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Domina Catrina Lee
Singapore born and self-tutored in composition, Domina Catrina Lee, has studied jazz guitar briefly far back in ther personal past, and still considers it a primary instrument (and stylistic influence), of sorts, but she feels she is called to composition. She presently freely experiments in virtual instrumentation exclusively, due to social, economic, and musical constraints. She enjoys rendering her works in a variety of tunings, including 12tet hermode, 7 limit JI, Gamelan, and Chinese 4th Century. Inspired by the 'music that inspires', or the music that descends from the invisible and provokes in listeners the impulse to ascend out of limitation and conventional restraints, Domina Catrina Lee has interest in all things real, in other words, all things metaphysical, including the manner in which her transgendered name came to be (by way of Numerology). To be and to create "Beauty, Truth, and Goodness" is her personal artistic ideal, as it was Plato's.
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Domina Catrina Lee: Songs From The Breastbone Drum
by Robert Bush
Domina Catrina LeeSongs From The Breastbone DrumSelf Produced2010 Singaporean guitarist and composer Domina Catrina Lee is not a household name. In a more just universe, she would be. Lee possesses a seemingly infinite musical imagination. Working with a computer and a “budget" acoustic guitar, Lee has crafted a collection of highly creative, often large-scale works that defy categorization. Although her use of virtual-instruments--expertly and painstakingly programmed--allow her compositions to ...
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Something Else!
By Pico Ever since the music business as we know it first came into existence, there have always been musicians for whose need for artistic purity and/or just out of financial necessity has made them into “do it yourself" musicians, producing homemade music for a limited audience. More accurately, a portion of that audience who actually were able to find them. Recent advances in technology has allowed these DIY types to make their own music and deliver it to the ...
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" Lee possesses a seemingly infinite musical imagination....her use of virtual-instruments--expertly and painstakingly programmed--allow her compositions to come to vivid life, what balances out all the electronics is Lee's quite stunning acoustic guitar improvisations."
"Lee manages to fuse elements similar to those of Weather Report, Oregon and Metheny into a highly original scheme that's all her own."
- Robert Bush, allaboutjazz, the Internet's definitive jazz and fusion site
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