EXPERIMENTAL & IMPROVISED MUSIC & SOUND ART AT ROULETTE: GUSTAVO MATAMOROS & OKKYUNG LEE

*Wednesday, December 7th*

GUSTAVO MATAMOROS
Gustavo Matamoros presents a mini retrospective of his work, including selections from Music On A Budget, gated pieces, sound videos, and an excerpt from Amazonas, a piece for paper weather instruments, saw and text, in collaboration with guest artist Alison Knowles. Gustavo Matamoros’s intermedia output includes musical and sound-performance works, sound-objects, tracings and sound-portraits, sound-installations, sound-texts, sound-video, radiophonic and public artworks. Over his 20-some-year career, he has made work and friendships with numerous artists and musicians. Some recent ones include Alison Knowles, Russell Frehling, Malcolm Goldstein, Jacqueline Humbert, Sam Ashley, Shahreyar Ataie, David Manson, Charles Recher, Lou Mallozzi, Helena Thevenot, Dinorah Rodriguez, Fred Lonberg-Holm and Davey and Jan Williams. Gustavo’s projects include performances for solo handsaw and other gated instruments of his own design, as well as recent performances of his saw band, SEE. His activities have led to grants and commissions from Florida’s Art in State Buildings, Miami Performing Art Center, the Florida Consortium’s 2000 Visual and Media Arts Fellowship, and two of Venezuela’s national prizes in composition. Matamoros has been the artistic director of the Subtropics experimental music festival in Miami since 1989 and director of the interdisciplinary Sound Arts Workshop since 1996.

OKKYUNG LEE
Cellist Okkyung Lee uses her classical training as a springboard to incorporate jazz, sound art, traditional Korean music, noise and extended techniques in the creation of her own unique blend of music. Since moving to New York in 2000, she has performed and recorded with numerous artists such as Derek Bailey, Jaap Blonk, Nels Cline, Anthony Coleman, Mark Dresser, Shelley Hirsch, Susie Ibarra, Andrew Lampert, Raz Mesinai, Min Xiao-Fen, Thurston Moore, Ikue Mori, Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, Jim O'Rourke, Zeena Parkins, Marc Ribot, Marina Rosenfeld, Elliot Sharp, Saadet Turkoz and John Zorn to name a few. She is a member of TOT Trio with percussionist Tim Barnes and turntablist Toshio Kajiwara and of the improvisational duo, NoNo Twins, with dancer/choreographer Heather Kravas, and is involved in Vijay Iyer’s and Mike Ladd’s In What Language? and upcoming Still Life with Commentator projects and in Greg Tate's Burnt Sugar Arkestra Chamber, among many other groups. Okkyung’s debut album, Nihm (TZA 7715), a compilation of her compositions on the Tzadik label, has generated critical acclaim in the States and in Europe. Later in 2005 and early 2006, her music will result in a solo cello album on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label, a duo album with tape wizard Aki Onda on the Improvised Music from Japan label and a another duo with Christian Marclay on My Cat is an Alien label's split LP series. She has appeared at the International Festival Musique Actuelle Victoriaville (Canada,) Off New York! Concert Series (Germany,) San Francisco Jazz Festival, Taktlos Festival (Zurich and Basel,) La Biennale di Venezia, and Time Based Arts Festival (Portland.)