Toronto-based composer and performer Anne Bourne will present Ondes: water songs, solo improvisations for cello and voice. Ondes is inspired by memories, water songs was first created for the installation HyrdoGlyph on Ward's Island by textile artist Luisa Milan. Several times a week in the summer of 2010 Anne would walk down the sand beach on Ward's Island with her cello and a chair and sit at the breakwater within a spiral of Luisa's blue prayer flags, with all the shades and qualities of water embroidered. "We are water. Thought transforms water. Can water carry a knowledge of time in the integrity of a single drop, held in the deepest ocean. Water transforms itself."

Anne Bourne ‘...is an earthy unrestrained musical force...' CODA

Anne's sound emerges from improvised streams of extended acoustic cello, with harmonic overtones as points of departure for her voice. Anne attends the experience of listening in composing for dance, film, experimental context, digital media, chamber music, and words. Anne has created work and traveled widely with Jane Siberry, Loreena McKennit, Michael Ondaatje, Susie Ibarra, Alvin Lucier, Nicolas Collins, Eve Egoyan, John Oswald, Tom Kuo, Peter Mettler, Fred Frith, and Pauline Oliveros.

Anne is interested in each musical expression being an offering of sonic peace, in the sense of resolution between tones, peoples, landscapes, and individual paradoxes through listening.

Anne received the Golden Sheaf Award for Best Original Score for the work she did with Michael Ondaatje and choreographer Andrea Nann.

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