Charmaine Lee – Waterworks 2023: Festival of Experimental Sound

Charmaine Lee, Live at the Waterworks 2023 festival in Boston, Massachusetts, April 29, 2023

Charmaine Lee is a New York-based vocalist from Sydney, Australia. Her music is predominantly improvised, favoring a uniquely personal approach to vocal expression concerned with spontaneity, playfulness, and risk-taking. Beyond extended vocal technique, Charmaine uses amplification, feedback, and microphones to augment and distort the voice. She has performed with leading improvisers id m theft able, Sam Pluta, Tyshawn Sorey, Nate Wooley, and C. Spencer Yeh, and maintains ongoing collaborations with Ikue Mori, Conrad Tao, Victoria Shen, and Eric Wubbels.

Video production & editing: Nick Stevens
Audio recording & mix: Matthew Azevedo

Presented by Non-Event and the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum

Cover photo by Peter Gumaskas