Additional Biographies
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BIO
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Anne Bourne Artist/composer, improvising cellist vocalist, researches the geopoetics of shorelines, spectral wave patterns of water, and collective sound creation. Seasoned in international touring and recording, in song and intermedia performance, Anne composes electroacoustic environments, of emergent streams of microtonal cello, voice, piano, field recordings and acoustic instruments, in interdisciplinary collaboration with those who stand for the wild. Creating environmental installations with artists Striped Canary US, Patty Chang US, and Astrida Neimanis CA. Anne leads Listening and Sounding events to accumulate choral sound fields as peace activism, with a low draw on electricity, and Listening Walks in environmental attunement. Composer James Tenney, invited Anne to perform with Pauline Oliveros, in a telematic concert connecting Paris, Toronto, and Oliveros at the Kitchen, NY, in 1994. Anne continued to improvise with Oliveros, premiering Primordial/Lift, 1998, Oliveros, Tony Conrad and David Grubbs, and all subsequent performances in NY, recordings on ToTE and TAIGA. Anne refined a listening practice attending many years of Oliveros’ Deep Listening Retreats in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Anne founded Sounding Difference an experiential non narrative sounding and listening collective, produced at the Music Gallery, by David Dacks, Toronto, and imparts the text scores of Oliveros independently in places such as Lincoln Park West Seattle, Damrosch Park Lincoln Centre NY, Park Avenue Armory NY, Royal Geographical Society London; OCADU, ECADU, York University, Marcus Boon graduate seminar, COHDS/Acts of Listening Lab Concordia, Kilowatt Festival IT, MM_MMM, Geneva CH, MOCA Toronto, Geopoetics Symposium, Cortes Island, VenusFEST, Debaser/ Pique Festival, The School of Contemporary Art, SFU, the FEELed Lab UBC Kelowna Campus, Arts Everywhere Musagetes, IICSI. founding faculty Collective Composition Lab, Banff Centre Anne is on faculty at the Center for Deep Listening Rensselaer NY. Chalmers Fellow, Anne explores sound fields and microtonal voice practices, walking where light meets water and water meets land, to listen, for sonics as a living topographical map, embody harmonious wave patterns of symbiotic evolution
BIO
100wds 2023
Anne Bourne artist/ composer/ mentor. With a sound field listening practice, Anne leads collective creativity, in a model of equanimity, for voices to improvise together. An electroacoustic composer, Anne captures emergent streams of cello sonics, voice, and field recordings, for spatial installation, in collaboration with those who stand for the wild and all life forms. Seasoned in International concert touring and recording, Anne improvised significantly with composer Pauline Oliveros, developing a deep listening practice in the Sangre de Cristo mountains. Chalmers Fellow, Anne observes shorelines as difference in coalescence, walking. Anne composes to the spectral wave patterns of water. annebournemusic.com/
BIO IV
361 wds 02/11/23
Anne Bourne, a composer/ artist mentor seasoned in international intermedia creation, performance and recording; improvises emergent streams of sonics, AV field recordings and text. Anne trained in energy healing with the ground breaking Rosalyn Bruyere and was initiated into a yoga and meditation practice in 1989 at an Ashram who’s patron was Clementine Nahm Carsen. Anne continued to develop a sound practice through listening as expanded sensory perception, lucid dream, Taoist Qi Gong , with tenets of Tibetan Buddhism, and attunement under the guidance of Pauline Oliveros, IONE and Heloise Gold, concurrent to her sonic and composition practice with Pauline Oliveros from 1994-to the present. Anne has gratitude for practice and courage from teachers Lotte Cardinal, Jaromey Anderson, James Tenney , Michael Snow, Trichy Sankaran, and collaborators Jane Siberry, Loreena McKennit, Pete Bourne, Fred Frith, John Oswald, Eve Egoyan, Andrea Nann, Carla Kihlstedt, Ganavya, Kara Lis Coverdale, Susie Ibarra, David Hykes and Astrida Neimanis. Anne offers gatherings for collective creativity drawing from the sonic meditations, text scores and deep listening® practice of Pauline Oliveros. A facilitator at the Center for Deep Listening, NY; a Chalmers Fellow; ongoing auditor in TBA21 Academy/ OceanSpace, Venice, Trustee for MoM and the Pauline Oliveros Trust and Executive Producer of the documentary film Deep Listening: the story of Pauline Oliveros 2023. Recent sonic work: adjacent to sculptural installation Confluence, a multichannel audio installation titled soundfield: nearshore, in resonance with the buried tributaries under the Gardiner; a commission for an expression of care for the ocean for underwater broadcast by radio amnion; and a collaboration with Learning Endings on a listening walk at the site of a juvenile humpback whale stranding in Lincoln Park West Seattle . An upcoming release of Christopher Willes’ production of To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in recognition of their Desperation will be released by Art Metropole in the coming year. Anne contributed drawings and a brief essay for the new edition of Pauline Oliveros’ original Sonic Meditations . Anne explores themes of equanimity, translation, microtonal sound, listening, walking the littoral as embodied sonic archiving, within a more than human sound field, and composing in attunement to the wave patterns of water.
