Leigh Ivin is an Australian musician, producer, audio engineer and soundscape artist. Having a lifelong love and affiliation with a wide variety of styles and genres, Leigh has worked at a career dedicated to the artistic and authentic aspects of music. Known as an accomplished guitarist, he began to specialise in steel guitar over the last two decades. Leigh is a founding member of the Re-mains, one of Australia’s most uncompromising and hardest touring independent acts. Although mostly ensconced in rock n roll for a lot of his career, Leigh has always paralleled his pursuits with sounds that lean towards the ethereal and experimental.

As a producer, Leigh has worked extensively with a range of artists including alt-country chanteuses Jackie Marshall and Sarah Carroll, roots-music legend Chris Wilson, traditional country balladeer Neville Anderson, his own band the Re-mains as well as countless indie and other diverse acts over the last three decades. He has assembled several studios during this time, the last according to Leigh, “probably way too large,” and the current, “not big enough.”

In between touring and various recording projects, Leigh composed and recorded musical cues for short films and other visual media. During this time, he became interested in the idea that random sources could be used to create music in the studio ; that capitalising on concepts developed in experimental music could bring inspiring and original music out of seemingly nowhere. Leigh calls these “found objects”.

Leigh studied music at the University of New England in the early to mid 1990’s where he met Inga Liljestrom, forming a friendship that would ultimately lead to a project during the COVID pandemic. “Of Stars and Stones” was made entirely via the internet without exchanging one uttered word to each other. Receiving critical acclaim, selected layers and pieces from the album were selected for the Amazon Prime mini series, “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart”, starring Sigourney Weaver. Leigh’s compositions were part of the broader score by Polish composer, Hania Rani.

More recently, Leigh has composed a suite of shorter compositions aimed at film and television that were created using first and only takes of solo performances. Using piano, steel guitar, various other guitars, gongs, bowls, triangles, random domestic noises, nature, machinery; he’s been allowing immediate and raw inspiration lead the way in his compositions.