jonathan chen

SELECTED IMPROVISATIONS

These selections represent a very, very, small portion of my work in improvisation.

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audio 6′31”

For solo violin. This recording was made live in studio at WNUR 89.3, Chicago’s Sound Experiment on December 19, 2009

three from middlesex

1 2′30” 2 3′43” 3 5′59”
Recorded at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 2005. Jonathan Chen, violin

10 second duets

This project started in 2002 and is ongoing. 10 second improvised duets: me on violin and other improvisers/artists on their respective instruments. I plan to release the project on vinyl and on 3” cd after I record 80 or so.

Here are a couple of the duets:

Ben Miller prepared electric guitar

Joe Mills chair’s squeak