Oksana Linde

Oksana Linde (born 1948) is a Venezuelan composer and electronic music performer. Her debut album was released in 2022, featuring recordings made during the 1980s.

Career Linde was born to Ukrainian immigrants in Caracas, Venezuela and learnt piano from an early age. Daughter of Ivan Linde and Halyna Krychevska Linde, her maternal grandfather was the painter and designer Vasyl Krychevsky and her great-uncle was the painter Fedir Krychevsky. She studied for a Master of Science degree at Universidad Central de Venezuela, while working at the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, but side effects from the chemicals she worked with caused demyelination, seizures, and memory loss, and she abandoned her studies.

Linde began experimenting with creating music at this time and she played in some group projects with other students. After leaving her studies she purchased equipment for a home studio, including Casio CZ-1 and Polymoog synthesisers, a TEAC A-3440 reel-to-reel machine, Roland tape echo effect and others.

The first piece of music Linde composed was "Cosmos" in 1982, followed by "Descubrimiento" in 1983. and between 1984-1986 she had recorded over thirty pieces, including some for TV, radio, and theatre. In 1991 she was included as part of the third Festival of Electronic Music in Caracas, but outside of some international radio play her work remained largely unreleased. An album, Travesías, collecting work recorded between 1986-1994, was released in 2025.

Since releasing Aquatic and Other Worlds, Linde's music has been likened to other early electronic musicians like Delia Derbyshire. In their review, Electronic Sound Magazine wrote she was closer to Wendy Carlos and Isao Tomita than Derbyshire, while The Wire likewise noted the comparisons to artists like Derbyshire and Carlos, and wrote the release of Linde's music was a lesson in how so many other female electronic composers were unrecognised. 2020 - Dream Tech - Mana 2022 - Below The Radar 39 - Wire Magazine

Albums

2022 - Aquatic And Other Worlds (1983-1989) - Buh Records 2025 - Travesías - Buh Records