Lemna
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- Lemna is the alias of Japanese composer, producer, sound designer, Maiko Okimoto.Japanese native Maiko Okimoto, also known as Lemna, is a composer / producer / sound designer based in Tochigi, Japan. Maiko began studying music and classical piano at age 4. Starting as a vocalist/guitarist in bands, she gradually began to take an interest in musical acoustics and composition. After she studied music production and sound engineering at the academy, she began her musical journey in 2006 in the most unlikely of ways - as an MC for D&B DJ's in Tokyo under the name of Key. Following a natural progression as a recorded vocalist, she began to experiment with production even more deeply. Stylistically starting as D&B hybrids, Lemna's music grew into a totally robust, unique sound, equal parts ambient and techno with a rhythmically experimental approach defining the bulk of her work. She signed with Berlin based label: Horo in 2016, and debuted her first live performance as Lemna entitled “Sediment” at Berlin Atonal in 2017. Maiko tries to find out the beautiful ratio to frame the moment of the constantly changing dynamic world and express it on a time axis, while hovering between regularity and irregularity, which is like order and chaos, artifact and nature, intellect and emotion, or conscious and subconscious. She is always trying to find a balance in them, not to split them in a dualistic way. Since she only performs live and never DJs, which has honed her approach to music making. She plays live as a one-time-only performance composed of only newly-written music for each show so as to value the ephemeral freshness every time.