Lee Gilboa
Bio: Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, Lee Gilboa has found her love for composition and Jazz music at a young age.
While at Berklee College of Music where she was mentored by Neil Leonard, Dr. Richard Boulanger and Dr. Jeff Baust, Gilboa got to perform and collaborate with a wide variety of musicians, artists and technologists such as Dr. Rui Penha, Robert Rich, Amnon Wolman and Terence Blanchard among others. At only 25 years old, Lee's work has already been presented in venues such as Berklee Performance Center, Fridman Gallery, Qubit Gallery, The Cube at Virginia Tech and Resonance FM Radio to name a few.
Currently, Lee is living in Brooklyn, NY and attends Columbia University’s MFA Sound Art program and is co-curating CT::SWaM's ExChange series at Fridman Gallery with Daniel Neumann.
In the fall of 2019 she will join Brown University’s Music and Multimedia Composition PhD program.
Lee's debut release will be available on Contour Editions this summer.
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: My work is a hybrid of many things; composition, production, engineering, storytelling, audio spatialization, sonic sculpturing, and more.
The core of my work and practice is listening. It starts with my listening to my thoughts to find a subject, listening to my recordees to find what they have to say, listening to the recordings to find materials, listening to the materials to hear the way they want to work together through time and let the piece guide me towards what it wants to be. Attending to each word, giving it all the care I have in me, listening to the details and how they go in space, then listening to when its time to finish. At this point, I turn the role of listening to you. The piece goes out of my hands and into your ears.
I love sound in the deepest way. I love the contrast between its ephemerality and its undeniable presence. My work uses words, but I am guided by a belief that it is only when we listen beyond the words that we can understand what they are telling us.
L to R: Dyslexia (4channel audio, 2017); Woman (10channel audio, 2018); sinbeLa, (5channel audio, 2019)