I flew to Banff for a residency in Leighton Colony in 2017, to write and coalesce my thoughts and memories of Pauline Oliveros.  When I walked in to the studio there was a grand piano. Not having recent experience recording myself, the masterful and the gentle Henry Ng set me up with a Zoom recorder and software. Just before had I left Ward's Island for Banff,  I received a shock and burn from an electroflash from a broken ceramic wall socket during my dinner party, and was taken off the island by Police boat to an ambulance and taken to the burn ward north of the city. It hit the exact fulcrum of my thumb joint that controls how I move my bow, and blackened my hand. The Dr was not impressed by my burn, a young woman colleague of his who runs a burn ward in the middle east, visited me in the ER. When he saw me later he said 'healing.. you will be playing Bach and and Beethoven soon' and he wanted me to invite him to the concert. Still waiting for that .. I travelled with ease to Banff with my hand wrapped in gauze. The piano was still possible. I improvised one piece each day like a piano diary, on occasion visited by a doe who would sit outside the glass wall to the deck and listen.

Piano4 recorded by Anne Bourne Leighton Colony|| Banff Centre 2018

Field recording in relation to non-human life and elemental belonging/  Improvises parallel streams of cello, voice and words/ believes creative expression is an opportunity to offer an experience of equanimity.