OKKYUNG LEE

Okkyung Lee is a cellist, composer, and improviser who moves freely between artistic disciples and contingencies. Since 2000, she has worked in disparate contexts as a solo artist and collaborator with creators in a wide range of disciplines. A native of South Korea, Lee has taken a broad array of inspirations—including noise, improvisation, jazz, western classical, and her homeland’s traditional and popular music—and used them to forge a highly distinctive approach. While Okkyung is probably known best for her improvisational work utilising visceral extended techniques on her instrument, she has been creating various types of compositions and site-specific works, responding to its architecture, audience, or objects surrounding her, producing an immersive experience that also challenges the built-in hierarchy in traditional concert settings. She has appeared on more than 30 albums, including her latest solo cello release “나를 (Na-Reul)” on Corbett vs Dempsey, “Teum (The Silvery Slit),” written for Acousmonium by GRM and live cello, released on GRM Portraits/Editions Mego, and critically acclaimed “Yeo-Neun” on Shelter Press.

YUKI TSUJII

Yuki Tsujii is a Japanese guitarist / composer based between London and Stockholm. In the last 15 years (as a member of Bo Ningen), Tsujii has performed across the world at festivals such as Coachella, Glastonbury, Le Guess Who, Venice Biennale, Frieze Art Fair, and Yoko Ono’s Meltdown. He has collaborated with cross-genre artists such as Faust, Lydia Lunch, Keiji Haino, Damo Suzuki, Doug Aitken, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Primal Scream, Harley Weir and Juergen Teller. He is also a monthly regular host of NTS radio. Tsujii recently released a joint record with Klara Lewis from The Trilogy Tapes. Tsujii performed at Gammel Strand, the contemporary art gallery in Copenhagen, as well as a book launch by a Swedish brand Our Legacy in London. As a composer, he has produced music and sound designs for campaigns with clients such as Gucci, Marc Jacobs, Miu Miu, Moschino, Calvin Klein, Canada Goose, Adidas Y3, Kenzo, Byredo, Cecilie Bahnsen runway music for Paris Fashion Week and more.