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performed by Wet Ink Ensemble with Charmaine Lee:
Charmaine Lee, voice
Alice Teyssier, flute/voice
Alex Mincek, tenor saxophone
Ian Antonio, percussion
Eric Wubbels, piano
Josh Modney, violin
Sam Pluta, electronics
Smoke, Airs by Charmaine Lee (2019)
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https://charmainelee.com/
video curated by inti figgis-vizueta
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uploaded with permission from Charmaine Lee on behalf of Wet Ink Ensemble
this is a live recording from December 13, 2019 at St. Peter's Chelsea (NYC). There is a studio recording of this available now on Huddersfield Contemporary Records, as part of the album ""Smoke, Airs"" released Sept 2020 (more info here https://research.hud.ac.uk/institutes-centres/cerenem/hcr/airs/)
Charmaine Lee (b. 1991) is a New York-based vocalist from Sydney, Australia. Her music is predominantly improvised, favoring a uniquely personal approach to vocal expression concerned with spontaneity, playfulness, and risk-taking. Beyond extended vocal technique, Charmaine uses amplification, feedback, and microphones to augment and distort the voice. She has performed with leading improvisers Nate Wooley, id m theft able, C. Spencer Yeh, and Ikue Mori, and maintains ongoing collaborations with Conrad Tao, Victoria Shen, Zach Rowden, and Eric Wubbels. Charmaine has performed at ISSUE Project Room, the Kitchen, Roulette, The Poetry Project, and MoMA PS1, and participated in festivals including Resonant Bodies, Huddersfield Contemporary, and Ende Tymes. She has been featured in group exhibitions including The Moon Represents My Heart: Music, Memory and Belonging at the Museum of Chinese in America (2019). As a composer, Charmaine has been commissioned by the Wet Ink Ensemble (2018) and Spektral Quartet (2018). In 2019, she was an Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room, and is an upcoming 2021 Van Lier Fellow at Roulette. Charmaine is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Sound American."
00:00 Smoke, Airs
11:19 Performance Notes
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