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Lingyun Chen _ violino _ violino preparato _ elettronica

Lingyun Chen è un giovane musicista cinese di talento, con solida preparazione accademica (suona nella Wuxi Symphony Orchestra), è improvvisatore ed è coinvolto attivamente nella scena sperimentale del suo paese. Questo disco in solo ci espone ad una musica avanzata, dove una ricerca estetica precisa e creativa dona all'ascoltatore un sicuro coinvolgimento.
Dalle brevi note di copertina, è lo stesso autore a descrivere il suo lavoro: "Phase Fragments è il mio primo album di violino. Rappresenta il mio suono personale, frutto di diversi anni di esplorazione e concerti. È un album che fonde molteplici elementi estetici, tra cui improvvisazione, violino preparato, musica contemporanea, spectrum music e musica classica. L'obiettivo è catturare sottili cambiamenti e impatti fugaci."

"(...) Lingyun Chen is a young Chinese contemporary violinist, fearless improviser, and experimental composer, who is involved in his country’s experimental and free music scene.
Phase Fragments is Lingyun Chen’s debut solo violin (including prepared violin) album, capturing his recent sonic explorations and experiences, from free improvisation, usage of electronics, and expanding the violin’s sonic palette with extended bowing techniques and preparations (including the insertion of metal plates to produce overtones), to pieces corresponding with contemporary music, spectral music, and classical music. Lingyun Chen recorded himself at Lihe Studio in Yangzhou and mixed and mastered the album.
Lingyun Chen is equipped with commanding technique and cleverly uses the studio acoustics on the opening “Notation”, often sounding like employing the resonating space as a sonic partner. He experiments with the most dissonant, noisy range of the violin on the following “Monologue”, transforming his instrument into a disturbing, industrial sound generator that twists elements of Far-Eastern folk music and produces glitch-like, nervous tones. “Prayer Song” uses the reverberating studio to intensify its contemplative, reverent spirit. “The Moment of Sublimation” deepens the mysterious, ritualistic atmosphere by mutating the violin sound into a deep space, minimalist, and repetitive texture with subtle, disorienting variations. Lingyun Chen concludes this adventurous sonic journey with “Jizzcato”, plucking the violin strings as if his instrument was an imaginary, exotic string instrument, and evokes fragments of playful, folk-like melodies." Eyal Hareuveni, Percorsi Musicali, 2026.

01 _ Notation 11:00
02 _ Monologue 13:04
03 _ Poeme of Ecstasy 3:10
04 _ Prayer Song 10:40
05 _ The Moment of Sublimination 8:44
06 _ Jizzcato 9:44

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CD digisleeve 4 pages

Lingyun Chen _ violin _ prepared violin _ electronics

Lingyun Chen is a talented young Chinese musician, with a solid academic background (he plays in the Wuxi Symphony Orchestra), he is an improviser and is actively involved in the experimental scene of his country. This solo album introduces us to an avant music, where precise aesthetic research provides the listener with a compelling sense of immersion.
From the short liner notes, the author himself describes his work: "Phase Fragments is my first album of violin playing. It records my own sound after several years exploring and performing in concerts. It is an album that blends multiple aesthetic elements, including improvisation, prepared violin, contemporary music, spectrum music and classical music. It aims to capture subtle changes and fleeting impacts."

"(...) Lingyun Chen is a young Chinese contemporary violinist, fearless improviser, and experimental composer, who is involved in his country’s experimental and free music scene.
Phase Fragments is Lingyun Chen’s debut solo violin (including prepared violin) album, capturing his recent sonic explorations and experiences, from free improvisation, usage of electronics, and expanding the violin’s sonic palette with extended bowing techniques and preparations (including the insertion of metal plates to produce overtones), to pieces corresponding with contemporary music, spectral music, and classical music. Lingyun Chen recorded himself at Lihe Studio in Yangzhou and mixed and mastered the album.
Lingyun Chen is equipped with commanding technique and cleverly uses the studio acoustics on the opening “Notation”, often sounding like employing the resonating space as a sonic partner. He experiments with the most dissonant, noisy range of the violin on the following “Monologue”, transforming his instrument into a disturbing, industrial sound generator that twists elements of Far-Eastern folk music and produces glitch-like, nervous tones. “Prayer Song” uses the reverberating studio to intensify its contemplative, reverent spirit. “The Moment of Sublimation” deepens the mysterious, ritualistic atmosphere by mutating the violin sound into a deep space, minimalist, and repetitive texture with subtle, disorienting variations. Lingyun Chen concludes this adventurous sonic journey with “Jizzcato”, plucking the violin strings as if his instrument was an imaginary, exotic string instrument, and evokes fragments of playful, folk-like melodies." Eyal Hareuveni, Percorsi Musicali, 2026.

01 _ Notation 11:00
02 _ Monologue 13:04
03 _ Poeme of Ecstasy 3:10
04 _ Prayer Song 10:40
05 _ The Moment of Sublimination 8:44
06 _ Jizzcato 9:44

(C) + (P) 2026