Lemna

Japanese native Maiko Okimoto (Lemna) is an electronic music composer based in Tochigi, Japan. Maiko began her musical journey with classical piano at 4 & composing music at 14. After being in bands as a vocalist playing a variety of instruments including guitar, bass, saxophone & keyboards, she began to take an interest in acoustics. After she studied sound engineering at the academy, she began to experiment with production while performing as MC/singer for D&B DJs in Tokyo. Stylistically starting as D&B hybrids, her music grew into a robust, unique sound, equal parts ambient & techno with a rhythmically experimental approach defining the bulk of her work. Ever since she debuted her 1st live performance at Berlin Atonal in 2017, she has given audiences one-off performances composed of only newly-written music to value the ephemeral freshness which has honed her approach to music making. Maiko tells a story with music, seeking to find out the beautiful ratio to frame the moment of a constantly changing dynamic world on a time axis, while hovering between regularity & irregularity, such as order & chaos, artifact & nature, intellect & emotion, or conscious & subconscious. She now works on a broad range of projects including music production for exhibition/installation, collaborative work with performing arts, visual arts, or 2D/3D arts with her unique music incorporating organic soundscapes & expresses her world not only by music but also artwork & video production.