Florian-Ayala Fauna

Personal life

At age 5, Fauna moved from the U.S. state Virginia to Bombay Beach, California in Southern California along the rift lake Salton Sea. They credit the place as an inspiration to their music. According to Paris-based art community Artchipel, the place had a "big impact on their childhood and becomes a major influence in their life." In an interview with Buffalo, New York alternative newspaper The Public's Cory Perla, they described it as "a very kind of post-apocalyptic-looking town."

In 2013, Fauna lived in the exurb community of Indio, California. At age 21, they moved to Buffalo, New York where they have been part of Buffalo, New York's experimental art and music scene. Fauna experiences delusions visions due to temporal lobe epilepsy. They also have chronic fatigue syndrome. They identifies as androgyne and transgender.

Fauna is a multidisciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France, a Coil-themed exhibition in Berlin, Germany, and in the United Kingdom as well as locally in Buffalo, New York. Fauna's artwork utilizes collage, film, painting, photography, and poetry. Their work includes imagery of occult, psychedelia, mental illness, insanity, anthropomorphics, chaos and spiritual enlightenment. Animal imagery of birds, deer, foxes, goats, hares, and wolves figures often.In an interview with Artchipel, Fauna said their inspiration behind their art were "[t]hings that are sacred, profane, or some combination of the two. Fragility, purity, and decay are important subjects in my work. Nature is also a noteworthy aspect of my work as well."

Uncertain

In 2007, Uncertain began as the solo project of Florian-Ayala Fauna. Initially, they made ambient and drone music. It often involved field recordings and tape loops while their current cycle (since 2012) features foxes. Influences include Coil, Current 93, and Throbbing Gristle. As of 2016, Fauna is the main producer and collaborates with others. Both their music is available for streaming on Bandcamp.

Collaborations

Fauna has collaborated with Throbbing Gristle's Peter Christopherson, Esperik Glare's Charlie Martineau (In Serpents and Seas), and former Coil member Stephen Thrower. Thrower contributed an opening track to her 2016 album Dark Night of the Soul.

In February 2013, Orange County, California alternative weekly OC Weekly's Dave Barton called dancing with the blind (lost children) "atmospheric and haunting" and "one of the most evocative titles for an album I've ever heard." In August 2016, The Public's Cory Perla described both their art and music as "otherworldly." In March 2017, British music magazine The Quietus's Russell Cuzner described their music as "somehow fulfil[s] a similar aesthetic to the artist's equally prolific visual art that often depict animal heads [...] as if charged with some kind of hidden power, part gothic horror, part Gnostic totem."

• glass fawn (2010)
• small cold hands (2010)
• amniotic fluid EP (2011)
• seahorse (abyssopelagic) (2011)
• grief: silence in five movements (2011)
• æther: musick for moths (2012)
• phoenix rising EP (2012)
• Warm Leatherette (2012), a cover version of The Normal
• very friendly (2012), a cover version of Throbbing Gristle
• nocturnal (2012)
• dancing with the blind (lost children) (2013)
• phantoms of the trench warfare (past lives in black flames) (2013)
• crawling through the abyss (perdurabo) (2013)
• the cycle of tears (moon) (2014)
• uncertain presents ‡ black-stag's-lament ‡ - the vision of sorrow ep (2014)
• Horns and Teeth (Blood Rite) (2015)
• Black Forest Invocation (Astaroth) - Live at Black Forest Invocation (2015)
• The Fox's Blood Moon (for Ian Johnstone) (2015)
• Black Sun Productions - All Beauty Must Die (2015)
• The Price of Existence Is Eternal Warfare (Live Invocations) (2015)
• transnoise aktion no. 001 - 05.21.2016 (2016)
• The Veins were Licked by the Vulpine Garden (2016)
• transnoise aktion no. 003 - 08.04.2016 (2016)
• transnoise aktion no. 004 - 08.26.2016 (2016)
• Transnoise Aktion no. 005 - 09.02.2016 (2016)
• The Crown of the Mother Elk (2016)
• black stag's lament (2016)
• dark night of the soul (the pile of bodies) (2016)
• The Surgeon Was a Butcher (2017)
• Child Covered in Needles (She Is Dancing and Blind) (2017)