Lee Gamble, is a British artist, composer, and producer whose work incorporates themes of time, memory, hallucination, simulation, merging electronic, noise, ambient and dance music.

When Lee Gamble was growing up in Birmingham, the UK's famously diverse second city, it was a dilapidated chaos of post-war brutalist concrete framed by the industrial revolution's dwindling hangover. The soundtrack was fittingly bipolar, with the futurist soundsystem-rooted escapism of dub, garage and jungle bleeding into grindcore metal and machine-strength techno. Gamble still injects his art with this distinctive essence, concocting influential genre-agnostic music for PAN and Hyperdub, and running his own UIQ imprint.

Shifting on from early work in the noise and computer synthesis composition realm, he is best known for a series of albums and EPs released on influential electronic music labels PAN and Hyperdub. Notably, his breakthrough release, Diversions 1994-1996, which undoubtedly captured the zeitgeist or the burgeoning deconstructed music scene, earning widespread recognition as one of the decade's defining albums, as highlighted by RA.

In 2017 he has collaborated with London Contemporary Orchestra, writing 2 acoustic pieces for a unique performance in one of Peak Distric’s caves. He has been commissioned to write a piece for Atonal Festival’s x100 Xenakis programe, and has presented live ambisonic and multichannel performances & installations.

In his 2020 audio essay on the deepfake ‘Face2Face’ commissioned by Camden Arts Center, Lee focused on the creative, technological and social implications of AI and Machine Learning.

His 2021 audio essay 'Head Models: on Rave Simulation, Involuntary Musical Imagery, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Hallucination’ for Liquid Architecture/Unsound Festival & Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore.

His latest release, Models, further develops the tropes of mimicry and simulation, working with a set of simulated voices singing in an almost wordless language, both AI-generated and synthetic - widescreen memories that reverberate across the last few decades of pop history.

These voices are naturally disembodied, trained by and on humans. The non-human voice without a body is magical; alone and somewhat incomplete, it's a display of supernatural force. Through movement, this energy is temporarily hosted by the physical presence of the performers.

The live staging of Models, developed in collaboration with Spanish artist Candela Capitán, uses the idea of learning, mimicry and the sharing of physical signals and information to inform the narrative and overall movement.

He has presented his work internationally, at Southbank Centre, London, Tate Modern, ICA London, The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, MoMA PS1, New York, Sonar Festival, Barcelona, MAC Musée d'art Contemporain, Montréal, Maison de la Radio et de la Musique, Paris and Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw.

He has published several written pieces, including a short story for the AUDINT—Unsound:Undead collection of writings and an essay on AI voice modelling for Shelter Press’ publication Spectres.

His DJ sets have been aptly described as "nothing short of outrageous [...] rollercoaster through genre & tempo, spanning sub-destroying bass & grime, dubstep infusions, plenty of breaks and a hefty dose of freaky techno. Full of unpredictable twists and turns while always remaining highly danceable and exceptionally fun" [Nowadays]

Lee hosts a monthly NTS radio show.

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