Oksana Linde

Music is an essential part of my life. Everything is music or sound. I have always an orchestra inside. It is a pity that one cannot record thought-music, impromptu-inside-brain … that is easily forgotten. I am not a professional musician. But engaging in the world of Sounds has been very important for me since I was a child. I remember being much impressed by what I had the opportunity to hear at home. My family bought, when I was about 4 years, an old piano. My grandmother (who studied with a great musician in Ukraine) taught my older sisters, and I begun playing, as we say, “by ear”. When I played whatever I wanted without formal training, she was not quite happy. “The Engulfed Cathedral” (Debussy) impressed me very much. I felt surrounded by mystery. We used to listen mainly classical music. A lot of folk music too. I studied Chemistry, and worked for some time in Scientific Research. At 33, I had to leave the labs due to chronic intoxication. I acquired a Polymoog, a 4 track recorder, then a Moog “Source”, and some other items. After some time, I continued making my musical experiments with digital keyboards and external sequencers. One of my short pieces, “Mariposas Acuáticas”, was selected in 1985 to be included in the album “Antology of Tomorrow..s Popular Music” ( For some years I did not know what happened with that project of MASM -France, and, some years ago, found in the web that it had been released indeed) I have done some background music for an educational TV program, and for Theater. Meanwhile, I dedicated part of the time to another important to me activity, me since a child: painting and drawing. http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/o/oksana The last maybe 9 years I had not the conditions to dedicate to music but for a very short time. This year 2008 I am beginning again, with two or three projects. One will be electroacustic, music for meditation. Another, more rhytmic, with DJ Tony, will be a very interesting challenge for me. A third one will include some lyrics, performed by two women, and, possibly, Ukrainian, Tzigane, Turkmen and other ethnic or folk tunes . I had been for many years environmental and community issues activist. I love to read and study when I can, mainly scientific subjects.