Opening Show: Okkyung Lee with Mark Fell
A sonic dialogue between cello and electronics
WED 1 OCT 20:00 l Kings Place Hall One
This year’s K-Music Festival opens with a groundbreaking performance featuring Korean cellist and composer Okkyung Lee, known for her genre-defying style, creating vast sonic landscapes that move freely through noise, jazz, Western classical, and her homeland’s traditional and popular music.
For the acclaimed festival’s opening night, Okkyung Lee joins forces with UK-based multidisciplinary artist Mark Fell in a bold new collaboration. Fell is a pivotal figure in experimental sound and digital art, whose work critiques normative structures and explores alternative systems of creation.
Together, they blend visceral improvisation and electronic soundscapes, weaving intense extended techniques and abstract rhythms to create an unforgettable, immersive experience.
Okkyung Lee’s distinctive approach to the cello has led to acclaimed releases on the iconic Tzadik label, founded by legendary New York composer John Zorn, as well as the influential experimental music label Editions Mego, formerly run by the late Peter Rehberg, and she is featured on over 30 albums.
Okkyung Lee is renowned for her visceral cello performance, blending noise, Korean traditional music, and improvisation into immersive sonic environments. Her works have been presented at MoMA, Serpentine Galleries, GRM (Paris), and Donaueschinger Musiktage, and she has collaborated with artists including Arca, Jenny Hval, Christian Marclay, and Swans. A 2025 DAAD Artist-in-Berlin fellow, she continues to challenge the role of performer and space in contemporary music.
Mark Fell is a pivotal figure in experimental sound and digital art, whose work critiques normative structures and explores alternative systems of creation. Over the past three decades, his projects have spanned installation, composition, choreography, and text, with presentations at institutions such as the ICA, Barbican, ZKM, MoMA, and Pirelli Hangar Bicocca. His 2022 book Structure and Synthesis outlines his philosophical approach to creative practice.
Credits:
Okkyung Lee (cello)
Mark Fell (electronics)
