Florian-Ayala Fauna
American artist, musician, poet, and music producer
Musical artist
Florian-Ayala Fauna is an American artist, musician, poet, and music producer. Fauna is the main member of the post-industrial music project uncertain .
Personal life
Florian-Ayala Fauna was born in Norfolk, Virginia .[ 15] At age 5, Fauna moved to Bombay Beach, California , in Southern California along the Salton Sea .[ 15] [ 4] She credits the place as an inspiration to her music.[ 16] [ 4] She described it as a "post-apocalyptic-looking town."[ 4] At age 12, she began experimenting with sampling and rough recordings with a microphone.[ 5]
In 2002, Fauna lived in the exurb community of Indio, California .[ 3] At age 21, she moved to Buffalo, New York , where she has been part of Buffalo's experimental art and music scene.[ 4] Fauna experiences esoteric visions which is involved in her art due to temporal lobe epilepsy .[ 4] She has chronic fatigue syndrome and is intersex which plays a role in much of her art.[ 5] [ 17] She is trans-femme and uses she/her pronouns.[ 18]
Art
"Things that are sacred, profane, or some combination of the two. Fragility, purity, and decay are important subjects in my work. Nature is also a noteworthy aspect of my work as well."
Fauna is a multidisciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris , France , a Coil -themed exhibition in Berlin , Germany , and in the United Kingdom as well as locally in Buffalo , New York .[ 19] [ 16] [ 3] [ 20] [ 21] Fauna's artwork utilizes collage , film, painting, photography, and poetry.[ 3] [ 4] Her work includes occult, psychedelia, chaos and spiritual enlightenment.[ 22] Animal imagery include deer, foxes, goats, hares, birds, and wolves.[ 3] [ 12] She cites the Surrealists as an influence.[ 5] [ 15] [ 17]
Music
uncertain
In 2007, uncertain began as the solo project of Florian-Ayala Fauna.[ 12] [ 15] [ 17] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] Initially, she made ambient and drone music with the computer programme Ableton .[ 17] Her first album glass fawn was an ambient soundscape about a deer getting lost.[ 5] It often involved field recordings , processed sounds, and tape loops while their current cycle (since 2012) features albums about a family of foxes done with composition, sampling , and complex music production on Ableton Live and Kontakt .[ 5] [ 3] [ 4] Influences include Aleister Crowley , Hermeticism , Arvo Pärt , Coil , Current 93 , Throbbing Gristle , and alchemy .[ 5] [ 17] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11] As of 2016, Fauna is the main producer and collaborates with others, primarily with Felix Keigh who is her fiancé and main vocalist.[ 4] [ 17] [ 15]
uncertain started doing live performances in 2013.[ 17] Cities for live performances have included Boston , Cincinnati , Columbus, Ohio , and New York City . However, her chronic fatigue limits touring.[ 5] [ 15] They use visuals such as the use of animal masks, candles, lights, video projections, and ritualistic costumes.[ 17] Live shows have included performances alongside TRNSGNDR/VHS.[ 5]
Collaborations
Fauna has collaborated with former Coil member Stephen Thrower (Cyclobe , UnicaZürn), Esperik Glare's Charlie Martineau (In Serpents and Seas), and others.[ 5] [ 14] Thrower contributed an opening track to her 2016 album Dark Night of the Soul .[ 12] She has also frequently done artwork for Swiss post-industrial musicians and artists Black Sun Productions. Her most recent collaboration was with London-based industrial hip hop artist Ubik MCDXCII, providing production work for the track "Rites and Ceremonies" on his album "Blackout Blinds".[citation needed ]
