Anne Bourne

sound artist / ecooacoustic composer, improvising cellist, vocalist / trustee, faculty, advisor, creative consultant

Through listening walks, I have observed the coalescence of elemental difference — light to water, water to land, the soil/ mycelium to trees, the minerals and species of the ocean floor in the dark, to the surface, illuminated by subaqueous light. Through attunement to the currents and wave patterns water makes, I experience an expression of time, and a sonic ontology of water.

I offer listening walks and deep listening sonic experiences, compose intermedia works, to draw experiential sensory awareness to the ocean this planet is. My endeavour to hold a reciprocal presence with water.

Lately I have been asked to lead listening walks on post extractivist wastelands (BochumDE mining slag ) near toxic bodies of water (HamiltonCA) and Biidaasige (Toronto CA) I am developing creative ritual and the potential to use seismic and hydro microphones to give voice to the renaturalization process of each location. In Venice I performed with Symbiotic Lab who streams live a river as cocomposer.

I am in new exploration in collaboration with filmmaker Philippe Léonard, at the place in the Fleuve St Laurent where saline water transforms to fresh water, listening for beings who may live in both.

In September I was a guest of the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice and in October aligned with Pietro Consolandi‘s Rights of Nature Collective to field record and learn of the initiatives to grant personhood to the Laaguna Venezia. Iwas welcomed by Ocean Space to research solo cello comp[ositions within the acoustics of the Chiesa San Lorenzo in exchange and in gratitude to 5 years of TBA21 Ocean Uni I performed for the Citizens Assembly gaathering at Ocean Space October 10 concurrent to the start of the Bienale Musica in Venice .

Listening Walk photo: Care for the Stranded, cetaceans, scientists, each other..

Learning Endings: Astrida Neimanis, Patty Chang and Aleksija Neimanis Puget Sound, Pacific Ocean, Lincoln Park, West Seattle