In the work "Latvian Beasts", five fairy tales for children written by the contemporary Latvian writer Inese Zandere are told in an audio and visual way. In the winter of 2022, the composer Linda Leimane accidentally discovered a very engaging children's design book "Latvian Animals" in an empty apartment, the author of the idea of ​​which is the artist Mārtiņš Grauds. In the summer of 2022, on the textual and visual basis of the book, Linda Leimane and Mārtiņš Grauds create a new collaboration in the LYRA project, bringing the book to life for the children's joy in both sonic rhythms and cinematic sound effects, as well as giving it the life of movement and shadow games. In 2009, near Madona, a unique book project was photographed in cooperation with a whole team - actors, costume designers, photographer and director. This summer, Linda Leimane and Mārtiņš Grauds meet deep in the forest by the Árona River to capture the sounds read in the book and create a joint work - a unique soundtrack for the audiovisual work in the LYRA concert for children.

Cadavre Exquis III​ as part of the "Sounds to Go (Around the World)" at the 17th edition of the MERIDIAN International Festival from 6 to 13 November 2022. "Sounds to Go (Around the World)" is a 3D animated film with electronic music selected from 13 national sections of ISCM, created by visual artist Alexandru Claudiu Maxim and curated by composer and performative artist Irinel Anghel (ISCM Romania ExCom). The film will premiere in Bucharest, in the opening day of MERIDIAN-ATLAS (November 6, The Opera and Multimedia Studio of UNMB, 8 p.m.), being subsequently screened in Iasi (November 8, UNAGE Studio Hall, 5 p.m.) and in Cluj-Napoca (November 10, the ANMGD Studio, 7 p.m.).

The "CONTEMPLATIONS" will present the works of Giedrius Kuprevičius, Marius Baranauskas, Linda Leimane and Marianna Liik, together with the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra (chief conductor Constantine Orbelian, director Algimantas Treikauskas) and the mastery of the conductor - Imantas Jonas Marijus Šimkus. 12th of November, The Baltic Music Days 2022, at the Kaunas State Philharmonic, E. Ožeškienės street, Kaunas, Lithuania.

Performance by the SYNASTHESIS ensemble @  BALTIC SENSE | Brussels | 'Ars Musica' festival 

Combining the principles of modern political and documentary theater, "Nasing spesal" is composed by director Andrejs Jarovojs in collaboration with composer Linda Leimane, producer Maija Pavlova and artist Ieva Kauliņa at the Gertrude Street Theater. The performance is based on the longest Saeima meeting in the history of renewed Latvia. Politicians' decisions taken more than a decade ago continue to influence today's reality -- we still live in Latvia's increased tax and drawn municipality borders, while the then opposition members are currently in power. How has the change of political forces changed the overall landscape?

Audiovisual installation "Matter. Space" is a search for primal sound and image in academic, electronic music and video art. Six sound artists and three visual artists will explore their daily rituals and trajectories in a private/public space, co-creating an audiovisual installation. 19.00 to 2.00, the concert hall "Tu Jau Zini Kur", Riga, Latvia

Premiere by Sophia Kirsanova and the Syzygy ensemble at the Fine Arts and Music at Melbourne.

"Architectonics of A Crystal Soul" is as a large scale constellation, focusing on the violin and creating synergy between the solo and the ensemble of flute, clarinet, violoncello and piano. The musical idea of the "Architectonics of Crystal Soul" is a sonic environment of imaginary city, where artefacts of different ages and cultures meet. The soundscape is experienced and perceived by a "crystal soul" or the solo violin - alive, feeling, pulsating, breathing, fragile and strong, present in different ages and parts of the planet. 

ARTISTS
Sophia Kirsanova - violin (guest collaborator/violin)
Laila Engle - flute
Robin Henry - clarinet
Campbell Banks - cello
Leigh Harrold - piano

"Geometric Counterpoint" for harpsichord and electronics as part of the ambisonic installation by Voldemārs Johansons at the Cēsis Concert Hall, January 3-9.

"Ray-bows" released in the album by SKANI, performed by the Sinfonietta Riga, conducted by Normunds Šnē.

"Undulations" for piano, premiere by Reinis Zariņš at the Latgale Embassy GORS, ​​Small Hall, Rēzekne.

 Magdalēna Geka /violin/ and Iveta Cālīte /piano/ @Cēsis Vidzeme Concert Hall.

