Florian-Ayala Fauna

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Florian-Ayala Fauna
OriginUnited States
GenresAmbient music[1]
Dark ambient[1]
Experimental music[2][3]
Industrial music[1]
Noise music[4]
Years active2007–present[5]
Websiteflorian-93.com

Florian-Ayala Fauna is an American artist, musician, and music producer. Fauna is part of the music duo uncertain with Felix Spencer Keigh.

Background

Personal life

At age 5, Fauna moved from the U.S. state Virginia to Bombay Beach, California in Southern California along the rift lake Salton Sea.[4] She credits the place as an inspiration to her music.[7][4] According to Paris-based art community Artchipel, the place had a "big impact on her childhood and becomes a major influence in her life."[7] In an interview with Buffalo, New York alternative newspaper The Public's Cory Perla, she described it as "a very kind of post-apocalyptic-looking town."[4]

In 2013, 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, New York's experimental art and LGBTmusic scene.[8][4] Fauna experiences visions due to temporal lobe epilepsy.[4] She also has chronic fatigue syndrome.[9] She identifies as androgyne, intersex and transgender.[3][4][9]

Art

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.[10][7][3][11][12] Fauna's artwork utilizes collage, film, painting, photography, and poetry.[3][4] Her work includes imagery of occult, psychedelia, chaos and spiritual enlightenment.[8] Animal imagery of birds, deer, foxes, goats, hares, and wolves figures often.[3][5] In an interview with Artchipel, Fauna said her inspiration behind her art were "[t]hings 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."[7]

Music

Uncertain

In 2007, Uncertain began as the solo project of Florian-Ayala Fauna.[5][9] Initially, she made ambient and drone music.[9] It often involved field recordings and tape loops while her current cycle (since 2012) features foxes.[3][4] Influences include Coil, Current 93, and Throbbing Gristle.[9] As of 2016, Fauna is the main producer and collaborates with others, but Felix Spencer Keigh is the main vocalist.[4] Both their music is available for streaming on Bandcamp.[4]

Collaborations

Fauna has collaborated with Throbbing Gristle's Peter Christopherson, Esperik Glare's Charlie Martineau (In Serpents and Seas[6]), and former Coil member Stephen Thrower.[3][6] Thrower contributed an opening track to her 2016 album Dark Night of the Soul.[5]

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 described 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."[5]

Discography

  • glass fawn (2010)[13]
  • small cold hands (2010)[13]
  • amniotic fluid EP (2011)[1][13]
  • seahorse (abyssopelagic) (2011)[13]
  • grief: silence in five movements (2011)[1][13]
  • æther: musick for moths (2012)[13]
  • phoenix rising EP (2012)[13]
  • Warm Leatherette (2012), a cover version of The Normal[1][13]
  • very friendly (2012), a cover version of Throbbing Gristle[1]
  • nocturnal (2012)[1][13]
  • dancing with the blind (lost children) (2013)[3][1][13]
  • phantoms of the trench warfare (past lives in black flames) (2013)[13]
  • crawling through the abyss (perdurabo) (2013)[13]
  • the cycle of tears (moon) (2014)[13]
  • uncertain presents ‡ black-stag's-lament ‡ - the vision of sorrow ep (2014)[13]
  • Horns and Teeth (Blood Rite) (2015)
  • Black Forest Invocation (Astaroth) - Live at Black Forest Invocation (2015)[13]
  • The Fox's Blood Moon (for Ian Johnstone) (2015)[13]
  • Black Sun Productions - All Beauty Must Die (2015)[1]
  • The Price of Existence Is Eternal Warfare (Live Invocations) (2015)[13]
  • transnoise aktion no. 001 - 05.21.2016 (2016)
  • The Veins were Licked by the Vulpine Garden (2016)[13]
  • transnoise aktion no. 003 - 08.04.2016 (2016)
  • transnoise aktion no. 004 - 08.26.2016 (2016)
  • Transnoise Aktion no. 005 - 09.02.2016 (2016)[13]
  • The Crown of the Mother Elk (2016)[13]
  • black stag's lament (2016)[13]
  • dark night of the soul (the pile of bodies) (2016)[5][13]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Florian-Ayala Fauna Discography at Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
  2. ^ aimee (January 26, 2016). "3.4.16". Sugar City. WordPress. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Barton, Dave (February 7, 2013). "Florian-Ayala Fauna: Art Magickian". OC Weekly. Duncan McIntosh Co. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Perla, Cory (August 17, 2016). "Spotlight: Uncertain". The Public. Buffalo Public Media, LLC. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Cuzner, Russell (March 15, 2017). "Extra-Auditory Adventures: Rum Music For March By Russell Cuzner". The Quietus. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
  6. ^ a b c Cooper, Dennis (August 23, 2011). "Gig 12: Forest Swords, Laurel Halo, Hey Colossus, Haswell/Hecker, Prurient, Liturgy, Esperik Glare, JO’R, Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, Matmos, Seb Patane". Dennis Cooper. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
  7. ^ a b c d Artchipel staff (July 22, 2011). "Tumblr Artist Florian-Ayala Fauna". L'Artchipel. Tumblr. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
  8. ^ a b aimee (January 25, 2016). "3.4-3.21.16". Sugar City. WordPress. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
  9. ^ a b c d e Rodrigo (May 12, 2017). "CVLT Nation interviews Florian Ayala Fauna -". CVLT Nation. Blast Beat Network. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
  10. ^ admin (July 16, 2016). "Finissage: Chaostrophy – Artworks Inspired by the Music and History of the Band Coil". African Paper (in German). WordPress. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
  11. ^ Kupiec, Caitlin (October 13, 2013). "Monster 3.0 becoming a Buffalo tradition". The SUNY Buffalo State Record. Buffalo State College. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
  12. ^ Roxie, Marilyn (June 6, 2016). "Chaostrophy :artworks inspired by the music and history of the band Coil". Marilyn Roxie. Tumblr. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
  13. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v "uncertain Albums: songs, discography, biography, and listening guide - Rate Your Music". Rate Your Music. Retrieved April 14, 2017.

External links

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