Brent Lee is a composer, media artist, and musician whose work explores the relationships between sound, image, and technology, especially through multimedia performance. He has created more than one hundred works, ranging from orchestral music to interactive media pieces to film soundtracks. He holds degrees from McGill University and the University of British Columbia, where he completed his doctoral studies in 1999. In addition to performances and broadcasts in many countries, several of his works have been commercially recorded. He is a co-founder of the Noiseborder Ensemble and has been awarded significant funding for research/creation through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council. He is a Professor of Integrated Media in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor.
Current projects include a new work for piano and 3D video projection with Noiseborder collaborators Chris McNamara and Megumi Masaki and an orchestral score for Kim Nelson’s live documentary Ice Farmers. He continues to work on a longer-term project that explores research methodologies relating to creative work.
http://www.uwindsor.ca/visualarts_nmpl/
Department: Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Areas of expertise: music composition, electro-acoustic music, music theory, orchestration
Office: Room 222 ARMORIES Armouries and Freedom Way
Phone: +1 519 253 3000 x2034
E-mail: brentlee@uwindsor.ca