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Lee Weisert (b. 1978) is a composer of instrumental and electronic music. His recent work draws inspiration from a wide variety of scientific disciplines and reinterprets their respective principles into an artistic context.

His instrumental music has been played by nationally recognized performers and ensembles, including Steve Schick and the red fish blue fish percussion ensemble, the Callithumpian Consort, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and the JACK string quartet. His pieces have been performed at several summer music festivals including the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP, 2009) and June in Buffalo (2008), and he recently presented at the NIME festival (2009) on his current work with interactive sound installations.

His electronic music, composed primarily in cSound and MAX/MSP, deals with algorithmic and chaotic structures in 4- and 8-channel spatialization. Along with composer Jonathon Kirk, he is a member of the Portable Acoustic Modification Laboratory (PAML), a collaborative sound installation team. PAML's most recent project, The Argus Project, is an outdoor environmental sound installation that projects laser-modified sound from beneath the surface of a pond.

Lee has degrees in music composition from the University of Colorado (BM), California Institute of the Arts (MM), and Northwestern University (DM). His primary composition instructors have been James Tenney, Michael Pisaro, Jay Alan Yim, and Chris Mercer. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

 

email: leeweisert at gmail dot com