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 original
Lidan was not finished properly for the given deadline. Take two resulted in
pretty drastic reorganization of the whole thing. Hence the title; Lidan II.
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, and finished properly in the spring of 2002.