Eric Lee Chin, also known as Eric Qin (1967-1993), was an American composer of experimental music

Experimental music

Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...

. While studying at the Mannes College of Music

Mannes College of Music

Mannes College The New School for Music is The New School university's music conservatory. While the university's main campus is located in Greenwich Village, New York City, Mannes maintains its main academic building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan....

 in New York City

New York City

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 in the early 1990s, Qin founded the Rough Assemblage composers' collective, along with Mark De Gli Antoni

Mark De Gli Antoni

Mark degli Antoni , often credited as Horse Tricks, is a New York / Los Angeles composer, known for his work as keyboard and sampler player for the band Soul Coughing from 1992 to 2000....

 and Norman Yamada.

Born and raised in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

, Qin was killed in a bicycle accident on the Upper West Side

Upper West Side

The Upper West Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, that lies between Central Park and the Hudson River and between West 59th Street and West 125th Street...

 of Manhattan

Manhattan

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 on April 19, 1993, at the age of 25. His music was performed posthumously at the 1993 Bang on a Can

Bang on a Can

Bang on a Can is a multi-faceted classical music organization based in New York City. It was founded in 1987 by three American composers who remain its artistic directors: Julia Wolfe, David Lang, and Michael Gordon...

Festival, and a CD of his music entitled Photographs was released in 2002.

Discography

• Qin, Eric. Photographs (2002). New York, New York: Tzadik.
• Rough Assemblage (1995). Construction and Demolition. Japan: Avant.