Sound American 23
In August, 2019, I went to visit id m theft able in his hometown of Portland, Maine. Driving along Middle Jam Road, he showed me some of his favorite places to practice outdoors. We stopped by a low-humming water dam and walked through the woods to an abandoned gunpowder mill where he once hosted a performance. We took silly pictures of each other and kicked sand off deserted mountainous dunes he fondly referred to as the “alien planet.” My stay concluded with a three-hour conversation conducted in the ground-floor apartment of a 20-year old compound built by his great-grandfather that he currently shares with several family members. It is excerpted here.
https://soundamerican.org/issues/alien/build-myself-home
Wet Ink Archive
I wrote an essay tracing and reflecting on the past 4 years of developing a personal language for the Wet Ink Ensemble‘s inaugural Archives Series. This process was an amazing opportunity to reflect and articulate some of my most meaningful developments to this date.
http://archive.wetink.org/#/archive01/reflections-on-building-a-personal-language
BOMB Magazine
I was interviewed by my dear friend and collaborator Conrad Tao for BOMB Magazine, published September 6, 2018.
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/that-the-voice-is-a-shared-thing-charmaine-lee-interviewed/