Lina Lapelyte: Women Make Music

Lina LapelytÄ— is a violinist, sound artist and composer. Her work encompasses live performances, sound installations, and music for dance, theatre and film.

Lina is an academically trained violinist and since 2005 has been making electronic/electroacoustic music. In the last couple of years she was actively involved in the London improvised music scene, using violin, electronics and environmental sound recordings. Lately her solo performances for violin and electronics have become enriched with her own voice.

Lina has completed several sound installations, most of them were site specific and dealing with the evoking of a sense of place through its own live input: people, their voices; nature and its energy.

She is also a composer and performer in the laptop quartet Twentytwentyone, the ensemble devoted to the performances of graphical notation scores.

Her music has been used in films by Anja Kirchner, Bruse la Bruse. She has performed and had her works shown at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (Huddersfield 2010), Skopje Biennale (Skopje 2009),’Voice and Nothing More’ (London 2009), ‘Cut and Splice’ (London 2008), ‘iFEM’ (Ivalo 2008/09), ‘Lithuanian ART’ 08 (Vilnius 2008), ‘Skanu Mezs’ (Ryga 2008), ‘Holland Festival’ (Amsterdam 2007) and ‘Audio Art’ (Warsaw 2006).

She has collaborated with artists Douglas Benford, David Ryan, Arturas Bumsteinas, Leafcutter John, Edie Prevost, Anton Lukoszevietze, Peter Cusack, Enrico Glerean, Angharad Davies, Rhodri Davies, Mark Westell, John Butcher and others.