Andrew Lee


Andrew Lee is a Vancouver Canada based artist who uses architectural motifs to outline and explore the interplay between visual and audible phenomena.

His most recent installation work “Every Frequency On 100 West Hastings” was an investigation of how sounds are able to represent the historical understandings of a certain city block in Vancouver, BC Canada.  By analyzing and graphing the equalization of the soundscape of 100 block West Hastings and then translating it, Lee presented the frequencies in a tableau form that hung on the wall like a landscape painting.  The wall installation acted as a physical indicator for the ephemeral nature of sound by borrowing from the formal qualities of a landscape painting, which most often are images that attempt to capture space and time. Instead of colors and images, the visualization of sound represents the voices of the residences of that particular city block.

Lee has also done time-based gestures with sound employing conceptual frameworks for his performances by investigating a concept, language, or a site and has composed works of audio to be performed.

In 2011 Lee was asked by artist group Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries to compose a sound piece that would exhibit formally the characteristics of seeing but by using only elements of sound.

In 2012, Lee was asked by Mono No Aware director Steve Cossman to create a sound work at the Centre For Performance Research in Brooklyn where he performed a live score to a three channel 16mm film piece called “Film Test”. For this he employed formal gestures of memory using only sound elements.

Also in 2012, Lee was invited by the Vancouver Art Gallery to compose sound works that responded to the monochromatic paintings/photographs of Ian Wallace. 


Broadcasts ORF-Kunstradio:

27. 10. 2013: “Wiencouver X: Telepathic Music for Piano and Strings”



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