Do you have a sore throat? A bad cold? Did you have too much to drink last night?
Is the voice shot and the respiratory mechanism in shambles? The idea came trough
in the darkest time of winter when the composer suffered from most of the above
and the sound environment of broken respiratory- and speaking mechanisms surrounded
and obsessed him for a good number of days. Lidan is an Icelandic word for the
state of one’s health.
The work was done almost entirely using the Kyma/Capybara system at the Kopavogur Computer Music Centre in Iceland in darkest part of the winter of 2001-2002.
The beginning of Lidan II (2:02 min - 1,9 MB)