Join celebrated experimental ambient sound musician Ana Roxanne for an intimate performance of her piece IV Elements inspired by The Great Animal Orchestra, commissioned by the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in 2022. To create this piece, Ana worked closely with bioacoustician Bernie Krause to compose a four-piece suite, with each piece dedicated to one of the four elements-earth, air, fire, and water. The suite is a meditation on interconnectedness, subtle and grand beauty, the flow of life, and the cycle of death expressed through keyboards, guitar, bass, and the human voice. Excerpts from Bernie Krause’s soundscape recordings are layered within each suite, offering a new experience of his groundbreaking material. Roxanne’s own field recordings and poetry serve to supplement and highlight each of the four natural elements.
Ana Roxanne works at the intersection of electric meditation, dream pop, and ambient songcraft. Her inspirations span the secular (R&B divas of 1980s and ‘90s) and the spiritual (Catholic choral traditions in which she was raised), synthesized into a uniquely intuitive sonic language, equal parts atmospheric and ancient, healing and hermetic.
The Great Animal Orchestra was commissioned by Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in 2016 and is now part of its permanent collection.
12 сен 2024
