Linda Jankowska

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Content warning: This performance features high frequency sine tones for a short duration, which some audience members may experience as loud. Form earplugs will be available on entry.

Linda Jankowska cymbals / objects / electronics / video

Linda Jankowska (Poland, 1984)
Parable of the Prize of Heaven (2024) 25’

Linda Jankowska is a musician whose practice orbits around long-term collaborations and multifaceted modes of working with sound that stretch her limitations. Primarily a violinist, she works at an intersection of instrumental performance, improvisation and composition.

Parable of the Prize of Heaven follows a three-part trajectory of a set of biomythographic narratives derived from Linda’s Catholic upbringing. Field recordings of church spaces, organs, reverberating footsteps and glass are merged with vibrating transducers on cymbals, friends reading quotes from Octavia Butler and Søren Kierkegaard, and circuit-bent Casios to create a non-linear sonic journey through locations, people, relationships and existential ideologies. The piece is both a reflection and a question of the nature of the organisation of life through religion.

Produced by hcmf// supported by Hinrichsen Foundation, Vaughan Williams Foundation and PRS Foundation Talent Development Network supported by PPL

hcmf// shorts: open call is part of the Sounds Now project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

Photo credit: Ji Yang