Back to all episodes Installation or performance: The art of art making with Brent Lee Download this episode in mp3 Brent Lee was traveling through Belgium in summer from Germany to an art festival in Ostend and he reached out to me and some colleagues, asking if it was possible to visit IPEM, the Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music in Ghent where I have been happy and pround to work for a couple of years now.
I'm so glad Brent got in touch! In him, I immediately found an engaging conversation partner, very knowledgable and experienced in topics that have been giving me a headache in my own research during the past two years: installation art, interactive art, music compositions, multimedia performances - in short, all about art and technology.
So I am very happy I got to talk to him on Technoculture. I find there's something unique - and very classy and charming - about his approach to art making. Brent Lee b. After extended residencies in the Netherlands, Bourges and at the Banff Centre, he settled in Calgary in , where he taught at the Mount Royal College Conservatory, volunteered with New Works Calgary, and performed with the crossover ensembles Strictly Plutonic and Modus vivendi. In he completed a doctoral degree at the University of British Columbia, studying composition with Keith Hamel and orchestration with Nikolai Korndorf.
After a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at UBC, he accepted a position at the University of Windsor in He served as composer-in-residence with the Windsor Symphony Orchestra from to In he co-founded the Noiseborder Ensemble, a group that specializes in multimedia performance.
He has been an associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre since Brent Lee's compositions range from orchestral music to electroacoustic pieces, and include jazz and incidental music. He has received numerous commissions, largely through the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council.
