Okkyung Lee
Okkyung Lee is a South Korean cellist, improviser, and composer.
Lee moved to Boston in 1993, where she received a dual bachelor's degree in Contemporary Writing and Production and Film Scoring, and a master's degree in Contemporary Improvisation.
In 2000, Lee moved to New York and immersed herself in the city's downtown music scene. Since then, she has collaborated with a wide range of musicians and artists, including Laurie Anderson, Arca, David Behrman, Mark Fell, Douglas Gordon, Jenny Hval, Vijay Iyer, Christian Marclay, Lasse Marhaug, Haroon Mirza, Thurston Moore, Ikue Mori, Stephen O'Malley, Lawrence D "Butch" Morris, Jim O’Rourke, Evan Parker, Marina Rosenfeld, Wadada Leo Smith, Swans, Cecil Taylor, C. Spencer Yeh and John Zorn.
In 2013, Lee curated the Music Unlimited festival in Wels, Austria, giving it the title "The most beautiful noise on earth".
Lee received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant in 2010. and a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award in 2015.
Discography
Solo
Nihm I Saw The Ghost of an Unknown Soul And It Said… Noisy Love Songs Ghil Dahl-Tah-Ghi Cheol-Kkot-Sae Speckled Stones and Dissonant Green Dots Yeo-Neun Teum (The Silvery Slit) split album with Florian Hecker 나를 (Na-Reul)
- ''just like any other day (어느날): background music for your mundane activities''
Collaborations
Rubbings, with Christian Marclay on From The Earth to the Spheres Vol. 7. Split LP with My Cat is an Alien.Still Life with Commentator, by Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd Check for Monsters, with Steve Beresford and Peter Evans Spiritual Dimensions, by Wadada Leo Smith Femina, by John Zorn Dictée/Liber Novus, by John Zorn The Bleeding Edge, with Peter Evans and Evan Parker Anicca, with Phil Minton Cold / Burn, with Anla Courtis, C. Spencer Yeh and Jon Wesseltoft Almost Even Further with 6ix White Cables, Black Wires, with John Edwards Look Right, with Nina de Heney and Lisa Ullén Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project, by Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd Wake Up Awesome, with Lasse Marhaug and C. Spencer Yeh Piper, with Jon Wesseltoft Skein, with Richard Barrett, Tony Buck, Frank Gratkowski, Wilbert de Joode, Achim Kaufmann Seven, by Evan Parker Electroacoustic Septet Live at Stone, with Chris Corsano and Bill Nace A Pattern For Becoming, by Mark Fell Live at Cafe Oto, with Bill Orcutt Cloud of Unknowing on The Glowing Man by Swans Amalgam, with Christian Marclay Obelisk, by Ikue Mori Libra Rising, with Chris Corsano and Ches Smith The Air Around Her, with Ellen Fullman Two Duos, with Jérôme Noetinger and Nadia Ratsimandresy
In other media
Okkyung Lee's performance at the Austrian 2014 Konfrontationen Festival is featured in Alberte Pagán's film Konfrontationen 2914.