Composer Linda Leimane in a close and continuous collaboration with the classical experimental contemporary singer, performer and extended vocal techniques' explorer and researcher Helena Sorokina (alto) is going to explore the voice down to its bits thus obtaining a vast field of resources for further mutational processes in a new and hybrid audiovisual work, where four different media – acoustic voice, electronics, science (Marija Sorokina) and video art (Viktors Keino) closely converge. Pure voice with a powerful breath, that can be seen as a pure luxury in these times, when so many people are fighting for their lives and struggling with breathing, will be subject to extension from the acoustic into the digital realm [For more information go to Catalogue/Electroacoustic/InterVoicing SpACE].

"Ray-bows" is a multi-level reference to Gerard Grisey's "Vortex Temporum" and "Periodes"in the form of a rainbow arch. The hot-subjective impulses in the outer two thirds of the arch are organized by seven muses: Gabriel, Daniel, Josephine, Sergey, Leonora, Ricardo and Emanuel, while the cold-objective peak of the time arch is marked by the red of the rainbow-colored spectrum. Inspired by Gerard Grisey's creative work, the piece aims for organic linkages between time proportions and sound spaces organised by seven quasi spectra as seven rainbow colors.

"Bodies. Undulations" is a large constellation, filled with a sense of motion and undulation of abstract bodies interpreting August Rodin's "The Gates of Hell" in today's context. The montage of 82 body gestures derived from more than a hundred sonic fields are modelled with the intention to achieve maximum "alive plasticity" possible in the sonic world. From a portal that connects everyday reality to the world of imagination, waves emerge as from a vaporous ocean in which the directions and contours of movement model familiar human gestures, feelings and desires. Not only the constant movement, but also the harmony serves in the modelling of humanity in sounds, expressing the colours and relationships of feelings passing through the human body. The premiere by the ensemble Court-circuit, Paris.

The premiere of "Geometric Counterpoint" for harpsichord and electronics by Ieva Saliete at Arēna festival.

HAMLETS ballet of the choreographer Antons Freimans. Music - Linda Leimane (symphony orchestra and electronics) and Sergei Rachmaninoff (piano works), scenography and costumes -- MAREUNROL'S, Latvian National Opera and Ballet. 

The performance of "Geometry of Endless Solution" at the Concert Hall "Great Amber" in Liepāja. Several different types of electronics are used in the project "Geometry of Endless Solution" which all combine into a never-ending geometric pattern of discovery in which massive blocks, vibrating lines, dots, periodically rhythmic segments and other audio-visually tangible forms dissolve into a primordial substance. The instruments used are a self-oscillating electro-acoustic string instrument specifically created for this performance by Artūrs Punte and Jēkabs Voļatovskis after their own sound installation "No pulsācijas" ("From The Pulsation"), an acoustic, electric cello and bass guitar by Ēriks Kiršfelds and various real-time projections by Viktors Keino. 

The premiere of "Desire" by "Escape Velocity" duo for the project that looks at Milhaud’s “La Création du monde” through the lens of six new commissioned works by a group of six composers. The performance will be surrounded by art, sets, and costumes from the original 1923 ballet production of “La Création” at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Pete.

NEREDZAMĀ BIBLIOTĒKA [INVISIBLE LIBRARY] exibition opnening event at the Latvian National Library. Music and text performance by the actor Gundars Silakaktiņš (voice and electronics) and the composer Linda Leimane (electronics) with voice effects by the Youth choir Kamēr.. Text - Pauls Bankovskis, artist - Dace Džeriņa, curator - Inga Surgunte.

The premiere of ENANTIOMORPHIC CHAMBERS by the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andris Poga. 

GEOMETRY OF ENDLESS SOLUTION at Skaņu mežs festival, Latvia. Several different types of electronics are used in the project which all combine into a never-ending geometric pattern of discovery in which massive blocks, vibrating lines, dots, periodically rhythmic segments and other audio-visually tangible forms dissolve into a primordial substance. Performed by Ēriks Kiršfelds /acoustic cello, electric cello, bass guitar/, Linda Leimane /electronics, self-oscillating electro-acoustic instrument created specifically for this performance by Artūrs Punte and Jēkabs Voļatovskis after their own sound installation No pulsācijas (From the Pulstation)/ and Viktors Keino / projections/.

SILLHOUETTES.BEHAVIOURS recorded by ART-i-Shock, released by SKANI

INTERMEDIATE STATE. VBRATION installation at the modern culture forum White Night 2018, at Zirgu pasts, Rīga. Music: Anna Ķirse, Linda Leimane, Selffish, Oskars Herliņš, Sound Meccano, Platons Buravickis. Violoncello and bass guitar: Ēriks Kiršfelds. Video artists: Ieva Balode and Viktors Keino.