Reception
In February 2013, Orange County, California alternative weekly OC Weekly ' s Dave Barton called dancing with the blind (lost children) "atmospheric and haunting" and "one of the most evocative titles for an album I've ever heard."[ 3] In August 2016, The Public ' s Cory Perla described both her art and music as "otherworldly."[ 4] In March 2017, British music magazine The Quietus ' s Russell Cuzner summed up her music as "somehow fulfil[s] a similar aesthetic to the artist's equally prolific visual art that often depict animal heads [...] as if charged with some kind of hidden power, part gothic horror, part Gnostic totem."[ 12] In December 2019, Columbus Alive ' s Andy Downing said God Is a Man Eater was "dense, buzzing, six-track song cycle."[ 15]
Politics
Fauna supports anti-fascism and identifies as an anarchist .[ 5] [ 17]
Discography
Title
Release
Record label (Catalogue number)
glass fawn
2009[ 5] or 11 January 2010 [ 23]
N/A[ 24]
small cold hands
6 April 2010[ 25]
N/A[ 24]
amniotic fluid EP
20 February 2011 [ 26]
Sparrow's Tongue Records[ 1] [ 24]
seahorse (abyssopelagic)
23 February 2011[ 27]
N/A[ 24]
grief: silence in five movements
23 May 2011[ 28] [ 29]
Sparrow's Tongue Records[ 1] [ 24] (spar004[ 1] [ 28] )
æther: musick for moths
1 January 2012 [ 30] [ 31]
N/A[ 24]
phoenix rising EP
1 February 2012[ 32]
N/A[ 24]
Warm Leatherette (a cover version of The Normal )
9 April 2012[ 33] [ 34]
Sparrow's Tongue Records[ 1] [ 24]
very friendly (a cover version of Throbbing Gristle )
23 April 2012[ 35]
Sparrow's Tongue Records[ 1]
nocturnal
1 May 2012[ 36] [ 37]
Sparrow's Tongue Records[ 1] [ 24]
dancing with the blind (lost children)
1 January 2013 [ 38] [ 39]
Sparrow's Tongue Records (spar008[ 39] ) [ 3] [ 1] [ 24]
phantoms of the trench warfare (past lives in black flames)
20 March 2013[ 40]
Sparrow's Tongue Records (spar009[ 40] ) [ 24]
crawling through the abyss (perdurabo)
23 October 2013[ 41]
Sparrow's Tongue Records (spar010[ 41] ) [ 24]
the cycle of tears (moon)
23 September 2014 [ 42]
N/A[ 24]
uncertain presents ‡ black-stag's-lament ‡ - the vision of sorrow ep
10 December 2014[ 43]
N/A[ 24]
Horns and Teeth (Blood Rite)
16 January 2015 [ 44]
N/A[ 24]
Black Forest Invocation (Astaroth) - Live at Black Forest Invocation
22 February 2015[ 45]
N/A[ 24]
The Fox's Blood Moon (for Ian Johnstone)
23 July 2015[ 46]
N/A[ 24]
The Price of Existence Is Eternal Warfare (Live Invocations)
31 October 2015[ 47]
Wraith Productions (886445526660[ 47] ) [ 24]
transnoise aktion no. 001 - 05.21.2016
2016
N/A
The Veins were Licked by the Vulpine Garden
5 June 2016[ 48]
N/A[ 24]
transnoise aktion no. 003 - 08.04.2016
2016
N/A
transnoise aktion no. 004 - 08.26.2016
2016
N/A
Transnoise Aktion no. 005 - 09.02.2016
4 September 2016[ 49]
N/A[ 24]
The Crown of the Mother Elk
26 September 2016[ 50]
N/A[ 24]
black stag's lament
3 December 2016[ 51]
N/A[ 24]
dark night of the soul (the pile of bodies)
22 December 2016[ 52]
N/A[ 12] [ 24]
The Surgeon Was a Butcher
5 July 2017 [ 53]
N/A[ 24]
Child Covered in Needles (She Is Dancing and Blind)
5 August 2017[ 54]
N/A[ 24]
God Is a Man Eater [ 15]
30 October 2019[ 55]
N/A[ 24]
See also
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