Lee Gamble
Birmingham-born artist, composer and producer. His work carries conceptual rigour and raw edge – built entirely on his own terms, with little interest in where genre or discipline begins or ends. Releasing on PAN and Hyperdub and running his own UIQ imprint, he has spent over a decade pulling hardcore continuum, techno, noise, metal, avant-pop and academic composition into the same space. His 2012 album Diversions 1994-1996 arrived before deconstructed club music had a vocabulary, and is considered one of its defining records. He’s been a quiet reference point ever since.
His practice extends into performance, installation and writing, with recent work moving through AI, simulation and machine-generated voice. His latest album Models works with simulated voices singing in an almost wordless language – AI-generated and synthetic, reverberating across decades of pop history. With Candela Capitán he staged Models as a live work that moves between installation and performance art - disquieting and precise in equal measure.
His work has been presented at Tate Modern, MoMA PS1, Barbican, Unsound Festival, Atonal, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, and Maison de la Radio in Paris. He has also presented commissioned works for the London Contemporary Orchestra, Berlin Atonal and Camden Art Centre.
As a DJ, he was doing this before it was a thing – burning through jungle, techno, grime and noise with a speed, physicality and instinct that still sounds like nobody else.
NTS residency Motor System ongoing.
