story to tell"
[Chorus]
NO ONE KNOWS
NO ONE CARES
NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOU NO MORE
Strung along on a soldier's pension
And you've survived so many friends
Fought for God and Country,
Only to be forgotten in the end
Crawled from the remains of war
Soon the world will care no more
They've never been through living hell
"Just an old man with a story to tell"
[Chorus]
And with each new generation
Another story ceases to be told
What about the new generations?
Will anybody know?
Someday you'll be forgotten
Just a chapter in the history books
And they'll see a thousand crucifixes