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Anna Fritz is a Canadian artist who uses sound and radio art mediums. She’s worked with Canadian campus-community stations such as CITR-FM, CKUT-FM and CKUW, as well as for the CBC and Kunstradio, Austria.
Anna started in community radio in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In the early 90s, experimenting with sound and crafting sound pieces was only primarily analogue. They only have a recorder reel to reel with two tracks. Nowadays, she prefers to make pieces live in sight-specific locations.
The first piece she shared is a group installation taking place in Canada. She uses this piece to talk about ecology and voice embodiment. “When I use the walkie-talkies I dont try to avoid the capabilities of my voice”.
FOG REFRAIN
“Fog Refrain” – working with the notion of space and fog in Santa Cruz. “Fog is a important character in the County”. However, this fog is increasingly disappearing due to climate change, and the land has become dry. Now plans receive less and less water. This piece was broadcast at 2 am on the radio.
Like refrains through these field recordings are stories and live performed compositions based on a ‘score’ crafted from forces observed at critical points where fog and infrastructures meet, such as the narrows where the Pacific Ocean enters the San Francisco Bay. Based on cycling over the Golden Gate Bridge, she assembled a list of forces characteristic of the bridge, such as the fog moving over and under the deck, the rhythms of car traffic, the intense buffeting wind that one leans hard into while cycling, pelicans surfing air currents overhead, railings that sing, and fog beacons and horns sounding on the nearby headlands.