Dance Related Biography (338 words)
Anne Bourne is a composer/ improviser, and interdisciplinary artist who creates emergent streams of cello and voice. Seasoned in electroacoustic performance and song, Anne collaborates with artists Eve Egoyan and Mauricio Pauly CA; Silvia Tarozzi IT; IONE US; Dubmorphology UK; tUkU CA; Stephen Vitiello US; and Kara-Lis Coverdale CA. A composer for dance Anne has created work with choreographer/dancers Robert Desrosiers; Andrea Nann, with author Michael Ondaatje and director Veronica Tennant; Peter Chin; Kathleen Rea; Karen Kaeja; Alutiq artist Tanya Lukin-Linklater; Laura Colomban, IT; Kim de Jong with live filmmaker Philippe Léonard; and for esteemed choreographer Peggy Baker, CA in a choreographers trust performance with Natasha Bakht 2017 and as composer with Ganavya Doraiswamy, for her body as words, 2020-21. Anne has performed the works of living composers Karen Tanaka, James Tenney, Nicholas Collins, Alvin Lucier, and Pauline Oliveros 1932-2016. After a performance in telepresence with Oliveros in New York 1994, Anne spent summers in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of New Mexico with Oliveros, cultivating a listening practice. Anne improvised the premier of Oliveros’ composition 'Primordial/Lift,' NY 1998, and the TAIGA release recorded at Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, 2013; and finally, as an homage to Oliveros, with IONE, ICE, Distraktfold and Mauricio Pauly, at the Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield UK, 2017. A Deep Listening® certificate holder since1998, Anne imparts Oliveros’ Text Scores through the intersection of sound and gesture, initiates community sound choirs and facilitates collective creative experience ; at Le Serre dei Giardini Margherita, Bologna, Italy 2019; Acts of Listening Lab, Montreal, 2019; and as MMM_MM/ Ensemble Vide artist in resident, Geneve, CH, 2020, and on faculty at the Banff Centre for Art and Creativity, Collective Composition Lab, under the artistic direction of Claire Chase US, and Emily Molnar CA, Danse Nederland. Anne was the recipient of Paul D. Fleck Leighton Writer’s Colony Fellowship, 2017; and Chalmers Fellowship, 2019-21 for which she researches the geopoetics of shoreline. Anne believes each creative expression is an opportunity for the beauty of difference to emerge, through interference and listening.
Dance & Film Related Biography (372 words)
Anne Bourne is a composer/ improviser, and interdisciplinary artist who creates emergent streams of cello and voice. Seasoned in intermedia performance and song Anne collaborates with artists Eve Egoyan and Mauricio Pauly CA; Silvia Tarozzi IT; IONE US; tUkU CA; Peter Mettler CH/CA, and Kara-Lis Coverdale CA. As composer Anne has created work for stage and film with composer Mychael Danna, CA for director Atom Egoyan, CA ‘The Sweetheareafter’, Gran Prix Cannes, 1997; with choreographer/ dancer Caroline Richardson US’ Horses Never Lie’, American Choreographer Award, LA, 2003; for choreographer /dancer Andrea Nann’s meditation suite, with author Michael Ondaatje and director Veronica Tennant, Best Original Music Award, Yorkton Film Festival, 2005; choreographer/ dancer/ director Karen Kaeja CA, short film titled ‘Linoleum’, 2008; live performance and installation ‘grain(s)’ with Alutiq artist/ choreographer Tanya Lukin-Linklater, MOCA 2013; ‘Cassini’s Dreams’ installation/ performance, China Blue CH/US, Andrea Nann, CA, Laura Colomban, IT, Bienale Palazzo Bembo, Venice 2019; performance creation with choreographer/ dancer Kim de Jong, filmmaker Philippe Léonard Montreal 2019; and as composer for Peggy Baker Dance Projects, CA new work ‘her body as words’, 2020-21.
After a significant performance in telepresence with composer Pauline Oliveros NY, 1994, Anne spent summers in the Sangre de Cristo mountains studying composition with Oliveros, cultivating a deep listening practice, and developing her experience of distance performance. Anne improvised the premier of Oliveros’ composition 'Primordial/Lift,' NY 1998, and the TAIGA release recorded at Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, 2013; and as homage to Oliveros (1932-2016), with IONE, International Conetmporary Ensemble, and Mauricio Pauly, at the Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield UK, 2017. A Deep Listening® certificate holder since1998, Anne imparts Oliveros’ Text Scores through the intersection of sound and gesture and facilitates collective creative experience; at Kilowat, Le Serre dei Giardini Margherita, Bologna, Italy 2019; Acts of Listening Lab, Concordia, Montreal, 2019; and as MMM_MM/ Ensemble Vide artist in residence, Geneve, CH, 2020. Anne is on faculty at the Banff Centre for Art and Creativity, Collective Composition Lab, for choreographers and composers, positioned under AD Emily Molnar, CA, Ballet BC/Danse Nederland, den Hague. Anne was the recipient of Paul D. Fleck Leighton Writer’s Colony Fellowship, 2017; and Chalmers Fellowship, 2019-21 for which she researches the geopoetics of shoreline, interference tones, voice, and listening.
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