Florence Cats’ work is drawn from nature, travel, light, time, energy and fragility.
She plays the theremin in a minimal and experimental way, interfering with various elements such as water, space, radio, voice, needle, pendulum, ring, string, bowl, coal, oscillating between acoustic and electric sounds.
The theremin is over a century old, it’s the first electronic instrument. Played through the air, it is sensitive to interferences and atmospheric variations such as rain, storm, drought…Like John Cage’s prepared piano, Florence Cats prepares the electromagnetic field between herself, her instrument and the space in situ, playing with the Earth connection.
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Florence Cats (Be, 1985) work is a line of flight through music, sound, visual art, writing and acupuncture.
A travelling antenna, tuned to a given space and time. She released “We are now approaching Mo i Rana” on Ftarri label ( hitorri, 2024), “YS” on Ediçoes CN (2022) and Correspondances on Frissons (2021).
Selected in 2023 as an emerging sound artist (Emerging Sound Showcase) with her prepared theremin, she collaborates on numerous projects. In 2024 she founded the concert and transversal event series ‘eye.ear’ (2024). She is co-author of several books with primitive press.