Audrey Chen & Tashi Dorji

Tashi Dorji & Audrey Chen are a musical duo.

Audrey Chen is a a Chinese/Taiwanese-American musician and singer. Chen’s work delves deeply into her own version of narrative and non-linear storytelling. A large component of her music is improvised, is completely un-processed and her approach to this is extremely personal and visceral. Her playing explores the combination and layering of an analog synthesizer, preparations and traditional and extended techniques in both the voice and cello. She works to join these elements into a singular ecstatic personal language.

Guitarist Tashi Dorji grew up in Bhutan, South Asia, and in 2000 moved to Asheville, North Carolina, to attend college. Shortly afterwards he fell in with a community of anarchist punks, and while the music he plays has changed since then, his use of it to express anti-hierarchical and anti-capitalist sentiment has not. Dorji had not been improvising for very long before he made his first cassette in 2009. Following the release of a self-titled debut LP via Ben Chasny’s Hermit Hut imprint, he began touring the USA and Europe, often playing blazing electric music quite a bit louder than his early acoustic experiments.