Rebecca Lee (b.1980). Musician, composer, sound artist, social practice.
Studio: Primary, 33, Seely Road, Nottingham, NG7 1NU
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COMPOSITION AND AUDIO WORK
2022 Leaky Transmissions with Nastassja Simensky for FPG sounds programme, Focal Point Gallery
2021 SHERDS: 90 min radio essay, broadcast Radiophrenia Nov 20, Montez Press Radio, Sept 21
2021 Dream Job, 40m audio work, commission for Fermynwoods Contemporary Art
2020 Call and Responses (varied length) – domestic performance score for Primary Music Group.Non-Classical x Nott Noise online showcase
2020 SHERDS: Five Verses on Six Sacks of Earth (60’) – opera for chamber ensemble including electronics, bassoon, tenor viol, female voices,
trombone & archaeological sherds and rocks. Nottingham Contemporary (Covid curtailed further dates)
2020 You can Hear Wind, 30m audio work, commission Fermynwoods Contemporary Art
2018 Material Culture Unearthed residency & work in progress compositions for flexible chamber ensemble.
Four community performances, for In-Situ, Pendle
2018 Making it up, this moment of June (varied length) – instructional score. Commissioned by Radar, University of Loughborough.
2017 Scores and Sources live performance of generative soundtrack This Certifies That, Nottingham Contemporary
2017 Generative soundtrack installation for voices, organ, coins, printer and digital voices accompanying This Certifies That by Yelena Popova, Nottingham Contemporary
INSTALLATIONS
2021 The Telling of the Bees outdoor four channel sound work for Timber Festival made in collaboration w/Youth Landscapers Collective
2017 The Heavy Note, commissioned for Resounding in the Museum, University of Nottingham and Nottingham Museums caves.
2015 Rehearing Memory, Belton 2015, with Belen Cerezo, Belton House, National Trust
2015 Accession Songs, for public programme, SYSON, Nottingham
2015 Song Sung When, Dangerous Discoveries, 16 speaker/ 4 piece installation Biddulph Grange, National Trust
2014 Outside Broadcast, research & project producing 6 radio documentaries broadcast on line and on local community radio, Transported.
2012 Timestreams w. Active Ingredient; University of Nottingham & Barracao Maravilha, Rio, Brazil
2011 Great Chorus, for Encounters: Fermynwoods Contemporary Art
PERFORMANCE
2023 Bass viol for River Music recording and film by Benjamin Tassie for exhibition and release late 2023
2023 Live set, Sound Junction, Sheffield University
2022 Bredbeddle performance, Café Oto x Thanet Tape Centre, London
2020 Call and Responses, performance film by Primary Music Group at Non-Classical x Not Noise online festival
2020 SHERDS: Five Verses on Six Sacks of Earth, performance with full ensemble, Nottingham Contemporary
2018 on going performances with Marie Thompson, including Tod Folk Fest, Rammel Club,
2018 on going performances as Bredbeddle, including To and Fro, Primary, Hatch, Sheffield.
2016 If the bell rings we will hear it, performance tour w/Samuel Rodgers incl. SARU Oxford, Sonophilia, Universities Nottingham & Lincoln
2017 Solo performances for Otobong Nkanga, Taste of a Stone, Nottingham Contemporary
2016 Scores and Sources, performance with Primary Music Group, Nottingham Contemporary
2016 The Element Resists, with Samuel Rodgers, at V22 SUMMER CLUB// SOUND, London
2016 Soundtrack and installation for This Certifies That, Yelena Popova, Nottingham Contemporary
2016 w/Primary Music Group, Polyphonic Festival, Wysing Arts Centre
2015 Exotica Suite LP (by Wayne Burrows and Paul Isherwood)
PUBLICATIONS AND RELEASES
2022 Leaky Transmissions, with Nastassja Simensky, self release
2022 Eventide, on Look to Imber compilation with Modern Aviation
2021 Steps on the Turning Year, as Bredbeddle with Bezirk
2020 Live Recordings release with Marie Thompson with Enjoy Your Homes press
2020 A + B EP release with Marie Thompson with The Sonic Art Research Unit
2019 Making it up, this moment of June; expanded score published by Radar, LU Arts
2017 Stackes, cassette release (edition of 40) as Bredbeddle with Fractal Meat Cuts
2015 Herring Red, publication w/Caroline Wright
2010 The Leaf Song w/Vidha Saumya
SELECTED TEACHING, TALKS & WORKSHOPS
2023 Performing a Rehearsal lecture recital RMA Music and/as Process working group conference
2023 Sampling for composition workshop, Yorkshire Sound Network
2022 How to perform a rehearsal, online workshops, The Library of Study, Brooklyn, New York
2021 Guest artist Alternative Provision programme, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art
2020 Talk for Sound Practitioner series, CRiSAP, London School of College of Communication
2020 Guest artist, ArtEZ, Ecologies of performance
2019 Guest artist Alternative Provision programme, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art
2017 The Technology of Listening, workshop for Sonic Cyberfeminisms, University of Lincoln
2016 If the Bell rings we will hear it lectures + workshops: University of Lincoln, Sonophilia, SARU, University of Nottingham
2016 ongoing Tutor, viol, Collegium Musicum viol consort, University of Nottingham.
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2022 Modern Composition residency, tutor Gavin Bryars, CAMP, France.
2022 DYCP funding, Arts Council England
2019 Arts Council England funding for SHERDS
2019 Sound and Music Composer Curator prorgamme
2018 Arts Council Grant for Making it up, this moment of June.
2016 Arts Council England grant for If the bell rings we will hear it
2016 Residency, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art
2016 Arts Council England grant for developing practice, films, sound and scores
2015 The Drawing Board curated by Michael Pinchbeck
2015 Field Studies, CASS, London
2014 Spare Room Residency, SYSON, Nottingham
2013 Gathering Grain, project residency with Sound Spiral
2012 Timestreams w/Active Ingredient, Barracao Maravilha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
YOUTH AND COMMUNITY
2023 Sound artist for Tales from the Riverbank community oral history project, TTTV, Trent Valley.
2021 Composer with Youth Landscapers Collective for The Telling of the Bees audio installation at Timber Festival
2018- Associate artist Fermynwoods Contemporary Art complementary education programme
2018 Sound artist, YOU ARE HERE, 6-month project developing public audio walk with Youth Landscapers Collective
2017 Sherwood Forest on your Doorstep: youth and community workshops and recordings in Sherwood Forest
2016- Co-ordinator, Tell Me Something I Don’t Know, bi-monthly talk series, Primary, Nottingham
2016 Audio documentation for Sherwood Forest on Your Doorstep, youth & community project
QUALIFICATIONS and training
2010 Action Learning Set Facilitation Training, Action Learning Associates
2004 MA Music (with performance) University of Nottingham
2002 BA Music (Hons) University of Nottingham