Rebecca Lee
Studio A3
Rebecca Lee is a musician, composer, and sound practitioner producing performance, sound works, collaborative projects, and publications, with a particular focus on producing new forms of narrative and chronology. She often works long term with place, draws on written forms, and uses improvisation, scores, and DIY approaches to combine musical materials, forms, or skills. She moves between public off-site or project-based work, traditional arts venues, and DIY music spaces. Rebecca performs as Bredbeddle, makes improvised music with Marie Thompson, and is part of Primary Music group.
Rebecca also co-leads Youth Landscapers Collective, a youth arts project with the National Forest and Timber Festival, runs Tell Me Something I Don’t Know, a community talk series at Primary, and teaches viola de gamba at the University of Nottingham.
She is currently preparing new releases with Bezirk Tapes (Bredbeddle) and SARU (with Marie Thompson), a new piece for NOTTNoise, a commission for Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, working writer with Susan Finlay for a song cycle, On Europe’s Ruins, and is due to start Sounding Coastal Change, a research project with the Open University. She gained MA Music from the University of Nottingham, focusing on contemporary performance with Carla Rees.
Recent residencies and commissions include: Sherds: Five Verses on Six Sacks of Earth, a performance commission supported by ACE, Sound and Music, Jerwood Arts, performed at Nottingham Contemporary (2019/20), following on from a Material Culture Unearthed residency with In-Situ and Pendle Landscape Partnership (2018); Making it up, this Moment of June, a commission and score publication for Radar, University of Loughborough, supported by ACE and Hinrichsen Foundation (2018/9); If the Bell Rings we will hear it, a performance and research tour with Samuel Rodgers, supported by ACE, which included workshops and performances at the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Contemporary, Sonic Arts Research Unit, Sonophilia, Fishguard; The Heavy Note, University of Nottingham and Museum of Nottingham Life (2017); Rehearing Memory, Belton 2015 with Belen Cerezo, a commission for the National Trust at Belton House (2015); and Song Sung When, a commission for the National Trust at Biddulph Grange Gardens (2015).
Recent performances include: The Gävle Goat, online, Rammel Club, TOPH // Tusk Fringe, Wysing Polyphonic, Nottingham Contemporary, SARU, Primary, Artefact, Front Horse, JT Soar and Tod Folk Fest, ESP, Post Paradise, Centrala.
