Anne Bourne
Cello and Vocalist
Anne Bourne improvises parallel streams of cello, voice, and piano, for dance, media and words. Anne performed and recorded internationally with acclaimed songwriter Jane Siberry, followed by Loreena McKennit. She shifted to emergent sound work with artists such as pianist Eve Egoyan; composer/improvisers Fred Frith and John Oswald; filmmakers Atom Egoyan, and Peter Mettler; and with Tuku Matthews, as ‘thought barefoot’. Anne composed for choreographer/dancer Robert Desrosiers; Andrea Nann with author Michael Ondaatje and 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, performed the Karen Tanaka cello solo for Andrea Nann, for the Choreographic Trust. Anne performed the works of living composers James Tenney, Nicholas Collins, Alvin Lucier, and Pauline Oliveros 1932-2016. After a performance in telepresence with Oliveros in New York, Anne spent summers in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of New Mexico with Oliveros, listening, and was inspired to shift her way of engaging with sound in the world, and commit to improvisation. Anne's memoir of Rose Mountain is found in 'Anthology of Essays on Deep Listening.' 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. On faculty at the Banff Centre for Art and Creativity, Collective Composition Lab, Anne imparts Oliveros’ Text Scores and explores listening through the intersection of sound and gesture; also recently at Le Serre dei Giardini Margherita, Bologna, Italy 2019; Acts of Listening Lab, Montreal, 2019; and as artist in residence for ‘by repetition, you start noticing details in the landscape,’ Geneva, 2020. For 9 years Anne has traced her ancestral history to be certain each individual acted with moral integrity, in support of the abolitionist movement, and through the design of the architecture for self-government at the end of the colonial era; this year she found the records of the disappeared Alice who was confined during the suffragette era in Shanghai, and read her back to life at The Red Wheel Barrow, in Paris. Anne was the recipient of Paul D. Fleck Fellowship, 2017, and Chalmers Fellowship, 2019. Anne believes each creative expression is an opportunity for the beauty of difference to emerge, through interference and through listening.