Audrey Chen is an American vocalist, cellist and composer of Taiwanese-Chinese descent, born in 1976 near Chicago and now based in Berlin. After years of classical conservatory training, she broke from that path in 2003 to forge her own sonic language at the intersection of free improvisation and experimental music. Her practice weaves together unprocessed voice, cello and analogue electronics into a deeply personal idiom that The Wire has called "tightly disciplined yet acoustically wild and heavy with implication". Over more than two decades of touring across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia, she has built an extensive network of collaborative projects alongside musicians such as Phil Minton, Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø and Lukas König.
Audrey Chen performed live on March 20, 2025 at ISSUE Project Room in New York as part of the series 'With Womens Work', and the recording was released in June 2026.
Chen contributed artistically to the exhibition 'No Other Cure None Other Words in Talking' at Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, which ran from March 8 to June 9, 2024.
BEAM SPLITTER released the cassette 'Split Jaw' on the American label Tripticks Tapes - the duo's second release with Audrey Chen and Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø.
BEAM SPLITTER performed at ISSUE Project Room's 20th anniversary and fall season 2023 in Brooklyn.
Audrey Chen participated in the SHAPE platform for experimental music and electronics, which concluded its program in 2022.
