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. In 2013, Lee curated the Music Unlimited festival in Wels, Austria, giving it the title "The most beautiful noise on earth". Lee received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant in 2010. and a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award in 2015.

Discography

Solo

* ''Nihm'' (Tzadik, 2005) * ''I Saw The Ghost of an Unknown Soul And It Said…'' (Ecstatic Peace, 2008) * ''Noisy Love Songs (For George Dyer)'' (Tzadik, 2010) * ''Ghil'' (Ideologic Organ/Editions Mego, 2013) * ''Dahl-Tah-Ghi'' (Pica Disk, 2018) * ''Cheol-Kkot-Sae (Steel.Flower.Bird)'' (Tzadik, 2018) * ''Speckled Stones and Dissonant Green Dots'' (Notice Recordings, 2018) * '' Yeo-Neun'' (Shelter Press, 2020) * '' Teum (The Silvery Slit)'' split album with Florian Hecker (Portraits GRM, 2020) * '' 나를 (Na-Reul)'' (Corbett vs Dempsey, 2021)

Collaborations

* ''Rubbings'', with Christian Marclay on ''From The Earth to the Spheres Vol. 7'' (Opax, 2005; A Silent Place, 2006). Split LP with My Cat is an Alien. * '' Still Life with Commentator'', by Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd (Savoy Jazz, 2007) * ''Check for Monsters'', with Steve Beresford and Peter Evans (Emanem, 2009) * ''Spiritual Dimensions'', by Wadada Leo Smith (Cuneiform Records, 2009) * '' Femina'', by John Zorn (Tzadik, 2009) * '' Dicteé/Liber Novus'', by John Zorn (Tzadik, 2010) * ''The Bleeding Edge'', with Peter Evans and Evan Parker (psi, 2011) * ''Anicca'', with Phil Minton (Dancing Wayang, 2011) * ''Cold / Burn'', with Anla Courtis, C. Spencer Yeh and Jon Wesseltoft (Feeding Tube Records, 2012) * ''Almost Even Further" with 6ix (Leo Records, 2012) * ''White Cables, Black Wires'', with John Edwards (Fataka, 2013) * ''Look Right'', with Nina de Heney and Lisa Ullén (LJ Records, 2013) * '' Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project'', by Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd (Pi Recordings, 2013) * ''Wake Up Awesome'', with Lasse Marhaug and C. Spencer Yeh (Software, 2013) * ''Piper'', with Jon Wesseltoft (Holidays Records, 2014) * ''Skein'', with Richard Barrett, Tony Buck, Frank Gratkowski, Wilbert de Joode, Achim Kaufmann (Leo Records, 2014) * ''Seven'', by Evan Parker Electroacoustic Septet (Victo, 2015) * ''Live at Stone'', with Chris Corsano and

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(Open Mouth, 2015) * ''A Pattern For Becoming'', by Mark Fell (The Tapeworm, 2015) * ''Live at Cafe Oto'', with Bill Orcutt (Otoroku, 2016) * ''Cloud of Unknowing'' on ''

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/ Young God, 2016) * ''Amalgam'', with Christian Marclay (Northern Spy Records, 2016) * ''Obelisk'', by Ikue Mori (Tzadik, 2017) * ''Libra Rising'', with Chris Corsano and Ches Smith (Digital release only on Bandcamp, 2018) * ''The Air Around Her'', with Ellen Fullman (1703 Skivbolaget, 2018)

References

External links

Official site
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