Florian-Ayala Fauna
American artist and musician behind the project uncertain.
Florian-Ayala Fauna is an American artist, musician, poet, and music producer. She is the main member of the post-industrial music project uncertain.
Quick Facts
- Birthplace
- Norfolk, Virginia
- Origin
- United States
- Genre
- Ambient music
- Dark ambient
- Experimental music
- Industrial music
- Noise music
- Post-industrial
- Years active
- 2007–present
- Associated acts
- Dennis Cooper
- Black Sun Productions
- Charlie Martineau
- Stephen Thrower
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Did You Know?
- Her artwork has been exhibited at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
- She cites the Surrealists as an influence.
- Her visual art often depicts animal heads such as deer, foxes, goats, hares, birds, and wolves.
Personal life
Florian-Ayala Fauna was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and moved to Bombay Beach, California, at age five. She credits the town's post-apocalyptic atmosphere as an inspiration. At age 12 she began experimenting with sampling and rough recordings. She later lived in Indio, California, before moving to Buffalo, New York, at age 21. Fauna has temporal lobe epilepsy, chronic fatigue syndrome, and is intersex and trans-femme, using she/her pronouns.
Music
The project uncertain began in 2007 as a solo effort by Florian-Ayala Fauna. Her early work, made with Ableton, focused on ambient and drone music. The debut album glass fawn was an ambient piece about a lost deer, built from field recordings, processed sounds, and tape loops. Since 2012, her albums have followed a family of foxes, using composition, sampling, and complex production in Ableton Live and Kontakt. Her influences include Aleister Crowley, Hermeticism, Arvo Pärt, Coil, Current 93, Throbbing Gristle, and alchemy. By 2016, Fauna acts as the main producer and works with others, especially her fiancé Felix Keigh, who provides vocals. Live shows started in 2013 in cities such as Boston, Cincinnati, Columbus, Ohio, and New York City, but chronic fatigue restricts touring. Performances feature animal masks, candles, lights, video projections, and ritualistic costumes. Collaborators have included Stephen Thrower, Charlie Martineau, and Ubik MCDXCII.
Reception
In February 2013, OC Weekly described dancing with the blind (lost children) as atmospheric and haunting. In August 2016, The Public called her art and music otherworldly. In March 2017, The Quietus noted her music fulfills a similar aesthetic to her visual art, as if charged with hidden power. In December 2019, Columbus Alive described God Is a Man Eater as a dense, buzzing, six-track song cycle.
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