Profile

About

DONNI LEE translates stories that remain within a person but cannot be fully expressed in words. Sound and music are the first languages of this translation. She seeks out the languages and forms each story needs in order to reach another person.

DONNI LEE as a child, presented as an archival music cover portrait.

Artist biography

DONNI LEE is an artist, music producer, and creative director working through DONNI LAB. Piano and voice are her primary musical materials, expanding into composition, arrangement, production, moving image, text, and emotional narrative.

She develops poetic, all-ages works around unnamed feelings, unfinished grief, memory, language, and the child who remains within us. Her creative platform, DONNI LAB, supports this practice across artworks, research, publishing, and interactive forms.

Her background brings together composition, art and technology, interaction design, and sound research. Across independent work and large-scale music productions, she moves between intimate songs and collaborative audiovisual systems without separating musical craft from the experience built around it.

Skills & tools

  • MusicMusic production · Recording · Localization
  • DesignInteraction design · HCI · Sound programming
  • ToolsLogic Pro · Unity · Max/MSP · Arduino
  • DirectionCreative direction · Project management · Moving image

Musical language

Piano

Vocals

Composition

Arrangement

Production

Practice

  • 01Composition, voice, and sound production
  • 02Moving image and audiovisual narrative
  • 03Memory, grief, language, and ritual
  • 04Creative direction across media