Lee Gilboa

Sound Art MFA Alum

Lee Gilboa is an Israeli composer, researcher and audio engineer. In her work Lee uses speech, audio spatialization and vocal processing, and engages with different themes around the sonic identity such as naming, representation, oppression and self-expression. While at Berklee College of Music where she was mentored by Neil Leonard and Dr. Richard Boulanger, Gilboa got to perform and collaborate with a wide variety of musicians, artists and technologists such as Rui Penha, Robert Rich, Amnon Wolman and Terence Blanchard. Between 2017-19 Lee lived in New York and attended Columbia University's MFA Sound Art program. During this time she began her work as a curator for CT::SWaM's ExChange series at Fridman gallery with Daniel Neumann, and developed her debut album The Possibility of Sonic Portraiture, which was released by the label Contour Editions. Lee's works have been presented at venues such as Roulette Intermedium, The Cube in Virginia Tech, Fridman Gallery, Spectrum Multichannel Festival, Qubit Gallery, Fourthworld Festival, Arete Brooklyn, The Immersion Room in NYU, and Resonance FM Radio, as well as in conferences such as The Audio Testimony Symposium at the University of the Aerts London and at Brown University’s Residual Noise, among others. She participated in several master classes and artist residencies internationally, such as The Spatial Music Workshop (2018), IRCAM Manifeste Academy (2019), and Atlantic Center for the Arts (2020).

Currently based in Providence, RI, Lee is a Ph.D. student at Brown University’s Music and Multimedia Composition program. Her recent and upcoming engagements include a 30-channel composition for The Honk-Tweet, a collaboration with the rapper SAMMU, a forthcoming presentation at The Sound of Sound Studies conference in Germany and the release of her second album, The Other’s Conception, by the label Surface World.

Columbia Degrees: 
MFA, Sound Arts
2019
Professional Positions: 
Doctoral Candidate
Brown University