Francesca Heart playing flute by a waterfall
We love when Francesca Heart comes to visit & even though she hasn’t left yet we already miss her bubbling energies!! Before she heads back to Italy, gather with us on the bank of the LA River for a meditative sunset performance of synth, flute, laptop, and conch shell that explores water-related mythologies and future technologies.
RSVP for the pin drop (do not just google Glendale Narrows or LA River), or if you’ve joined us on the LA River for previous concerts then you already know where to find us. This is a donation-based gathering, open to and for all, and please donate if you’re able so that we can help to cover Francesca’s flight back home!
Bring a blanket, an extra layer, a pup, a friend, and anything you’d like to stay cozy. Music begins shortly after 5p and we finish at nightfall.
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Francesca Mariano (also known as Francesca Heart and Serpentine Dance) is a grammy-nominated artist working across sound, movement, installation, and somatic research. With volcanic and marine roots in Southern Italy, her practice emerges at as an interdisciplinary research on hydrofeminism, mythological acoustics, and landscape choreology. Her acclaimed albums Eurybia and Sphinx Nouvelle are released by US pioneering label Leaving Records and have received praise from Pitchfork, Vogue Italia, Bandcamp Daily, and others for their visionary fusion of ambient, ceremonial, and electronic forms.
She investigates how bodies- human, more-than-human, geological- carry memory, myth, and transformation. Her work is driven by the belief that listening is a radical tool for reconfiguring our relationship with the earth and the cosmos. Through choreographic scores, sonic explorations, and performative installations, she mainly focuses on the Mediterranean as a resonant body, a space of stratified histories and post-human futures. Her approach to music is at once playful and research-focused, with a passion for cinematic textures inspired by 80s and 90s film composers such as Eric Serra, and 2000s’ video game sounds she used to play as a child with her brother.
