The story of this album

The story of this album starts back in 2017, when at a Christmas house party, in a cosy living room with the flickering candle lights, I heard for the first time John Cage’s piece “In a Landscape”, played on an old piano by a close friend of mine.

I was absolutely blown away by this music, by its elusiveness and pure beauty. I remember that even days afterwards I was in a state of what can only be described as feeling hypnotized.

I started to explore music that was close to the atmosphere of “in a landscape” and soon after I already had a collection of pieces. It happened that sometimes I was listening to some of them almost non-stop for a few days in a row, so I was literally living inside of this music.

Each one of these pieces absorbed a vast array of emotions and states of mind I experienced during the last few years. This work is very personal to me, it is something like my musical diary from 2017 to 2024.

Few years ago I started improvising a lot, so I included in the album some of my own musical compositions. Sometimes you can hear the connection with the featured pieces, sometimes they are independent musical ideas.

About Oksana Sidyagina

A graduate of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and the Alfred Cortot Normal School of Music, Oksana Sidyagina has a rigorous classical training.

Winner of international competitions, she has been invited to perform at major venues such as:

• Harpissima Salvi Harps & Suoni d’Arpa (Italy)
• Brucknerhaus Linz (Austria)
• Rencontres Internationales de la Harpe en Île-de-France
• Jornadas de Arpa (Spain)

In 2025, she was invited to join the jury of the prestigious Suoni d’Arpa competition in Italy.

Alongside her artistic career, Oksana teaches at the Rachmaninoff Conservatory in Paris and organises summer academies (the next edition at the Domaine de Courances, July 2025).

A harpist who pushes the boundaries

Harp & other arts: collaborations with dance and visual arts, including electric harp. With Angélique sous la pluie (Ground Gallery, 2024) and Web of My Imaginary Memories (Galerie Dauphine, 2023), she reinvents the harp as a living work of art.

Harp & meditation: through the Harp Meditation project (2002), she introduces new audiences to the therapeutic properties of sound.

Harp & fashion: collaborations with Van Cleef & Arpels and Manolo Blahnik; Museum Night 2024 (Palais Galliera, La Mode en Mouvement #2).