Dizzy Drowning. Bodies. Undulations Extraits

Via Imperiale

Sinfonietta Rīga
Normunds Šnē [conductor]

Ray-Bows (excerpts from the I reduction)

Poetry by Semjons Haņins and Konastantins Baķuškovs, voice - Semjons Haņins
Patrīcija Palijčuka - monotrone and piano improvisation
Linda Leimane - composition
Andris Indans - voice recording, mix and master at Gassound Studio
Andrejs Eigus - live recordings

Created specially for the Riga Poetry Map project (www.orbita.lv), 
2013

studiju stadijas

composition: Linda Leimane
mastering: Andrejs Eigus

For SHAPE Platform’s crackaud.io takeover, Leimane has created a new work of haunting dronescapes, spectral vocal incantations and experimental electronics.

On the piece, entitled Through the Echelons of Eternity, Leimane says: “In this work, I give particular importance to the voices of live individuals, their heartbeats and hints to social gatherings with common goals: destroy, defend or celebrate with symphony.”

“To achieve this technically I played with suspense and accumulation, as well as planar motion. Although I wanted to create some beauty, in this time when the enemy of humanity openly shows its ugly face, this work is my personal shelter and appeasement, my shot in the head of cruelty, as well as my unshakable faith in justice.”

Linda Leimane is a member of SHAPE Platform’s 2021 roster. The seven-year initiative is a platform for innovative music and audiovisual art, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. Leimane’s contribution is presented by Skaņu Mežs Festival in Riga, Latvia.

Through The Echelons of Eternity (short)

mebius

JVLMA symphony orchestra, conducted by Andris Vecumnieks
concert recording, April 2013

panel 5

performed by The State Chamber Orchestra Sinfonietta Rīga and conductor Normunds Šnē

Grand Concert of Latvian Symphonic Music
January 29, 2022
Great Guild, Riga

Ray-bows II

for processed violoncello [Ēriks Kiršfelds] and electronics [Linda Leimane],
premiered at Skaņu Mežs 2013

close_up

“Melnā šļauka” / Black hose, 2022 

audio kolāža – Linda Leimane; balss/čells – Evelīna Deičmane / sound collage – Linda Leimane; voice/cello – Evelīna Deičmane, 9’20 min. 

Reālu notikumu stāstījums, ko pavada skaņu celiņi no padomju multiplikācijas filmām, 80. gadu popmūzika un čella spēle. Lai arī brīdinām par skarbo saturu, beigās sliktais un labais transformējoties mijiedarbojas un novērš traģiskās sekas.

Audio darbs iekļauts Evelīnas Deičmanes personālizstādē "Dejorgāns", kas norisinās Kim? Laikmetīgās mākslas centrā Rīgā no 4. novembrim līdz 2023. gada 29. janvārim. 

A narration of real events, accompanied by soundtracks from Soviet cartoons, 1980s’ pop music and cello. Be warned that the contents are difficult, but, in the end, the bad and the good transform, interacting with one another and remedying the tragic consequences.

Audio collage is included in the solo exhibition by Evelina Deičmane Tanzorgan on view at Kim? At the Contemporary Art Centre in Riga from November 4, 2022 to January 29, 2023.

Dejorgāns / Tanzorgan

"Undulations" performed by Reinis Zariņš (live)

composer Linda Leimane
premiered by Sinfonietta Rīga
conductor Normunds Šnē
at the Great Guild Hall
08.11.2014
Latvian Radio Klasika recording

Richard Cameron-Wolfe about "Guesstimations":

During my first listening to Linda Leimane's Chamber Symphony, I attempted to experience it (typically) as a linear event, progressing toward a climactic moment and conclusion. But I soon realized that this music was an entity, a kind of sonic object. My experience during the second listening was circular, comparable to a person slowly walking around a multi-textured sculpture. As with the perception of music unfolding over a period of time, I also could not "see" this entire sound-object at any moment. On third listening, I realized that I had not travelled full-circle around this sound-object, for I did not arrive where I had started. I realized that I was on an ever-mutating spiral.


Guesstimations

"experiment Nr.8" sound for the exhibition_extracts

Composition: Linda Leimane
Sound engineering: Agnese Streļča

Cadavre Exquis III

Linda Leimane / electronics, composition
Ēriks Kiršfelds / electric cello, bass guitar
Agnese Lauva / sound engineering
Andrejs Zarenkovs / recordings

Débris de Miroir

performed by Rihards Plešanovs
recorded by Andrejs Eigus
composed by Linda Leimane
Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, Riga
(c) 2012

flexibles

Artūrs Punte & Linda Leimane improvising Artūrs Punte's bass instruments

Latvian National symphony orchestra 
conductor Andris Poga 
9.02.2019

Enantiomorphic Chambers

choreograph Antons Freimans
music Linda Leimane
Latvian National Opera orchestra conducted by Aigars Meri
scenography and costumes MAREUNROL'S
lights Levas Kleinas
video 8-
mastering Agnese Streļča
photo Agnese Zeltiņa

Ophelia's Death from the ballet "Hamlet"

Julien Pellegrini, percussion
Linda Leimane, composition, mix
Lyon, (c) 2012

knock knock

Kaspars Kurdeko percussion
Linda Leimane composition, electronics
Agnese Streļča mastering
Kaspars Kurdeko, Youth Choir Kamēr.. voices
part of the audiovisual installation "INTERMEDIATE STATE. MATTER"

Skin. Touch. Time.

Linda Leimane composition 
ensemble METABOLES
Orchestre Régional de Normandie
conductor Léo Warynski

Linda Leimane

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