It's been an intense and productive collaboration. Besides, Gund's bucks couldn't buy Lee the lunatic energy she pours into her work. She is in preproduction for her first feature film, to be based on the 19th-century Brazilian novel Dom Casmurro , and she's also making a short, impressionistic documentary about contemporary architecture. The architecture project came about when Lee was promoting Modulations . She was getting bored traveling all over the world and wanted something to work on, so she started shooting footage of buildings in Tokyo, Barcelona and Copenhagen.
Cultures mix together and are becoming so international.
You have a skyscraper that could be in New York or Europe or Africa. I'm intrigued with this whole homogeneous culture. Combining her interest in buildings with her love of new sounds, Lee has commissioned a series of recordings made by musicians inspired by architects. For the second album, the musician is Japanese and the architect British, and the third will feature a German musician and a French architect. And mix it together.