Palimpsest
Feature Film
Ilves was asked by director Hanna Västinsalo and producer Cyril Abraham to compose the original score for the feature length indie/scifi film Palimpsest, which would premiere in the Venice Film festival September 2022 as a part of the selected few scripts of Biennal Cinema College.
Now the film is doing the rounds in different festivals both nationally and internationally. It was a part of the Midnight Sun Film Festival, having it's premiere the 14th of June 2023 in Rovaniemi, Finland.
To read an article about the film click here.
For viewing Palimpsest trailer click here.
Moves Like Summeri
Live dance
performance/competition with Yle Summeri
During spring 2022 dancer and choreographer Samuli Emery asked Linda to be a part of the show Moves Like Summeri (produced by Yle) as a musician and composer for his dance piece Time.
The show was a contest between 3 dance teams (teams green, pink and blue) performing a choreography by 3 different dancers; Alex Komulainen (blue), San Hassani (pink) and Samuli Emery (green). The final was live-streamed on Yle Areena from Tanssin Talo (the House of Dance) in Kaapelitehdas, May 2022.
To view the performance on Yle Arena click here.
Linda Ilves: Embodied
A concert for music and movement.
All photos: Mikko Malmivaara
"Linda Ilves: Embodied" is a work of my compositions I composed during the fall of 2023, which was performed in the Music Center's Black Box, December 2023.
This work is the result of how somatic movement practices and movement research influenced my music making and performance in this concert.
The need for this piece came from a desire to better understand and make use of all that my body knows as a professional dancer and how this knowledge translates into music composition. It is an on-going process which I will dig into deeper during the next few years.
All compositions were composed, produced and arranged by me apart from 2, which were co-created with a sound designer/music producer (Sebastian Kurtén) and a percussionist (João Luis).
Want to see a snippet of my solo? Click here.
For the whole ocncert, click here.
Embodied Stories
Dance piece for a festival in Tanzania
Embodied Stories is a dance piece Linda’s close friend Sanna Yrjänheikki choreographed in collaboration with Muda Africa students for Time 2 Dance -festival in Tanzania in September 2022 by Muda Africa Organisation.
Linda was asked to assemble all and compose part of the music for a 18min dance piece.
Choreography by Sanna Yrjänheikki in collaboration with Muda Africa students:
Batromeo James, Deosanius Ivan, Fredrick Sanga, Hassan Aman, Hassani Athumani and Peter Voice.
Music by: Linda Ilves and Studio Bros, Freddy da Stupid & Lilocox Music coordination: Linda Ilves & Sanna Yrjänheikki
To view the performance click here.
Sensum: Parallel(s)
Music & Sound design for a dance piece
Sensum is a House dance collective of six dancers who all share a love for the street dance style House. In 2018 the collective got a chance to perform their own choreography as a part of URB Festival’s programme in the culture center STOA in Helsinki.
The piece ‘Sensum Parallel(s)’ was dedicated to the street dance style known as House and was choreographed by the group.
Linda was working both as a sound designer/music producer, music co-ordinator and as a dancer in the piece.
Dancers: Ita Puusepp, Heidi Hartzell, Tuure Kaukua, Jenni Heikkinen, Linda Ilves and Ella Sinervo (not part of the above mentioned piece).
To the view the performance click here.
The Secret
Video project
In spring 2020 Linda got interested in composing music to film/video/moving images and decided to make a small dance film titled ‘The Secret’.
The short film is about having a secret that is filling you up with anguish but you don’t know how to or if you even dare to speak it out loud.
Ilves scripted, filmed, cut, edited, composed music and sound design for the film. Dancers/performers: Ita Puusepp (dancer) and Simeoni Juoperi.
To view the film click here.
