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Artist
Anna Homler
12+ albums
experimentalAvant-Gardemusique concrèteamericanambient
about
Anna Homler (Los Angeles, 1948) is a vocalist, performance artist and composer, who takes bits and pieces of phonetic clusters from several different languages and combines them into a language that is all her own. She calls this technique "Linguistic Alchemy." She started out in 1980 with performance art, then around 1985 began to focus on the human voice. Anna travels the world with her music, singing with a wide array of different musical groups. She often combines these events with performance art and with found-object sculptures. Her first triumph was the phantasmagoric album Do Ya Sa' Di Do (AMF, 1992), featuring Ethan James, Steve Moshier, David Moss and Bernard Sauser-Hall. She fully revealed her surreal persona in pieces such as "Moshier's Ee Che". After lending her vocals to the first incarnation of "Voices Of Kwahn" and to the project "Sugarconnection "(sound sculptors Frank Schulte and Axel Otto) on the 20 brief vignettes of Plays Alien Cakes (No Man's Land, 1994), Homler teamed up with keyboardist, guitarist and violinist Geert Waegeman and percussionist Pavel Fajt for the 15 abstract folk dances of Macaronic Sines (Lowlands, 1995), one of her most creative works, and the live album Corne de Vache (Victo, 1997). House of Hands (ND, 2000) with Viola Kramer, Steve Roden, Nadine Bal, Alain Neffe, and Lyn Norton offers twelve of her under-developed songs. Kelpland Serenades (Pharmacia Poetica, 2005) is a live improvised collaboration with electronic keyboardis
