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Improvisations: OKKYUNG LEE + MANUEL MOTA
Curated by Elliott Sharp
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
7pm - 9pm
A native of Korea, Okkyung Lee has been developing her own voice in contemporary cello performance, improvisation
and composition. using her solid classical training as a springboard, she incorporates jazz, sounds, korean traditional
and pop music, noise with extended techniques and create her unique blend of music. She has performed and recorded with
numerous artists such as Laurie anderson, Derek Bailey, Steve Beresford, Carla Bozulich, Nels Cline, Chris Corsano, Mark
Dresser, Fred Frith, Carlos Giffoni, Vijay Iyer, Shelley Hirsch, John Hollenbeck, Andrew Lampert, Christian Marclay, Miya
Masaoka, Thurston Moore, Ikue Mori, Lawrence D. "butch" Morris, Jim O'Rourke, Wadada Leo Smith and John Zorn to name a few.
Okkyung has released the following albums under her name: her debut album, Nihm on Tzadik; a duo recording with Christian
Marclay on My Cat is an Alien label; a solo cello album I saw the Ghost of an Unknown Soul and it Said... on Ecstatic Peace!
label; a trio album with Steve Beresford and Peter Evans, check for monsters on Emanem label.
Okkyung Lee
Okkyung Lee: myspace.com
Manuel Mota is a guitarist born in Lisbon, with public activity since 1989. From that to 1997 he studies and experiments with
prepared guitar, mainly acoustic. Since then his interests shifted to the development of a personal language for fingerstyle
electric guitar and started working in a regular basis with bassist Margarida Garcia. A lot of acoustic guitar has been
played at home in the last years, and it has also been possible to find him playing with bands Osso Exótico, Curia, Dru, and
collaborating with David Maranha and Afonso Simões. Worked with Sei Miguel from 1997 to 2005. Founds the record label
Headlights in 1998. Draws and shoots.
Manual Mota: myspace.com
youtube.com
For more
information please contact Administration@whiteboxny.org, or call 212.714.2347
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