| Date | Event Name | description | recording |
| May 16, 2010 | Seth Cluett: Three Forms of Forgetting, featuring Okkyung Lee and Liz Tonne | Seth Cluett\'s \"subtle...seductive, immersive\" (Artforum) sound work has been characterized as \"rigorously focused and full of detail\" (e/i) and \"dramatic, powerful, and at one with nature\" (The Wire). Using found objects, altered consumer electronics, home-made instruments, sine tone oscillators, room acoustics and psycho-physical phenomena, Cluett\'s performances construct a focused,... | |
| October 22, 2009 | Okkyung Lee & Kjell Bjørgeengen | Using pre-recorded sounds from the cobble stone street outside Location 1 as a source material, Okkyung Lee blurs the physical boundaries between the venue and the outside by interacting with Kjell’s visual responses in real time, along with pre determined + processed materials.
Kjell Bjørgeengen\'s art practice is an investigation... | |
| October 4, 2009 | Alan Licht, Brian Chase, and Okkyung Lee | A short description: \"A second-time meeting of three electrifying improvisors/composers who have worked extensively within downtown rock and experimental music circles. Drummer Brian Chase, cellist Okkyung Lee, and guitarist Alan Licht will each present a solo piece, then perform a trio improvisation.\"
Over the past two decades,... | |
| August 26, 2009 | Sparks Orchestra: Tom Blancarte & Peter Evans + Dan Blake, Okkyung Lee, Nate Wooley, Brondon Seabrook, Sylvie Courvoisier, and Dan Peck | Sparks (Peter Evans and Tom Blancarte) has been playing together since 2005. From the beginning of the formation of the duo, they have been constantly working to push their own boundries of density and speed of interaction while freely improvising. They have performed extensively in New York City and the... | |
| September 20, 2008 | Roulette Benefit Curated by Okkyung Lee | 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 music, and noise with extended techniques to create her unique blend of music. Okkyung has released her debut... | |
| March 14, 2008 | Steve Beresford w/ Okkyung Lee & Peter Evans | Steve Beresford (Wellington, Shropshire, 1950) is a composer, musician and arranger, a veteran of countless bands from the Slits to the Melody Four. He has been a central figure in the British improvising scene for over thirty years working with the likes of Derek Bailey, Evan Parker and Han Bennink.... | |
| December 14, 2007 | Okkyung Lee | then, there, that corner... sylvie courvoisier - piano cornelius dufallo - violin alex waterman - cello trevor dunn - bass peter evans - trumpets ned rothenberg - bass clarinet david shively - percussion satoshi takeishi - percussion/electronics dj olive - turntables inspired by rain, empty streets, 2 (korean) dead singers, memory, dawn, duke jordan, home and goodbyes... and everything between now... | |
| December 7, 2005 | Okkyung Lee | Okkyung Lee (cello and composition), with Anthony Coleman (keyboards), Shelley Hirsch (voice) and jim pugliese (percussion) present a set of songs that evoke unspoken emotions, sighs, heartache and tenderness through unconventional yet expressive musical ways. A native of korea, okkyung lee has been developing her own voice in a contemporary cello performance,... | |
| April 17, 2005 | Shelley Hirsch & Okkyung Lee | Voice and cello. Language and singing reconfigured alongside traditional Korean music and shameless noise. One of the great imaginations, multimedia artists and storytellers of her generation with a fearless string player of dazzling technique who has sought out collaborators like Christian Marclay, Jim O\'Rourke and Marc Ribot. | |
| September 15, 2004 | Okkyung Lee | with Heather Kravas, Andrew Lampert and Dion Workman. The magnetic unchartable and all-embracing world of cellist Okkyung Lee culminates in this night of collaborative performance (art), installation and cross-media with cello as a unifying element. Featuring the intense and fearless performer and choreographer Heather Kravas (NoNo Twins, Fennifer Allen, DD... | |
| October 16, 2003 | Taylor Ho Bynum & SpiderMonkey Strings | \"SpiderMonkey Strings is led by cornettist/composer Bynum featuring Jason Kao Hwang and Jean Cook, violins; Stephanie Griffin, viola; Okkyung Lee, cello; Evan O\'Reilly, guitar; Joseph Daley, tuba and Luther Gray, drums. The music is as subersively humorous and surprisingly beautiful as its trickster namesakes.\" | |
| November 9, 2001 | Okkyung Lee | The cellist presents a suite of compositions inspired by an dedicated to her Korean heritage/identity. She is joined by Jim Pugliese on percussion, Doug Wieselman on clarinets and Anthony Coleman on piano. Her unconventional and adventurous approach leads to music not about the answers but toward unearthing the... | |
| April 4, 2001 | Eyvind Kang | \"Petrified Wood is constructed from composer Eyvind Kang�s pitch mandalas based on geometric visualizations of harmonic and color/pitch/tempo relations. If single pitches are \"\"svara\"\" (\"\"that which shines from within itself\"\"-sanskrit), then these relations are their \"\"bright shadows\"\". This work is dedicated to Leonard Peltier, with musicians Charles Burnham, violin;... |
